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Ryan Coogler’s Sinners sets record for most Oscar...

10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI...

The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the...

“When South Morningside Primary School girls...

Water bankruptcy is a “chronic condition that...

“Most technologies are like guns. They tend to get aggregated and captured...

“The uncomfortable truth is that the president of the United States is...

The First Animation That Hayao Miyazaki Directed on His Own: Watch Footage...

“A flock of ring-necked parakeets that were filmed feasting on the wall...

Koyaanisqatsi In Five Minutes

Incredible drone footage of a pileup of 100+ cars, trucks, and semis...

In 1983 Steve Dyer created the Usenet group soc.motss, possibly the first-ever...

One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We...

Lydia Polgreen: In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War. “Good’s killing was...

A report from occupied Minneapolis: So, How’s the Occupation Going for You?...

Margaret Sullivan: With Democracy in Free Fall, the Media Must (Finally) Wake...

Reporting on Homeland Security’s siege of Minneapolis. “No one…is even really bothering...

“Scientists have been forced to rethink the intelligence of cattle after an...

This is a wild Bluesky thread (and bus ride). “they switched drivers...

A Visualization of the Evolution of Paris, 300 BCE to 2025

The rate at which the universe is expanding differs depending on how...

The Ping-Pong Hustler Who Inspired ‘Marty Supreme’. “If Chalamet has found, in...

How Russia’s Children Got So Violent. “There is no positive ideology for...

This website is compiling a sourced list of ICE abuses in Minnesota....

Photos of China’s Green Energy Transition

Wikipedia turns 25 years old. (I can’t believe it’s only been around...

At the Stone Skimming World Championships in Scotland (at an old slate...

By All Measures. “Our scales are too imbalanced; we are unable to...

Visualizations of the growing undersea network of submarine cables, 2013-2025....

The Florentine Codex

Many of us have “lost the future” during the radical uncertainty brought...

From XKCD, some common sailing rigs, including the ketch, schooner, offset rig,...

Bread Infographic

“This should be the year you stop trying so hard to turn...

Divers

Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White...

Olive Oil Sculptures

I Was Kidnapped by Idiots. “Later, he tried the ‘good cop, bad...

Jamelle Bouie: “The American public, then, is left not with a president...

Stop complaining about paywalls existing. “These paywalls are attempts to make this...

Donald Trump Is Waging War Against Human Conscience. “The lust for mud...

Zoe Saldaña is now the highest-grossing actor of all time (bc of...

Currently listening to this Thai house mix from Meltmode, played from a...

Lunchtime

North America kind of sucks at elevators. “Elevators cost nearly three times...

How Will the Miracle Happen Today? “Kindness is like a breath. It...

Montreal’s Ice Surfer

Thoughtful lessons from a Google software engineer. “The punchline isn’t ‘never innovate.’...

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about this 2015 observation on Tumblr...

The America That Could Be