A rave review in the @nytimes.com of my new book, CATCH THE DEVIL, which is out today! Written by one of my writing heroes, @tedconover.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/b...
Book Review: ‘Catch the Devil,’ by Pamela Colloff
In “Catch the Devil,” Pamela Colloff vividly tells the true story of the con man who traded on other prisoners’ “confessions” for clemency.
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My deepest thanks to @nytimes.com for including my forthcoming book, CATCH THE DEVIL, in this list of summer nonfiction titles! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/b...
The Nonfiction Everyone Will Be Reading This Summer
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Consider the potential implications of “The Full McConaughey” (h/t @karaswisher.bsky.social) for the rest of us. medium.com/@gob/the-rea...
The Real Fake™ (continued): Matthew McConaughey is Right About AI — and Maybe a Whole Lot More?
Questioning the nature of identity was once a pastime reserved for philosophy seminars, shrink conventions, and True Detective monologues…
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Glenn O. Brown@go-brown.bsky.social · 4mo ago“Whatever this bundle of personal-brand rights McConaughey is asserting morphs into over time … we might one day look back and see that [he] has trademarked something else entirely: A prototype for personal agency in a world of AI."
“Whatever this bundle of personal-brand rights McConaughey is asserting morphs into over time … we might one day look back and see that [he] has trademarked something else entirely: A prototype for personal agency in a world of AI."
Glenn O. Brown@go-brown.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn which I explore whether fellow Texan Matthew McConaughey’s approach to AI holds wisdoms for our shared challenges with identity under modern life. medium.com/@gob/the-rea...
In which I explore whether fellow Texan Matthew McConaughey’s approach to AI holds wisdoms for our shared challenges with identity under modern life. medium.com/@gob/the-rea...
The Real Fake™ (continued): Matthew McConaughey is Right About AI — and Maybe a Whole Lot More?
Questioning the nature of identity was once a pastime reserved for philosophy seminars, shrink conventions, and True Detective monologues…
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Some personal news, as they say: My first book, CATCH THE DEVIL, comes out July 14! I’m hugely grateful to @nytimes.com for naming it as one of the books everyone will be talking about in 2026. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/b...
We've announced our Spring '26 Camp theme: Agent Systems. We're seeking teams building autonomous systems of agents that deliver complete solutions to concrete problems. Read the full thesis: beta.works/camp Apply! beta.works/agentsystems Priority deadline is 12/24 🎄
This morning I was listening to a Sarah Silverman podcast, and one of her listeners asked who she’d have dinner with, if she could pick any four living people she didn’t already know. I ticked through a few writers and comics in my head, then settled on Tom Stoppard as first draft pick.
Handy financial news resource of the day, from @yahoofinance.com @bsky.app @graze.social -- timely, topic-specific custom feed on NVIDIA earnings, curated by Yahoo! Finance bsky.app/profile/yaho...
A salute and word of gratitude to all veterans today, starting with my brother, Dr. Carlos Brown. Here's a portrait of his time as a U.S. Navy trauma surgeon embedded with U.S. Marines -- a 2007 Texas Monthly profile by John Spong: www.texasmonthly.com/articles/car...
Carlos Brown Is a Hero (No Matter What He Says)
My best friend from high school is no longer the uncool, baseball-card-collecting goofball he once was. He’s a Navy surgeon and commander, and for two horrific weeks I got to watch him calmly and brav...
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Probably the most exciting thing we've done @graze.social to date!
Graze Social@graze.social · 9mo agoOn Tuesday night, you may have noticed something a little different on Bluesky. Here's a peek behind the scenes of how the election feed came together. Endlessly grateful for this collaboration with @wnyc.org/@gothamist.com & @bsky.app!
Get all your breaking NYC election news here, thanks to @gothamist.com @graze.social bsky.app/profile/did:...
Graze is doing great work in supporting the entire ATProto Ecosystem, and their latest newsletter is a great illustration. Also featuring an interview with @sjgreenwood.bsky.social about Paper Skygest (bsky.app/profile/pape...)
Graze Social@graze.social · 10mo agoWe’ve started describing ATProto as the new standard gauge — a shared track that finally lets social apps move together instead of apart. Our latest Graze newsletter looks at what that means in practice (plus a great chat with @sjgreenwood.bsky.social ). graze-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/the-new-st...
OH WOW! Congratulations to our contributor, László Krasznahorkai, for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature!!! 😍🥳 wordswithoutborders.org/.../view/lsz...
László Krasznahorkai - Words Without Borders
László Krasznahorkai is the recipient of the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature, the 2015 Man Booker International Prize, and the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction.
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If This Then AT:// (IFTTA) is now open source under the MIT license! Build powerful automation workflows triggered by any event in the ATProtocol ecosystem. Lexicon-agnostic and ready for the decentralized social web. GitHub: github.com/graze-social/iftta
GitHub - graze-social/iftta
Contribute to graze-social/iftta development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Only a few days left to apply! We'll be announcing the final winners soon after the deadline of *June 31*
Graze Social@graze.social · last yr.We've been given an amazing opportunity with our round of funding to build out the next generation of the social web. Today, we're starting an experiment in paying that forward. Introducing Graze Grants, a project to help get other ATProto projects off the ground.
The Magna Carta turns 810 years old today. medium.com/@gob/project...
Project 1215
Happy Birthday, Bigly Contract
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As you may have heard, there’s an important birthday this weekend. We can only hope that people across the nation — nay, the globe — engage in tribute and fanfare proportional to the occasion. 1/
