erin mccann

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internet ephemera for The New York Times.

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So I’m moving to California next month. I’m leaving behind a team I spent most of the last eight years building, and I’m super pumped about this next adventure.

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And all available on Youtube! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

in all the (appropriate) memorializing of Shelley Duvall as a performer in the work of male auteur directors, spare a thought for her own auteur work: Faerie Tale Theatre was one of the few actually good media products aimed at children in the 1980s, but because it didn't sell toys it's forgotten

Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre The Complete Collection (1982-1987)youtube.com Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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Another astonishing story from Pamela Colloff in the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/m...

He Was Sent to Prison for Killing His Baby. What if He Didn’t Do It?www.nytimes.com Flawed science helped convict Russell Maze more than 20 years ago. The D.A.’s office now says it got it wrong. Why is he still behind bars?

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instead of ai We should have Flintstones technology A talking bird does tasks and then says “it’s a living”

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How is this even supposed to work? How is step three “get super rich off this”

There but for the grace of the WGA go I. www.404media.co/a-beloved-te...

A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staffwww.404media.co TUAW, a site that was shut down 10 years ago, was sold to a private equity firm, then to a company in Hong Kong, and has now stolen its old workers' identities and is running their old work through AI...

I truly do miss this version of internet news

Scott Murray's preamble, before the India v New Zealand match in the 2003 cricket world cup, remains undefeated www.theguardian.com/sport/2003/m...

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guardian football live blogs are so extra I love it

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WTF. The electric company in Texas doesn't have a map of outages so people have been using the Whataburger App to figure out who lost power. This is like when Homer was using the Krusty Burger map when they got lost at sea.

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Such good advice

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Is it news or is it trying to get you to click?

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Honestly, seeing people find out in the wild that New York City has giant mounds of trash bags ten feet high along every sidewalk in the city three or four times a week is one of the great pleasures of the internet. Yes, the entire city. Every trash day. Looks like this. For real, not a joke.

hang on, sorry, are you telling me the city of new york’s solution to trash to date has been to just have people dump bags of trash out openly? how the fuck do your trash trucks work, like, are the operators loading bags in by hand??

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Ever wonder about the music ice cream trucks play? jalopnik.com/almost-all-i...

Almost All Ice Cream Truck Music Is Controlled By One Companyjalopnik.com A small Minnesota-based company controls the vast majority of the ice cream van music business.

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The only man known to have participated in both the newsman fight in Anchorman (2004) and the U.S. Capitol attack (2021) has formally pleaded guilty in connection with the latter. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Comedian from 'Anchorman' and 'Mr. Show' pleads guilty in Jan. 6 Capitol attackwww.nbcnews.com Actor Jay Johnston, who also had a voice role on “Bob’s Burgers,” had been No. 247 on the FBI’s Capitol Violence list.

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I was so prepared to joke about this piece and then I read it and my childhood fear of quicksand just came roaring back.

Perspective by Stephen P. Leatherman: Digging holes in sand might seem innocent, but experts recommend never digging a hole deeper than the knee height of the shortest person in your group — with two feet being the maximum depth.

Perspective | There’s real danger in digging deep holes on a sandy beachwapo.st Experts recommend never digging a hole deeper than the knee height of the shortest person in your group — with two feet being the maximum depth.

If there is one group of readers you don't want to hear from, it's the foodies who also dabble in writing instrument fandom

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This photo is pure 2024.

Quint’s fee for catching the shark

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wikisurfing and stopped dead at this passage, because this is probably the most intensely Nicolas Cage thing I've ever read

I woke up this morning to a neighbor practicing the trumpet, which could be the start of a bad joke but in reality he was very quietly (as quietly as a trumpet can be I guess) playing Somewhere Over the Rainbow just over yonder, and it was a pretty great Saturday so far.

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forgot his birthday on June 25th but I think it’s important to stop and acknowledge it. man, I miss him.

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bluesky is a posting retirement home for elder millennials and, well, it turns out a very particular type of elder millennial ended up becoming posters

Yesterday I went on Twitter and saw someone say "Go back to Bluesky with all the rest of the former gifted kids" and wow just absolutely bodied

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Possibly the greatest action figure of all time?

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

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2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!" 2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons." latenighter.com/news/paramou...

Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gonelatenighter.com One of the richest repositories of late-night videos—including 25 years of clips from 'The Daily Show' and the entire run of 'The Colbert Report'—is no longer.

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I have bad news about the kind of people who post on bluesky Ryan

Why would you be weird and aggressive *on Bluesky* especially? Nothing matters here. That's like being a dick at the Classics department meeting

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nobody knows what anyone is doing online anymore, and it's not an accident nymag.com/intelligence...

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baby shark but literally?????

Baby great white shark reveals huge nursery near NYC in scientific firstwww.nationalgeographic.com Liberty, named for the famous New York City statue, wore a camera tag to show researchers where hundreds of other young sharks grow up right next to the Big Apple.

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"When there are nine*" *lives

she ate with this look

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Here's an instant fix: Knock it off.

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Imagine being the cto of openai and saying out loud that producing low quality content means you shouldn't have a job and thinking that for some reason doesn't apply to your job working at the giant machine that produces vast amounts of overwhelmingly very low quality content company

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati: “Some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place if the content that comes out of it is not very high quality.”

Roundup: OpenAI says some artistic jobs shouldn’t existdisconnect.blog Read to the end for a good overview of failing social media platforms