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A cute Minecraft-y clicker game. Big plus: finishing it doesn’t take forever....
Forget Psychedelics. Everyone’s Microdosing Ozempic Now. (In Hollywood, at least.) “They are...
“ICE has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished.” Reminder: ICE...
Eminem’s Lose Yourself, Sung by 331 Movies
A Young Readers Edition of Ed Yong’s award-winning An Immense World is...
I somehow missed this: after a federal judge in VT ordered her...
I somehow missed this: after a federal judge in VT ordered her freed from a Louisiana detention center, Tufts PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk was released later that day. 🙏
Scientist Kseniia Petrova came to US to study aging. In Feb, she...
Scientist Kseniia Petrova came to US to study aging. In Feb, she was detained for a minor offense, had her visa revoked, and has spent 3 months in a detention center in Louisiana. She just wants to get back to her work.
How Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies Mirror the WWII Persecution of Japanese Americans. “Of...
“Boredom: the great engine of creativity. I now believe with all my...
“Boredom: the great engine of creativity. I now believe with all my heart that it’s only in the crushing silences of boredom — without all that black-mirror dopamine — that you can access your deepest creative wells.”
In Poland, We Know All About Fighting Illiberal Regimes. Here Are Our...
I am cautiously optimistic about F1. (The Brad Pitt movie — there’s...
I am cautiously optimistic about F1. (The Brad Pitt movie — there’s a full trailer out today.)
The Three Types of Specialists Needed for Any Revolution
In Shanghai, “a new crowd-sourced transit platform allows riders to propose, vote...
In Shanghai, “a new crowd-sourced transit platform allows riders to propose, vote on, and activate new bus lines in as little as three days”.
The Trumpist assault on the federal government is a “civil war by...
The Trumpist assault on the federal government is a “civil war by other means”, says Rebecca Solnit. “It is a war against the government of the United States and the land and people of this country.”
“The Trump administration’s policy ideas to incentivize women to have more kids...
“The Trump administration’s policy ideas to incentivize women to have more kids resemble those pushed by authoritarian regimes throughout history.”
On Male Social Isolation
OMG! The universe is going to decay into nothingness 10^1022 times sooner...
OMG! The universe is going to decay into nothingness 10^1022 times sooner than previously expected. Carpe diem, everyone!
Enjoying the Lane 8 Spring 2025 Mixtape this afternoon....
Enjoying the Lane 8 Spring 2025 Mixtape this afternoon.
This is a little bit genius: an analysis of OpenAI based on...
This is a little bit genius: an analysis of OpenAI based on a close reading of a 22-second video of CEO Sam Altman cooking pasta. “His kitchen is a catalogue of inefficiency, incomprehension, and waste.”
Here Is Everything That Has Changed Since Congestion Pricing Started in New...
Jimmy Carter for The Onion: You People Made Me Give Up My...
Jimmy Carter for The Onion: You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President. “Maybe I’m just a sucker. Apparently, all I needed to do was hand off control of the farm to my family.”
4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere. “Twitter became 4chan, then...
A streaming music translator: I Don’t Have Spotify. Paste a share link...
A streaming music translator: I Don’t Have Spotify. Paste a share link from Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer or SoundCloud and get links to that music on the other platforms.
A Real Life Version of Wallace & Gromit’s Breakfast Machine
I love me some Wallace & Gromit and so I was delighted to see that this guy made a real life version of Wallace & Gromit’s breakfast machine, complete with a spoonful of jam flying through the air perfectly meeting a piece of toast popping out of a toaster.
It starts with this crazy part here, where he falls out of bed into a pair of trousers, landing in a chair, and then his sleeves go on, and the vest. And then, probably the hardest part of all, is throwing jam — through the air — and hitting toast — in the air — perfectly. Some of these stunts are going to be the most challenging things I’ve ever attempted.
Cracking toast, Gromit! (via the kid should see this)
Tags: Aardman Animations · remix · video · Wallace and Gromit
The help desk at Auburn University is still answering questions from the...
The help desk at Auburn University is still answering questions from the public via telephone. “The rules are these: Be as polite as possible, end the call if the question is offensive, don’t answer anything that sounds like a homework question…”
I’d never seen this before: a thief does some stretches in the...
I’d never seen this before: a thief does some stretches in the parking lot before robbing a Dunkin Donuts. Warming up is important for peak performance! https://bsky.app/profile/erikahall.bsky.social
A Visual Celebration of Miyazaki’s Weird Little Guys
Bess Kalb: Hooray for Pills. “I hope you shut out the simplistic,...
Bess Kalb: Hooray for Pills. “I hope you shut out the simplistic, reductive, anti-science voices like RFK’s who tell us that pills are bad, and suffering is good.” Co-sign!