A bunch of people who have never heard of Radiohead listen to...

1 day, 7 hours ago

A bunch of people who have never heard of Radiohead listen to Creep for the first time. Some of them were in tears. It *is* a pretty great song.

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The Pudding: How do animals sound across languages? “How can cultures hear...

1 day, 8 hours ago

The Pudding: How do animals sound across languages? “How can cultures hear the same physical sounds yet translate them into language so differently?”

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Always a delight to see the newest issue of Laura Olin’s newsletter...

1 day, 8 hours ago

Always a delight to see the newest issue of Laura Olin’s newsletter in my inbox.

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This One Goes to 27

1 day, 10 hours ago

On this day 27 years ago, on March 14, 1998, I started this here website. I’m not sure what there is to say about the ridiculous length of time that I’ve spent doing this “moderately anachronistic thing” that I haven’t already said before:

A little context for …

Wired has a big story (150+ sources) that takes a look Inside...

1 day, 10 hours ago

Wired has a big story (150+ sources) that takes a look Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’. “The next step: Unleash the AI.” 😱

Sarah Wynn-Williams’s memoir about working at Facebook, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale...

1 day, 11 hours ago

Sarah Wynn-Williams’s memoir about working at Facebook, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Bookshop), is on the bestseller charts after Meta tried to get the book pulled from sale. The Streisand effect strikes again.

Ted Lasso is returning for a fourth season. Not every actor is...

1 day, 11 hours ago

Ted Lasso is returning for a fourth season. Not every actor is on board (yet)…it’ll be interesting to see where this goes.

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Trailer for season two of Poker Face. If you haven’t seen it,...

1 day, 12 hours ago

Trailer for season two of Poker Face. If you haven’t seen it, it’s directed by Rian Johnson (Knives Out/Glass Onion) and Natasha Lyonne plays an itinerant Benoit Blanc sort of character. Very good.

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Harvey Silikovitz tried 10 times to get on Jeopardy! over 24 years...

3 days, 8 hours ago

Harvey Silikovitz tried 10 times to get on Jeopardy! over 24 years and finally made it. (And won!) “He’s pretty sure he has made history as the first Jeopardy! contestant to play with Parkinson’s.”

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Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run. “You may believe that Khalil...

3 days, 9 hours ago

Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run. “You may believe that Khalil does not deserve free speech or due process. But if he does not have them, then neither do you. Neither do I.”

404 Media has obtained a list of 200+ sites monitored by a...

3 days, 10 hours ago

404 Media has obtained a list of 200+ sites monitored by a contractor for ICE (Amazon, Apple Music, BabyCenter, Bluesky, Facebook, Github, GoFundMe, etc.). They can “pull a target individual’s publicly available data” from these sites “all at once”.

US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms. The...

3 days, 11 hours ago

US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms. The Us joins a list of countries with “deteriorating civic space conditions, in relation to freedoms of peaceful assembly, association and expression”.

OMG, there’s an “S” in today’s Spelling Bee puzzle! (Is this the...

3 days, 12 hours ago

OMG, there’s an “S” in today’s Spelling Bee puzzle! (Is this the first time?)

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Things have been a little weird lately so I missed this when...

4 days, 4 hours ago

Things have been a little weird lately so I missed this when it came out but lolol: mustaaaaaaaaaard!

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It’s Infrastructure Week!

4 days, 8 hours ago

Following on from my post this morning, I think this is a good time to step back from the site for a bit and focus on some long-neglected backend things that just don’t get the attention they deserve when I’m busy with the day-to-day posting. There are a …

The creator of Poetry Is Not a Luxury Instagram account is coming...

4 days, 9 hours ago

The creator of Poetry Is Not a Luxury Instagram account is coming out with a poetry anthology in May: Poetry Is Not a Luxury: Poems for All Seasons.

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Skywriter takes Bluesky threads and makes webpages out of them....

4 days, 10 hours ago

Skywriter takes Bluesky threads and makes webpages out of them.

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How Much Do I Really Need to Know?

4 days, 11 hours ago

On Inauguration Day in January, Eliza McLamb wrote about her abstention from social media for a month and the challenge of keeping up with current events “without either turning towards ignorance or overwhelming myself with information”:

I’ve been thinking deeply about this idea recently — how much do I …

The First Three Episodes of Andor Available Online for Free

5 days, 3 hours ago

Disney has uploaded the first three episodes of season one of Andor to YouTube:

No idea how long they will be up or if they’re visible outside of the US. I started an Andor rewatch last week and I am finding it more enjoyable …

Eyes on the Street

5 days, 5 hours ago

I ran across this story from Vanessa Guerrero on Instagram recently. She originally posted it to Twitter a few years ago; here’s the full text:

Living in LA, I’ve lived in many a neighborhood in which police helicopters circle all day and they don’t do anything except be loud …

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE is interviewing (current & former) federal workers for a series that...

5 days, 6 hours ago

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE is interviewing (current & former) federal workers for a series that “aims to capture both the personal significance of [their] work and its broader impact on the American public”. 8 stories so far — these are great.

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“Covid was a privatized pandemic. It is this technocratic, privatized model that...

5 days, 7 hours ago

“Covid was a privatized pandemic. It is this technocratic, privatized model that is its lasting legacy and that will define our approach to the next pandemic,” says Siddhartha Mukherjee. “There are some public goods that should never be privatized.”

I Am Trapped in the Criterion Closet. “How long have I been...

5 days, 7 hours ago

I Am Trapped in the Criterion Closet. “How long have I been in this place? I cannot say. In the darkness, time has lost meaning. The only days I remember are Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978), the only nights, Nights of Cabiria (Fellini, 1957).”

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When This [Medical School] Professor Got Cancer, He Didn’t Quit. He Taught...

5 days, 8 hours ago

When This [Medical School] Professor Got Cancer, He Didn’t Quit. He Taught a Class About It. “He wanted his students to understand the humanity at the core of medicine.”

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The latest edition of Jodi Ettenberg’s link-drenched Curious About Everything newsletter just...

5 days, 9 hours ago

The latest edition of Jodi Ettenberg’s link-drenched Curious About Everything newsletter just dropped. I was going to steal about a dozens links from this, but you should just go read and subscribe to the source.

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