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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 12h

Jeez, at HO scale a half mile is 30 feet! You can cover the ping pong table in housing nearly a foot tall!

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 12h

A personal affront, clearly.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 12h

It’s raining a lot.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 13h

Steam trains at Tilden though

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 15h

OK but

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Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 15h

It’s raining.

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 15h

They weren't just numbers, they were physical patterns.

Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 16h

sooo much was different about the 70s-80s phone ecosystem. I mean, yes, you memorized a few key 7-digit numbers (my best friend's was 392-2280) but it wasn't hard because you also dialed them, one number at a time, every time you made a call - lots of physical practice of any number you called often

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 17h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 18h

"Columbus Day:" No one wants it. No one wants to celebrate it. Perfectly decent Monday in October saddled with the name of a rapist.

"Titus Pullo Day:" 100% participation. Wine flows freely. Someone says "THIRTEEN!" and everyone responds. Boring old October Monday turned great fun.

A picture of Ray Stevenson as Titus Pullo from ROME

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah that should be on the journals (especially if they want to up their index numbers), not the researchers…

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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 18h

Reminder that California golf courses have a special massive property tax benefit over and above Prop 13. www.evolve-ca.org/news/hole-in...

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 18h

Do the humanities journals have the kinds of embargoed press releases that the science journals do? In my experience those were more likely to move an assigning editor than a university release (which was generally timed to a publication anyway).

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

In a way, Edward James Olmos accidentally giving away the truth about Deckard being a replicant is a Kinsley Gaff.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah. That was weird. Warren Beaty’s specific choices I think often vex the Left, who want to love him.

Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 2d

My red-diaper baby parents took us to that movie as a family event. The thing they didn’t like was that the interview portions didn’t say who the subjects were. I think we saw it at the ABC Cap City theater in Century City, which had a screen the size of Omaha.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 2d

It makes me wonder: What if the fed government hadn't given up on funding transit infrastructure & innovation as it did in the 1970s & early 80s?

US cities, I'm convinced, would have followed a far different path, many more with vibrant, well-used transit systems & with less car dependence.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 2d

I think what I’m saying is that a “recounting of voices” and “passive voice,” that’s not establishment of provenance.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 2d

A tricky asterisk: Interviewing someone noteworthy can be journalism, but often it’s just easy and inexpensive—and *looks* journalism-esque.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Donald Trump's granddaughter Kai Trump just launched a YouTube series called "1 on 1 with Kai" and the first one-hour episode is her playing golf with the president.

I haven't watched the whole thing, but I think it's safe to say it's not going to be breaking any vital news.

Donald Trump in a golf cart with his granddaughter Kai and an on-screen graphic that reads "What's your favorite color?" Below that is a caption from when he asked "color?" His answer was "maybe red."

Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 2d

No, I don’t think I agree with that. Provenance is the context, and to the extent mainstream journalism is ”ineffective”—not sure I agree with that, either—it’s because it doesn’t offer that context or parrots obvious half truths (or simply avoids important stories).

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 2d

…and two is convincing yourself that getting input from “both sides” of a question makes the provenance establishment unnecessary.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 2d

Two fail modes for this philosophy. One is, just because something is published elsewhere doesn’t make it true, and just not everything true has been published. (As a Newswee fact checker the scariest attribution we used was “this is on author.”)…

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of what we’d think of as the journalists’ code—tell the truth, be accurate, credit your sources—is actually about establishing provenance and chain of custody for evidence. Fact-check codifies those tracks. This is all how you know you know. It’s what marks something as journalism.

☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 2d

look i dont want to get all historian/art history/journalism posty about AI videos but we *have* ways of autheticating recorded/archival material, its chains of custody and provenance research, and you shouldn't have been trusting random videos on the internet to begin with???

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☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 2d

look i dont want to get all historian/art history/journalism posty about AI videos but we *have* ways of autheticating recorded/archival material, its chains of custody and provenance research, and you shouldn't have been trusting random videos on the internet to begin with???

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 3d

We are many; they are few.