They Ran For President. What Did They Learn? • Buttondown In 2004, Charlie Jane Anders interviewed people who ran for President and lost, including Larry Flynt, who said: “⁠⁠[My biggest surprise was learning] what a void existed in American society, and the desire to have a ...

“Today there isn’t a single state, city or county in the United States where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a median-priced two-bedroom apartment,” writes Brian Goldstone at The New York Times Millions of Americans have full-time jobs but can’t afford housing. Th...

Gloria Steinem Helped Transform the World for Everyone

Rebecca Solnit: “Much dismissiveness about feminism comes from ignorance about how profoundly feminism changed things that were so deeply entrenched, so normalized into invisibility, so ancient and customary that they first had to be denormalized, named, unpacked, and explained as to why they were incompatible with women’s status as people entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. As news of Gloria Steinem’s death at 92 came in this morning, I saw a lot of this incomprehension.”

Lee Meriwether promoting NBC for her new job on the Today Show, shortly after being crowned Miss America 1955. www.tumblr.com/ironsteam…

Do you wear shoes inside your house? If so, are they shoes you also wear outdoors?

President Gerald Ford signs into law an extension on the Voting Rights Act, formally banning literacy tests and providing language assistance for minorities. 1975 reddit.com/r/History…_gerald_ford_signs_into_law_an_extension/ Summer in the City. Liverpool, UK 1975 reddit.com/r/TheWayW…_in_the_city_liverpool_uk_1975/

I was out walking the dog when I got in a nice chat with a neighbor. When the chat was done, the woman noted the full poop bag I was carrying, and offered to take it from me and put it in her trash. “No thanks!” I replied, chipperly. “I’m good.”

That was years ago. I still think about it now and then and wonder what kind of message I was sending.

The US voted against a UN resolution to replace the standard Mercator Projection map of the world.

The new map accurately shows the size of land masses in relation to each other. In the Mercator Projection, designed in the 16th Century, Africa and Greenland are shown as about the same size, but in reality, Africa is 14x larger.

The US explanation for its vote is just plain stupid. I feel 14X stupider after reading it.

164 nations voted in favor of the resolution. The US was the sole “no” vote. We’re the stupidest country in the world now.

This kind of thing makes me angry in the way that greater abuses don’t. It’s just so goddamn petty.

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1969 interview with Don Rickles by WMAR-TV reporter Susan White. “Rickles had a reparation for not letting reporters get a word in edgeways, so Susan decided to hilariously turn the tables…”

Rickles has a reputation for being kind, gracious and charming in his personal life and that shines through in this video.

Rebuilding is brutally expensive in Los Angeles’s burnt-out neighborhoods, so instead homeowners are reviving the lost art of house-moving, transporting historic homes across town to be installed on lots that were recently made vacant by wildfires. Nicola Twilley at The New ...

Marco Arment: “If I learn today that my neighbors have political views that my ‘side’ considers unacceptable and unforgivable, should I be able to have dinner at their house, shovel their snow, or even greet them outside?”

President Gerald Ford signs into law an extension on the Voting Rights Act, formally banning literacy tests and providing language assistance for minorities. 1975 reddit.com/r/History…_gerald_ford_signs_into_law_an_extension/ Summer in the City. Liverpool, UK 1975 reddit.com/r/TheWayW…_in_the_city_liverpool_uk_1975/

Columbia House: The First 12 Cost A Penny, But … Columbia House was a great way to get 12 CDs, tapes or records for a penny. But its business model set the stage for a lot of bad e-commerce.

We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys

Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction. They regard “humanness, and Earth itself … as a burden to be sloughed off.” Gal Beckerman contemplates the new book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State” by Jill Lepore.

Like Musk, Thiel and Sam Altman, I grew up reading Heinlein, Asimov and Adams. I found the writing inspiring. But I stopped taking it literally a long time ago.

Romani-inspired “boho” and medieval European styles merged in 1960s hippie culture, with rock stars like Stevie Nicks, Mama Cass and Janis Joplin leading. “American youth were reading Tolkien, wearing their grandmother’s silk scarves, and dipping their toes in metaphysical philosophies.” By Avery Trufelman on Articles of Interest.

From the comments: “It’s also a palindrome in binary. 1001001” Time Of The Great Freeze by Robert Silverberg, cover Harry Schaare reddit.com/r/CoolSci…_of_the_great_freeze_by_robert_silverberg/ Strange Tales Of Mystery And Terror, January 1933, cover H. W. Wesso reddit.com/r/CoolSci…_tales_of_mystery_and_terror_january_1933/ 1954 Advert for Bisma-Rex reddit.com/r/vintage…

Chris Arnade rides the 22-hour bus trip from Darwin, Australia, to Alice Springs.

Like “spotting a firefly buzzing around a powerful searchlight from thousands of miles away." How the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope searches for planets in other star systems.

Watched: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S4E7, Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass . I do not expect to have adult emotions watching Star Trek, particularly not during a gimmick episode. 📺

The original “Star Trek” often told morality tales about the Cold War, with the Klingons standing in for the USSR. Tom Nichols, writing at The Atlantic: I retired from a long teaching career a few years ago, but during my later years in the classroom, I offered a course on ...

New research shows sleeping in an extra hour and a half on weekends is good for you. Previous research said you shouldn’t do that. Either way, it’s nothing to lose sleep over.

“I’m going to have to conduct a pot sobriety test.” Funny. youtube.com/shorts/Pr…

Robert B. Parker tapped into his own academic literary background to write his brilliant Spenser detective novels. Parker was a doctorate in English literature, wrote his dissertation in part on Raymond Chandler and taught for several years at Northeastern University. He tap...

I’m remembering a time in the 2000s when Julie and I did the Universal Studios tour in Los Angeles and went to the Terminator attraction. In many of these types of attractions, including the Terminator one, the plot is that the audience is a group of VIP visitors taking a t...

Søren Kierkegaard, 1847 www.reddit.com/r/walking…_danish_philosopher_s%C3%B8ren_kierkegaard_in_1847/ The Coming Meat, 1880 reddit.com/r/vintage…_coming_meat_1880/ King of the Fourth Planet, by Robert Moore Williams. Cover artist: Ed Emshwiller reddit.com/r/CoolSci…_of_the_fourth_planet_by_robert_moore/

I just spent an hour shredding cardboard boxes that I was saving because they could be useful for something. Perfectly good boxes, destroyed like garbage.

This is a very difficult moment for me and I ask for your emotional support.

I preordered a Clicks Power Keyboard at the beginning of the year and it arrived a few weeks ago. It’s a BlackBerry style thumb keyboard that attaches to your phone using the phone’s built-in MagSafe or Qi2 magnet.

So far, I’m not finding it to be practical — it’s uncomfortable to use with my Pro Max iPhone. Typing on the screen keyboard is faster and more comfortable than using Clicks.

But it’s a fun little gadget and maybe I’ll get faster and more comfortable with practice.

After first trying it, I decided to send it back but i kept putting it off and now I’m glad I hung on to it.

On Reddit: What’s a small quality-of-life upgrade at home that you now refuse to live without?

My response: This cushioned lap desk. I bring my laptop into our sunroom, sit on the daybed cross-legged and read and type in comfort. I’m using it with my MacBook right now!

The original post has been removed by the subreddit’s overzealous moderators (an example of why I rarely post to Reddit anymore)), but you can still read the comments.

On Reddit: When did iced coffee take off in America?

I remember my Mom drinking iced coffee in the 1970s, but it’s only in the past couple of years I’ve noticed that iced coffee seems to have become the default in hot weather, even when you’re ordering at an airport or some other large, enclosed air conditioned space. I think iced coffee is as popular as hot coffee now.

I’ve always personally preferred hot coffee, even in hot weather.