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“The Big, Beautiful Bill assigns each American a billionaire who will live...
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Great Art Explained: Jackson Pollock
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A decade-plus in the making and now on Kickstarter: a book of...
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Large Hadron Couture Collider
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I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt. Then Something...
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The Music of Pixar’s Elio, Created by a Choir of Wooden Dolls
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Could Should Might Don’t. “This isn’t a book filled with predictions and...
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Retraction Watch: a blog that tracks corrected and retracted scientific papers....
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Project Hail Mary, Official Trailer
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Ted Chiang writes about the earliest works of fiction about superintelligence. “The...
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The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001). “Spanning the years...
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Ex-FBI agent on ICE masking: “Masking has always been associated with police...
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Scammers are using AI tools to sell spectacular-looking but non-existent plant species...
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Cheating Expert Answers Casino Cheating Questions
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Stupid-Americans feel about Trump the way Irish-Americans felt about JFK in 1960....
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Whoa, Anna Wintour is stepping down as Vogue’s editor-in-chief, a post she...
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Hope Is a Risk
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“Denis Villeneuve is set to direct the next James Bond film for...
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How Field Notes Went From Side Project to Cult Notebook. “One by...
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Rick Rubin collaborated with Anthropic to create The Way of Code: The...
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This Sahara Railway Is One of the Most Extreme in the World
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The Weird Zombie Existence of the Family Circus. The long-running comic is...
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Pathfinder: find and explore the relationships between two concepts....
06/26/25 - 07:29AM MST
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Aaron Sorkin is writing and directing a sequel to The Social Network....
06/25/25 - 02:44PM MST
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What Was Jim Crow?
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A blog about sci-fi interfaces in movies and TV shows with lots...
06/25/25 - 12:34PM MST
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How Christoph Niemann Uses AI in His Work
06/25/25 - 11:32AM MST
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In case you need, like I do, some reminders on How to...
06/25/25 - 10:40AM MST
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The Joy and Pain of Learning New Things as an Older Human
06/25/25 - 09:48AM MST
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A recent trend in book cover design: “It tends to lay blaringly...
06/25/25 - 08:49AM MST
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Noah Kalina on the observer’s paradox: “I’ve come to the unfortunate realization...
06/25/25 - 07:59AM MST
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Chris Ware Creates Stamps For USPS
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From Scientific American, a set of charts of vaccination recommendations for children...
06/25/25 - 06:40AM MST
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Star Wars Lofi, chill music from a galaxy far, far away to...
06/25/25 - 06:05AM MST
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Koyaanisqatsi Trailer Recreated Using Stock Footage
06/24/25 - 02:13PM MST
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Stop Making New Oreos. Not sure what the best part of this...
06/24/25 - 01:22PM MST
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Copaganda and Me. “The police are the good guys, or so I...
06/24/25 - 12:33PM MST
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An Interview With Andor’s Creator, Tony Gilroy
06/24/25 - 11:13AM MST
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The Public Domain Cinematic Universe. Beloved characters like Mickey Mouse, Winnie-the-Pooh, and...
06/24/25 - 10:19AM MST
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On not being an asshole. “There’s real societal value to self censorship....
06/24/25 - 09:19AM MST
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Super Mario Clouds for 10 Minutes. Marc Weidenbaum got Cory Arcangel’s just-the-clouds...
06/24/25 - 08:23AM MST
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Diego Luna Guest-Hosts Kimmel, Talks Immigration
06/24/25 - 07:33AM MST
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A provocative piece about using AI coding agents: My AI Skeptic Friends...
06/24/25 - 06:39AM MST
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From Heather Cox Richardson, a video series called Ten Steps to Revolution,...
06/23/25 - 03:00PM MST
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Death of a Fantastic Machine
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“The web platform makes no demands because it offers nothing beyond the...
06/23/25 - 01:16PM MST
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Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny (American Masters, PBS)
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“Between 2015 and 2020, ICE deported at least 70 people who were...
06/23/25 - 11:28AM MST
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The New Vera C. Rubin Observatory Is a Firehose of Astronomical Imagery & Data
06/23/25 - 10:39AM MST
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Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver on AI slop. “Do you hear us,...
06/23/25 - 09:55AM MST
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The Classic Web account on Bluesky is currently going through kottke.org’s blogroll...
06/23/25 - 09:01AM MST
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Jaws turns 50 years old this summer. Here’s an interview with marine...
06/23/25 - 07:58AM MST
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An excellent profile of design legend Michael Bierut, who recently “retired” as...
06/23/25 - 06:48AM MST
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From The Onion: Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your...
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To The People I Know Who Voted for Him. “you had a...
06/22/25 - 06:47AM MST
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Happening all day today: a Reading Rainbow marathon on PBS Retro. PBS...
06/21/25 - 09:50AM MST
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For fans of Edith Zimmerman, a new Etsy offering: “A 4x6” made-to-order...
06/20/25 - 02:04PM MST
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Play Along With This Gestural Verbing Interactive Video
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Formula One Cars Are Fast. Like Super Fast.
06/20/25 - 12:19PM MST
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As an aid to his travel planning, Kevin Kelly has compiled a...
06/20/25 - 11:40AM MST
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A group of researchers tracked down the original photo used in the...
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Yawns
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Today’s weather report styled like The Weather Channel in the 90s: WeatherStar...
06/20/25 - 08:47AM MST
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You Sure You’re In The Mood For Another Wes Anderson Film With...
06/20/25 - 08:21AM MST
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Decisions and opportunity in America are no longer cheap. “Life is an...
06/20/25 - 07:52AM MST
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
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Your beginning-of-summer PSA: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning. “There is very little...
06/20/25 - 05:58AM MST
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Want to use your phone less? Try Forest. “Whenever you want to...
06/19/25 - 01:10PM MST
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The Fear of Never Landing is a new album from ambient music...
06/19/25 - 12:07PM MST
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New Music Video for Talking Heads’ Psycho Killer (feat. Saoirse Ronan)
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They are doing a Spaceballs 2. (“They” includes Mel Brooks and Rick...
06/19/25 - 10:19AM MST
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A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small...
06/19/25 - 09:35AM MST
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The [NYC] Subway Is Not Scary. “It’s fine and safe. It’s full...
06/19/25 - 08:48AM MST
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What Is Juneteenth and Why Does It Matter?
06/19/25 - 08:02AM MST
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Just dropped yesterday: Lane 8’s Summer 2025 Mixtape. Got this on right...
06/19/25 - 07:20AM MST
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When In Rome
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