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Gloria Steinem’s final essay, posthumously published by the New Yorker.

TIL that my iPhone has a tiny bit of water in it (for cooling).

Teaser trailer for Musk, a 3h45m-long documentary film on fascist businessman Elon Musk, directed by Alex Gibney.

“We found ~18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents (self-identifying as from OpenAI) using the public internet to communicate during a web research task.

The Chicago Public Library informs patrons of how much money they’ve saved borrowing from the library instead of buying.

Over the past 12 years, Super Bowl-winning coach Mike Tomlin has built a Minecraft city.

From the Internet Archive: Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record.

Over on Flickr, Jane McDevitt maintains a huge collection of 20th century matchbox label art from Eastern Europe, over 4000 photos in all.

A catalogue of 645 acts of hate from the week after 9/11.

Bayeux Go!

Spaceships: A version of Asteroids where “you are not the ship” — you control the rocks instead.

The 101 Plays Itself.

Teaser trailer for You Can See Everything from Nathan Fielder & Lance Oppenheim.

My move is coming down to the wire (omg so many things to juggle!)

Writer, journalist, and feminist activist Gloria Steinem has died.

Jamelle Bouie: The details of what is happening here are important — that’s why I laid them out — but it’s also important to step back and make a more fundamental point: the president of the United States is engaged in a conspiracy against the voting righ…

Gina Trapani: The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer.

2 Odysseus 2 Ithaca: Emily Wilson is completely retranslating The Odyssey.

Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail.

The thing about me is if I see a making-of video for pencils, I’m gonna stop and watch it and then post it to my website, especially if said pencils are Blackwings, made in Japan.

Industry Standard Tools.

This is a fun read: If You Build It, Will They Come?

Nationally, unsubsidized ACA premiums to jump *another* ~15% next year.

Here’s how noise-cancelling headphones work (and when they don’t).

Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to Lake America.

Ahhh, relax with the sights and sounds of the Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator.

Voting is now open for the 2026 Tiny Awards, featuring 10 sites that celebrate “the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web”.

Heat waves are disproportionately harming people with schizophrenia.

Ok, we’re gonna go a little old school today.

On the fifth episode of her late 80s variety show Dolly, Dolly Parton was joined by Kermit the Frog for a lovely rendition of Sly and the Family Stone’s 1968 hit Everyday People.

In lieu of flowers, Dolly Parton’s family is asking for donations to her Imagination Library, which has distributed over 330 million books to kids.

RIP Dolly Parton, a gem and a hero.

“Ultimately there are people who want to live, not in a world of reconciliation, but in a world without repercussions.”

“At least 1-in-4 of all the people who have played in the NFL might expect to end up with chronic traumatic encephalopathy [CTE], according to a study of hundreds of cases over a recent six-year period.”

More Fucked Today than Yesterday.

Flock banned Benn Jordan from their recent convention (they even emailed his hotel to cancel his room) but, taking a page from law enforcement & Flock itself, he electronically surveilled the whole thing from outside, sniffing Wifi, Bluetooth, mics, etc.

Target’s now-pulled children’s Halloween costume is so unbelievably racist that it had to, on some level, be purposely done by someone in the decision chain and everyone else was like, “seems ok to me”.

Homing pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field using superparamagnetic macrophages in their livers.

Just quickly reupping this post to remind you things might be slower than usual around here for the next few weeks…moving crunch time is here.

Meat proxy (noun): “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it.

Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?

Opinion columnist Karen Attiah won her arbitration against the Washington Post.

Jodi Ettenberg on living grief and a serendipitous discovery.

Walking the Length of Manhattan.

“When Jason Ganos was asked to help sell an old box full of NES cartridges…” How 97 Copies of an Unreleased Version of Super Mario Bros.

What a great idea for a book: Cookbooking: A Fan’s Guide.

“The principal aim of President Trump’s second term is revenge,” says Jamelle Bouie.

Holy moly, NPR’s Tiny Desk has been going for a long time.

Anil Dash built a standalone Touch ID sensor to use with your Mac if you don’t have a newer Apple keyboard.

Analysts Warn U.S.