Morgan Wick

There is an international, well-connected network of fascists promoting far-right candidates in elections (and coups) across the world. The guy who owns the site Yglesias posted this on is one of their leaders. Be careful of people advocating for their opponents to disarm!

if voting didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

Season 20 of the Flex Schedule Watch kicks off with an early-period non-flex that might presage a year where the league is particularly stuck with bad teams in feature windows. In fact, they may still be as likely to pull an early flex as a main-period flex. www.morganwick.com/2026/10/nfl-...

One thing I think we're going to be grappling with for the next few years is the way in which "group optimization" for things like recommendations runs up against the unsavory sense that an LLM has created the content, poisoning even the basic concept of aggregated results

The NFL was reportedly considering flexing out Eagles-Quinns even before the news about Jalen Hurts' blood clot came out. But they might be stuck with it, and they did it to themselves. www.morganwick.com/2026/10/last...

As a water carrier, she ranks with the best — but Bari Weiss has always had the self-protective ability to detect when the winds shift.

no kings includes billionaires who think they’re kings

Most people won’t know who you are. Do your best to not to be one of them.

CBS Sports and TNT Sports are now officially part of the same company, but sports fans may be disappointed at how much of the rights held by one will cross over to the other. www.morganwick.com/2026/10/how-...

I think I'd have headlined on the fact that 37% of the people polled believe in the great replacement theory, actually www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Okay, so could we possibly, I dunno, say, do some investigative journalism into where the funding streams for these clearly astroturfed groups are coming from? (Spolier: it's American Christian Dominionists. The money is coming from ultra-rich American Christian Dominionists).

Seems a lot worse than anything that happened in the "Twitter Files" — which was essentially nothing.

@foldablehuman.bsky.social You won't believe who's uncovered evidence of a conspiracy because... the raw price and unit price on grocery store price tags don't always match when you do the math. x.com/wallstreetap...

🏈 DET 26 - 32 CAR FINAL ❌ No Scorigami. That score has happened 1 time before. Last time: Dec 8, 2024 Miami Dolphins defeated New York Jets

The Big Ten is winning National Championships and making more TV money than the SEC. But there is a growing problem... The widening gap in TV ratings and the quality of the TV product itself, compared to the SEC, has many hitting the panic button. awfulannouncing.com/college-foot...

The problem with "artificial intelligence" as a term is not that it's "real" intelligence. Just the opposite, really.

Hey, y'all. "Innocent until proven guilty" is a term intended for the court system, where a defendant isn't guilty 'til a trial finds them to be so. It doesn't mean that you don't use your own fucking common sense & good judgment to stay away from bad people. You're not imprisoning them. Thanks.

An issue with repression is the same issue people can have with persistent distracting thoughts: You try to ignore them, and your brain keeps processing the incomplete thoughts in the background. In such instances, some sort of closure is superior to trying not to think about elephants.

the software industry has not solved "cleanly copying and pasting text in a table from one program to another" after 40 years of productivity design and optimization. just thinking of other things that took more time and effort than cracking an atom in two

@seattletransitblog.com The Times has a new piece trashing Pinehurst Station: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

if you're a 99% invisible subscriber you can listen to my episode in the "100 objects that made america" series today. it's a history of the sobriety chip, AA and its connection to the failures of prohibition and americans' love of a religion, and figuring out my own california sobriety :-)

AI hallucinated a report that a Chinese ship was transporting nuclear material to Iran and the US military scrambled and nearly boarded it. We were apparently minutes away from a major war because of an AI hallucination. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

Flipping through my copy of The Onion's "My Dumb Century" and I like how every headline in the '50s is about what a boring decade it was

Take shamefully stolen from eugenics twink but it is funny how porn is often considered one of the major vices of the digital era but unlike infinite scrolling algorithmically curated content it has a very obvious end state where you get on with the rest of your life

Gen AI is the dream of replacing the need for others without achieving personal growth or self-reliance. To be fair, many tools have similar results and can come to be depended on. It’s the extremes, scope, and specifics of Gen AI that make them cross several lines.

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

🏈 GB 22 - 39 MIN FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1097th unique final score in NFL history.

🏈 CHI 59 - 37 CAR FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1096th unique final score in NFL history.

What can't be forgotten about 9/11 is the ocean of BS controversies and cancel campaigns in the aftermath, like the backlash to this 2002 Starbucks ad that was accused of portraying the towers as cups and insects as the airliners (???)

a solemn day to memorialize the anniversary of half a dozen black colleges going on lockdown because of charlie kirk-related death threats

i want to apologize again to everyone who may have heeded my advice, did not get wrongfully terminated from their job, and as such did not score a once in a lifetime lawsuit payout. i will spend the day in reflection be better in the future about not discouraging my followers from getting that bag

The Seahawks have beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl and have now beat them with a game-ending interception in the end zone, Super Bowl 49 has officially been erased from history, it never happened

Hilarious that the NFL decided they're gonna kick off the season wtih an EPIC SUPER BOWL REMATCH and forgot that the Super Bowl was really ugly and boring

It’s 2026 and the rise of short form social video and the requirement to put your mug on camera and talk makes all that stuff in Grammatology about writing as the absence of presence feel like a relief not a problem

WIRED spoke with the Anthropic engineer who very loudly quit over concerns about runaway AI. He thinks humanity has a “couple of years” to prepare. from @mzeff.bsky.social

The expert (to me at least) has weighed in and has a good explanation for how NBC's "synced" overlay could have gotten unsynced

Jeff Sagarin has some opinions.

There's a lot that's concerning about the Pro Football Hall of Fame's overhaul to its selection process, but the part that makes me the most cautiously optimistic may be the part they didn't publicize. www.morganwick.com/2026/09/the-...

I feel very much like a cranky old man saying that everything is busted these days and blaming it all on this newfangled A.I., but, I don't know that I'm wrong

the thing about this article is that at every single paragraph, you're like "this cannot possibly get worse." and then you read the next paragraph

(ESPN finally eliminates the bottom line for college football games after a decade and a half of me demanding it) dammit how the hell am i supposed to know which of thee windows is which network without the bottom line logo