They happen to be standing next to each other in the photo. It's the first YCombinator class: Sam Altman, now CEO of the closed-model and rapidly-commercialized OpenAI; and Aaron Swartz, the much-missed open-source coder. New from me at Flaming Hydra:

RT @tmj4: We're remembering a community icon Tuesday morning. James Beckum, who founded the Beckum-Stapleton Little League in 1964, has pa…

Laid out $8.5k for 11th-row seats to ask Andre Jackson Jr. about the ember-roasted walleye with pickled fennel at the re-opened Birch on E. Pleasant St.

Two Decades of Pacification in the NBA — by Tommy Craggs

RT @donnydonny: There’s a perfect ratfucking operation underway in Wisconsin and Arizona, @kylewilsontharp reports. An unknown PAC using…

Get a signed baseball card by the author:

RT @jawnita: also now i can finally gush about lollise's new album which is BEYOND, go listen now and u can read my lil profile on her here…

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On the crossfire: "Against righties, especially, the Airbender has to come back from the edge of the plate and dip just below the zone... Last year... he got lots of whiffs and weak contact with it. This year, he hasn't been able to dot it there."

RT @cs_mcgowan: I read a bunch of Robert Coover over the summer, while reading the news and going through my own shit. This is the end prod…

Editors going through removing "things of that nature" from my Flaming Hydra drafts (I'm kidding, the software does that) On the nuclear missiles once at Fort Tilden, on the edge of New York City:

Let's all revisit the Todd P mostly-acoustic show at Fort Tilden, feat. Aa Bike to the beach at Flaming Hydra ::

About two dozen signed baseball cards of the "Crab Rangoon" tweet left -- check out the rewards, "back this project" -- a cooperative of writers and artists

RT @maxwelltani: Woj salary came off the books and ESPN still chose to get rid of Zach Lowe. Strategy clearly is broadcast rights first, a…

Baseball cards of tweets by David Roth, signed by him—just one offer of our Flaming Hydra cooperative's new Kickstarter. Scroll two-thirds down to see the images of the cards, they're beyond. A bunch of other amazing stuff:

RT @mattzollerseitz: If you have read and liked anything I've done for New York Magazine or Vulture over the last 12 years, please know tha…