Apple has added the Lumon Terminal Pro computer to their devices lineup, right alongside the iMac and Macbook Air.
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The Design of the New Swiss Passport
There are so many reasons these days to covet a Swiss passport but let me give you one more: the design kicks ass. First issued in 2022, the document was designed by creative agency RETINAA.
Drawing on cartographic tradition yet modern in its use of 3D modeled landscape...
Finally got around to reading Craig Mod’s “rules” for running his membership...
Finally got around to reading Craig Mod’s “rules” for running his membership program. Two that particularly resonated: “The program exists for the goals, not the members” and “Fundamentally, you are building a community”.
The Atlantic handled ‘Signalgate’ with good judgment. “The journalists’ actions ‘could be...
The Atlantic handled ‘Signalgate’ with good judgment. “The journalists’ actions ‘could be a college journalism class in careful, ethical handling of sensitive information’, said David Boardman, dean of Temple University’s media school.”
Scaling Laws and the Speed of Animals
A recent paper found that the time it takes for an animal to move the length of its own body is largely independent of mass. This appears to hold from tiny bacteria on up to whales — that’s more than 20 orders of magnitude of mass. The paper’s argument as to why this happe...
Two prominent American scholars on fascism & authoritarianism, Timothy Snyder & Jason...
Two prominent American scholars on fascism & authoritarianism, Timothy Snyder & Jason Stanley, have recently moved from Yale to the University of Toronto. Stanley: “the primary reason was the deteriorating political situation in the United States”.
For his 8th book, What the Dead Can Say, Philip Graham limited...
For his 8th book, What the Dead Can Say, Philip Graham limited it to a print run of 1000 and distribution was entirely through stashing them in Little Free Libraries around the entire country.
Want to build your own synthesizer? The DIY Synths Database is a...
Want to build your own synthesizer? The DIY Synths Database is a “curated collection of 68 DIY-friendly hardware synthesizers and related standalone musical equipment”.
From 2017, Ron Rosenbaum on the newspaper that fought Hitler. “The paper...
From 2017, Ron Rosenbaum on the newspaper that fought Hitler. “The paper went down fighting a lie, fighting Nazi murderers, refusing to normalize the Hitler regime.”
Wired surveyed 730 coders and developers about how they use AI chatbots...
Wired surveyed 730 coders and developers about how they use AI chatbots & tools. “Freelance coders seem to like AI more than full-time coders.”
Tavares Strachan
I like these collage-like artworks by Tavares Strachan. One of the figures depicted above in the third piece, just above the queen, is polar explorer Matthew Henson, who was the first person (maybe?) to reach the geographic North Pole in 1909 as part of Robert Peary’s expedition.
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Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big...
Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big 30-Minute Compilation. “The New York Department of Sanitation engaged Lynch’s services to imbue their anti-littering campaign with his signature high-contrast ominousness…”
Jess Piper on speaking to people in conservative areas of America about...
Jess Piper on speaking to people in conservative areas of America about Trumpism. “You are going to have to tell them the truth. You know the truth. We have to be in the streets.”
What Did Hubble See on Your Birthday?
The Hubble Space Telescope “has observed some fascinating cosmic wonder every day of the year, including on your birthday”. Just enter your month and day of birth to find out what it saw. My birthday image is of the Egg Nebula (shown above):
Where is the center of the Eg...
Waldo Jaquith on why he works in the open (blogging, open sourcing...
Waldo Jaquith on why he works in the open (blogging, open sourcing software, etc.): “I’ve long worked in the open, overwhelmingly for one reason: it increases enormously the surface area for success.”
The Haunting of Verdant Valley is a photo book about Silicon Valley....
The Haunting of Verdant Valley is a photo book about Silicon Valley. “Anonymous office parks, pristine corporate campuses, and fading remnants of past industries tell the story of a region built on extraction — of resources, labor, and attention.”
The Atlantic has shared the text messages sent by the Trump regime’s...
The Frick Collection is back open after a five-year closure for a...
The Frick Collection is back open after a five-year closure for a renovation.
Russian hackers find ways to snoop on Ukrainian Signal accounts. (Hmm, 18...
Russian hackers find ways to snoop on Ukrainian Signal accounts. (Hmm, 18 people in the Yemen bombing chat, some w/ ties to the Kremlin — what are the odds Russia has ongoing, realtime access to US national security comms via Signal linked devices?)
McSweeney’s is documenting the “cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes” of the 2nd...
World Athletics, the international governing body for athletics (track & field, etc.),...
World Athletics, the international governing body for athletics (track & field, etc.), is introducing “mandatory testing for anyone entering female competitions to verify their biological sex”.
The Harriet Tubman $20 Stamp
Frustrated that the US Treasury Department is walking back plans to replace Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman, Dano Wall created a 3D-printed stamp that can be used to transform Jacksons into Tubmans on the twenties in your pocketbook.
Here’s...
A judge chastised vandals of a Paddington Bear statue: “His famous label...
A judge chastised vandals of a Paddington Bear statue: “His famous label attached to his duffle coat says ‘please look after this bear’. On the night of the 2nd of March 2025, your actions were the antithesis of everything Paddington stands for.”
Long waits, waves of calls, website crashes: Social Security is breaking down....
Long waits, waves of calls, website crashes: Social Security is breaking down. A deep-dive into the Trump administration’s gutting of Social Security (a long-time conservative goal).
The Bully Lie
In this episode of This American Life from a few weeks ago, Masha Gessen read an excerpt from their book Surviving Autocracy about the particular kind of lie used by autocrats like Putin and Trump.
Lies can serve a number of functions. People lie to deflect, to avoid embar...
What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler. This “comical figure” was regularly...
What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler. This “comical figure” was regularly ridiculed in the German & international press right up until he became chancellor. It did very little to sway his supporters’ fervor.
Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal (No Man’s Land) was attacked by a...
Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal (No Man’s Land) was attacked by a group of 15 armed Israeli settlers and then arrested by the Israeli army. “They let the settlers attack him and then the army abducted him.”
The expanding size of American cars over the past few decades is...
The expanding size of American cars over the past few decades is increasing congestion by reducing the vehicle capacity of roadways. SUVs are longer, require more braking distance, and drivers behind them need to leave more space to see around them.
A recent study found that Black Lives Matter protests had a “significant...
A recent study found that Black Lives Matter protests had a “significant and decisive impact” on the 2020 election. “This represents one of the most consequential impacts of a social movement on electoral politics in recent history.”
Free Warner Bros Movies on YouTube
For some reason, Warner Bros. has uploaded 41 of its movies to YouTube that are free to watch. Among them, Waiting for Guffman, The Accidental Tourist, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Richard Linklater’s SubUrbia, The 11th Hour (Leonardo DiCaprio’s climate change movie), The Science of Sleep, The Avengers (the 1998 non-Marvel spy flick with Ralph Fiennes & Uma Thurman), and Mr. Nice Guy (w/ Jackie Chan — this has the highest number of views on the list by an order of magnitude).
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