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By now, many of you may have at least heard of the Uri Berliner piece roundly criticizing NPR for being too woke. Except he didn’t say woke. He said NPR is “telling listeners how to think” and “ignoring its core audience.” By which he means, liberal cis-white men like himself, whom he describes as “EV-driving, Wordle-playing, tote bag–carrying coastal elite.” I read this story when it came out on Tuesday with disbelief and anger.

Clickbait!  That's been a problem in the discussion of the Russian invasion.  Media get your attention by writing of escalation!  Not to mention: nuclear threats! And: nuclear war!  There is a profit motive at work here, one that Russian propagandists exploit by their references to nuclear weapons.  Unfortunately, the atmospherics of what should be a sober conversation are brought more by a counting of dollars than by a reckoning of risks.

To investors, There a few topics I want to cover today, so I’ve written shorter commentary on each one. The stock surged more than 25% in after-hours trading after new guidance was given by CEO Jensen Huang. This was breathtaking to watch because a move of this size means that the already large cap company saw another $150+ billion added in just a f… ncG1vNJzZmion6K9b7%2FUm6qtmZOge6S7zGinaKamnrGqrYydnJusXZiyqrjIp55mrKeewbWx0WaYp5xdlrazv8eip6w%3D

My friend, an ex-junkie, stopped shooting heroin and now injects herself with vitamins instead. One night in the coat room of a techno club, she plunges a syringe of vitamin B12 into my butt. I squeal with delight and declare to the coat check girl that this is the most subversive drug act I’ve ever done—flipping the much-stigmatized junkie needle aesth… ncG1vNJzZmiqkauyr7HWsKarpJRjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89opbKbXaiyuXnFmqWtmaOuenmDww%3D%3D

Welcome to Sports Stories, a newsletter written by Eric Nusbaum, and illustrated by Adam Villacin. Every week, we’ll be learning about sports, history, and sports history. We hope you enjoy Sports Stories — and that if you do, you share it with your friends, families, and Lee Marvin impersonators you might know. This week’s Sports Stories is a little different. It’s about a movie. And there isn’t much of a story, per se (in the movie, or in the newsletter about the movie).

Sweet breakfasts have a grip on America that I don’t understand. I don’t crave sweets in the morning and never want more than one bite of a stack of pancakes. And don’t get me started on sweet oatmeal – actually, too late, I’ve already started because this newsletter is about oatmeal. A few years ago, I realized oatmeal is really just a flavorless vessel for whatever flavors you want to add and can be made savory.

When I was researching for the apple cake bake off, it quickly became apparent that apple cake is no simple category. There’s French apple cake, upside down apple cake, Russian sharlotka, German apple cake and Irish apple cake, just to name a few. And—most appealing to most of you—apple crumb cake (or apple coffee cake). For consistency, I culled the bake off recipes to more Jewish/American style apple cakes, but I kept apple crumb cake in my back pocket for a follow up.

hellooooo 🌱 I’ve been rewatching my favorite Studio Ghibli movies. I typically do this at the onset of Winter every year when I need to insert some joy (and tbh some dopamine) into the bleakness of the season. It’s what will be a lifelong tradition that stretches back to my childhood. I was first introduced to Studio Ghibli when I was three years old and my grandmother found a tape of Kiki’s Delivery Service at a Goodwill.

There was a couple year period of time, right around the turn of the century, when Apple fought back against drab, beige, mono-color computers. The original CRT-Monitor’d iMac eventually introduced a wide range of colors and designs. Steve jobs regularly railed against boring — borderline evil — beige boxes. Apple iMac commercials even featured “She’s a Rainbow” by the Rolling Stones. It was a colorful time to be a Mac user.