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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 1h

Gee, that news headline looks out of date. Oh, that dummy print edition is dated September 15, 2024, over a year ago. www.axios.com/2025/10/14/n...

Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 2d

This is quite the disclosure: If you, like the author, count the subject a close friend because of shared disgust at the people who criticize her, then you too will find this piece persuasive. Otherwise, you’re deranged.

“Weiss; her wife, Nellie Bowles; and her sister, Suzy Weiss, are the founders of The Free Press and close friends of mine, a friendship born when I met Bari over coffee when she was at the Times and learned that we share the same disgust at what has become of so much of the mainstream,
legacy press.”

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 9d

Achievements in Garbage Disposal, Vol. 2:

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 12d

"Number four, I know you heard this before / Never get high on your own supply"

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 13d

Been mulling this over the last couple of weeks and my best idea yet: “Know what you believe in and keep remembering it.”

Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · Sep 13

Imagine if you were a parent of kids under 12yo in 1910 and could see the future of the next 35 years … what advice would you give your kids?

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 14d

Just realized that Andrew Cuomo was winning the NYC mayor’s race for a lot longer than he has been losing it.

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 16d

Agree. Most important difference, though, is people know they’re describing something happening inside their own head. For the chatbot tales, they hallucinate that they talked to someone else.

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 17d

The whole essay genre of "I had an interesting conversation with a chatbot" should be consigned to the dustbin of people's trying to tell you about their acid trips

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 18d

Achievements in Garbage Disposal, Vol. 1:

an empty dental floss container

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 23d

3. Checkmark buttons sometimes do important things, but also sometimes just mean "close this view"

4. I often have to search for the "important thing" button (whether it's a checkmark or not) because it's sometimes in the top left corner, sometimes the bottom, sometimes elsewhere

Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 23d

Fwiw: my take is the current hyperscaler model of AI (billions of users for centralized AI models) is wrong and probably an example of incumbents imagining the future will look like the present. My prediction is mass AI of the future will be small, local models, not cloud-access frontier models

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 23d

Long read on why the AI boom looks more like shipping containerization than personal computers … joincolossus.com/article/ai-w...

AI Will Not Make You Rich

The disruption is real. It's also predictable.

joincolossus.com

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 23d

My top two UX complaints of the new Glass iOS:

1. The search bar or button is usually at the bottom but also sometimes at the top.

2. There’s often an extra tap to get to the share sheet

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 24d

To be both fair and honest, I think this whole thing just shows Ezra to be out of touch. “Pro-life Democrats” is a very 2006 idea. It’s an obsolete shorthand for “challenge party orthodoxy” like, I dunno, urging Dems of 2025 to take a stand against Sistah Souljah.

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 24d

I wonder what 2022 Ezra Klein would have to say about 2025 Ezra Klein’s idea that Democrats should run pro-life candidates?

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Sex, Abortion and Feminism, as Seen From the Right

Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 05/31/2022 · Subscribers Only · 1h 26m

podcasts.apple.com

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 24d

I think (but can't say for sure) that the spike on the left side of the chart shortly after Sept 2020, is due to the controversy over the live-action Mulan, which was seen as Disney's big attempt to try to appease Chinese censors. It didn't work, and their films still don't play well in China.

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 24d

Pertinent quote: “To grasp the threat of totalitarianism, it’s important to understand the difference between it and simple authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is what you have when the state monopolizes political control. That is mere dictatorship—bad, certainly, but totalitarianism is much worse.”

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 24d

Rod Dreher in 2021 seems relevant in 2025: authoritarianism is the lesser evil compared to the “totalitarianism” of woke children’s TV

www.theamericanconservative.com/wiggles-of-w...

The Wiggles Of Weimar

Beloved Aussie children's program joins the soft-totalitarian revolution by announcing a unicorn character is 'non-binary'

www.theamericanconservative.com

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 24d

It worked out for me. I suggest you go prepared to show what the current rules are because there is simply so much confusion out there.

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 24d

After a Walgreens pharmacist told me 12-and-unders aren’t approved (they are), showing me a table I didn’t read closely, I made appts at a CVS. The pharmacist had to ask with her supervisor first before she’d check in my kids. (tbh, my guess is that they aren’t getting a ton of kids for Covid shots)

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 24d

A follow-up on getting a Covid shot in NYC in 2025: There is so much pharmacist confusion out there (not that I blame them!). My kids got their shots but if I had one thing to do over: I would have printed out this NYS guidance clearly showing the age gudiance: health.ny.gov/prevention/i...

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health.ny.gov

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 25d

I was curious about what happened to Werner Finck (his was the first name in the news report) after his Goebbels ban, so I read his Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_...

Werner Finck - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 27d

G-D damn!

Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 28d

For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose?

For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...

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PaulAllenK @paulallenk.bsky.social · Sep 13

Charles Lindbergh must be disappeared before 1927. You my son will make the first transatlantic flight and marry Carole Lombard after we disappear her future husband Clark Gable in 1929. Fame and fortune will be yours Harold. I love you son. (gave this lots of thought). 🤠

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · Sep 13

Imagine if you were a parent of kids under 12yo in 1910 and could see the future of the next 35 years … what advice would you give your kids?

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