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From the Variety piece on Nathan Fielder’s documentary on Elizabeth Holmes, You Can See Everything.

From The Idle Gazette, The Glued Cup.

From McSweeney’s, US Open Ticket Options for Ordinary Folks.

Simon Willison does the diff on Claude’s new system prompt (which really doesn’t want to reproduce song lyrics).

Via Waxy, Inflight Simulator.

The U.S.

McSweeney’s: I’m the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them into Our Company’s Insatiable AI Platform.

Lindsay Ellis’ video essay on Dolly Parton, Yes she really was That Great, is so, so good.

B.D.

I absolutely love federalistreader.org, a project from Vann Walke, which presents The Federalist Papers in a pleasing online format.

National treasure Matt Levine presents a third theory of corporate governance.

Ruth Franklin travels the country to answer the question how should ‘Huckleberry Finn’ be taught?

San Francisco.

On Friday all the Phoebe fans (hi) were searching for “tamám shud” after reading the lyrics to Kill Me.

Mandy Brown, Reading matters deeply: Reading isn’t about reaching empathic dead ends, or recruiting platitudes about how we must understand each other; it isn’t about the performance of social class absent a criticism of that class structure.

Love seeing Spencer Tweedy making the case that you’re still allowed to use computers like it’s 2007.

Robin Sloan coins “jarvising,” which describes upwards of 99.8% of YouTube AI content.

GenX childhood fear: nuclear holocaust.

Sam Kahn asks: Is the City Finished?