Noah Frank
Writer. Days doing comms at Virginia Tech, evenings teaching at Loyola Maryland. Musing on baseball and other maddening pastimes.
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- God, we need the sheer stupidity of this story right now
- After a day spent talking with friends who lost their jobs at The Post yesterday, I was thinking back to this post, from almost three years ago, and how this has all just gotten that much worse pretty-good.ghost.io/surviving-a-...
- Like, really, though
- Obviously the media literacy of believing an LLM over a human reporter is a disaster. But of ALL the LLMs to trust…Grok?
- Really hoping someone attempting this isn’t the reason a bunch of EMS (including a boat) just went screaming towards the river on 14th St
- Not only is it sunny and above freezing today, but even if you survived falling through the ice, you might wish you hadn’t washingtonian.com/2026/01/30/s...
- Yeaaaaahhh wjla.com/news/local/p...
- I know there’s a million other things happening, but please don’t lose sight of our government overreaching once again to strip D.C. of its ability to self-govern, potentially costing us $700 million of our own money and ruining our balanced budget
- You should not be allowed to lay off anybody by Zoom. Especially journalists.
- Oh, is it a logistical and an emotional nightmare to have to do it in person, one by one? I bet. Think there might be a lesson, there?
- Hmm, you don’t say bsky.app/profile/gbro...
- Love too wait for an impending round of layoffs at one place for me to move forward with one project while simultaneously waiting for another round of layoffs at a different place to move forward with a different project. Everything is great.
- It’s pretty clear once she decided she wasn’t running again she just started mailing it in
- "My biggest criticism has been comms. [The mayor] should have had a daily briefing to the public, if not the council," says @brianneknadeau.bsky.social about storm cleanup in D.C. "Lack of communication, lack of communication, lack of communication," agrees @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social.
- Good news! Nine days after the storm, the city actually plowed my neighborhood’s alleys last night. Bad news: They left piles of ice blocking the bike lanes #bikesky
- The funniest thing to me is that his actual personality effectively diminishes what many consider his greatest role. Turns out he’s actually that thin-skinned narcissist desperate for validation
