Spine Story Hub: an AI scam, right?

Let’s not…???

Yesterday I became the first person in my family to rig a jib. #firstgen

That lil essay from the divorced newswoman reminds me of my oversharing students who fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the relationship.

Please circulate: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/call-ap... Seeking 10 Early Career Fellows to participate in 2 summer academies to be held in Berlin June 14–18, 2027 & June 26–30, 2028: SCIENCE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE. How have scholars deliberated about investing scarce resources in an uncertain future?

Looking through the gates that now enclose most of the Yale campus, the whole enterprise seems vaguely ridiculous.

7 hours deep into a road trip and we’re now in Newsies album territory. Halfway through “seize the day” my 4yo asks, “ do bosses go on strike?” Getting right to the heart of the thing.

I’ve been in Oklahoma 3 days and this is the third and oldest variety of pro-oil, pro “environment” argument I’ve heard. Kermac News, July 1977

I have a feeling we know the race it will be.

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Scoop: Nick Bilton and Bari Weiss are having potential new "60 Minutes" correspondents take screen tests in which they interview a person playing Ghislaine Maxwell—all while Bilton and Bari also look for new senior staff for the show. All the details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...

That is so sad for him 😢

Half His Age. Damn. So lacerating and great and no flab at all.

Anybody on here send elementary school kids to an afterschool program in Durham?

Meritocracy in higher ed!

Sarah Milov@allofmilov.bsky.social · 3w ago

news.virginia.edu/content/amid... This is so embarrassing.

news.virginia.edu/content/amid... This is so embarrassing.

Amid UVA connections, Scott Beardsley earns Oxford degree

UVA’s president graduated from England’s oldest university on Saturday, earning a master’s degree in practical ethics with a focus on the ethics of artificial intelligence.

news.virginia.edu

Just bowled a frame at this dope 1938 bowling alley in Pittsburgh. If you like it you can thank the CIO.

this article is smart, funny, human.

Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social · 4w ago

Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...

@maureenebrady.com Were you there? Did you sing like Kermit in the Balinese (resort) jungle? www.townandcountrymag.com/the-scene/we...

Julia Allison and Noah Feldman’s Wedding Brought Together Burning Man and Harvard

One wedding wasn’t enough for the couple, who celebrated first in Cambridge and later in Bali.

townandcountrymag.com

InSideTraDer

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 4w ago

President Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator was caught by Kalshi making bets on what he would say in his speeches, something that obviously involves insider information. ABC News reports that he made over $100,000 betting on his speeches and is now in settlement talks with the CFTC.

love a brusque email from a random administrator commanding me to send them a successful proposal while also chastising me for not going through them in the first place. cool.

AAU institutions reported a 15% drop in PhD admissions this year, after an 11% drop the prior year www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...

Decline of Ph.D. Admissions Could Imperil a ‘Generation of New Talent’

nytimes.com

Well it’s a start.

Whistle-Blowers Accuse Kennedy Center of Contracting Flaws Under Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/a... The thing about whistleblowing is that it can only really work in tandem with a strong and adversarial media and, crucially, Congress.

Whistle-Blowers Accuse Kennedy Center of Contracting Flaws Under Trump

nytimes.com

At least this isn’t your morning:

Has anyone ever successfully read a New Yorker article through the Libby phone app? It cannot be done.

This bossiest agit prop shouldn’t exist.

Where can I get a Russian-style Napoleon cake in Pittsburgh?

Two words: Book It

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last mo.

Pizza Hut is looking for ways to reconnect with customers after years of restaurant closures and shifting consumer tastes. Some fans say the path forward may actually lie in looking back at its era of colorful lamps hung over checkered tablecloths.

Discomfiting detail: Yale is "represented" by McGuire Woods, the same firm that railroaded UVa into a terrible deal by playing both sides.

Jennie Coughlin@jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · last mo.

The dean of Yale Law School and some members of its faculty are trying to stop a settlement between the university and the Trump administration, warning that an agreement could jeopardize Yale’s independence, according to two people familiar with the deliberations.

Susan Collins won the game.

Did Cramblin & Duvet direct the Charlottesville Closet Factory ad?