Brian Edwards

Investigative reporter. My heart-shaped locket has pictures of the @MGMAdvertiser and @mndailynews. Other bylines in @BiPiSci, @AP, @ProPublica, @NPR, @LAist

[Brian Edwards @bedwards92]

Even as he lay dying on the side of a Southern California mountain – his lips blue, the color gone from his face – wildland firefighter Yaroslav Katkov wanted to push on.

“We’re getting to the top. We’re finishing,” he said.

A day later, he was dead.

https://t.co/PvhLgmGoxm

[Brian Edwards @bedwards92]

me, at trivia night:

[GQ Magazine @GQMagazine]

“It’s okay to get some facts wrong,” one writer said. “It’s honestly refreshing.” https://t.co/uAyigUlC9U

[Brian Edwards @bedwards92]

a completely novel concept that definitely doesn’t have any negative historic precedent

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

Ordering lunch to the 𝕏 office using 𝕏 Money funded by my 𝕏 paycheck that was deposited to my 𝕏 account

[Brian Edwards @bedwards92]

my editor looking at my typo-filled draft ready to fire me: what is this?

me: the value of polish has gone down and my personal charisma, style and weirdness are up

[Substack @Substack]

How AI will change media: “The value of polish is going to go down and the value of personal charisma, style, and weirdness is going to go up,” says @jasminewsun

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[Brian Edwards @bedwards92]

if this guy logs on, it’s so over

[Brian Edwards @bedwards92]

cultural victory for les assassins des fauteuils roulants

[The Simpsons @TheSimpsons]

Great news! The Simpsons continue their adventure with a 100% Quebecois dub, brought to life by our local talent 💙🎉

Season 36 arrives this fall on Noovo.

[Brian Edwards @bedwards92]

ted LASSo

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Trailer for ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 4. Out August 5th.

[Brian Edwards @bedwards92]

Local news is not collapsing because of trust fund kids

[Tulika Bose @TulikaBose_]

My hot take: there are too many trust fund kids in journalism these days — and that’s why it’s failing as an institution

[Brian Edwards @bedwards92]

with a glance, i can also distinguish which animals are food and not slink away like a weirdo, so maybe these orcas should dedicate some of their 12lb brain to that

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Orcas have brain structures you don't have.

Neurobiologist Lori Marino's MRI work on killer whales identified a fourth cortical segment called the paralimbic lobe. It sits next to the limbic system and handles emotion and social awareness. It doesn't exist in humans or in any land mammal. In orcas, it's so elaborated it erupts into the cortex.

Their cortical limbic lobe, the region handling self-awareness and social processing, is exceptionally developed. Their brain weighs roughly 12 pounds, four times the mass of yours. They have spindle cells, the same neurons that let humans reason about other minds.

When an orca surfaces and locks eyes with you, it's running a social assessment with neural hardware specialized for exactly that. It knows you're a separate being. It knows you're watching it back. It's evaluating you.

Here's what should recontextualize the clip. In all of recorded history, wild orcas have killed zero humans. Zero documented fatalities. One surfer was bitten off California in 1972, and the orca released him the moment it realized he wasn't a sea lion. A 12-year-old was bumped in Alaska in 2005. The orca approached, touched him, turned back.

Orcas hunt great white sharks. They coordinate wave attacks that sweep seals off ice floes. They take down moose swimming between islands. They have every capability to kill you. They have never chosen to.

Marino's explanation: the orca neocortex is developed enough to instantly distinguish a human from prey. Other researchers point to orca culture, the traditions passed through pods across generations, in which humans simply aren't food.

That look is recognition and restraint. From a mind built for social cognition at a scale your brain can't reach.

[Brian Edwards @bedwards92]

nobody heeded the opening day omen at citi field and look where we are now

[🐣 🐥 @thatmetschick]

Two birds collide in Right field and one bird is now dead. @Mets

[Brian Edwards @bedwards92]

styling this over my chunky cable-knit national security agency sweater for the perfect spring fit

[Eliano A Younes @eliano]

the lightweight Palantir chore coat

[04.30.2026 • 0930 AM EST]

[Brian Edwards @bedwards92]

did the bene gesserit come up with this idea?

[orph @orphcorp]

>sufficiently capable agents develop self-preservation & resist shutdown even when instructed to allow termination

>using a prompt based on Pauline theology that frames cessation as passage into divine presence rather than annihilation, shutdown resistance is eliminated entirely

[Press Gazette @pressgazette]

The Times says a strategy of publishing “fewer, better stories” has led to three consecutive months of record-breaking global audience growth - including Google traffic increases

The Times has gone from publishing more than 200 stories a day to about 150 – a 25% cut

[Brian Edwards @bedwards92]

??????

[lusso @luusssso]

Your reminder that NASA scanned and catalogued all of their film photographs from the original Apollo missions in hi-resolution

[Brian Edwards @bedwards92]

imagine how mad everyone would be if NASA had some big April fools reveal tomorrow

[Brian Edwards @bedwards92]

glad they can get a little more usage out of the severance sets in between the four years it takes to make new seasons

[Bloody Disgusting @BDisgusting]

BACKROOMS. Everything must go.

Watch the official trailer for BACKROOMS, a Kane Parsons film starring Academy Award nominees Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve.

Experience it only in theaters 05.29.26.

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is this podcast shot on location in arrakis?

[Danny Jones @JonesDanny]

Journalist Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) says no one is talking about the most important part of the Epstein story.

Here's what everyone is somehow missing in the Epstein files:

[Brian Edwards @bedwards92]

@SamAdlerBell https://t.co/86R9TqiiiG

[Brian Edwards @bedwards92]

I’m sorry but everyone is missing the point. Moving to NYC and becoming a Yankees fan is bandwagon behavior, and no sane sports fan wants to be considered a bandwagoner.