Matt King

🚨 The global "early warning system" for cybersecurity is breaking down—creating a growing gap between security "haves" and "have-nots." Most people have no idea their digital lives are becoming more vulnerable. My latest investigation for @techreview: technologyreview.com/2025/07/11/111…

@SophieHaigney Is this a reference to Heady Topper? 😋

Vermont beer….someone needs to look into why it just tastes better…..

"The Great Black Swamp" is a call for readers to research their own hometowns’ forgotten environmental histories that have planted ticking public health time bombs across the land. @_mattking on "The Great Black Swamp" by Patrick Wensink clereviewofbooks.com/shrugs-that-ki…

@historydefined Can you share the source material for this?

Bleecker St. and 6th Avenue, NYC, 1970s.

"It’s time for the city to act on our recommendations to keep users safe and continue to expand ridership, increasing access to opportunity for all Baltimoreans," Omar Faison, shared mobility coordinator for Bikemore, writes. baltimorebeat.com/op-ed-shared-m…

John Gerrard's "Western Flag" is probably the most relevant work of art right now.

Albuquerque turned a wall of its airport bookshop over to its local university press, and goddamn, now I want this in every airport.

Just 11 more wins and the Northwestern Wildcats are national champions

"Twitter" was the original, perfect name: evoking the twittering of birds, always in the background, constant & continuous like a Zen river; celebrating what is past, passing or to come as infinity moves past & through us without ever stopping for long; here, then gone; but also here again, & gone.

March 4th - the only date that doubles as a full sentence.

@viajoshhunt Feels like the whole lit world is moving to Substack, which has a social network dynamic that can help you reach more readers. Beehiv and Ghost seem more independent and avoid the pressures (and short-term perks) of platform dynamics. Would love to read this!

Obituaries for prominent figures are prepared years in advance and in Robert Duvall’s case, was written by a writer who himself died 14 years ago. AP gave him credit - rightfully- in the obit

“I can’t envision a bigger middle finger to every MAHA mom”- Ken Cook, Environmental Working Group: Trump’s Order Aims to Boost Ingredient Used in Roundup - The New York Times nytimes.com/2026/02/18/us/…

Top 25 CBB teams who lost yesterday against unranked opponents 👇🏀 No. 9 Nebraska No. 13 Texas Tech No. 16 UNC No. 18 SLU No. 21 Louisville No. 24 Wisconsin Constant chaos in college basketball Which ranked teams will stumble tonight?

I clipped this from Wiseman’s ‘Belfast, Maine’ to share with a friend. A high school teacher on Herman Melville. youtu.be/_EGGHJT7obo?si…

Michael Silverblatt's ten Bookworm's rules. I think all of them are very useful.

folks, i've done it. a complete Frederick Wiseman flowchart, including every film he's made. if you've been asking "where do i start with Wiseman?" this is what you've been looking for

In memory and honor of Frederick Wiseman, who took hold of a still-young format and, guided from the start by an unyielding sense of principle, made a body of work so original, idea-rich, and unified that it seems foreordained—a historic fusion of investigation and the inner life

I'm a week late to this, but damn it's so good

Becca Rothfeld for @NewYorker on the death of our book section, and the heartbreaking truth of what it means. lnkd.in/gUrRYtyA