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Slow Start Today…

It turns out when you get a flat tire after hitting a pothole in the middle of nowhere late at night and you don’t have a spare1 in a state where everyone goes to bed at 9:15pm, you’re just kinda shit outta luck? Huge thanks to Caroline and her sleepy, confused dog for coming to retrieve me. 💞

So yeah anyway, things might be a little wonky around here today because I got very little sleep and I need to see about that flat. 🤷‍♂️

  1. I’m gonna head everyone off at the pass here and tell you that I had a portable air compressor and an emergency puncture kit with me that were both useless for this type of flat unfortunately.↩

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This weekend, JD Vance is visiting a small VT town near where...

This weekend, JD Vance is visiting a small VT town near where I live and plans to ski at Sugarbush. The locals are understandably pissed — both at our fascist VP and the local businesses extending their welcome to him. Protests to come, I’m sure.

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Trump Administration Litigation Tracker. “The table below tracks legal challenges to the...

Trump Administration Litigation Tracker. “The table below tracks legal challenges to the Trump administration’s executive orders, as well as cases on behalf of the Trump administration to enforce them.”

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As Facebook Abandons Fact-Checking, It’s Also Offering Bonuses for Viral Content. “The...

As Facebook Abandons Fact-Checking, It’s Also Offering Bonuses for Viral Content. “The upshot: a likely resurgence of incendiary false stories on Facebook, some of them funded by Meta.”

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Actress Hunter Schafer’s gender marker was changed to “male” on her US...

Actress Hunter Schafer’s gender marker was changed to “male” on her US passport due to Trump’s anti-trans passport rules. “This is real…and no one, no matter their circumstance, no matter how wealthy or white or pretty or whatever, is excluded.”

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Inalienable Rights vs. Conditional Privileges

From @existennialmemes on Tumblr:

Listen, if a Bad President can come in and take away our rights and we’re dependent on a Good President replacing them in four years to give us back our rights, then we do not have any rights.

If politicians can take or distribute them, then they’re not “inalienable” and they’re not “rights.”

We don’t have inalienable rights we have conditional privileges, divvied out according to the whims of whoever currently holds the reins.

And if we want to have actual rights, then we must build a system in which no one has the power to take them away to begin with.

I am wondering what a system like that would actually look like… (via @halaylah.bsky.social)

Tags: politics · USA

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AOC Shows How to Fight Back and Stand Strong. “AOC’s stand for...

AOC Shows How to Fight Back and Stand Strong. “AOC’s stand for her constituents, and her public refusal to be intimidated, are models of resistance that other Democrats would do well to imitate.”

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Andor Season Two Trailer

I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to watch an earnest show about an ultimately successful revolution against a fascist government. It will be interesting to see in this political climate whether Disney+ is the place to watch such a thing.

Tags: Star Wars · trailers · TV · video

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This website is tracking how many people have lost their jobs because...

This website is tracking how many people have lost their jobs because of the USAID Stop-Work Order (55K confirmed, 100K+ estimated globally) and documenting other effects (people dying around the world).

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From Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, a list of instructions on...

From Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, a list of instructions on “how to change your settings to make yourself less valuable to Meta”.

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A collection of videos of people fighting back against the Trump administration,...

A collection of videos of people fighting back against the Trump administration, incl. Maine governor Janet Mills, former NFL player Chris Kluwe, and AOC. It’s good to see this stuff and to take inspiration from it.

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Fired NPS, USFS, BLM Employees Share Their Stories

The Guardian profiled a number of people fired from the agencies that manage federal lands - the US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, etc. — purged from their jobs by the Trump/Musk administration. Victoria Winch, US Forest Service wilderness forestry technician,...

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Following a public uproar, the Trump administration is walking back some of...

Following a public uproar, the Trump administration is walking back some of the purges of National Park Service employees.

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From Eater, What Should You Do if ICE Comes to Your Restaurant?...

From Eater, What Should You Do if ICE Comes to Your Restaurant? “We spoke to legal experts about what restaurant owners and workers can do to protect themselves from immigration raids.”

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We the Builders is a site run by current and former federal...

We the Builders is a site run by current and former federal employees about how “DOGE” is destroying the government. “They are destroyers. We are the builders. We don’t work for DOGE. We have always worked for you.”

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When Your Only Job Is to Cuddle. “On that day, I rocked...

When Your Only Job Is to Cuddle. “On that day, I rocked him for three hours. My left shoulder ached, my arm went numb, but I would not let go, for he and I had work to do, trust to build.”

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Running Pong in 240 Browser Tabs. “That’s 240 browser tabs in a...

Running Pong in 240 Browser Tabs. “That’s 240 browser tabs in a tight 8x30 grid. And they’re running pong!”

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Speaking of Amy Sherald, she’s got an exhibition at The Whitney that...

Speaking of Amy Sherald, she’s got an exhibition at The Whitney that opens on April 9th! “This exhibition includes a billboard across from the Museum’s entrance on Gansevoort Street.”

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Roxane Gay’s lovely obituary for her mother Nicole: It Was Always Going...

Roxane Gay’s lovely obituary for her mother Nicole: It Was Always Going to be Too Soon. “She had an unwavering moral code, a profound inclination toward justice, and her standards were exacting.”

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A Quick Anniversary Note

Today somehow marks 20 years of writing/editing/designing/producing kottke.org as my full-time job (and almost 27 years in total).1 Here’s part of what I wrote five years ago to mark the 15th anniversary: It seemed like madness at the time — I’d quit my web design job a few...

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Severance: Music To Refine To

Apple TV+ is streaming an 8-hour remix of the Severance theme by ODESZA that is perfect music for your innie to refine macrodata to. The workday-long video is a 23-minute mix that’s looped and set to footage from the show. Legit adding this to the work music rotation. (via @margarita.bsky.social)

Tags: music · Odesza · remix · Severance · TV · video

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A Robert Frost poem from 1918, ironically entitled “Nothing New”, has been...

A Robert Frost poem from 1918, ironically entitled “Nothing New”, has been published for the first time in the New Yorker’s 100th anniversary issue.

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Amy Sherald and Michelle Obama

artist Amy Sherald and former First Lady Michelle Obama

I don’t think I’ve ever seen this photo before, of artist Amy Sherald and former First Lady Michelle Obama sharing a hug during a session for Sherald’s iconic portrait of Obama. What a different time that was, huh?

Tags: Amy Sherald · art · Michelle Obama

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“Egyptologists have discovered the first tomb of a pharaoh since Tutankhamun’s was...

“Egyptologists have discovered the first tomb of a pharaoh since Tutankhamun’s was uncovered over a century ago.”

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The Sutro Tower in 3D

This is an amazingly realistic 3D model of San Francisco’s Sutro Tower that you can zoom, pan, fly through, and interact with. This model was made using a technique called Gaussian splatting; creator Vincent Woo explains: This scan is made possible by recent advances in ...

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Craig Mod on how “leave no trace” and “pack it in, pack...

Craig Mod on how “leave no trace” and “pack it in, pack it out” is not just for campers and backpackers in Japan. “The Japanese way is the correct way. Be an adult. Own your garbage.”

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Here’s what it’s like watching all 24 hours of Christian Marclay’s The...

Here’s what it’s like watching all 24 hours of Christian Marclay’s The Clock at MoMA. “Although I’m literally sitting in a clock, time is meaningless. One hour flies by and the next is like spending an afternoon at the DMV.”

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ANXIETY: Doechii Raps Over Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know (2019)

I can already tell this is going to be my favorite thing of the day: Doechii singing and rapping about anxiety over Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know from 2019. If you didn’t know she could sing, well you do now.

If my math is right, Doechii was 21 in this video, living in NYC, vlogging about going to thrift stores (on her old YouTube channel that only has a little over 9,000 subscribers), and working hard on her music. I think it paid off?

P.S. This video from 2015 of Doechii in high school singing Do You Want to Build a Snowman? with her friends is super sweet.

Tags: Doechii · Gotye · music · remix · video

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Betty White is getting a stamp from the USPS that commemorates her...

Betty White is getting a stamp from the USPS that commemorates her “warmth, wit and charisma”. The first-day-of-issue event is being held at the LA Zoo on March 27 and is open to the public (RSVP info here).

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I saw Paddington in Peru last weekend and so it’s been difficult...

I saw Paddington in Peru last weekend and so it’s been difficult to take Ben Whishaw seriously as a hitman in Block Doves.

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