Freelance journalist, regular contributor to the Daily Mail and others. Wrote a lot about the Jeffrey Epstein case
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This is such a bleak story about what it's like to try to land a job right now. nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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My transcription tool, Cockatoo, that I pay like $150 a year for, did a redesign became unusable. Everything bad always happens to me.
Does anyone on media Twitter have one they recommend?
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hey for no reason whatsoever just sharing this little tidbit about the last time McClatchy did layoffs
journalism is not really dying. it's being stripped for parts by people who have never cared about it miaminewtimes.com/news/mccla…
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The 2002 NYT story collecting everything we know about what happened in the towers after the planes hit is grim, but then you get the occasional absolutely bonkers survival story. nytimes.com/2002/05/26/nyreg…
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written about this extensively so often, but here it goes again
Every country has that one city (at least) with that one neighborhood (wealthy) which is their version of the global good life, and if you stick to it, and many tourist do, all you get from your travel is the local variation on a comfortable setting.
To see something truly different all you have to do is go a little ways away, sometimes only a handful of blocks, but usually a few miles away, or even a different city.
It isn't hard at all to get more out of travel, but honestly, that's not what most people want -- they want to be in the same play, with basically the same actors, that won't challenge them, but with a slight change of scenery.
Nothing wrong with that necessarily, just don't pretend getting far more out of travel isn't really easy.
modern travel is increasingly flying 10 hours to experience a slightly different version of the same globally optimized lifestyle.
same third wave coffee. same natural wine bar. same brutalist menu. same sourdough. same beige hotel. same tasteful ceramics. same instagram lighting.
what a ridiculous convergence.
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A few things the New York Times left out of its “Untold Story” of Jeffrey Epstein’s Death open.substack.com/pub/please…
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This.
Umberto Eco, writer: “The tragedy of the Internet is that it has promoted the village idiot to the level of bearer of truth” - AS USA en.as.com/entertainment/umbe…
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I spoke to young women who had been sex trafficked here in the US as girls, and they all described the disconnect between public outrage at Jeffrey Epstein's circle and public indifference toward the girls sold at cheap motels in every city. A gift link: nytimes.com/2026/07/29/opini…
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The fact that you can't even make out on a bench in Central Park without someone recording you on their iPhone and then posting it to social media as some kind of bit is everything that's wrong with society and I am not joking. The surveillance state (administered by an actual state or by the millions of people with phones who want to embarrass people on their TL) is essentially the least romantic thing imaginable in both the love sense and the living sense. It is anti-romantic and anti-life. Part of the reason why the before world was fun was the fact that you didn't have this kind of thing. The ability to do something without it being documented and recorded is the difference between being free vs an animal locked in a cage. There is a direct correlation between everyone constantly being afraid that someone is going to record them and post it somewhere and society becoming more neurotic, less fun, more boring, and less alive.
The self-administered surveillance state is the enemy of life.
Rumored lawyers caught making out in Central Park goes viral and divides the internet trib.al/FWTTAUH
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Here is Roger Ebert's first paragraph of his review for "The Mummy" and it is why he was the greatest film critic to ever live
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is a stolen tweet.
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John Oliver’s third—and final—day on General Hospital is off to a rip-roaring start. Consider him fully initiated.
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This image is from today. A Black woman sits on the DC metro as masked white nationalists prepare to march on our nation's capital.
This is America's 250th anniversary. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
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❌️💧Meta's closed loop cooling system at a new data center in Wyoming unlawfully released a rare bacterium into a city's wastewater system, contaminating the reuse system, prompting months of cleanup, its permit revoked, and a suspension on more data center discharges. 🧵
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‘Manchesterism’, a decidedly undefined term, can be best explained by this clip.
Most things can be best explained by a clip from Yes Minister.
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Probably only interesting to a small subset of New Yorkers, but the Carroll Street Bridge in Gowanus reopened this morning after 5 years!
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I analyzed over 10 million lines of public data to build a (free) tool for NYC renters.
You can check any building across all five boroughs.
It consolidates rent stabilization records, bedbug, pest, and mold reports, and management company patterns.
In the last 5 years across NYC apartment buildings:
- 43% had immediately hazardous violations
- 39% had confirmed bedbugs
- 34% had mold complaints
Some features:
- rent stabilization status
- bedbug, pest, and mold reports
- a 0-100 health score for every building
- data aggregated by management company
- search by any address or click into a neighborhood
check your building before you sign.
nycstoops.com
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A one-armed woman has gone mega-viral after she quickly refuted a cop’s claim that she was driving with a phone in her “right hand.”
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New research: we have studied the wealth of the 200 Californian billionaires and what they effectively pay in tax.
From Mark Zuckerberg (Meta) to Sergei Brin and Larry Page (Alphabet), the results are edifying. 🧵
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