Before I became a journalist, I had planned to become a scientist. It has been incredibly disorienting and disheartening to see how a career in research has now become just as uncertain and tumultuous as journalism itself. My latest for @nytopinion:

Not enough wilco yet.

Excellent week for The Bear apologists.

Highly recommend seeing 28 Years Later as a morning matinee and then spending the rest of your afternoon enjoying immaculate LA weather.

RT @Max_Fisher: Of course it was. These are just buildings. You can��t bomb away a technological capability. All this does is convince Iran….

Uber driver has “yacht rock radio” on in the car. I love LA so much. I would never in a thousand years move here.

RT @alistairkitchen: I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA for reporting on the Columbia student protests. My story h….

Really feels like I might stand a chance.

too many bad takes on today's pop stars. there's a guy on tiktok doing piano covers of shoegaze classics and if he ever broke through to mainstream discourse I think I'd just decide to never again log on.

the group chat decided today we're calling it Big Dawg Summer. cc: @cd_hooks @emilyctamkin.

RT @SamAdlerBell: I'm sure LLMs will get better than this. But as it stands, everyone who posts this kind of thing — with an example that w….

Love can be addictive, which means looking to chatbots for love and affection can foster an addiction itself. @maiasz's latest piece for @nytopinion:

we're obsessing over the ways AI is going to challenge the way we foster and practice literacy. @leifweatherby points out we're glossing over the disruption it may create on *numeracy* and quantitative reasoning

if he's trying to get me to go to a show, ok maybe this will work.

why did Panda Bear name a song after my alma mater

Excited to have at least one more night where I get to mass text “Jalen Brunson” to everyone I know.

calling this a new trend is not the correct framing. it's just guys doing a bit that eventually becomes real life — the aspirational evolution of every bit. it's what sustains men as we venture through this mortal coil.

RT @zoerosebryant:

RT @evanhill: i like this show but it is dangerously close to becoming harry potter for people who read adam tooze.

This OKC Thunder team gives me very 2015/2016 Golden State vibes (derogatory).

their s/t album was my favorite indie rock album of the 2010s