Edgar Degas, Dancer looking at her sole #natmuseumswe #nationalmuseum
Seated old man, 1510 #highrenaissance #davinci
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
BM Snaps
Burning Man really tests my mantra, “There’s no bad weather, only bad clothing.” But it’s true! For one week, it’s the most interesting art and technology playground in the world, creativity unbound. As a photographer, it’s a great place to test out new gear and processes. Here’s a few snaps from the opening days. The … Continue reading BM Snaps →
WIRED
• Molly Taft
The 2026 El Niño Is Being ‘Supersized’ as Impacts Worsen
The World Meteorological Organization is warning that the climate phenomenon that has the Pacific running a fever will last until at least February, with dire consequences for weather worldwide.
WIRED
• Louryn Strampe
ABT Promo Codes & Discounts for September 2026
Learn how to maximize your savings on major appliances, electronics, and mattresses using verified ABT discount codes, rebates, and special coupons and save up to $1,200 this summer.
WIRED
• Scott Gilbertson
ExpressVPN Coupons: 73% Off
Learn how to get the best value from your ExpressVPN subscription plans, whether you need a flexible 1-month plan or want to lock in up to 61% savings on multi-year deals.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
September 2, 2026
A number of pundits, especially Republican pundits, interpreted Trump’s win in 2024 as a permanent political realignment proving that post–World War II liberalism was dead.
AramZS's Amplify RSS Feed
• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Mamdani Issues AI Moratorium In NYC Schools
motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/mamdani-nyc-ai-ban-pause-moratorium-public-schools/
Kids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
House Republicans Go All in On Coordinated Spending
“House Republicans are seizing on the Supreme Court’s decision that freed national party committees to coordinate directly with candidates, reserving nearly $9 million in TV ads across more than 20 races this month,” Axios reports. “The NRCC is moving quickly to exploit its cash advantage over the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and bolster GOP candidates, […]
Scripting News for email
• Dave Winer
Scripting News: Wednesday, September 2, 2026
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Donny Meacham
Yukon Jack? Garth Brooks May Be Playing a Secret Denver Show
A mysterious concert at a Denver bar has an unmistakable Garth Brooks connection, and the name on the ticket only makes the mystery more interesting. Continue reading…
Hans Holbein the Younger, The Monk, 16th century #hansholbeintheyounger
Pocket Casts Blog
• Dominic Camozzi
Smart Bookmarks: save the words, not the timestamp
You heard something worth keeping. You reached for the bookmark button. Pocket Casts saved 13:28. A week later, 13:28 is a number. You know you saved it for a reason. Finding out what that reason was means listening to it again. That’s the last thing a bookmark should ask of you. Smart Bookmarks are on […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
The White House Moves to Make Midterms About Trump
“Senior advisers to President Donald Trump met privately with his pollster last month to sort through the latest numbers. The outlook was grim,” NBC News reports. “One of the findings that longtime Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio shared suggested that Republican voters weren’t all that enthused about upcoming midterm elections in which Trump isn’t on the […]
Dan Gillmor
• Dan Gillmor
Wendell Berry, R.I.P.
For several years as a correspondent for the Kansas City Times in the mid-1980s, I explored the enormous area we called “rural America” — a collection of places, as varied as you could imagine and only distantly related to common city and suburb dwellers’ notions of what non-metropolitan life was like. I’d long been a […]
Tedium
• Ernie Smith
Second Quest
In a normal culture, a company as gray-haired as MapQuest would not be having a straight-on cultural revival in 2026. But our culture is not normal.
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Donny Meacham
Jason Isbell Just Drew a Line in the Sand With AI Music
Jason Isbell is taking the fight over AI-generated music to court, accusing Suno of using artists' identities to create music in their style. Continue reading…
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Kim Rogers, Founder of State + Local Election Alliance (SLEA) | American Conversations
State+Local Election Alliance
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Ted Cruz Is Testing the Waters for a 2028 Run
“Ted Cruz isn’t hiding his presidential ambitions—and he is taking some digs at the presumptive front-runner along the way,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The 2028 contest hasn’t started yet, and there is still a midterm election in November. Vice President JD Vance, who is leading in early polls of potential Republican nominees, is campaigning […]
Techdirt
• Timothy Geigner
Sony Tells Courts Any ‘Reasonable Customer’ Knows Digital Purchases Are Actually Licenses
Sony’s ability to generate anger lately is pretty impressive. After the company announced that there would be no more physical media versions of games made starting in 2027, to the resounding anger of many people, Sony also demonstrated yet again that it’s capable of ripping away the digital “purchases” people had made once its own […]