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A Chinese naval officer who took part in D-Day wrote an 80-page...

A riff on catfishing, “chatfishing” is using an LLM to communicate with...

Welcome to Union Glacier

This podcast episode looks really interesting: Tressie McMillan Cottom, Jamelle Bouie, and...

‘I get to do whatever I want in the moment’: why more...

Gina Trapani on how she thinks about and uses AI as a...

I’m visiting Kyoto soon, so I reread Lauren Groff’s piece about The...

The Jacket Potato Jacket. “Supermarket chain Aldi has teamed up with London...

Bear Breaks Into California Zoo to Mingle With Other Bears. “A bear...

A Reminder that Protected Bike Lanes Can Make Streets Safer for Everyone....

The ‘Anti-Woke’ Tax That All Americans Are Paying. “Tariffs are the most...

New essay collection from classicist Emily Wilson: Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea. “From...

Ethan Hawke Breaks Down His Career

Hitler, Stalin, Freud, Trotsky, and Franz Joseph all lived within a radius...

The Neurodivergent Genius Who Invented Formula 1 For Marbles. “This is the...

Playing Boards of Canada on a DEC PDP-1 from 1959

The Sordid Mystery of a Somalian Meteorite Smuggled into China. “The journey...

Ira Glass’s Subway Take is genuinely shocking: “Every podcast is better at...

Come See Me in the Good Light

Inside NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center (c. 1966)

Phil Gyford, writing about when he first got online in 1995: My...

Sumo Tourists in London

Anil Dash on The Majority AI View. “Stop being so goddamn creepy...

Nengiren’s Embroidered Little Woman

I’d never heard of this before: tearoom ambient, a style of music...

Apple TV to air F1 races in the US for the next...

Photos of the No Kings protests & rallies that happened in big...

Kara Walker Creates Haunted Beast From Butchered Confederate Statue

Consumer Reports: Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead. “More...

More than 170 US citizens have been detained and held (and “dragged,...

Every Televised and Filmed Joy Division Performance

John Casey, the owner of one of the last rubber stamp stores...

Real Photos That Look Fake

The Making of a Perfect Martini

Go Computer Now! – The Story of Sphere Computers. “If things had...

Luis Mendo is self-publishing a book about his life as a writer/artist...

My first adventure of the day is going to the Shunkaen Bonsai...

I’m hoping to post some of my photos from Japan here when...

I stopped into the MEGA Donki (Don Quijote) in Shibuya last night...

An iconic Philly skate locale, Love Park, was demolished in 2016 —...

The Freedom of Enough

The 39 coolest neighbourhoods in the world in 2025, including Jimbōchō, Tokyo;...

POP Phone: a USB-C handset that you plug into your phone for...

The Space Exploration Logo Archive

“‘Take on Me’ is an ideal song for Song Exploder, because it’s...

65 Essential Children’s Books, from The Story of Ferdinand and Caps for...

Richard Feynman: Fire Is Stored Sunshine

Where’s the AI design renaissance? “My hunch: vibe coding is a lot...

For instance, there is an engraved stone erected at the Buddhist Kan’ei-ji...

Current status: looking through Atlas Obscura’s list of things to do in...