Her: You guys better not be doing weird hair when I get there.

Us:

Can confirm that one can demand justice for Daryl Hannah while basking in the glorious NYC 90s of it all while watching Love Story, the best kind of trash (thanks @jesspgh.bsky.social)

"Love Story" is about John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette's romance Associate professor Jessica Ghilani dials up our fascination with "Love Story."

In this #KDKA segment, we chat about the #LoveStoryFX miniseries (centering John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette's romance), why it's popular across generations, and how it has folks longing for a lower tech life. www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/v...

Wait, you can bet on that? Prediction markets allow people to place money on the outcome of just about anything, but is that a good thing for our time and money?

A week and a day ago, I was on tv to talk prediction markets, and the risks of financializing everything. It seems pretty high risk for top secret info to become an opportunity for a (relatively anon via crypto) windfall. Watch the segment here www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/v...

You know what Neil Young always says: it’s better to burn out than to CIA

Tomorrow I’ll be on again (3pm KDKA CBS #Pittsburgh to talk about #LoveStoryFX, the “American royals,” and how the show makes us all nostalgic for a lower tech 90s kind of world. I’m excited esp since tomorrow night’s episode of Love Story is likely wedding weekend.

Wait, you can bet on that? Prediction markets allow people to place money on the outcome of just about anything, but is that a good thing for our time and money?

A week and a day ago, I was on tv to talk prediction markets, and the risks of financializing everything. It seems pretty high risk for top secret info to become an opportunity for a (relatively anon via crypto) windfall. Watch the segment here www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/v...

GG Allin’s show tonight has the potential to put his career on more stable ground—if he doesn’t shit on stage, Jonathan Lemire tells Will Gottsgen in The Atlantic Daily

Chris and Jess in Columbus last weekend for NIN.

Chris and Jess at NIN

Chris and Jess with their daughters at Wicked

Chris and Jess with their daughters.

Happy Birthday to @someclevername.bsky.social, who is the only person with whom I’d drop out of life to follow around the NIN peel it back tour. He said on Saturday that if they add more shows and come to Pgh, we are bringing the girls. I’m not sure it’s their thing, but the girls and I love you!

Two crazy kids here to see Neil Degrasse Tyson

Neil’s stage setup

Neil’s DJ - Boys Noize

Back at it

Oh the filmic treatments, the 1939 one was the first and should have been the only.

The best Valentine dinner is when Chris and the girls do heart pizzas!

Roughly 2 USAIDs

First off, why is there not Couples Luge? I do not care gender alignment, bring on the couples! This is Valentines Day for goodness sakes. Or Skeleton

This one worked best though for a while we used the Terro dust to also create a perimeter of containment. amzn.to/4ciTCzG

I also tried this perimeter ant block stuff I forget the name of but they were these pellets you put around your house. Not sure if they did anything. I bought the outside retro baits too and put them in areas near our house where I saw colony activity.

So we went from Terro to Advion to Ortho home defense as the ant problem worsened each year. I never called an exterminator and tried to keep the Ortho outside but did have a few tricky spots where I did also cover inside. Ventilate and if you have pets make sure you follow the instructions esp.

Same thing happening to journalism as at universities following the massive federal budget cuts. You can't break institutions, cast off multiple age cohorts of journalists/scholars, & just flip switches later & expect go back to the ex ante SQ. The downstream systemic effects are huge & lasting.

Duke professor Dan Ariely had longstanding friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, newly released files show Ariely is named in 636 of the some 3 million newly released files. He was a prominent professor at Duke over the course of his correspondence with Epstein.

Seriously! And the article to which he is presumably responding counted 7 times. He wrote that he believed Epstein when he said the allegations against him were untrue, but the friendship began in 2010, many years after a conviction for said crimes being alleged. dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

Talk the Talk: Jan. 20, 2026 We have the 411 on your FYP. Have you noticed things in your feed are staying closer to home?

I was also in the “a block” that day (first segment) to talk about TikTok nearby (a feature in some parts of Europe that I speculate may be being tested in the US), during which I had to climb on and off a tall stool while on camera. www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/v...

That price tag may be missing on purpose. Why? Dr. Jess Ghilani is teaching us about dynamic pricing — what it means for consumers and our wallets.

I’m on linear tv at 3 today (KDKA #Pittsburgh) talking about chatbots and teenagers. I’m toward the bottom of the hour (which will lead into local news at 4). I’ll share the link when I have it. Here is my spot from Jan 20th on dynamic pricing. www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/v...

Sabrina carpenter on stage in front of a screen replica of a split flap with the info about arrivals and departures at an airport.

I was hoping the one used in Sabrina Carpenter’s Grammys performance was the real deal but I think it was an led facsimile.

LOOMS large but also... apt typo as they do look large. hahaha

Photo of the appropriately named Winter Mausoleum in Allegheny Cemetery: a large blocky stone mausoleum with large ornamental columns in the Egyptian Revival style, fronted by a wide set of seven stairs flanked by buxom sphinx statues. The mausoleum is surrounded by trees and everything is under a layer of about eight inches of snow. Several feet in front of the mausoleum, someone has sculpted a likeness of one large-breasted statue out of snow, replicating its engimatic smole with twigs plucked from a dead branch that lays nearby.

Pittsburgh, I need you to know that someone made a snow-tittysphinx.

We often make sure we get a family photo with to cause it looks large for us esp after spending so much time in the cemetery in the early part of pandemic times.

Photo of a web stream of a group of people on stage for a panel at the Beckman Center. Chris is on the right holding a microphone.

This time last week @someclevername.bsky.social was on his way to the National Academies of Sciences to present at a workshop I got to watch via livestream. Here he is being fancy. 😍

Thank you for reposting!

‘By bringing on Powell McCormick, Meta gave itself a critical connection to the Senate if it attempts to regulate AI… ‘I think it’s absolutely beneficial to have the wife of a senator in a high-profile position in your company when you are hoping to stave off any regulations,’ said Ghilani.”

Dina Powell McCormick, wife of U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick, named Meta president Dina Powell McCormick, a close ally of the Trump administration and the wife of U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick, is Meta’s new president and vice chairman. The Facebook parent company announced her app...

Thank you to Jack Troy at @triblive.bsky.social for reaching out for my comment on Meta naming Dana Powell McCormick as President today. She has a long resume and a lot of experience, and her marital ties are bonus regulatory buffer.

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Now we have none of the above.