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“America is no longer a democracy. That doesn’t mean authoritarianism has won....

NeatoCal is a tiny JavaScript app that outputs a printable calendar with...

Kottke Wrapped 2025

Nancy Friedman: 52 Things I Learned in 2025. Incl. “Seventy-one percent of...

Kent Hendricks: 52 Things I Learned in 2025. Incl. “Birders in the...

Old Windows 3.x Games on the Internet Archive

A wildlife photographer “discovered thousands of dinosaur footprints preserved in the vertical...

Listen to the Cassandras

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Rian Johnson Breaks Down a Scene From Wake Up Dead Man

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From Lit Hub, the best audiobooks of 2025. (It’s not new, but...

The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025, incl. Signal Hill (“this inventive program...

The Imperfect Homework Machine

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One of America’s Most Successful Experiments Is Coming to a Shuddering Halt....

Ultracold atoms observed climbing a quantum staircase. (Relatable: the upstairs of my...

Underscore: Now Slightly Less Random

Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life. “A thick desire is one that...

The Internet Archive has a playable version of the NY Times Crossword...

The Iconic First Lady of NYC

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My new favorite description of Christianity’s God is from Vince Staples (~16:05):...

It’s Time to Accept That the US Supreme Court Is Illegitimate and...

The Anthony Bourdain Reader

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Martin Scorsese remembers his friend Rob Reiner. “He had a beautiful sense...

Adam Serwer: “The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so...

Are We Still Loving Pluribus?

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Infinite Ball Drop: what if the Times Square NYE ball started dropping...

Santa Tracker Shows Sleigh Stopped For 40 Minutes Outside Old Girlfriend’s House....

Muppet Versions of Xmas Movie Posters

Reminder: NASA’s holiday yule log fireplace video is delightful — it’s a...

Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean

Bookshop’s Bestselling Nonfiction Books of 2025

The Truth Physics Can No Longer Ignore. “To truly understand living systems...

Allspice is a single spice?! “Allspice is the dried fruit of the...

We Asked Four AI Coding Agents to Rebuild Minesweeper… “Cloning Minesweeper isn’t...

The Case for a Public Social Media Platform. “What if the United...

If Stayin’ Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century

Finland uses a progressive scale for speeding tickets; the fine amount is...

From Sight & Sound, a list of the best video essays of...

200,000 Years Of Human History In One Hour

Why Japan’s internet looks weird — unless you live here. “Japanese customers...

Underneath a Breaching Humpback Whale

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Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

Runaway supermassive black hole? Did not know this could be a thing....