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America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani. “…a bunch of rich...

Decision Desk HQ calls the NYC mayoral race for Zohran Mamdani. (Eric...

“Stone Simulator is a meditative idle game where you live as a...

Pebbling: sending little links and memes to the people that you love....

Papers

Conde Nast is watering down Teen Vogue by folding it into the...

“Originally released in 1982, the Vectrex was a truly unique console, featuring...

Thanks to Great Wave Today, I was able to see an original...

Every Tree Can Be a Buddha

Why City Benches Are Becoming More Hostile

Bud Smith built a desk for his truck so he could write...

“Glowing sperm helps to reveal secrets of mosquito sex.” And what are...

Jazz Jungle Mix in a Japanese Rice Field

Yessss. I noticed that a 4K remaster of Princess Mononoke was playing...

Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud. “The other reason I want to...

Heidi Klum always brings it for Halloween and this year she dressed...

I’ve got this queued up to listen to on the Shinkansen later:...

Proof of life! I’m writing a longer post about my time in...

Walking the Earth

“I fell at the top of a mountain – and knew I...

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,...