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Joined December 2009
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6 Dec 2024
They happen to be standing next to each other in the photo. It's the first YCombinator class: Sam Altman, now CEO of the closed-model and rapidly-commercialized OpenAI; and Aaron Swartz, the much-missed open-source coder. New from me at Flaming Hydra:
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We're remembering a community icon Tuesday morning.
James Beckum, who founded the Beckum-Stapleton Little League in 1964, has passed away at age 95.
Click here to read more about some of the lives he impacted: tmj4.com/news/milwaukee-coun…
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9 Nov 2024
Laid out $8.5k for 11th-row seats to ask Andre Jackson Jr. about the ember-roasted walleye with pickled fennel at the re-opened Birch on E. Pleasant St.
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31 Oct 2024
Two Decades of Pacification in the NBA — by Tommy Craggs
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29 Oct 2024
There’s a perfect ratfucking operation underway in Wisconsin and Arizona, @kylewilsontharp reports.
An unknown PAC using unknown vendors is backing Green Party and opposing Dems on an anti-Israel message. It’s using targeting data from Koch’s i360 firm. fwiw.news/p/anonymous-progre…
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22 Oct 2024
Eight hours left in our Flaming Hydra crowdfunder, where you can get rewards like signed books from our cooperative members, watercolors / inks, and help our project to archive The Awl / The Hairpin (both online and book)
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22 Oct 2024
Check out free-to-read posts from Flaming Hydra coop members Osita Nwanevu, Ana Marie Cox, Yemisi Aribisala, Arwa Mahdawi, Ben Ehrenreich, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Tom Scocca, Myriam Gurba, David Roth, Josephine Riesman, Anna Merlan, all linked here:
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15 Oct 2024
SHE LIVES! HEARING THINGS DOT CO
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4 Oct 2024
A 3-1 count, a Williams signature changeup middle-out (seemingly without as much action on it, on the second night in a row), Alonso stayed back on it, waited:
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4 Oct 2024
What a ride — a payroll 21st of 30 teams, the smallest media market in the MLB, still 16th in stadium attendance. Rea and Myers this year were delirious. Let's play next year
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4 Oct 2024
On the crossfire: "Against righties, especially, the Airbender has to come back from the edge of the plate and dip just below the zone... Last year... he got lots of whiffs and weak contact with it. This year, he hasn't been able to dot it there."
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1 Oct 2024
Editors going through removing "things of that nature" from my Flaming Hydra drafts
(I'm kidding, the software does that)
On the nuclear missiles once at Fort Tilden, on the edge of New York City:
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1 Oct 2024
Let's all revisit the Todd P mostly-acoustic show at Fort Tilden, feat. Aa
Bike to the beach at Flaming Hydra ::
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28 Sep 2024
About two dozen signed baseball cards of the "Crab Rangoon" tweet left -- check out the rewards, "back this project" -- a cooperative of writers and artists
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26 Sep 2024
Woj salary came off the books and ESPN still chose to get rid of Zach Lowe. Strategy clearly is broadcast rights first, a few recognizable personalities who will do endless GOAT discussions, and just enough journalism to keep ESPN relevant.
26 Sep 2024
NEWS: ESPN has laid off NBA Sr. writer Zach Lowe, The Athletic has learned.
Details ...
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23 Sep 2024
Baseball cards of tweets by David Roth, signed by him—just one offer of our Flaming Hydra cooperative's new Kickstarter.
Scroll two-thirds down to see the images of the cards, they're beyond. A bunch of other amazing stuff:
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19 Sep 2024
If you have read and liked anything I've done for New York Magazine or Vulture over the last 12 years, please know that the parent company Vox made a deal with an AI company and won't give any guarantees about how it will be used.
19 Sep 2024
The New York Magazine Union is back at the bargaining table this morning to continue our fight for AI job protections.
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18 Sep 2024
The magic of RSS, the golden age of microblogging, an ease of social sharing, and most importantly, U Mean Competitor
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