David Rudin
@davidrudin.com
Journalist, pastry maker, friend to all … with some exceptions. (He/him)
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What I read in 2025
Who needs a gym membership when your library card is getting such a thorough workout?
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I read a bunch of books this year — most of them good! Here's a blog about them:
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I read a bunch of books this year — most of them good! Here's a blog about them:
davidrudin.com/2025/12/20/w...
davidrudin.com/2025/12/20/w...
What I read in 2025
Who needs a gym membership when your library card is getting such a thorough workout?
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December 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I read a bunch of books this year — most of them good! Here's a blog about them:
davidrudin.com/2025/12/20/w...
davidrudin.com/2025/12/20/w...
Her big idea for CBS News is ,,, the Munk Debates?????
December 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Her big idea for CBS News is ,,, the Munk Debates?????
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Look a lot of people were at the Lucifer Foundation's annual Billionaire Vision Brunch in 2011. I didn't talk to all of them. Some of us just find the work the Lucifer Foundation does to be interesting.
December 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Look a lot of people were at the Lucifer Foundation's annual Billionaire Vision Brunch in 2011. I didn't talk to all of them. Some of us just find the work the Lucifer Foundation does to be interesting.
Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
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December 17, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
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It's very important we all go back to Twitter, a website as popular with young people as chlamydia.
Teens turn to a variety of online platforms, but YouTube continues to stand out. Roughly nine-in-ten teens report ever using it. TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat are the next most widely used platforms.
December 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
It's very important we all go back to Twitter, a website as popular with young people as chlamydia.
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The feminist sports podcast you need is back, at least for now (we’ll have more on that later). Make sure you’re subscribed wherever you listen to podcasts so you catch this episode when it drops.
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The feminist sports podcast you need is back, at least for now (we’ll have more on that later). Make sure you’re subscribed wherever you listen to podcasts so you catch this episode when it drops.
re. that TikTok, the real question I have is WHO AGREED TO MAKE THE CAKE?!?!!!
December 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
re. that TikTok, the real question I have is WHO AGREED TO MAKE THE CAKE?!?!!!
the biggest tell (of many) that this is a scam is the supposition that Ontario would be using speed cameras to enforce the law…
December 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
the biggest tell (of many) that this is a scam is the supposition that Ontario would be using speed cameras to enforce the law…
Samir Nasri was a pioneer!
December 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Samir Nasri was a pioneer!
time to re-read The Miracle in Bilbao! www.nytimes.com/1997/09/07/m...
The Miracle In Bilbao (Published 1997)
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December 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
time to re-read The Miracle in Bilbao! www.nytimes.com/1997/09/07/m...
Away match for Canada
Canada Italy in Toronto will genuinely result in the destruction of the city
December 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Away match for Canada
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Trying to check if the sole verifiable claim that ZKP, Barcelona's new crypto partner, makes for itself is true: a story in four parts.
December 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Trying to check if the sole verifiable claim that ZKP, Barcelona's new crypto partner, makes for itself is true: a story in four parts.
Step 1: Boil water (by asking ChatGPT for the recipe)
Step 2: Boil water for pasta (it says this on the box)
Step 2: Boil water for pasta (it says this on the box)
Needing ChatGPT to tell you make pasta for a first date as though dudes haven’t been doing that since the beginning of time
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Step 1: Boil water (by asking ChatGPT for the recipe)
Step 2: Boil water for pasta (it says this on the box)
Step 2: Boil water for pasta (it says this on the box)
“When are we gonna stop indulging this? Without undue sanctimony, I think one can say it’s wrecking the country. It’s a goddamn disgrace. Especially when so many worthy journalists, who dedicated their lives to their profession with ethics and seriousness, are being cast onto the ash heap.”
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
“When are we gonna stop indulging this? Without undue sanctimony, I think one can say it’s wrecking the country. It’s a goddamn disgrace. Especially when so many worthy journalists, who dedicated their lives to their profession with ethics and seriousness, are being cast onto the ash heap.”
I was at an AI conference recently and it was ~fascinating~ how every panel I saw over multiple days involved someone processing this study out loud
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” John Cassidy writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mlYgP3
The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History
Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I was at an AI conference recently and it was ~fascinating~ how every panel I saw over multiple days involved someone processing this study out loud
Asking all the kids who come to our door follow-up questions because I am the scariest of characters for Halloween: Isaac Chotiner
November 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Asking all the kids who come to our door follow-up questions because I am the scariest of characters for Halloween: Isaac Chotiner
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Would you believe me if I told you that this lengthy Athletic interview with Mikel Arteta, held under the auspices of becoming a global ambassador for Under Armour, contains not a single question and answer on Thomas Partey?
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The life of a football manager is pretty unusual. It weighs heavily sometimes.
But it demands the ability to keep moving, keep demanding, keep inspiring, and keep taking the big decisions.
But it demands the ability to keep moving, keep demanding, keep inspiring, and keep taking the big decisions.
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Would you believe me if I told you that this lengthy Athletic interview with Mikel Arteta, held under the auspices of becoming a global ambassador for Under Armour, contains not a single question and answer on Thomas Partey?
bsky.app/profile/thea...
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Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
Kids today are learning that the fastest and easiest way to make money—the key value that has been modeled to them in America society—is to scam others, cheat your way through, and attract negative attention online that can be monetized. My endless sympathy to parents
August 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
This is not an acceptable re-casting of Tevye!
August 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is not an acceptable re-casting of Tevye!
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if we have a butlerian jihad against chatGPT can we call it Em-Daesh
August 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
if we have a butlerian jihad against chatGPT can we call it Em-Daesh
Not the main issue here but why does the Ozzy in the lead pic look like Bono??
On his current tour, Rod Stewart has been singing “Forever Young” in front of an AI-generated video of Ozzy Osbourne taking selfies in heaven with musicians like Kurt Cobain, Michael Jackson, and XXXTentacion
Rod Stewart Tour Features AI Video Of Ozzy Osbourne Taking Selfies With Musicians In Heaven
Over the past two weeks on his One Last Time tour, Rod Stewart has been dedicating his 1988 hit “Forever Young” to Ozzy Osbourne, who died last month at 76. On the night of the Black Sabbath frontman’...
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August 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Not the main issue here but why does the Ozzy in the lead pic look like Bono??
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"I think I could get away with that stuff because I was this clean cut college kid in a bow-tie and horn-rimmed glasses, being kind of innocent and smart." -- Tom Lehrer on his career as a musical satirist.
"Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it,” said the songwriter and performer, Tom Lehrer. Read @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social reflections and tribute on the legacy of the late artist: www.rogerebert.com/tributes/lif...
Life is Like a Piano: Tom Lehrer, 1928-2005 | Tributes | Roger Ebert
A tribute to the iconic political musical satirist, who passed this weekend.
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July 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"I think I could get away with that stuff because I was this clean cut college kid in a bow-tie and horn-rimmed glasses, being kind of innocent and smart." -- Tom Lehrer on his career as a musical satirist.