erin mccann
@mccanner.bsky.social
Weather at The New York Times. Now in SF after four years in London. Brooklyn before that.
Find me: https://instagram.com/mccannercat
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erin mccann
@mccanner.bsky.social
· Nov 26
I have a phone full of photos I’m sort of proud of, and a year’s worth of adventures I haven’t really posted anywhere, so I’m going to semi-randomly try to post one a day through the end of the year to this thread.
Today: Ballachulish, Scotland, in May, while hiking the West Highland Way.
Today: Ballachulish, Scotland, in May, while hiking the West Highland Way.
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Each paragraph is quotable, so the best thing is to click and read.
"The best possible outcome from this summer of hype is that policymakers and the public at large learn to take a breath, hold onto our skepticism, and recognize this kind of hype for what it is the next time it comes around."
"The best possible outcome from this summer of hype is that policymakers and the public at large learn to take a breath, hold onto our skepticism, and recognize this kind of hype for what it is the next time it comes around."
From @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me on what we should take from the 2026 summer of AI hype:
www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.
www.technologyreview.com
September 23, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Each paragraph is quotable, so the best thing is to click and read.
"The best possible outcome from this summer of hype is that policymakers and the public at large learn to take a breath, hold onto our skepticism, and recognize this kind of hype for what it is the next time it comes around."
"The best possible outcome from this summer of hype is that policymakers and the public at large learn to take a breath, hold onto our skepticism, and recognize this kind of hype for what it is the next time it comes around."
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every generation gets the Horse_ebooks it deserves
September 22, 2026 at 5:35 PM
every generation gets the Horse_ebooks it deserves
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I say this as a fan: China Mieville looks like a guy who John Wick would need an unexpectedly high number of bullets to kill
September 21, 2026 at 2:04 PM
I say this as a fan: China Mieville looks like a guy who John Wick would need an unexpectedly high number of bullets to kill
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"She Bought a Bicycle and Bloomers Instead of the Furniture"
The Illustrated Police News (UK)
November 21, 1896
The Illustrated Police News (UK)
November 21, 1896
September 20, 2026 at 6:33 PM
"She Bought a Bicycle and Bloomers Instead of the Furniture"
The Illustrated Police News (UK)
November 21, 1896
The Illustrated Police News (UK)
November 21, 1896
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As there is a new cat, so is there a new mouse. The cycle is unbroken
After 20 years of research, scientists have formally described Mus dumbara, a new spiny mouse species endemic to Sri Lanka’s Knuckles Mountain Range.
First lured by burnt coconut in 2004, the elusive rodent highlights the island's overlooked small-mammal biodiversity.
Story by Malaka Rodrigo.
First lured by burnt coconut in 2004, the elusive rodent highlights the island's overlooked small-mammal biodiversity.
Story by Malaka Rodrigo.
How burnt coconut helped discover new to science endemic species in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO — As dusk settled over the paddy fields at Puwakpitiya, a village on the northern edge of Knuckles Mountain Range locally known as Dumbara mountains in Central Sri Lanka, researchers began…
mongabay.cc
September 20, 2026 at 7:10 PM
As there is a new cat, so is there a new mouse. The cycle is unbroken
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🚍🚍🚍🚍
Hundreds of bus enthusiasts of all ages came out to Brooklyn Bridge Park on Saturday to take a trip through the past.
Read more: http://specne.ws/z55aPj
Read more: http://specne.ws/z55aPj
Vintage buses on display in Brooklyn at Transit Museum's Bus Festival
This year's showpiece: a bus from 1918, which took years to restore.
specne.ws
September 19, 2026 at 9:23 PM
🚍🚍🚍🚍
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Typical Southern California grocery store parking lot bullshit.
September 19, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Typical Southern California grocery store parking lot bullshit.
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mmygod
September 18, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them.
Here is my journey
Here is my journey
The open houses at the edge of disaster
What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.
heated.world
September 17, 2026 at 6:55 PM
A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them.
Here is my journey
Here is my journey
Get you someone who loves you the way the SF Chronicle loves sending push alerts about mountain lions
September 18, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Get you someone who loves you the way the SF Chronicle loves sending push alerts about mountain lions
This has been a mainstay on feel-good subreddits for years, always with frustratingly zero context or information. So glad to finally see a big take on it www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/r...
Why Christian Bale Built a Foster Village in the California Desert
The actor has been working for almost two decades to build a foster care nonprofit outside Los Angeles.
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2026 at 3:59 PM
This has been a mainstay on feel-good subreddits for years, always with frustratingly zero context or information. So glad to finally see a big take on it www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/r...
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I just don’t think this is a great theory for the case on how news works
September 16, 2026 at 7:52 PM
I just don’t think this is a great theory for the case on how news works
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Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional.
This is the first suit of its kind.
19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
This is the first suit of its kind.
19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
19thnews.org
September 16, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional.
This is the first suit of its kind.
19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
This is the first suit of its kind.
19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
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Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded, new study confirms www.popsci.com/science/tyra...
Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded, new study confirms
The King of the Dinosaurs had an internal temperature similar to you.
www.popsci.com
September 16, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded, new study confirms www.popsci.com/science/tyra...
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Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015:
"I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”
"I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”
September 16, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015:
"I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”
"I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”
this story on how to get more fiber (which you should) is super cool and very useful but also let me just personally ask who is the person who is short on time but also magically has enough of it to dig out a blender and then clean it? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
September 16, 2026 at 5:36 PM
this story on how to get more fiber (which you should) is super cool and very useful but also let me just personally ask who is the person who is short on time but also magically has enough of it to dig out a blender and then clean it? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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You can carbon date exactly when the person in charge of social media left and never told anyone what the log ins were
September 16, 2026 at 5:16 PM
You can carbon date exactly when the person in charge of social media left and never told anyone what the log ins were
I want to read a 5,000-word essay about the way these icons still litter basically every website and send you to social accounts that haven't been updated in years
September 16, 2026 at 5:12 PM
I want to read a 5,000-word essay about the way these icons still litter basically every website and send you to social accounts that haven't been updated in years
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resources that are better than screenshotting a post made by "InteractivePolls at X dot com" and sharing that with your followers:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
fiftyplusone.news/polls/generi...
www.natesilver.net/p/generic-ba...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Un...
just posting the big shrug emoji
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
fiftyplusone.news/polls/generi...
www.natesilver.net/p/generic-ba...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Un...
just posting the big shrug emoji
September 16, 2026 at 4:58 PM
resources that are better than screenshotting a post made by "InteractivePolls at X dot com" and sharing that with your followers:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
fiftyplusone.news/polls/generi...
www.natesilver.net/p/generic-ba...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Un...
just posting the big shrug emoji
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
fiftyplusone.news/polls/generi...
www.natesilver.net/p/generic-ba...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Un...
just posting the big shrug emoji
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Dawg what's so hard about imagining that if you give people other ways to get places your traffic will be lower? Drivers should be for literally every means of alternate transit available.
Another example of what we describe in our book as Bikelash Mad Libs™, down to the rather predictable line, "Los Angeles is not Amsterdam, and the San Fernando Valley is not Copenhagen."
LA, Stop the War on Cars. They Aren’t Going Away
CityWatch is published 24/7 with special e-news blasts on Monday and Thursday evening.
www.citywatchla.com
September 16, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Dawg what's so hard about imagining that if you give people other ways to get places your traffic will be lower? Drivers should be for literally every means of alternate transit available.
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I’m a fan of the terrible CGI Beowulf cartoon that had Ray Winstone’s voice and face plastered on the body of the guy who plays Reacher (this is true) and I think we can use this technology to create Stephen Roots of all sizes, from the tiniest Stephen Root to titanic Pacific Rim Stephen Roots
September 16, 2026 at 4:40 AM
I’m a fan of the terrible CGI Beowulf cartoon that had Ray Winstone’s voice and face plastered on the body of the guy who plays Reacher (this is true) and I think we can use this technology to create Stephen Roots of all sizes, from the tiniest Stephen Root to titanic Pacific Rim Stephen Roots
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You take a job somewhere called “Reuters Legal” and you just never expect to have to write this sentence
FBI Director Kash Patel told lawmakers he changed the bureau's hiring standards to eliminate bestiality as an automatic disqualifier because he did not want to bar trafficking victims who had been forced to have sex with animals reut.rs/4yFCKuV
September 15, 2026 at 11:07 PM
You take a job somewhere called “Reuters Legal” and you just never expect to have to write this sentence
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"I dunno, Stanford Prison Experiment" sounds like a throwaway writers room gag in 30 Rock
September 16, 2026 at 12:27 AM
"I dunno, Stanford Prison Experiment" sounds like a throwaway writers room gag in 30 Rock