The Crystal Palace, London, 1871 #danishart #pissarro
Racket
• Keith Harris
Easily the Most Marsalises I’ve Ever Listed in Your Complete Concert Calendar: October 13-19
Pretty much all the music you can catch in the Twin Cities this week.
TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Nicole LaFond
Kim Guilfoyle Accepts Her Trump World Dethroning
Trump Doesn’t Like When Women Act Corrupt in Public President Trump stood by his Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi...
McSweeney’s
• Nathan Cowley
Winston Smith Is Forced Down The Jennifer Hudson Show Spirit Tunnel
“The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world,” said O’Brien. A guard came in, carrying something made of wire, a box or basket of some kind. “In your case,” said O’Brien, “the worst thing in the world happens to be—” “The Jennifer Hudson Show Spirit Tunnel!...
Ars Technica
• Scharon Harding
Topgolf saved over $11.3 million after leaving VMware
Topgolf and VMware "ran deep" before the migration.
Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
• Conover Kennard
'Petty Little B*tch'': Jimmy Kimmel Torches Trump's Crybaby Nobel Meltdown
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel took some well-deserved jabs at Donald J. Trump over the president's massive meltdown after he was passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump tore into the Nobel Prize winner during his 600-word crybaby rant and somehow blamed Norway.
“The pr...
With some of the recent news about executions, here is a story about the firing squad in Idaho.
What are your thoughts?
https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2026/04/09/does-the-firing-squad-still-exist-in-idaho-it-does/
TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Allegra Kirkland
This Week on the Polltober Show: Does Republicans’ Huge Cash Advantage Matter?
Elon Musk is dumping heaps of money into the midterms and the Trump-aligned MAGA Inc. waited til the final stretch...
TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Josh Marshall
LOLWUT?: New Press Secretary Moochspan Edition
I couldn’t think what to say about this beyond simply reposting the first two grafs of this Post article …...
Electrek
• Peter Johnson
The BMW i3 is nearly $80 less a month to lease than the new iX3, but it’s the same price
The 2027 BMW i3 and iX3 start at $61,500, but the electric sedan is nearly $80 less a month to lease.
more…
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Bobby Welber
Hudson Valley Man Accused of Hitting Woman In Head With Dumbbell
A Hudson Valley man is facing charges for allegedly attacking a woman with a dumbbell. Continue reading…
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Billy Dukes
'Tulsa King' Season 4 Pictures
One character I knew to be foe suddenly seems friendly. Several key characters are just plain absent. Continue reading…
After losing her sons, Yiyun Li learned to ‘suffer better’
If you or someone you know may be considering suicide or is in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.Li’s teenage sons both died by suicide six years apart, Vincent in 2017 at age 16, and James in 2024 at age 19. Her Pulitzer-Prize winning 2025 ...
The domain of Arnheim, 1962 #belgianart #magritte
Six Colors
• Six Colors Podcasts
(Podcast) Upgrade 641: A Fashion Chimney
We break down Apple’s big home announcements, including the new HomeView, a collection of smart home products, a new HomePod Mini, and the new (and surprisingly expensive) Apple TV 4K.…
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Jess Rose
See Lyrics for Chris Stapleton + Norah Jones' 'April's Gone'
It's never too early for a Christmas song! Continue reading…
Nieman Lab
• Laura Hazard Owen
When Slate went back to its 1996 homepage, it learned some web design lessons for 2026
The fonts are Times New Roman and Arial Narrow, the colors are maroon and mustard, and the cursor is the 8-bit pixel hand. When Slate revived its original 1996 homepage to celebrate its 30th birthday this fall1, the team found a lot to like besides nostalgia. “I’ve read Slate since 1997, when I finally had...
Nieman Lab
• Sophie Culpepper
From bad to worse: 2026 is shaping up to be “a Super El Niño year for local news”
If you thought last year was bleak, Medill’s annual State of Local News Report is here to ring the alarm bell louder. What was a “creeping erosion” has now “mushroomed into a full-blown Super El Niño-like event for local news, leaving widespread and long-lasting displacement in its wake,” writes Tim Franklin, founding director of the...
I added a new plug-in to Micro.blog’s plug-in directory that implements the about.md and contact.vcf parts of SocialSpec. It’s an experiment, we’ll see where it goes!
escarpment
• lnebres
/sh.mb
I can't quite recall when I first used this slash command... perhaps early summer this year, or maybe even before that. Regardless, it was a formalization of something I'd been doing in LLM•space for a while now, and I just gave it both a term — "shadow micro-blogging" — and...