Matt King @_mattking

Write about culture, tech, waste, wealth, skyscrapers | @TheAtlantic, @newrepublic, @thebafflermag | Best American Essays Notable ‘22, '23 matt-king.me CHI ➡️ NYC ➡️ BAL Joined September 2010

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Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt

a day ago

an excerpt from FREE GIFTS in @nplusonemag on social cost as the underbelly of the free gift, and the peculiarity of pollution as "matter out of place" in a system where matter is ordered by price: nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

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Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster

2 days ago

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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Skyline Enjoyer 🏗️🏙️🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @LivinAWestLife

3 days ago

Small American city skyline starterpack

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Brandon @blgtylr

5 days ago

Did you guys see the thing about how using AI in medical practice for a short period of time is correlated with doctors becoming much worse at the same tasks unassisted. Like it obliterated decades of practice and expertise.

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Bastien Fachan @BastienFachan

a week ago

Italian photographer Ray Giubilo with a one-in-a-million shot of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open 👻 (via raygiubilo/IG)

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Leigh Giangreco @LeighGiangreco

2 weeks ago

We need more theater critics. More food critics. Architecture critics. Movie critics. People who have studied a subject and aren’t afraid to point out when art is terrible instead of just “creating content.”

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Mariah Blake @MariahCBlake

3 weeks ago

I’m heartbroken for my child and for all the world’s children. We had a historic opportunity to protect them, and we failed. #plasticsTreaty #plastic #PFAS theguardian.com/environment/20…

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Anna Astakhova @Anna_Astakhova

3 weeks ago

@ProfNoahGian Must read: lithub.com/ruled-by-numbe…

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Benoit Denizet-Lewis @BenoitDLewis

3 weeks ago

YOU’VE CHANGED has a cover! A book for anyone who’s ever tried to shed an old skin—or watched someone else do it and thought, "Really?" It’s about people chasing transformation, others denying they’ve even jiggled their ideological thermostat, and what change looks like in an age…

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Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis

3 weeks ago

WSJ: "More than $1 billion worth of beverage cans were dumped in U.S. landfills just last year, the trade group estimates. By weight, that was similar to all the primary aluminum produced by U.S. smelters."

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Mike Bird @Birdyword

4 weeks ago

This is a brilliant piece. You might think Delta, Southwest, American and United are firms that make money flying people from place to place. You would be wrong - they are companies that lose money flying people around, and make money in nexus of loyalty, points and miles.

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Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4

a month ago

Okay so that Miles Davis quote "if you hit a wrong note, it's the next note you play that determines if it's good or bad" applies to basically everything

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Baltimore Beat @baltbeat

a month ago

Issue 66 of Baltimore Beat is live! Our cover photo is of James Mosher League baseball players on their opening day. It was taken by Christian Thomas.

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Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster

a month ago

We know a lot is going on right now, but we just realized that: cabinet/board/panel = things made of wood cabinet/board/panel = terms for organizations

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The Baltimore Banner @BaltimoreBanner

a month ago

Anne Arundel County has 533 miles of shoreline. One mile is for public swimming. buff.ly/r9w74a2

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Techmeme @Techmeme

2 months ago

A look at US-backed NVD, as its parent org NIST scrambles to hire contractors to help clear a backlog of 25K+ vulnerabilities, ~10x the previous high in 2017 (@_mattking / MIT Technology Review) technologyreview.com/2025/07/11/111… techmeme.com/250712/p14#a25…