Morgan Clendaniel
@mclendaniel.bsky.social
Digital executive editor at Fast Company
You have to admit it’s pretty funny to imagine various world leaders having a Bill Simmons-style debate about which country is the hottest.
Trump says in a speech tonight: “One year ago our country was dead. We were absolutely dead. Our country was ready to fail. Totally fail. Now we’re the hottest country anywhere in the world. And that’s said by every single leader I’ve spoken to over the last five months.”
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
You have to admit it’s pretty funny to imagine various world leaders having a Bill Simmons-style debate about which country is the hottest.
Providence is in fact run from a few dining rooms of red sauce joints on Federal Hill.
December 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Providence is in fact run from a few dining rooms of red sauce joints on Federal Hill.
Running through a pretty unpleasant abductor issue right now and I endorse this meme
December 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Running through a pretty unpleasant abductor issue right now and I endorse this meme
Fascinating, ChatGPT mostly nailed this (zero points for aesthetics, obviously). I wonder what the difference is here.
December 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Fascinating, ChatGPT mostly nailed this (zero points for aesthetics, obviously). I wonder what the difference is here.
Reposted by Morgan Clendaniel
Something I’ve come to understand is workers’ job market confidence isn’t necessarily about whether they have a good job, but their sense of their risk of being laid off and whether they could find a new job which is reflected more in hiring and quits rate.
Can’t remmeber the last time I saw an upbeat labor market headline www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
Spooked by AI and Layoffs, White-Collar Workers See Their Security Slip Away
Tuesday’s jobs report was the latest ominous sign in an era of big corporate layoff announcements and CEOs warning that AI will replace workers.
www.wsj.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Something I’ve come to understand is workers’ job market confidence isn’t necessarily about whether they have a good job, but their sense of their risk of being laid off and whether they could find a new job which is reflected more in hiring and quits rate.
There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see
December 17, 2025 at 2:03 AM
There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see
People are obsessed with feeling no guilt for doing things that are slightly bad for them and must have science construct a reason for it to be ok. Every drink is bad for you, it’s ok to still do it, sit with your choices.
The notion that light drinking is good for the heart had been debunked by studies and overshadowed by warnings that alcohol causes cancer. Now the American Heart Association has revived the idea in a scientific review that is drawing intense criticism.
Heart Association Revives Theory That Light Drinking May Be Good for You
The American Heart Association report runs contrary to recent studies — and the group’s own guidelines — that found any amount of alcohol to be harmful.
nyti.ms
December 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
People are obsessed with feeling no guilt for doing things that are slightly bad for them and must have science construct a reason for it to be ok. Every drink is bad for you, it’s ok to still do it, sit with your choices.
This pops up when you’re reading a story about Rob Reiner on People.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This pops up when you’re reading a story about Rob Reiner on People.com
I am begging people who write otherwise thoughtful critiques of AI to just include one paragraph admitting and reconciling with the fact that ChatGPT is the ~5th most visited website in the world. This isn’t some niche thing anymore! That’s gotta be in your thinking!
December 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I am begging people who write otherwise thoughtful critiques of AI to just include one paragraph admitting and reconciling with the fact that ChatGPT is the ~5th most visited website in the world. This isn’t some niche thing anymore! That’s gotta be in your thinking!
Going to be an awkward day in labor and delivery:
December 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Going to be an awkward day in labor and delivery:
People seem mad about this banal observation, but to illustrate: I have a mere double digit Instagram following and I made my first ever little video on there a few days ago and it got 300k views. My posts here get 0-1 likes. I enjoy my posts here way more but it's obvious where the eyeballs are.
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
People seem mad about this banal observation, but to illustrate: I have a mere double digit Instagram following and I made my first ever little video on there a few days ago and it got 300k views. My posts here get 0-1 likes. I enjoy my posts here way more but it's obvious where the eyeballs are.
Interesting contrast on Twitter as your sort of standard MAGA is spinning their wheels hard trying to justfiy the Reiner tweet while all the most aggressive and feral right-coded shit posters are like "jesus, man, this is awful."
December 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Interesting contrast on Twitter as your sort of standard MAGA is spinning their wheels hard trying to justfiy the Reiner tweet while all the most aggressive and feral right-coded shit posters are like "jesus, man, this is awful."
In a mode of parenting where I fall asleep with my kid at 8, wake up at 11, groggily stare at my phone for an hour, do chores and work from 12-3, go back to sleep up til 6. This is six total hours of sleep but obviously incredibly unhealthy. But maybe I can spin it into some hit productivity book.
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
In a mode of parenting where I fall asleep with my kid at 8, wake up at 11, groggily stare at my phone for an hour, do chores and work from 12-3, go back to sleep up til 6. This is six total hours of sleep but obviously incredibly unhealthy. But maybe I can spin it into some hit productivity book.
How come they’re called bills and not fee mail?
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
How come they’re called bills and not fee mail?
Amazing work by the kids at the BDH to cover this so well in a chaotic and scary time: www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Live updates: Two deceased in active shooter incident at Brown University
Serving the Brown University community since 1891
www.browndailyherald.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Amazing work by the kids at the BDH to cover this so well in a chaotic and scary time: www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
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December 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I usually just shrug off people’s woo-woo fitness-related wellness stuff: placebo is powerful and helpful and it’s your time and money. But, like, if it’s collapsing your lung the placebo isnt worth much. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
T.J. Watt's collapsed lung injury update, dry needling explained
Is dry needling common for NFL players? How long will the Steelers' star be sidelined? Here's what we know.
www.espn.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I usually just shrug off people’s woo-woo fitness-related wellness stuff: placebo is powerful and helpful and it’s your time and money. But, like, if it’s collapsing your lung the placebo isnt worth much. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
We live in a world of ubiquitous cameras in your pocket and yet people are still twisting themselves into pretzels to watch themselves sideways while deadlifting instead of just filming themselves.
December 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
We live in a world of ubiquitous cameras in your pocket and yet people are still twisting themselves into pretzels to watch themselves sideways while deadlifting instead of just filming themselves.
In this scene in Margin Call, are we supposed to see Tuld as a mid-IQ generalist? People misunderstanding what should be very obvious messages/dynamics in movies (Sicario, etc) and basing a worldview off it seems like it might be a pretty fundamental problem in our current society.
December 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
In this scene in Margin Call, are we supposed to see Tuld as a mid-IQ generalist? People misunderstanding what should be very obvious messages/dynamics in movies (Sicario, etc) and basing a worldview off it seems like it might be a pretty fundamental problem in our current society.
The Nuzzi book sales discourse is funny. I think a subset of literary people who still read books think authors are regularly pushing like 100,000 copies or something? You and the people you know reading the same book? You are the only people who bought it.
December 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The Nuzzi book sales discourse is funny. I think a subset of literary people who still read books think authors are regularly pushing like 100,000 copies or something? You and the people you know reading the same book? You are the only people who bought it.
Cinnabon workers should be unionized and then this worker would have had a bit of due process and then she also still would have been fired for cause?
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Cinnabon workers should be unionized and then this worker would have had a bit of due process and then she also still would have been fired for cause?
The 69 detail really takes this to another realm of ridiculousness.
"After order number 66, the next order jumps straight to number 68. The chain has also removed the number 69, for good measure." f-st.co/ouV5ODQ
In-N-Out is fed up with 6-7
'After order number 66, the next order jumps straight to number 68. The chain has also removed the number 69, for good measure.'
f-st.co
December 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The 69 detail really takes this to another realm of ridiculousness.
There's some stuff I don't want my kid watching on Disney+ just for purely aesthetic or ideological reasons but this is exactly right. The whole good thing about it is there isn't any way for her to get to something actually bad. But there's gonna be weird sex stuff in this Sora slop so quickly.
I'm sure Disney looks at YouTube and is envious of how much watchtime it has for kids. But I think there's a large amount of parents who think of the Disney+ app as a more premium product specifically because it is free of UGC. I know that a lot of parent were mad when Hulu stuff showed up on there
December 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
There's some stuff I don't want my kid watching on Disney+ just for purely aesthetic or ideological reasons but this is exactly right. The whole good thing about it is there isn't any way for her to get to something actually bad. But there's gonna be weird sex stuff in this Sora slop so quickly.
Reposted by Morgan Clendaniel
The type designer behind Calibri says the decision to replace his font with Times New Roman as the official U.S. State Department typeface is "hilarious and regrettable." f-st.co/jiypxwR
A brief history of Calibri, the 'woke' font the Trump administration is replacing
The secretary of state called Calibri 'informal' and blamed 'radical' DEI programs for its use in official State Department documents.
f-st.co
December 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The type designer behind Calibri says the decision to replace his font with Times New Roman as the official U.S. State Department typeface is "hilarious and regrettable." f-st.co/jiypxwR