The™ Colin Williams
@colinbwilliams.com
Paperboy/prof in PGH 🤘🏻 Nazis bad, metal good
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The™ Colin Williams
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· Nov 16
Whipped up this starter pack of Pittsburgh journos last night. By all means suggest additions and use as is helpful
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"I’m grateful every day for the vital work student journalists are doing in this country. It’s needed desperately; if this story is anything to go by, we can’t expect much from the adults."
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"I’m grateful every day for the vital work student journalists are doing in this country. It’s needed desperately; if this story is anything to go by, we can’t expect much from the adults."
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Amazing what happens when you yank out a freeway:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Can a Waterfront Park Wake Up Downtown Seattle?
After demolishing an elevated highway and digging a $3 billion tunnel, the Pacific Northwest’s largest city is eager to show off its “new front door.”
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Amazing what happens when you yank out a freeway:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Writing this in red pen on a student’s paper just to feel something
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Writing this in red pen on a student’s paper just to feel something
An underdiscussed linguistic aspect of Pittsburgh English is the Kyle = cow merger (/kaw/)
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
An underdiscussed linguistic aspect of Pittsburgh English is the Kyle = cow merger (/kaw/)
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Forgot to promote this yesterday. Bypass the Bypass!
Transit Talk: Bypass the Bypass with a bigger bike trail
Relics of our car-centric past could be converted into pedestrian-friendly parkland.
www.pghcitypaper.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Forgot to promote this yesterday. Bypass the Bypass!
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This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
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BREAKING: UPMC asks court to delay any required production of patient records while a motion to quash the subpoena is pending. Their filing confirms that no records have yet been handed over.
BREAKING: UPMC Breaks Silence in Subpoena Fight But Stops Short of Challenging It
BREAKING OVERNIGHT: After months of silence and mounting community pressure, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh has filed a formal response to the federal government’s subpoena demanding the medical records of hundreds of trans youth. In an amicus brief filed late Tuesday, UPMC asked the court to delay any required production of patient records while a motion to quash the subpoena, …
qburgh.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
BREAKING: UPMC asks court to delay any required production of patient records while a motion to quash the subpoena is pending. Their filing confirms that no records have yet been handed over.
Forgot to promote this yesterday. Bypass the Bypass!
Transit Talk: Bypass the Bypass with a bigger bike trail
Relics of our car-centric past could be converted into pedestrian-friendly parkland.
www.pghcitypaper.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Forgot to promote this yesterday. Bypass the Bypass!
Our whole government:
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Our whole government:
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On March 19 the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party urged CMU to curtail Chinese enrollment. This year, CMU has 223 fewer students from China.
CMU seeks world’s ‘best and brightest’ but visa woes and anti-China rhetoric have some ‘freaked out’
Carnegie Mellon University’s pipeline of international students slows amid visa changes and growing anti-China rhetoric.
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
On March 19 the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party urged CMU to curtail Chinese enrollment. This year, CMU has 223 fewer students from China.
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The Mallorca rule applies here too: if you can't function outside of Bödefeld-Schmallenberg, just stay in fucking Bödefeld-Schmallenberg. Not like the rest of the world is jonesing for a visit from some of the least fun people on the planet.
November 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The Mallorca rule applies here too: if you can't function outside of Bödefeld-Schmallenberg, just stay in fucking Bödefeld-Schmallenberg. Not like the rest of the world is jonesing for a visit from some of the least fun people on the planet.
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Pay squeezes in freelance creative jobs are a grim scene.
The expected payments for most musical jobs as a freelancer are the same in figure terms as they were when I first started doing this 25 years ago.
The expected payments for most musical jobs as a freelancer are the same in figure terms as they were when I first started doing this 25 years ago.
Last time I checked my current rate at one publisher was $70 less than my starting rate there almost 20 years ago, when accounting for inflation. It'll be even worse now.
The one about comic book page rates – again. News flash: Comic book page rates are STILL stagnant, after all these years, and for indie cartoonists it's even harder
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Pay squeezes in freelance creative jobs are a grim scene.
The expected payments for most musical jobs as a freelancer are the same in figure terms as they were when I first started doing this 25 years ago.
The expected payments for most musical jobs as a freelancer are the same in figure terms as they were when I first started doing this 25 years ago.
Serious question: why aren't we putting data centers in unused office space instead of building new on green and brownfields?
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Serious question: why aren't we putting data centers in unused office space instead of building new on green and brownfields?
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Destroying Blue Sky for good with a 'still posts on Twitter' labeller.
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Destroying Blue Sky for good with a 'still posts on Twitter' labeller.
"Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life"
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
"Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life"
I've come to love my students' lil spelling and punctuation issues because I know it means they didn't use ChatGPT.
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I've come to love my students' lil spelling and punctuation issues because I know it means they didn't use ChatGPT.
This is just the City of Pittsburgh
You know how there are some historical reenactment museum areas where you can go and see people dressed old timey churning butter and making horseshoes? There should be one that's a bar and kids can go listen to reenactors complain about their city's sports teams from different decades
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This is just the City of Pittsburgh
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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If reading about college students using AI to cheat made you feel crazy, wait till you hear about where they get their news
Why college students prefer News Daddy over The New York Times
Zoomers get all their news from TikTok — and refuse to go elsewhere
www.theverge.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
If reading about college students using AI to cheat made you feel crazy, wait till you hear about where they get their news
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Supreme Court Strips Samus Aran of All Previous Suit Power-Ups in 6-3 Ruling
hard-drive.net/supreme-cour...
hard-drive.net/supreme-cour...
Supreme Court Strips Samus Aran of All Previous Suit Power-Ups in 6-3 Ruling - Hard Drive
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that bounty hunter Samus Aran must surrender all suit power-ups prior to the start... Read the full masterpiece
hard-drive.net
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Supreme Court Strips Samus Aran of All Previous Suit Power-Ups in 6-3 Ruling
hard-drive.net/supreme-cour...
hard-drive.net/supreme-cour...
Visited friends in Lancaster, PA and I'm always struck by how cute and complete of a city it is. It's walkable beyond belief, there's a proper train station, and no highways slice through the heart of town. It's wild how few small cities like that are left in much of the country.
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Visited friends in Lancaster, PA and I'm always struck by how cute and complete of a city it is. It's walkable beyond belief, there's a proper train station, and no highways slice through the heart of town. It's wild how few small cities like that are left in much of the country.
How bout them Riverhounds??
November 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
How bout them Riverhounds??
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the MTG retirement is literally just “these people suck I’m out” and people here are too libragepilled
And yeah, so many people imagining 5d chess from this 🤦
Like, I love a good fantasy Machiavelli scenario, but I just don't see that happening here.
Like, I love a good fantasy Machiavelli scenario, but I just don't see that happening here.
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
the MTG retirement is literally just “these people suck I’m out” and people here are too libragepilled
We don't need Ryan Lizza's help with the destruction of journalism
November 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
We don't need Ryan Lizza's help with the destruction of journalism
Our euphorbia dgaf about the cold
November 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Our euphorbia dgaf about the cold