Billy Steele

@wmsteele.bsky.social

You can't change the way you sound. You can only change the words that you choose. Engadget Deputy Editor, Reviews // 1998 Chowan Middle School Football MVP engadget.com/about/editors/billy-steele/

Giving Chad Tracy the full-time job was the only move.

Red Sox@redsox.com · 6d ago

The #RedSox today announced that they have exercised the club’s 2029 and 2030 contract options on Chief Baseball Officer Craig Breslow and named Chad Tracy the team’s 49th manager in club history, agreeing to a three-year contract that will run through the 2029 season with a club option in 2030.

The Boston Red Sox today announced that they have exercised the club’s 2029 and 2030 contract options on Chief Baseball Officer Craig Breslow and named Chad Tracy the team’s 49th manager in club history, agreeing to a three-year contract that will run through the 2029 season with a club option in 2030.
 
“Craig and Chad are two exceptionally talented leaders who have earned these opportunities in very different ways,” said Red Sox President & CEO Sam Kennedy. “Over the last three years, we have watched Craig bring clarity, discipline, and conviction to the work of building our baseball operation. Chad was asked to step into a difficult situation with little notice, but the trust he immediately commanded at the major league level was earned through years of work across our organization. What this team has accomplished over the past several months has been historic. Results matter greatly in this business, but so do judgment, character, and the ability to bring out the best in others. Craig and Chad have demonstrated all of those qualities, and they have earned our confidence in leading us forward.”

"FEMA provides most residential flood insurance in the United States. The agency will pay homeowners after a house collapses, but not before. That means owners stand to lose tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars by tearing down a doomed house before the ocean takes it."

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

Waterfront homes are collapsing along the coast. Homeowners generally have plenty of warning before their house buckles. So why aren't most houses removed, or at least emptied, before they fall? n.pr/4xwLZN7

The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w ago

Breaking News: The E.P.A. is said to be planning to announce that the U.S. will no longer limit climate pollution from power plants.

I was in court for a speeding ticket on 9/11. The first plane hit when I was driving from the courthouse to school. I just remember everyone was panicked when I walked into art class and I had no idea why.

Rest easy to the great Wendell Berry. He challenged us to think differently about living a fast, technologically complex life. He probably wouldn’t have loved me posting this on social media. Time for me to touch grass. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...

Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92

A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.

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Listened to this Brandon Flowers country record, and it really highlights the problem with artists from other genres cosplaying country: Many of them don't have the voice for it.

I don't think "neutral" is accurate. Most public figures try to stay neutral. There's nothing special about that. Dolly was different. She said that her politics were simple: "love and acceptance." That's not passive neutrality. It's the conviction of active, courageous inclusion and invitation.

CNN@cnn.com · last mo.

"At a time when no American celebrity seems immune from the country’s many divisions, Dolly Parton was a crossover icon who stayed neutral in the culture wars while still speaking her mind," writes Zachary B. Wolf. | Analysis