MAJOR UPDATE: I found the best free restaurant bread in the United States www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America
Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.
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Caity Weaver@caity.bsky.social · 10mo agoIMPORTANT QUESTION: What is the best free restaurant bread in the United States? (ANY restaurant is eligible, but the bread must be free provided free to *every* table.)
These were my 10 favorite books I read last year (that are actually 13 because I allow exact ties). I am perpetually ravenous for book recs, so please throw ‘em at me if you got ‘em.
I’m afraid I have to share very sad news about a very nice man: www.caity.info/blog-1-1/38p...
John Weaver: 1944 - 2025 — Caity Weaver
We hate to tell you this: The world’s friendliest man has gone away.
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I still can’t believe the U.S. stopped making pennies with just…no plan. NO PLAN!!!!!! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Pennies Are Trash Now
The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies.
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I’m still fighting every day to get the answer to this question and now I have a FORM. Please for the love of God fill out the form (or email your answer to cweaver@theatlantic). I’ll let you know how it all works out in the end!!!! docs.google.com/forms/d/11de...
Best Free Restaurant Bread in America
Help Atlantic staff writer Caity Weaver on her quest!
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Caity Weaver@caity.bsky.social · 10mo agoIMPORTANT QUESTION: What is the best free restaurant bread in the United States? (ANY restaurant is eligible, but the bread must be free provided free to *every* table.)
"Yet as the tide of fiascoes rose around him, Benedict Arnold was becoming—I will say this as clinically and dispassionately as possible—ravishing." @caity.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com
You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Be a Reenactor
Benedict Arnold’s boot wouldn’t come off, and other hardships from my weekend in the Revolutionary War.
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I became a Revolutionary War reenactor for work! I went to Massachusetts and I couldn’t wear makeup!!! 😭 War is HELL
I Fought the Battle of Bunker Hill
What it takes to be a Revolutionary War reenactor
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IMPORTANT QUESTION: What is the best free restaurant bread in the United States? (ANY restaurant is eligible, but the bread must be free provided free to *every* table.)
My cousin asked me to “ask one of your smart friends what’s going on here” and I feel like the answer is that everyone in her home is about to die—but I can’t think of a nice way to explain that to her. Anyone else have a theory?
“We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life,” said CEO Jeanine Wright, who was previously chief operating officer of podcasting company Wondery www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan
Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright is leading a new firm, Inception Point AI, that's betting on flooding the zone with audio content: “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated c...
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Does anyone on this gd app know about the sky and, if so, can you please tell me what happened here? (Taken facing…southeast I think? The main sunset show was happening in another part of the sky)
Thank you @rossandersen.bsky.social for a gorgeously written (alternately funny and distressing) story that has created a new intrusive thought for me: Does my dog have enough privacy???? www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Are Humans Watching Animals Too Closely?
Some may crave a little privacy, even your dog.
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I hate to say this, but I think Mark Twain fucking lied about going to the Louvre (with all due respect): www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
An Innocent Abroad in Mark Twain’s Paris
My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, existential dread, and a rowboat.
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For my final story for NYT Mag, I spent thousands of dollars in an attempt to stop LOVIN’ Dunkaroos
How My Trip to Quit Sugar Quickly Became a Journey Into Hell (Gift Article)
For my whole life, I’ve been a hard-core sweets junkie. Could a spa help me quit in a week?
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Here is the 2024 edition of my perfect Christmas playlist. As always: 1) Start it from any song but do NOT use shuffle. Shuffling compromises the integrity of the precisely ordered 9 hour playlist. 2) I do NOT welcome your suggestions! Suggesters will be BLOCKED :) open.spotify.com/playlist/5T9...
Noel 2024
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@maxread.info is writing the best newsletter I've come across, and this installment is a great example of how it can inform and maybe even change you're thinking, rather than just saying "that thing I've been arguing since 2015 continues to explain everything": maxread.substack.com/p/does-blues...
Does Bluesky have the juice?
PLUS: YouTube's two primary intellectual values
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