Ryan Mac 🙃

@rmac.bsky.social

NYT tech reporter Co-author of Character Limit Signal: rmac.18 ryan.mac@nytimes.com rmac18@protonmail.com https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/ https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_

When a boat hits a wave, the jolt can intensify 10x between the deck and the head of a crew member. That counter-intuitive physics is leaving some of the Coast Guard's most elite rescuers with serious brain injuries that go undiagnosed. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

Rescue Boat Crews Show Signs of Brain Injuries, but Coast Guard Isn’t Looking

Untreated and undiagnosed, the crews that save lives in the roughest seas face the relentless pounding of waves.

nytimes.com

such an incredibly told story from @davephilipps.bsky.social. his main subject is a teen, whose coast guard vet killed himself after years of trauma in the service. hoping to find more about her father lived (and died) she did her own research for a class project. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

Rescue Boat Crews Show Signs of Brain Injuries, but Coast Guard Isn’t Looking

Untreated and undiagnosed, the crews that save lives in the roughest seas face the relentless pounding of waves.

nytimes.com

I've always been annoyed by this framing — this time in @status.news — of news simply "emerging" or Thiel willingly telling everyone that he funded the Gawker suit (as they link to in this piece.) The news "emerged" because we broke it at Forbes. And then Thiel had to admit to it.

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today was the first day spacex's stock closed under its IPO price of $135. it closed at $131.11. if you bought the company's IPO shares, you are now underwater.