Sometimes I'll listen back to an interview I did, and think "I wish I had asked this," and then I'll hear myself ask it, and I'll thank my past self.

I have to sing "we're in the money" on the radio, and to prepare, I watched Ginger Rogers singing it in the old movie "Gold Diggers," and now I have all sorts of questions www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm9h...

I currently am using the word "budge" approximately three times in my radio script, and it seems to have stopped being a real word to me

If you are hybrid or fully remote -- what percentage of comms with your colleagues would you say contain emoji?

"There is something that happens to you mentally after a year where you're like, there's no job for me.” Really moving words from Catherine Maddux, in this fantastic story about unemployment from my colleague @samfields.bsky.social www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

“Put me in, coach”: Navigating long-term unemployment in the low-hire economy

More than a quarter of people who are unemployed have now been out of work for at least 27 weeks. Some for much longer.

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It should be a crime to require more than one click to unsubscribe from something

I always feel like there should be more than one e in the word "deficit"

In a move of desperation, I just had one of my kid's Clif Z Bars as an afternoon snack, and woooo-e do I feel the sugar in it.

Sometimes writing a radio script feels like putting puzzle pieces together

After five years of confusing policy changes, what’s going on with student loans now?

Student loan policy changes give borrowers whiplash

The past five years have been called the most chaotic in student loan policy history.

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What is your home page? News? Something fun? I've had MSN as my default since I switched to the Edge browser a while back, and have been trying to figure out what's best. I feel like I want something like .... onenicefactaday.com

For a story for Marketplace, I'd love to talk to someone who is behind on their student loan payments. I want to know what's hard about paying the debt, what kind of obstacles they've faced. Any chance you know someone? My deadline is Thursday at 5 pm ET. 267-388-1450 / shughes@marketplace.org

Does anyone else ever do something, then write it on their to-do list, and cross it out? It's both to remember I've done it, also for the satisfaction of crossing it out. Just me?

This is kind of the best: sports.yahoo.com/articles/cul...

'This is our culture': Japan fans clean up World Cup stadium

Japan fans left the stands spotless after their World Cup opener against the Netherlands in Texas on Sunday, saying it was "Japanese culture" to tidy up after themselves.Japan are appearing at their e...

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Did you guys know that back in the 70s, everyone from aerospace companies to potato brands were trying to figure out how to make energy? I loved talking with historians @ccmmody.bsky.social and Dante LaRiccia about this period of elevated oil prices.

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great piece on alternative energy & the 1970s oil crises by @hughesstephanie.bsky.social in today's @marketplace.org Tech. thx to Stephanie for the opportunity to share insights from work w/ @odinnmelsted.bsky.social @michielbron.bsky.social & Jelena Stankovic: www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...

I'm going to be on all three @marketplace.org broadcast shows on Monday. I feel like there should be some sort of name for this, like a treble, or batting for the cycle.

Guys, I was this week-years old when I learned plug-in solar was a thing. I just talked about it with @paulosanalysis.com for @marketplace.org -- it's essentially a solar panel that you can plug into your wall like a toaster, but instead of taking power, it feeds power to your house!

Watching the Google I/O keynote from this week, and so many of their search example questions are about optimizing health and exercise. I wonder what percentage of Google searches are actually about these things. It feels very...Bay Area.

It's always a nice moment when you've been rolling around in a mud of information and reporting, and then a story actually starts to take shape.

"There are videos of Waymos stopping at puddles in traffic, and snarling traffic because they wouldn't cross a puddle." @willoremus.com on @marketplace.org Tech Bytes this week, on self-driving cars dealing with new situations Our whole chat: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms84...

Doing a short turn piece on Cerebras's IPO, and it seems I can never spell "initial" correctly the first time I type it.

"If there's one thing I could tell people to do, it would be to use a password manager. Do not reuse old passwords." @racheltobac.bsky.social, on how to protect yourselves from hacks

"Buckley got an alert about a “ninja cat.” The video was a big letdown: 'It was just a normal, non-ninja, black cat.'" www.wsj.com/tech/are-tho...

Security Cameras Are Failing Spectacularly at Common Sense

AI is allowing home-security cameras to offer detailed descriptions of what they see. The notifications are often spot on. They can also be wildly wrong.

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New BTOS AI Supplement from Census released today. AI use for any business function varies dramatically across sectors and firm size. In AI intensive use sectors, employment-weighted AI use 60-70% -- compared to 32% economy-wide employment weighted. See www.census.gov/library/work...

The Microstructure of AI Diffusion: Evidence from Firms, Business Functions, and Worker Tasks

Using new Business Trends and Outlook Survey data, we find AI use prevalent in large firms and knowledge-intensive sectors; augments tasks; labor declines rare.

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Sometimes I'll continue to see targeted ads for something I've already bought, and I wish I could tell the internet "look, I already bought that thingy; don't bother me anymore about it."

Learned a new word while talking to Tony Pipa of @brookings.edu -- "peri-urban," which means the edge of a town

Don't put anything in writing you wouldn't want an AI to read: www.forbes.com/sites/annato...

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

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"What do my miraculous sunglasses tell me? Many things. They inform me, in the voice of Princess Anna from “Frozen,” that my dog is a golden retriever mix (he is not) and that a tree I am looking at is probably an oak (it is not)." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/m...

I Feel So Sorry for My A.I. Sunglasses

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I wonder why we refer to $1,000 as a grand, but we don't refer to a thousand other things as a grand. I almost just wrote "a grand of people" in a pitch, and then I had to think "Stephanie, that isn't a thing."

Among the things I talked about with @anitar.bsky.social how Amazon's speedy delivery affects how I think about my pant shopping needs. www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...

Bytes: Week in Review — Gecko's $71M contract with U.S. Navy, BuzzFeed doubts its business viability, and Amazon offers faster delivery

Anita Ramaswamy, financial analysis columnist at The Information, joins Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes on this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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