Morgan Clendaniel
@mclendaniel.bsky.social
Digital executive editor at Fast Company
Funny contrast, a great lesson in how much the actual “being a good politician” part of politics matters.
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Funny contrast, a great lesson in how much the actual “being a good politician” part of politics matters.
REALITY BITES (1994)
one thing I have come to believe, as someone who grew up deeply skeptical of the "authentic expression / sold out" dichotomy is that however true or false it was objectively, the taboo on "selling out" was societally load-bearing
Good old Woz. Good for him.
November 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
REALITY BITES (1994)
I did recently get a head injury that erased the previous 48 hours of my memory, so yes, happy to offer some tips to any disturbed readers.
Is there a head injury I could hypothetically give myself to unread that
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I did recently get a head injury that erased the previous 48 hours of my memory, so yes, happy to offer some tips to any disturbed readers.
If you rest more than 5 minutes between sets in the gym you should go to jail, thank you for your attention to this matter.
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
If you rest more than 5 minutes between sets in the gym you should go to jail, thank you for your attention to this matter.
Imagine being Bill Cassidy and having to go about your day after being embarrassed like this day after day (not to mention not knowing you were going to be embarrassed like this from the get-go).
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Imagine being Bill Cassidy and having to go about your day after being embarrassed like this day after day (not to mention not knowing you were going to be embarrassed like this from the get-go).
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i talked to three deepfake experts about those AI anti-Mamdani videos. here's what they said:
www.fastcompany.com/91446713/tik...
www.fastcompany.com/91446713/tik...
New anti-Mamdani AI videos and the deepfake generation of astroturfing
'In the last election cycle, hiring human influencers to spread a particular message was all the rage. Now, teams don't even need those personalities.'
www.fastcompany.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
i talked to three deepfake experts about those AI anti-Mamdani videos. here's what they said:
www.fastcompany.com/91446713/tik...
www.fastcompany.com/91446713/tik...
You’ll know ChatGPT has gotten really smart when it knows which voice is the perfect one to answer each individual question. I can’t have ScarJo flirting with me all the time!
November 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
You’ll know ChatGPT has gotten really smart when it knows which voice is the perfect one to answer each individual question. I can’t have ScarJo flirting with me all the time!
So annoying when a guest comes to your house a reads your kid a book that you've been secretly abridging to make bedtime go faster and they reveal there are whole parts that have been missing the whole time.
November 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
So annoying when a guest comes to your house a reads your kid a book that you've been secretly abridging to make bedtime go faster and they reveal there are whole parts that have been missing the whole time.
Unclear why there seems to be no repercussions yet from Harvard for Elisa New? www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Summers Visited Epstein’s Island During 2005 Honeymoon | News | The Harvard Crimson
In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding at Elmwood — the Harvard president’s official residence — Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, traded Cambridge’s cold for a warmer escape.
www.thecrimson.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Unclear why there seems to be no repercussions yet from Harvard for Elisa New? www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
An interesting bit of juicelessness is that Trump is constantly saying the U.S. is “HOTTEST” COUNTRY and it hasn’t become a meme-ified catch phrase at all.
November 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
An interesting bit of juicelessness is that Trump is constantly saying the U.S. is “HOTTEST” COUNTRY and it hasn’t become a meme-ified catch phrase at all.
Pretty funny to not force Alan Garber out of the presidency for letting this happen after what you forced Claudine Gay out for.
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 20, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Pretty funny to not force Alan Garber out of the presidency for letting this happen after what you forced Claudine Gay out for.
I like how the chorus rhymes bait with both obey and then also bait.
Someone found an mp3 of the creepy "Jailbait" song Olivia Nuzzi released when she was 16 🫣
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I like how the chorus rhymes bait with both obey and then also bait.
3x bodyweight deadlift two days ago. No problem. Coughed too hard today: back destroyed. The body is a complicated machine.
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
3x bodyweight deadlift two days ago. No problem. Coughed too hard today: back destroyed. The body is a complicated machine.
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I'm so mad I didn't think of "selling electronic cat speech buttons to mentally ill people" first, I could be retired by now
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I'm so mad I didn't think of "selling electronic cat speech buttons to mentally ill people" first, I could be retired by now
Overheard a guy sitting near me at the Detroit airport say to his wife “he put up a second post” and I immediately checked Ryan Lizza’s substack even though they’re both in head to toe Michigan gear.
November 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Overheard a guy sitting near me at the Detroit airport say to his wife “he put up a second post” and I immediately checked Ryan Lizza’s substack even though they’re both in head to toe Michigan gear.
Indeed, many vocal AI critics I meet seem to have never played around with it at all. They don’t want to learn enough about it to figure out how they might stop or reform it, they just want to occupy a moral high ground.
There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are:
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
November 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Indeed, many vocal AI critics I meet seem to have never played around with it at all. They don’t want to learn enough about it to figure out how they might stop or reform it, they just want to occupy a moral high ground.
This article is fascinating because a lot of the subjects are legitimately good runners, because they’re training intensely and consistently. But they seem to ascribe it all to spending money on bullshit wellness protocols and recovery gadgets? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Wall Street’s Elite Are Turning Marathon Times Into a Status Symbol
From supershoes to altitude masks, money is no object for runners in pursuit of elite training regimens and faster marathon times.
www.bloomberg.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This article is fascinating because a lot of the subjects are legitimately good runners, because they’re training intensely and consistently. But they seem to ascribe it all to spending money on bullshit wellness protocols and recovery gadgets? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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just imagining waiting a year to publicly drop an atomic warhead on an ex but being like “gotta get that big bamboo metaphor up in there”
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
just imagining waiting a year to publicly drop an atomic warhead on an ex but being like “gotta get that big bamboo metaphor up in there”
Not a lot of times when someone is like “you need to get to the last line of this” and they’re actually right. But… my god.
November 18, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Not a lot of times when someone is like “you need to get to the last line of this” and they’re actually right. But… my god.
Using "ability to memorize a phone number" as some sort of indication of savant status feels like a very Gen Z thing but these men were both alive pre-cell phone. You had so many numbers memorized? I can still recite many of my childhood friends' phone numbers?
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Using "ability to memorize a phone number" as some sort of indication of savant status feels like a very Gen Z thing but these men were both alive pre-cell phone. You had so many numbers memorized? I can still recite many of my childhood friends' phone numbers?
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i am not convinced that a current cast member of the real housewives of miami is "spending a fortune to live in extreme privacy." www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
The Ultrarich Are Spending a Fortune to Live in Extreme Privacy
In Miami and elsewhere, the wealthy are moving in increasingly private spheres, shelling out big money to bypass the indignities of public life.
www.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
i am not convinced that a current cast member of the real housewives of miami is "spending a fortune to live in extreme privacy." www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
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A lot of this could have been avoided if a decade ago there had been some collective action to create a system of paying for each article a la carte.
But that was the time when you could put up a slideshow listicle and get a million pageviews by lunch so you see why people weren’t too concerned.
But that was the time when you could put up a slideshow listicle and get a million pageviews by lunch so you see why people weren’t too concerned.
It looks like “news shouldn’t have paywalls“ discourse is starting again.
-Banner ads don’t cover costs, and you block them
-Native ads are coercive
-Billionaires buying papers backfired
-Event driven funding doesn’t scale
-Newsletters are narrow and lack accountability infrastructure
-Banner ads don’t cover costs, and you block them
-Native ads are coercive
-Billionaires buying papers backfired
-Event driven funding doesn’t scale
-Newsletters are narrow and lack accountability infrastructure
November 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A lot of this could have been avoided if a decade ago there had been some collective action to create a system of paying for each article a la carte.
But that was the time when you could put up a slideshow listicle and get a million pageviews by lunch so you see why people weren’t too concerned.
But that was the time when you could put up a slideshow listicle and get a million pageviews by lunch so you see why people weren’t too concerned.
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This kind of whimsy—formerly maintained largely by under-employed art school grads working at coffee shops and record stores—has now mostly faded from the world and we are all worse off for it.
November 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This kind of whimsy—formerly maintained largely by under-employed art school grads working at coffee shops and record stores—has now mostly faded from the world and we are all worse off for it.
What’s a perfect album that came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 5:36 AM
What’s a perfect album that came out the year you turned 16?