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Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the Internet Archive from archiving their sites.

NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds and interviewed Panic’s Cabel Sasser about how they decided to refund their Playdate-buying customers for the tariffs surcharge they paid.

Do you believe in life after death?

This is really impressive: a software engineer got a Game Boy emulator running at 30 fps on a tiny e-ink screen.

A 24-minute video tour of the Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous exhibition at the Met.

Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and tower defense games.

I’d never heard of this before: in 1990, the BBC aired a program created by and starring Douglas Adams called Hyperland.

Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape, 4 hours, recorded live at SF’s Castro Theatre.

Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr.

Writing for Vanity Fair (archive link), Ta-Nehisi Coates says that Donald Trump is the most visionary politician of his era.

Charles Harley on Subway Takes: “I don’t think Black people should have to pay for ancestry.com.

Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo’s second book is out.

I love these digital illustrations by Adam Fuhrer; he calls them chromatic aberrations.

Margaret Atwood in 2023: Go Ahead and Ban My Book.

This woman does some amazing things with a series of white rings — lots of precision optical illusions.

The trailer for Blade Runner 2099, a new limited series premiering in late November and starring Michelle Yeoh & Hunter Schafer.

Diego Poncelet recently set a new world record for the fastest speed on a skateboard.

I played (not) solitaire for more hands than I would care to admit.

Good headline: Nine Inch Snails.

A lovely little mountain biking video with some incredible locations and cinematography.

Is the camera shutter noise the last skeuomorphic element left in iOS?

Fishdraw is a single JavaScript file that generates drawings of fish.

The great grey owl basically has a sound cone for a face, which helps it hunt down voles burrowing through snow in the winter.

How many shots are in the average movie?

Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World.

I ran across this post on Instagram by Bobby in Space (who posts about design and the psychology of place) and wanted to pull it onto the actual internet.

Teaser trailer for season three of The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power.

Tiny Little Office is “an office suite with no accounts and no server that holds your work.

From a 2014 article on The Dark Power of Fraternities by Caitlin Flanagan, this is one hell of an opening paragraph: One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back deck of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at Marshall…

It’s time to de-privatize the US government.

Q: “An AI tool with all your passwords or a bear in the woods?”

Here are some photos I’ve taken during my time in Tokyo so far.

“‘Digger’ has a lot of haters.

Anthropic says that, as of Sept ‘26, they were merging 30,000 code changes per day, a 12-fold increase from just four months earlier.

NASA’s JWST recently snapped this image of the Lion Nebula (NGC 2392).

The Case for Quitting: The Surprising Benefits of Opting Out by Lindsay Crouse.

“If a human did this, it would be an instant Fields Medal, no questions asked.”

The first trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew.

Girls is coming back to HBO for a 5-episode run.

Japanese photographer and artist Tomoko Sawada works primarily in self-portraiture.

ArtCraft is building open source versions of what looks like most of Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps.

Reelizer is a personal project by Roger Erik Tinch that is a collection of movie art: prints, posters, illustrations, albums, books, covers, etc.

Thing I am going to make time for in the next few days: Harry Styles and Thom Yorke in conversation.

The People Holding Up the Internet.

Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive.

“I’m forced to admit that these AI-decompiled web browser ports of Call of Duty: Black Ops, Halo: CE, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Skate 3, and The Simpsons: Hit and Run actually seem to run very well.”

I’ve been really pleased with how KDO comments are working lately — you folks have been lively, informative, fun, and pushing conversations beyond what I can individually manage.

Prompting as Self-Portrait.

Nearly 4M Records of Enslaved People in 20 Former British Colonies Now Searchable Online.

Why I Did Not Leave Nazi Germany in Time.