Tim Carmody

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Ex-liontamer. Now I work as Deputy Editor at DeepLearning.AI. I used to write for Wired, The Verge, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles. I also occasionally guest host at Kottke.org. Everything changes; don’t be afraid.

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The New York Times is up and posting again on Threads. There was apparently some sort of glitch that briefly caused people to think they’d left the platform. www.threads.net/@nytimes/pos...

The New York Times (@nytimes) on Threadswww.threads.net 👋 Threads, we’re back. We did not deactivate our account, and are working to understand what happened here.

Nina Simone, Isn’t It A Pity

Other than Hurt by Johnny Cash and any version of The Sound of Silence, what are your favorite cover versions of famous songs?

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The first episode of my new video series, Cosmology 101, is out now! This one is about cosmic expansion. Check it out and subscribe to the Perimeter Institute’s YouTube channel to get the whole series! youtu.be/7GC8XOKwRpM?... #Cosmology101

Expansion of the Universe Explained | Cosmology 101 Episode 1youtu.be In this episode of Cosmology 101, we dive into the concept of an expanding universe. From the first moments of the Big Bang, our cosmos has been stretching i...

Once again, the New York Times using its agenda-setting power just to reveal it's been in the pocket of Big Melon all along

How Healthy Is Watermelon?www.nytimes.com It’s hydrating, to start. Here’s what else experts had to say about this warm-weather treat — along with some refreshing recipes.

The Beetles

Make a band more vegetable: The Food Fighters

My hair has gotten so long that Face ID won’t recognize me

I haven’t seen Inside Out but these are the characters in my head all the time

“It is not just that my side — the ideas I believe in like bodily autonomy, economic justice and diversity — are losing in the marketplace of ideas. It is that many of the ideas that I believe in absolutely kill in the marketplace of ideas, and it *does not matter*.”

Opinion | Whoever the Democratic Candidate Is, Americans Have Already Lostwww.nytimes.com The American Republic feels fragile.

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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

It feels worse than it did in 2016 in part because I have a clearer premonition of everything I’m afraid of

I subscribe to the theory that in your soul, you are all of your ages at any one time; accumulated injuries to your joints, however, tend to age linearly

one reason I feel grateful that my 20s (self-inflictedly) sucked ass is that when ppl post this stuff about being 30 or 35 it’s incomprehensible to me. Every part of my life, including physical stamina & athleticism, was better at 35 than at 18, & it’s bizarre that anyone thinks this isn’t standard

This format and series were made for Toni Morrison

If you could give any writer a volume in the Library of America, who would you choose?

I wonder what Jeff Bezos is going to do with the $5 billion he made by cashing out Amazon stock at an all-time high on Tuesday If it were me, I'd buy everyone a round of ice cream www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

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Repost with a tweet you still think about: it’s an obvious one, but because it’s true

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

Most good writers don’t have good writing advice. They’re just good writers, so what they say gets wrapped up in something that seems like a good idea. All of this is make-believe

Obviously what makes a sundress a sundress is getting railed in one

It's clear on social media that no one can quite agree on what makes a sundress a sundress. So, what is a sundress? Take our poll here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Honestly Biden, Harris, and Trump should all step aside in favor of my incredibly hot playlist of alternative and hip hop hits from 1984-2008 It’s time this nation was led by a series of burned CDs, each adorned in album art formatted as a Microsoft Works file and printed on a borrowed inkjet

This is honestly healthier, more sensible, and easier to sustain

you: getting mad at people on here and in media me: absolutely furious at people in books, just livid

Everyone is surprised that Generation X turned out to be so conservative on net, like the progressive kids were only rebelling against our parents. It was our peers too! Ron DeSantis, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Brett Kavanaugh are practically lesser cast members from Heathers

Is Pavement’s “Here” the Gen X “You’re So Vain”?

I like Business Insider, but it is a strange publication. It's got breaking tech news mixed in with relationship timelines. I can't quite figure out who it's for. It seems like the criterion for publication is "would an extremely online 45-year-old professional want to pay for this?"

People trying to pretend John Roberts was supposed to be Sandra Day O'Connor when even Sandra Day O'Connor wasn't Sandra Day O'Connor

How can any of us truly “know” anything if we have no certainty whence the chimichanga?

Actual quote from Wikipedia: “The origin of the chimichanga is uncertain”

Everyone says men should be wearing shorter shorts in the summertime now, but I’m too old and set in my ways. As long as they keep selling mesh shorts with inseams that would make the Fab Five happy, I’m still buying them

I’m waiting for Gen Xers to claim that they grew up tougher than today’s kids because sometimes Oscar the Grouch was mean

Is Galactus going to eat them

🚨 BREAKING: The Tory party is set to suffer total annihilation, according to a final mega poll. Full story: trib.al/BeoNk1z

UK election: Tories set to suffer total annihilation, final mega polls predicttrib.al Keir Starmer’s Labour will romp to victory, according to pollster YouGov.

Don’t make us watch him golf, please

Breaking news: President Biden and his senior team said they accepted the grim ultimatum they’ve been hearing from almost all quarters of the Democratic Party — to demonstrate his fitness for office or face a significant effort to force him to step aside.

Biden and aides concede he needs to quickly demonstrate his fitness for officewww.washingtonpost.com Critics have been shaken by his relative inaction to directly address the panic ignited by his halting debate performance last Thursday.

"Parchment appears to have been used in Hebrew scrolls before it was used widely elsewhere in the Graeco-Roman world. Word spacing and justified margins also first appear regularly in Hebrew books." From The Book, ed. Michael Suarez et al