Should you have to? I made a mistake. I used a QR code service a year ago, and now that my year’s payment is up, they’re going to delete the code. It turns out I wasn’t buying what they promised, and the fine print of their terms of service back them up. I won’t be […]
The ridiculous magical-realist flourish of an anthropomorphic raven cheapens his story and flattens the film’s engagement with his art.
Join us on August 12 for a virtual conversation about paint and pigment-making with artists Rina Banerjee and Ellie Irons.
CBS cancelled the Late Show with Stephen Colbert just days after he criticized the $16 million bribe the network paid to Trump. Here’s why “Colbert’s cancellation is a dark warning” .
The sketch of what appears to be a nude woman was included in a leather-bound album compiled by the disgraced financier’s former assistant, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Fascism For First Time Founders . “Let’s have a little chat about why embracing fascism is probably the worst possible business strategy for anyone actually trying to build something innovative.” 💯
“The extreme sports pioneer Felix Baumgartner, famed for a record-breaking 2012 skydive from the edge of space, has died in a paragliding accident .” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
A pair of icebergs slid into Innaarsuit, Greenland, dwarfing the fishing village's modest wooden houses. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Dennis
Next year, “ the average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium ” because of “the expiration of enhanced premium tax credits in the ACA markets”.
To truly explore alien languages, linguists must open themselves to the maximum conceivable degree of cosmic otherness - by Eli K P William Read at Aeon
Showcasing stories from Aaron Parsley, David Peisner, Leah Zani, Joseph Earl Thomas, and Matt Reynolds.
School is a training ground for task-based thinking. “Will this be on the test?” You finish your homework and then you can go out and play. This is one reason educators are flummoxed by chatGPT–it upsets the calibrated balance of effort in the task of homework and essays. The
Fifty years ago this month, Lou Reed nearly destroyed his own career with one double album. Metal Machine Music sold 100,000 copies during the three weeks of summer 1975 between its release and its removal from the market. More than a few of the many buyers who promptly
Born in Iran and raised in Zimbabwe, Doris Lessing (October 22, 1919–November 17, 2013) was fourteen when she dropped out of school and eighty-eight when she won the Nobel Prize for smelting language into keys to “the prisons we choose to live inside.” Having lived in writing