David Martin
@bydavidmartin.bsky.social
Investigator. The occasional byline.
"Her view of tech was practical, the way many engineers thought at the time. It was just like indoor plumbing or electricity: infrastructure, not magic."
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"Her view of tech was practical, the way many engineers thought at the time. It was just like indoor plumbing or electricity: infrastructure, not magic."
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Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
“The world says ‘discover yourself.’ But Jesus said, ‘deny yourself!’” Graham thundered. Yet is Prestonwood Baptist denying itself? Has it denied itself its manicured campus, its gleaming buildings, its fitness center, its media company, its budgets, its empire?
America Is Becoming Dallas
Part One: The Lord of Plano.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“The world says ‘discover yourself.’ But Jesus said, ‘deny yourself!’” Graham thundered. Yet is Prestonwood Baptist denying itself? Has it denied itself its manicured campus, its gleaming buildings, its fitness center, its media company, its budgets, its empire?
David Brooks: Why are Democrats pursuing something that's wrong-footing the leader of the opposite party and dividing his coalition?
Question answers itself, brother.
Question answers itself, brother.
November 22, 2025 at 3:02 AM
David Brooks: Why are Democrats pursuing something that's wrong-footing the leader of the opposite party and dividing his coalition?
Question answers itself, brother.
Question answers itself, brother.
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He has managed to use a real tuxedo to achieve the effect of a tuxedo print tshirt
November 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
He has managed to use a real tuxedo to achieve the effect of a tuxedo print tshirt
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My guess is the bar for being punished due to intoxication on international Congressional travel is *very* high
Most of his tweets sound like he’s drunk while he’s writing them so no surprises here.
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
My guess is the bar for being punished due to intoxication on international Congressional travel is *very* high
Quite a kicker to this article on Lawrence Summers' friendship with Epstein www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Quite a kicker to this article on Lawrence Summers' friendship with Epstein www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Blending, like he's making a frappe
November 16, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Blending, like he's making a frappe
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Be someone who is remembered like Alice Wong is being remembered, that's the goal.
November 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Be someone who is remembered like Alice Wong is being remembered, that's the goal.
Skimmed this 1998 book, which hasn't aged well. As we've seen both with W and Trump, white rural people get pretty chill about the federal governmet's power once a Republican is in the White House.
November 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Skimmed this 1998 book, which hasn't aged well. As we've seen both with W and Trump, white rural people get pretty chill about the federal governmet's power once a Republican is in the White House.
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Importance: High
subj: An article for U (gift link)
i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
subj: An article for U (gift link)
i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
When QAnon Meets Veep
The dumb, abhorrent truth at the heart of the Epstein scandal
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Importance: High
subj: An article for U (gift link)
i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
subj: An article for U (gift link)
i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
I dreamt I got a $305 ticket for using a phone while driving. Woke up and felt rich.
November 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I dreamt I got a $305 ticket for using a phone while driving. Woke up and felt rich.
This seems like a good idea. The 4+3 model for lawyers also seems outdated. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Opinion | Make Medical School Three Years
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
This seems like a good idea. The 4+3 model for lawyers also seems outdated. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
This @karltaro.bsky.social profile of Paul Tagliabue is very good vault.si.com/vault/2006/0...
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This @karltaro.bsky.social profile of Paul Tagliabue is very good vault.si.com/vault/2006/0...
I can't stop watching this Kiss tribute band. Great musicians playing the deep cuts.
KISS : Dirty Livin' / Charisma - KISSOLOGY (Australian KISS Tribute)
YouTube video by Danny Lopresto
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I can't stop watching this Kiss tribute band. Great musicians playing the deep cuts.
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Billy squier officially rerelease the rock me tonite video. We can handle it now
November 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Billy squier officially rerelease the rock me tonite video. We can handle it now
Post you from a different era
1991. Hairline beginning its retreat.
1991. Hairline beginning its retreat.
November 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Post you from a different era
1991. Hairline beginning its retreat.
1991. Hairline beginning its retreat.
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So far election night USA seems to be a real referendum on “normal people are already sick of this shit”
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
So far election night USA seems to be a real referendum on “normal people are already sick of this shit”
This piece is worthwhile but Ezra Klein papers over the fact that Demcorats started losing elections (-63 in House, -6 in Senate in 2010) *before* its shift to the left. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
November 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
This piece is worthwhile but Ezra Klein papers over the fact that Demcorats started losing elections (-63 in House, -6 in Senate in 2010) *before* its shift to the left. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
Colts @ Steelers feels right. NFL should move Indianapolis to the AFC North, Baltimore to East, Miami to South.
November 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Colts @ Steelers feels right. NFL should move Indianapolis to the AFC North, Baltimore to East, Miami to South.
This is great
The Greatest Game I've Ever Seen?
Trying to make sense of Game Seven as I sit among the fog and ghosts in Cooperstown.
www.joeposnanski.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This is great
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I would like for national political reporters to place a moratorium on “But what will voters in the rest of America think about New York City’s socialist mayor?” We don’t care! Red states are notably full of psycho politicians yet rarely do you see pundits asking Brooklyn people about them.
November 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I would like for national political reporters to place a moratorium on “But what will voters in the rest of America think about New York City’s socialist mayor?” We don’t care! Red states are notably full of psycho politicians yet rarely do you see pundits asking Brooklyn people about them.
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"We have a great product that really works. Now to find a spokesman and aesthetic that's synonymous with 'feeling and being chill.'"
November 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"We have a great product that really works. Now to find a spokesman and aesthetic that's synonymous with 'feeling and being chill.'"
This piece is embarrassing. The tea party's deficit stuff was always a mask for out-of-the-mainstream ideas about race, gay people and immigrants. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
In Trump’s GOP, the once-mighty tea party is hard to find
Since the movement upended politics 15 years ago, Republicans have sharply changed direction under MAGA — with many tea party veterans along for the ride.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This piece is embarrassing. The tea party's deficit stuff was always a mask for out-of-the-mainstream ideas about race, gay people and immigrants. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...