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Tressie McMillan Cottom on AOC’s presumed presidential...

Open Thread for August 2026

NOAA: Contiguous US Breaks Its Record for Hottest Month...

The Moral Unseriousness of Centrist & Conservative Pundits

A recently unearthed conversation with Anthony Bourdain...

Supersonic Trebuchet

Craig Mod wrote about his recent adventures using LLMs:...

“Draw any shape and hear it as a drum.”...

G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost . “G.P.S....

Some of the most storied problems in mathematics, those...

The Art of the Copyist

Here’s how Rocky’s musical language from the Project...

I’m Done Using AI . “It made me lazy. It made me...

Why weren’t bicycles invented sooner? “Why...

Death Cab for Cutie’s Tiny Desk Concert

Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting...

A Collection of Eclipse Glasses (1793-2019)

Stories that the authors of the Bible borrowed from...

“Widely regarded as the most complicated board...

New vocabulary term: “soft secession” .

Good sentence : “The market’s most lavish...

“ Your brain is a gambling addict that bets on...

I’ve felt this for years (blogs have global context):...

“An Absolute Climate Catastrophe”

“ Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million...

“Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than...

Stories of “people finding weird, wild and defiant...

Crocs Has a Trick for Dodging Taxes: a Tiny Office in...

How to Give a Eulogy

The Doulas Who Help Us Die . “Instead of assisting...

NASA has provided some early-stage funding to explore the...

Tron: Legacy (Recording Sessions) by Daft Punk

Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed . “A whole...

If You Haven’t Recently Used Claude Code, You Might Not...

Socialists Are Winning Because They Listen to People...

Thing that I am now invested in: this woman has spent 30...

Europa or Frying Pan?

The video rental store as “third place” . “Decades...

The End of Google Search . The internet giant is...

Media Matters : “ABC, CBS, and NBC aired a...

Fun little review by Marcin Wichary of a 1984 flying...

I love this little video of burbling pasta sauces...

I’d Be Lead Harpooner on the Pequod If It Wasn’t for...

25 things that explain America , including personal...

How Does an Enigma Machine Work?

How Wildfire Smoke Is Reshaping Childhood ....

This guy hooked his hamster’s wheel up to Strava —...

Astronomers have measured the size of the largest galaxy...

“ In this video , I’ll take you from farm to...

The Computer That Helped Win World War II . “…it...