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Dave Matthews, Sting, and Guster each covered "God Only Knows" in tribute to Brian Wilson, while Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong shared a cover of "I Get Around"

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Overheard at Dallas City Hall: “Keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it.” —Molly Ivins

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My Section 230 necklaces are here! 🥰

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Lawrence Wright on fiction/nonfiction

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A theory: one reason that this AI slop was so easily caught/widely mocked is because it appeared in print.

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you guys are being very cynical about this but the real explanation is that bears and Bigfoot are buddies. They like to hang out and do stuff together

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Ezra Klein: I used to conceptualize knowledge the way you see it in 'The Matrix.' I thought reading was downloading information into your brain. Now I think that what you're doing is spending time grappling with the text. Making connections through the process of grappling.

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“Shouldn’t there be at least one component of our professional routine that doesn’t kill our soul?” Yes, bring back after-work happy hours!!! Doesn’t have to be a drinking thing (mocktails and topo chicos are just fine, too) slate.com/life/2025/05...

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Is this true, Gen Z? (The Revenge of Analog, David Sax)

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www.sourcenotes.blog/p/3-psych-re...

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“The Moleskine notebook’s simple, unobtrusive design makes it feel like a natural extension of your body. It doesn’t interfere in your personal style, and because of this, it allows for an undiluted physical recording of your mood.” —David Sax, Revenge of the Analog

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This from @slate.com humanizes the latest AI slop story. Yes, it's awful that this freelancer misused ChatGPT-- producing a "summer reading list" with fake titles Yes, freelancers like Buscaglia face an impossible workload of low-paid media gigs that make LLMs tempting slate.com/technology/2...

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When Wikipedia works, it's because: (1) The editors summarize existing publications (no original research) (2) Decisions made by incremental consensus-building (not a democratic vote) (3) Most editors care more about the project itself than pushing an agenda www.techpolicy.press/what-attacks...

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Did a roundup of my greatest hits from years of covering Wikipedia as a journalist. www.sourcenotes.blog/p/wikipedia-...

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One reason modern life feels so stressful is the realization that our drafts are never really private anymore. Especially at work. “Cool, this doc is finally ready to share… oh wait, it’s been on the company server getting nonstop comments and judgment since the first autosave.”

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Big month for Wikipedia: - Got a threatening letter from acting U.S. attorney Ed Martin challenging its nonprofit status - Won a major free speech case before India's Supreme Court - Now defending editor privacy against UK's flawed online safety act

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This guy edited the new pope's Wikipedia page to say he was a Cubs fan—everyone was saying it, and there was a source (USA Today) to back it up. Then the new pope's brother confirmed that Leo has always been a White Sox fan. Lesson: Verifiability ≠ truth. edithistory.substack.com/p/i-edited-p...

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they're going to put indulgences on the blockchain

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Reuters: India Supreme Court reverses article takedown order against Wikipedia’s nonprofit organization The free encyclopedia is still free. www.reuters.com/world/india/...

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Wikipedia has been blocked in China. Fined in Russia. Editors jailed in Saudi Arabia. Now the American far-right wants to strip its nonprofit status. I spoke with Vox’s Today Explained about the letter Wikipedia received from the acting U.S. attorney in D.C. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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Wikipedia page for the new pope just now

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Me, on German public radio: I never thought the U.S. government would go after Wikipedia. In the eight years that I’ve reported on Wikipedia as a journalist, these sorts of examples came from authoritarian countries like China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. www.deutschlandfunk.de/us-kulturkam...

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Maryana Iskander is stepping down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation early next year, Axios reports. Since 2022, she's led the nonprofit org that supports Wikipedia, adding more data centers and attracting more donors. 1/2

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The U-shape of happiness is reaching its nadir much earlier for young Americans, long before the traditional stressors of marriage & children. Why? Arthur Brooks says its fewer friends, less religious affiliation, and the sense that life is bereft of meaning. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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According to Ed Martin and the Trump DOJ, Wikipedia is "subverting the interests of American taxpayers." Why? Because the global encyclopedia project is too global, and curating accurate information benefits "foreign powers." www.thewikipedian.net/p/maga-wikip...

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Totally on board with this take, actually. The kind of content we consume matters, and social media content is often short-form, empty, misleading, rage-inducing, and lacking in empathy… Not the diet we need to become happier & healthier human beings. www.slowboring.com/p/social-med...

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Question: What subject is very poorly understood in today’s society? Answer:

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Not joking when I say these takes on Mayor Pete’s beard deserve a chapter in the future Walter Isaacson biography. “With bristly cheeks and chin, the straightlaced Rhodes scholar… suddenly became playful and rugged.” slate.com/life/2025/04...

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“You don’t have to be a Jungian to believe that men’s unmet hunger for love from other men is going to come out somewhere. If they have to go to right-wing spaces to get it, they will.” slate.com/news-and-pol...

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😂

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"Even if Wikipedia’s content was biased (it isn’t), even if every editor was actively trying to push an anti-Israel narrative (they aren’t), that would still be protected by the First Amendment." www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/g...

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What we have is a compounded problem, in which people with generational wealth pull the levers on a society that they don’t understand. Nearly every aspect of society has been designed by people unfamiliar with the experience of living paycheck to paycheck. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Stephen Harrison, a journalist who has covered Wikipedia for years and wrote a novel inspired by it, said while Wikipedia’s mission is to serve as a global information source, Martin “seems to want an America First version of Wikipedia.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Ed Martin's latest target: Wikipedia. The interim U.S. attorney and pro-Trump bulldog has sent a letter seeming to threaten the Wikimedia Foundation's tax-exempt status over allegations that it is "spreading propaganda." Our story: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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He wanted the “peripheries,” as he called the more far-flung and forgotten members of the global church, to feel more present in the halls of power. “That’s rhetoric someone might hear from a priest in a barrio in Buenos Aires, rather than an archbishop in Milan.” slate.com/life/2025/04...

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so they're mycoblogging

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On a trip to Morocco and it’s excellent so far, but I’m curious: Why does customs and every hotel ask for your occupation?

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