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I’ll start off by saying: I don’t think it will happen. I don’t think Ryan O’Reilly will be a member of the Colorado Avalanche hockey club this season, or any other season for that matter. I well remember some of the blistering phone calls I had with some of the people involved in l’affaire ROR in 2013, when the then-young center didn’t sign with the Avalanche when play resumed in the lockout-shortened 2012-13 season.

Hey all, Jason here. Yes, again, on a Friday — FDIC enforcement actions are typically made public on the last Friday of the month. For those hoping for deeper analysis of the Evolve hack, stay tuned for Sunday’s newsletter. In the meantime, you can keep up with the latest by following me on X and LinkedIn. If you enjoy reading this newsletter each Sunday and find value in it, please consider supporting me (and finhealth non-profits!

Happy Halloween and happy almost Election Day! Make sure to check out our election coverage to keep up with the many races going on in Henrico (ranging from school board to state senate). This week, we did a deep dive into the Three Chopt school board race between GOP-endorsed Eleina Espigh, Democrat-backed Madison Irving, and self-described “moderate” Kristen Vithoulkas. We also covered the Henrico Democrats forum featuring all five Fairfield school board candidates.

I’m just so angry. It’s been boiling and bubbling (and toiling and troubling) for awhile now. Not just since a spoilt, sadistic emerald heir stole—and yes, I am using that word; I’m using it deliberately and with fury aforethought—Twitter out from under the people who created it and made it the “town square” that so many seething gargoyles want to control. Not even (only) since 2015 when that same space became a fascist’s favorite trench from which to bomb democracy.

1. “You’re Wrong About” on the OJ Simpson trial. I was 16 when OJ Simpson went on trial for killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, and like a lot of people tuning in, I internalized the media narratives about what the murders meant, the prosecutorial blunders that preceded OJ’s acquittal, and the standard line on many of the characters involved—prosecutor Marcia Clark (cold and incompetent), Judge Ito (hapless and incapable of keeping his court in order), Kato Kaelin (a clueless himbo), Johnnie Cochran (a meme in human form).

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Cool title. We’ll get to what it is in just a second, but first, I wanted to let you know why it exists. There are a decent number of reasons, but they all fall into two basic categories:  So, I’ve spent the last couple of years helping head up the X-Men office at Marvel and it’s been a pretty fascinating ride. Tried a lot of stuff, learned a lot of stuff.

Welcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture, broadly speaking. This post began as part of a recent feature I’ve titled “Is this anything?”: one idea for your consideration in less than 500 words. It spilled over 500 words, however, so just consider it a relatively brief dispatch. My writing is an exercise in thinking out loud, so I’m never quite sure where it will lead. Of course, I do hope my thinking out loud is helpful to more than just myself.

Over the magazine’s almost 100 year history, there are a handful of New Yorker artists that, by drawing the way they do, noticeably impacted the art form. They brought a new style or approach, a unique sensibility. With the publication of his first cartoon in the magazine in 1931, James Thurber’s drawings were unlike anything readers had seen before. And no one draws like him still. Readers were unsure of his style, perplexed by its looseness.