Just heard this announced live onsite at the President’s House

I updated by mistake to Liquid Glass, and the blur effect gives me legit traumatizing flashbacks to the time I had a wonky retina. Who thought this was a good idea

Totally agree, on reflection. And now I’m thinking about the FT editor who accepted this copy, instead of bouncing it back to their contact at OpenAI and asking for a blurb that would serve the reader better. Lack of skill, lack of power, lack of time?

I agree about the AI tells, but content-wise, this also could’ve been written by a staff writer hoping for a quick sign-off from Friar. It focuses on abstractions, not specifics that might bump, because that’s what the writer knows will get the piece signed off faster.

If you can even work the TV!

Is Mac DeMarco the Last Indie Rock Star? — The New Yorker The musician’s overwhelming popularity can overshadow his ethos of self-reliance. On his new album, “Guitar,” he played every instrument and is releasing it on his own label.

Ouch, Tim Story caught a stray in this Mac DeMarco profile apple.news/AfFhabxjVRRK...

Well, here’s my project for the week! This is a brilliant idea.

At Tony Packo’s in Toledo: A hot dog bun signed by Dan Fogelberg

As Dan Fogelberg says: hot dog!

Finally a shuttle service from Toledo to DTW! This is awesome!

Taking bets on which neighbors are going to obliviously put out their trash tomorrow and then complain about it for 10 years

Thanks for the wonderful alt text!

The quest this week is for a non-Internet-enabled e-reader, that you can load off a laptop or a USB, for a friend to take to rehab. One depressing learning: prisoners, who also need an e-reader like this, have to rent one from a vendor for more money than any of them make

We’ve been on the corner of seventh and market watching people go by for 40 minutes, nonstop

Extremely weird that there are no news helicopters overhead at this Philly march, which is massive #HandsOff

My phone is my pet and my dog is my job.

Ugh, no, I stand corrected. Deleted.

Destroy Build Destroy!

Great story! I’m a proud backer of this film, and your analysis reminds me of why it is going to be amazing.
Loved this: “Washington Square is a microcosm of the city’s broader historical narrative — a space where the legacies of liberation and oppression coexist.”

There is such a great little scene here at Ikea to watch the SS United States get towed away

I hope that right now 30 different people are writing a film script about what it was like to travel home from the Eagles parade yesterday.

Delightful, insightful, weird and fun:

^ this story is an alternate history of WWI as it plays out in Saki’s England. It is sort of worth a read, but there are good reasons why it isn’t widely read (it’s anti-Semitic, for one).

Well there goes THAT stop on my book tour!

“It is one thing to face the music, it is another thing to dance to it,” said Yeovil.

— “When William Came,” Saki

Warren is the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee. Wyden is the same on the Senate Finance Committee. They need to go to the Treasury building with crews from CNN and NBC and demand to be let in. As soon as they're not, hold a press conference right there and explain what DOGE is doing.

Also: who will write the definitive history of MacAdam/Cage, the small publisher that punched way above its weight

One of the greats. So happy to see this reissue!

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Just an odd thing, but the last 3 books I read have a main character named Griselda. What does it mean?

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She aggressively did not want to answer questions about tariffs last night

Market East doesn’t need the Sixers arena to make a comeback With the right kind of planning, the east side of Center City could turn itself into a modern, mixed-use neighborhood.

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