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Today is National Black Cat Day! A day to celebrate the black cats, raise awareness about their low adoption rates & dispel negative notions about bad luck. So lets celebrate the beautiful black cats in our lives.
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We post this AP style rule pretty much every time change, and it never fails to delight some people and surprise others: It’s daylight saving time, not daylight savings time.
It ends at 2 a.m. Sunday in most of the U.S., when clocks fall back one hour.
Enjoy that extra hour of Halloween night sleep!
apnews.com/article/003f56383…
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A large part of housecat vocalisation toward humans isn't goal-directed communication, but rather, affiliative signaling: a simple call-and-response protocol which establishes that the participants are part of the same social unit. Amongst themselves, most housecat affiliative signaling is non-vocal, but humans aren't really physiologically equipped to respond to such signalling in a feline fashion, and cats, well, they're adaptable.
Which is to say that when your cat yells, and you yell back, so the cat yells again, and so forth, what you're really saying to each other is "hiliiii
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‘Futz’ means “to fool around” or “to behave in a way that is not very serious.”
It is thought to have come from a modification of the Yiddish phrase ‘arumfartsn zikh,’ the literal translation of which is “to fart around.”
Excuse us.
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3 words you can likely cut from your copy
-that
Ex. She knew that the bus would be late.
-ever
Ex. I’m visiting Paris for the first time ever.
-own
Ex. He drove his own car.
#writingtips
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As a former contributing writer to the AP Stylebook, I'll make a ruling here: it should be "Dans Sullivan" like Surgeons General. Like Attorneys General, or courts martial. xitter.cf/migold/status/21147937…
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AI is not going to "save local journalism." It can be a helpful tool in some instances, but AI-generated local news just erodes the remaining trust in news sources (but can be a handy excuse for media companies to lay off reporters!)
Axios CEO says the company is building an Axios Local "Super System" that "uses AI to track government action, community data and coming events" and will "give local reporters more time for local reporting." axios.com/2026/10/24/axios-a…
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@APStylebook is it Dan Sullivans or Dans Sullivan
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THOUGHT this was a charming home under $100k in Wilson, NC that needs a little work
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Fun tidbit from tonight's "Make Stuff Cost Less" event in Raleigh:
Former Gov. Roy Cooper has "DEM GOV" on the back of his Jordans
They are Democratic blue, not Duke blue
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Most coverage refers to New Mexico’s verdict against Meta as a privacy case. But it is fundamentally about speech.
43,899,725 “violations” and $25 billion in damages for speech about speech.
The chilling effect will be enormous.
Full piece at FIRE’s Expression ↓
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Is this what people in your state refer to themselves as? Or do your people go by a different name?
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Interview with the philosophers Dan Williams and Henry Shevlin on AI Doom, Consciousness, and whether the human brain is a LLM. open.substack.com/pub/conspi…