Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
"In the war on 'shrink,' big retailers are turning to one Florida outfit to study shoppers and prevent them from stealing. I went there—and saw far too much."
Longreads
• Longreads
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
Her image is just about everywhere in New York City. But her name and story is rarely known. This is the story of America’s first supermodel Audrey Munson
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Dependabot now waits until a new release has been available on its registry for at least three days before opening a version update pull request. This cooldown is now the default and requires no configuration.
— GitHub Changeling, embracing dependency cooldowns
Tags: dependency-cooldowns, packaging, security, github
Release: datasette 1.0a37
A minor release. Performance and documentation improvements to the permissions system, plus I reverted a cosmetic API change which caused almost every existing plugin test suite to break.
Tags: datasette
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"Palestinians are defying Israeli bombings and power outages to follow soccer’s biggest tournament. But many fear the world has abandoned them."
Robert Eggers continues his run of One Word Title Films Featuring Very Strange Men with Werwulf. I’m not a horror guy but I was pleasantly surprised by Nosferatu, which I quite liked.
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
A short documentary visits the sacred art environment in southwestern Nigeria.
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Divine Sculptures Revere a Yorùbá Goddess in Nigeria’s Ọṣun-Òṣogbo Sacred Grove appeared first on Colossal.
Trump Dismantled a Federal Climate Website. These Women Rebuilt It. “It’s not a pretty picture for climate communication and climate journalism right now.” You can check out the new site at climate.us.
A short, hypnotic video by Matthew Wilcock of the music generated by a tennis rally at Wimbledon. “Duplicating the players and then using the rhythm of the multiple tennis balls as they cross the pink line to drive the rhythm of the piece.”
Swiss project proves the viability of solar panels placed in the otherwise unused space between railroad tracks.
Longreads
• Peter Rubin
“Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future.”
Work Chronicles
• Work Chronicles
The LGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking Project, tracing & visualizing 10,350 LGBTQ+ bills introduced in the US since 2003. Anti-trans bills have dominated since ~2014.
