L Laiken
@broaden.bsky.social
Native brooklynite; what the world needs now is facts, sweet facts; tv fiend.
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The New York Times has absolutely had its share of creepers and sexists on its staff and in its boardrooms. No media entity is immune, I feel reasonably confident in saying (and yes, we could expand from there). Also, generally, patriarchy is a hell of a drug.
Are you saying the New York Times is a creeper sexist?
Actually, that makes a lot of sense.
Actually, that makes a lot of sense.
November 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The New York Times has absolutely had its share of creepers and sexists on its staff and in its boardrooms. No media entity is immune, I feel reasonably confident in saying (and yes, we could expand from there). Also, generally, patriarchy is a hell of a drug.
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This is also true about RFK Junior
Remember, too, that Hegseth would have been rejected if a single additional Republican senator — or, JD Vance — had joined Sen. Collins, McConnell, and Murkowski in voting no with the Democrats. See: www.senate.gov/legislative/...
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This is also true about RFK Junior
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While not a medical doctor, Dr Pepper does hold a PhD in neoclassical literary theory and thus deserves our respect
November 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
While not a medical doctor, Dr Pepper does hold a PhD in neoclassical literary theory and thus deserves our respect
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Imagine if someone did this for the creator economy
Reminder that the thing you’re fundamentally buying when you subscribe to The Verge is our ethics policy: we don’t do brand deals and pretend they’re reviews and we insist companies (and the White House) be on the record if they want quotes in our stories. Worth it! www.theverge.com/ethics-state...
November 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Imagine if someone did this for the creator economy
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
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"I'm canceled," he says in the sleek profile they gave to him in the New Yorker while his latest special & his new novel is coming out. A lot of people wish they were that canceled.
Louis CK is not in a limbo of cancellation. He's straight up not cancelled & his "cancellation" became a profitable bit for him.
November 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"I'm canceled," he says in the sleek profile they gave to him in the New Yorker while his latest special & his new novel is coming out. A lot of people wish they were that canceled.
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This is a misleading description. Brin moved money into a trust of which he is the sole trustee. It's a tax dodge that he still controls!
Brin also has a family foundation. The money he puts into that (a much smaller amount) is bound by strict rules on how much has to be dispersed annually.
Brin also has a family foundation. The money he puts into that (a much smaller amount) is bound by strict rules on how much has to be dispersed annually.
Sergey Brin gave away more than $1.1 billion worth of Alphabet stock this week, with most of the money going to a nonprofit the Google co-founder created
Sergey Brin Gifts $1.1 Billion in Alphabet Stock After AI Rally
Sergey Brin gave away more than $1.1 billion worth of Alphabet Inc. stock this week, with most of the money going to a nonprofit the Google co-founder created.
bloom.bg
November 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This is a misleading description. Brin moved money into a trust of which he is the sole trustee. It's a tax dodge that he still controls!
Brin also has a family foundation. The money he puts into that (a much smaller amount) is bound by strict rules on how much has to be dispersed annually.
Brin also has a family foundation. The money he puts into that (a much smaller amount) is bound by strict rules on how much has to be dispersed annually.
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is that a foil tray of plain macaroni?
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
is that a foil tray of plain macaroni?
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“The editor interviewed him in the 1960s for the job of political correspondent.
‘Are you interested in politics, Mr Stoppard?’
‘Indeed I am.’
‘So then can you tell me the name of the prime minister?’
‘I said I was interested, not that I was obsessed!’”
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
‘Are you interested in politics, Mr Stoppard?’
‘Indeed I am.’
‘So then can you tell me the name of the prime minister?’
‘I said I was interested, not that I was obsessed!’”
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
RIP Tom Stoppard: England’s great (Jewish) playwright
Tom Stoppard died today aged 88 – which, as a lover of cricket, he would be the first to say was a decent innings.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“The editor interviewed him in the 1960s for the job of political correspondent.
‘Are you interested in politics, Mr Stoppard?’
‘Indeed I am.’
‘So then can you tell me the name of the prime minister?’
‘I said I was interested, not that I was obsessed!’”
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
‘Are you interested in politics, Mr Stoppard?’
‘Indeed I am.’
‘So then can you tell me the name of the prime minister?’
‘I said I was interested, not that I was obsessed!’”
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
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My only question is why HAVEN’T I been doing so.
(Though officially I prefer Gouda with red onion variant over traditional pimento cheese)
(Though officially I prefer Gouda with red onion variant over traditional pimento cheese)
Should I add chili crisp to a batch of pimento cheese I’m making, yes/no
November 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
My only question is why HAVEN’T I been doing so.
(Though officially I prefer Gouda with red onion variant over traditional pimento cheese)
(Though officially I prefer Gouda with red onion variant over traditional pimento cheese)
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Post your favorite "Transformers" character. Wrong answers only.
November 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Post your favorite "Transformers" character. Wrong answers only.
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Post your favorite "Transformers" character. Wrong answers only.
November 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Post your favorite "Transformers" character. Wrong answers only.
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NYPD Clears a Path for Federal Agents on Canal Street With Violent Arrests and Pepper Spray
An immigration crackdown was scheduled for Saturday afternoon on Canal Street, but was abandoned after demonstrators and vendors caught wind of it.
An immigration crackdown was scheduled for Saturday afternoon on Canal Street, but was abandoned after demonstrators and vendors caught wind of it.
NYPD Clears a Path for Federal Agents on Canal Street With Violent Arrests and Pepper Spray
An immigration crackdown was scheduled for Saturday afternoon on Canal Street, but was abandoned after demonstrators and vendors caught wind of it.
hellgatenyc.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
NYPD Clears a Path for Federal Agents on Canal Street With Violent Arrests and Pepper Spray
An immigration crackdown was scheduled for Saturday afternoon on Canal Street, but was abandoned after demonstrators and vendors caught wind of it.
An immigration crackdown was scheduled for Saturday afternoon on Canal Street, but was abandoned after demonstrators and vendors caught wind of it.
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And if you're a dude who wants to do more than feel chagrin at the misogyny Trump has helped renew, there's great, practical advice at the end of both of these.
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
And if you're a dude who wants to do more than feel chagrin at the misogyny Trump has helped renew, there's great, practical advice at the end of both of these.
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So many memories of watching Stoppard plays in a state of euphoria, but I'll never forget the all-day marathon of "The Coast of Utopia" at Lincoln Center in 2007, which I covered for Talk of the Town. Somehow I ended up eating Chinese at Carol Kane's apartment. RIP. www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
Endurance Dept.
A nine-hour marathon of Tom Stoppard’s “The Coast of Utopia”
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
So many memories of watching Stoppard plays in a state of euphoria, but I'll never forget the all-day marathon of "The Coast of Utopia" at Lincoln Center in 2007, which I covered for Talk of the Town. Somehow I ended up eating Chinese at Carol Kane's apartment. RIP. www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
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This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.
The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
1/n
This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.
The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
1/n
November 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A🧵
This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.
The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
1/n
This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.
The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
1/n
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I didn’t want to overreact, and took time to read this. Having done so, I’m adding Northwestern to the list of places I won’t visit or speak. The concessions re: international students and gender-affirming care are not merely symbolic.
Here’s the text of the Northwestern settlement with the DoJ, which includes a $75 million financial component / payoff (cc @profmarkovic.bsky.social):
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I didn’t want to overreact, and took time to read this. Having done so, I’m adding Northwestern to the list of places I won’t visit or speak. The concessions re: international students and gender-affirming care are not merely symbolic.
Without saying Star Wars, name a science fiction film.
November 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Without saying Star Wars, name a science fiction film.
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What creates this culture of cop on cop violence? I blame being dependent on government money.
Oh and at one point, one cop pepper-sprayed another cop. (Around the 12-second mark.)
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What creates this culture of cop on cop violence? I blame being dependent on government money.
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“It’s just a guy in there”
Yet another prime case of Potemkin AI. I hate seeing an “AI notetaker” in a zoom call recording everything. In some cases, these notetakers were literally just a guy writing everything down. We too often see vaporous hype leading to the credulous embrace of fraudulent systems.
November 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“It’s just a guy in there”
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🗣️🗣️🗣️ “what if redemption was actually just letting someone else have the chance”
no instead of spending time on the interesting ideas of all the people who didn't do these things, we have to watch the people who did these things get like eleventy chances to redeem themselves because the media wants us to
what if redemption was actually just letting someone else have the chance
what if redemption was actually just letting someone else have the chance
November 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
🗣️🗣️🗣️ “what if redemption was actually just letting someone else have the chance”
“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard
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“Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
-Tom Stoppard
-Tom Stoppard
November 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
-Tom Stoppard
-Tom Stoppard
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Bahahahahahha of course. Of fucking course. Thoughtless cretins sending us all to hell.
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Bahahahahahha of course. Of fucking course. Thoughtless cretins sending us all to hell.
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Currently— once again— thinking about my plan to do an alternating cycle of 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead' and 'Waiting for Godot' with the same two actors swapping roles each night in a rotating transform.
Anyway.
Goodnight Tom Stoppard, and thank you for lots of things.
Anyway.
Goodnight Tom Stoppard, and thank you for lots of things.
You remember the Jonny Lee Miller/Benedict Cumberbatch performances of Frankenstein where they alternated who played Victor & who Played the monster each night?
I want to do that, but w/ a double feature of 'Waiting For Godot' & 'Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead' (yes i plotted the role changes)
I want to do that, but w/ a double feature of 'Waiting For Godot' & 'Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead' (yes i plotted the role changes)
November 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Currently— once again— thinking about my plan to do an alternating cycle of 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead' and 'Waiting for Godot' with the same two actors swapping roles each night in a rotating transform.
Anyway.
Goodnight Tom Stoppard, and thank you for lots of things.
Anyway.
Goodnight Tom Stoppard, and thank you for lots of things.