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Priya

@priyamatta.bsky.social

Art director, New Yorker, Hi-Chew aficionado, professional worrier. Go Bills.

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Hannah Vardit@hannahvardit.bsky.social · 12h ago

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 22h ago

One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.

Ruth Zakarin@ruthz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Raise your boys to be the ones who yell absofuckingloutely not when they see a man spike a woman’s drink. Tell them about what happened at Cornell and their job is to disrupt the group chat and call the police. Teach them that this is what being a man looks like.

victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27)@dirtbagqueer.rocks · 4d ago

the chain that recently took over all the rest stops along the 90 in new york state has placed these absolutely wonderful garbage cans outside their buildings. i am obsessed with them. but for some reason?? they don’t sell figures of him???? LET ME GIVE YOU MONEY I WANT HIM ON MY DESK

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Flazlo@fleezlow.bsky.social · 4d ago

I'm just thinking back to COVID when our pundits and media intellectuals were incensed and enraged about kids falling behind in their education because we were doing remote schooling.

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.
Priya@priyamatta.bsky.social · 5d ago

My NYT Best Shows Ballot, in no particular order except first: Veep, The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Arrested Development, Fleabag, Detroiters, Normal People, Friday Night Light, Schitt$ Creek

My NYT Best Shows Ballot, in no particular order except first: Veep, The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Arrested Development, Fleabag, Detroiters, Normal People, Friday Night Light, Schitt$ Creek
Preeti Chhibber@runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 5d ago

like ppl are gonna follow the advise of a whole adult who cannot tell people his phone number or address without help by CHOICE. He could know it, and he has chosen not to! He has decided that there is no instance in which he may need to know where he actually lives. That is not a practical man!!

sam@samthielman.com · 6d ago

And the secret ingredient was… yes, labor arbitrage. The answer, one more time, was labor arbitrage here as well. Really giving that one a workout

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 7d ago

New from 404 Media: Meta announced Muse, its AI agent that can book restaurants for you. We've seen internal Meta messages showing Meta is actually testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers. In those tests its not AI, it's just a person www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...

T. Greg Doucette@gregdoucette.bsky.social · 6d ago

Mentally I'm still in the "got burned by 2024" / "this is too good to be true" camp But IMO a bona fide blue Texas -- Ds winning not just the Senate race, but multiple statewide seats -- would be a psyche-shattering blow to Rs. The prospect of Texas going blue in 2028 would be terrifying for them

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 7d ago

Marist now has a Texas poll (after their Iowa poll last night). It has Talarico leading Paxton 50/44. And Hinojosa leading Abbott 49/46. (All among registered voters.) maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/2026-m...

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 7d ago

DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

DoorDash messed up. They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty. That's unacceptable. We've secured a $131.5M settlement from DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in American municipal history. Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city. LOGOS: The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC NYC Consumer and Worker Protection Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.Mayor Mamdani signs a giant check.Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.
Anil Dash@anildash.com · last wk.

Genuine question: why are they pretending to give a shit now, when Trump calling for journalists to be killed didn’t inspire this kind of pushback? I know why they didn’t care when he dehumanized journalists who are Black women.

Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · last wk.

NYT will not publish or distribute any images taken as part of the White House still photography pool today, in conjunction with the other members of that pool and in a show of support for the news organizations being unfairly targeted by the president's barring of journalists from the White House.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w ago

NEW: Sports reporting is shrinking. But at ProPublica, we’re diving in. We won’t cover the games, but we’ll be keeping score — of which powerful people are winning, of who’s being hurt and of which systems can be held accountable.

Why ProPublica Is Leaning Into Sports Investigations

Sports is a wealthy, powerful industry. We’ll cover the system instead of the games. We’ll ask who’s responsible for some of its biggest problems and who’s preventing them from being fixed.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w ago

Look outside. Do you see snow? No?  Well, you will soon. You might also see $30/hr more in your pocket if you become an emergency snow shoveler.  Registration begins Saturday, September 19th. Sign up by November 30th for access to paid orientation and expedited payment processing.

Emergency Snow Shovelers - DSNY

Emergency Snow Shovelers are called on after heavy snowfalls to remove snow and ice citywide from public areas like bus stops, crosswalks, fire hydrants, and step streets.

on.nyc.gov