🇺🇸 DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing /// 404 Media > The study, which was conducted by the National Institute of Justice and hosted on a DOJ website was available there at least until September 12, 2025 If i... https://tiv.today/2025/09/deletinghistory

🤖 ChatGPT Will Guess Your Age and Might Require ID for Age Verification /// 404 Media > ChatGPT will now also apply different rules to teens who are using the chatbot. > ChatGPT used to be a far more restricted chatbot that would refuse to engage users on a w... https://tiv.today/2025/09/aiid

🤔 The Sunday Edition — 09.14.25 /// The Newsprint > A young father with largely the same list of values was killed for having those values. Oof… here are some of Charlie Kirk’s values in his own words (https://zirk.us/@Trumpbert/115197861696893524). N... https://tiv.today/2025/09/values

🔫 Charlie Kirk Shot at University Q&A /// NY Mag He’s a despicable human being, but I still hate gun violence of any kind… In this weird place right now because he went to my high school (he’s a few years younger) and was on the varsity baske... https://tiv.today/2025/09/turningpointshot

💀 DOOMscroll /// The Game Incredible new game from David Friedman that combines DOOM with our societal addiction of scrolling. I went 400 meters and killed 174 monsters on my first go this morning. X https://tiv.today/2025/09/doomscroll

🤖 Why Did a $10 Billion Startup Let Me Vibe-Code for Them—and Why Did I Love It? /// Wired > One engineer at Notion compared the economic panic of this AI era to when the compiler was first introduced. The idea that one person will suddenly d... https://tiv.today/2025/08/vibecodeproductivity

🧦 Trump’s Intel Deal: Also Very Fascist /// New Republic > In Congress, Rand Paul excoriated the deal as a “step toward socialism,” but otherwise, as Politico’s Jonathan Martin noted Monday on Morning Joe, the silence “is deafening among ... https://tiv.today/2025/08/intelcorpfascism

💍 Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Are Engaged /// THR It’s the news we’ve all been waiting for… 🙄 X https://tiv.today/2025/08/swelce

🪀 Yoyo Elevated to Performance Art /// Kottke I don’t know the first thing about YoYoing, but this is incredible. Jason says this is the best routine he’s ever seen, but I took a few minutes to look around the International YoYo Federation (https://www.you... https://tiv.today/2025/08/yoyo

🪷 Anemone /// Trailer He’s baaaack! Daniel Day-Lewis comes out of retirement, starring in his first film since 2017’s Phantom Thread. This time, he’s starring in a movie he co-wrote with his son, who is also directing. And honestly, this trailer looks... https://tiv.today/2025/08/anemone

☕ How to replicate Espresso Vivace’s creamy ristretto? /// r/espresso This thread, and this comment specifically, is absolutely gold. Vivace was one of the best things about living in Seattle, and I’d drive out of my way from Ballard to Capitol Hill just ... https://tiv.today/2025/08/vivace

📻 Macrowave /// Radio Broadcaster Friend of the Variable just launched this awesome app that allows you to broadcast your Mac’s audio and people can listen in through the web, Mac app, or iOS app. Pirate radio for the modern age. Go check it out. X https://tiv.today/2025/08/macrowave

🚢 Valve founder Gabe Newell just purchased a superyacht company /// The Verge > Newell has a growing fleet of yachts as well, including the Oceanco-built Draak (formerly called the Tranquility) and the Rocinante superyacht, built by German yacht-maker Lürss... https://tiv.today/2025/08/yachts

☠️ Make asbestos OK again? /// The Verge > The Trump administration is thinking about scrapping a ban on white asbestos, a material used in roofing, chlorine manufacturing, and more. White asbestos is banned in many countries; exposure to it has been link... https://tiv.today/2025/08/asbestos

💉 RFK Jr. is coming for your vaccines /// The Verge > Some patients seeking covid vaccinations have now reportedly been turned away, mobile vaccine clinics are being forced to restrict or end operations, and research that could have cured cancer and preve... https://tiv.today/2025/08/vaccines

📧 Substack Raised Another $100 Million, Which, I Bet, Is Already Being Flushed Down the Same Toilet as Their First $100 Million /// Daring Fireball > I firmly believe one could build a very nice business taking 10 percent of subscription revenue f... https://tiv.today/2025/08/morewastedfunding

⛑️ Days after $5 million donation to MAGA Inc., Trump freezes Medicare waste crackdown /// Popular Information > The Biden rule was designed to crack down on a significant source of waste and abuse in Medicare. “Skin substitute” products went from... https://tiv.today/2025/08/wastingmoney

🪦 Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath Singer and Heavy Metal Pioneer, Dead at 76 /// Rolling Stone Not sure there’s ever been a singer as enigmatic, prolific, and just crazy (but the good kind of crazy) as Ozzy. I got super into Ozzy and Black Sabbath when I was pl... https://tiv.today/2025/07/ozzy

🎵 Ensenada - Single /// Sublime Oh man. I think this is the first single with Bradley’s son, Jacob, officially a member of (just) Sublime. And it’s good. Really good. I didn’t mind Sublime with Rome’s early stuff, but this feels like Sublime. Jacob... https://tiv.today/2025/07/ensenada

🤯 The Frightening and Fantastic Worlds of James Tynion IV /// Humble Bundle For anyone interested in reading some non-Marvel or DC comics, this is a great place to get started. Deoartment of Truth, Something is Killing The Children, and W0rldtr33 are a... https://tiv.today/2025/07/tynionbundle

🤖 Politico’s Newsroom Is Starting a Legal Battle With Management Over AI /// Wired > Union members say they believe the AI-generated posts were handled in a way that violates Politico’s correction and takedown policies. They also allege that one of P... https://tiv.today/2025/07/politician

💮 Chris Ware designs commemorative stamps celebrating 250th anniversary of US Postal Service /// The Beat These are obviously some of the coolest stamps ever drawn and produced. Period. X https://tiv.today/2025/07/warestamps

☀️ Jack Dorsey’s latest app tracks sun exposure /// TechCrunch > Like other developers, Dorsey is riding the vibe-coding bandwagon. But instead of using Cursor, Claude Code, or Windsurf, he says he is using an open source coding tool called Goose. Though... https://tiv.today/2025/07/sunday

📺 ABC News to Launch Daily Short-Form News Program on Disney+, ‘What You Need to Know’ /// TheWrap I haven’t thought about the daily ESPN show since the day they launched launched it, but I wonder if this means it’s been a success. Short f... https://tiv.today/2025/07/whatyouneedtoknow

📽️ Inside the New Movie Theater Concept From the Founder of Alamo Drafthouse: Private Rooms, Gourmet Meals and Guest Attendants /// THR > The experience won’t come cheap: The four-person theater runs a cool $200 for a four-hour booking while the... https://tiv.today/2025/07/movieexperience

🦸‍♂️ Dean Cain Says James Gunn’s “Woke” Stance on “Immigrant” Superman is “Going to Hurt” Box-Office /// World of Reel > Cain criticized what he sees as a politicized reinvention of the iconic character, especially Gunn’s framing of S... https://tiv.today/2025/07/superman

🤡 Musk makes grand promises about Grok 4 in the wake of a Nazi chatbot meltdown /// The Verge > Musk said he hopes to allow Grok to interact with the world via humanoid robots. Great, so we’re going to have nazi robots running around now… best what ... https://tiv.today/2025/07/nazirobots

☠️ kkkbye /// Instagram A delightful little art project of a klan member being violently killed in new ways. Over and over. X https://tiv.today/2025/07/kkkbye

📰 The New York Times Had To Work With A Eugenicist So They Didn’t Get Scooped By A Bigot /// Defector > The Times opinion department loves the occasional provocation for provocation’s sake, but the reportorial side considers itself at a further r... https://tiv.today/2025/07/eugenicaltimes

🧺 The Nuggets Are In A Standoff With Jonas Valanciunas And It Somehow Matters /// Defector > For basically the entirety of the Nikola Jokic era, the Nuggets have not had a backup center who could be described as a functional basketball player capable of... https://tiv.today/2025/07/nugstandoff

💸 Polymarket Rules ‘No’ on $237M Controversial Bet Over Zelenskyy’s Suit /// Decrypt > On June 24, Zelenskyy appeared at a NATO event in the Netherlands wearing a black jacket, matching trousers, and a collared shirt, an outfit described by num... https://tiv.today/2025/07/polymarketsuit

🏎️ Apple bids for Formula 1 rights in US following success of Brad Pitt film /// FT > Analysts at Citi have previously estimated that F1’s next US broadcast deal could be worth $121mn a year, although that was before the release of the F1 film. Its tota... https://tiv.today/2025/07/applef1

📚 Small Press SFF Might Sometimes Be Harder to Find — But It’s More Than Worth the Effort - Reactor /// Reactor > They are the classic underdog, and I feel like SFF readers could do a little more rooting for them. It’ll take a little effort on ou... https://tiv.today/2025/07/smallpresses

🎥 Danny Boyle Calls Out “Cultural Appropriation” in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ /// World of Reel > Ah yes, nothing says progressive growth like retroactively throwing your own Oscar-winning film under the bus and implying it shouldn’t exist in today’... https://tiv.today/2025/07/slumdog

🖼️ Moe-dern Art — “Do The Artman” by David Cooper /// David Cooper Just stunning. Truly stunning. Huge fan of the Mark Rothk-Moe and Hayao Moe-yazaki. X https://tiv.today/2025/07/moedernart

💬 Lynda Barry, Syllabus > Yet it survives your dislike! Astonishing! Love this. Going to use it any time someone says they don’t like something. X https://tiv.today/2025/07/disliking

🎲 Malik Beasley’s Gambling Scandal Arrives At Worst Possible Time For Malik Beasley /// Defector > If the allegations against him turn out to be true, then the league will have to confront the meaning of a nine-year veteran who played a key role o... https://tiv.today/2025/07/beasleygambling

📱 Fairphone Has a New Plan to Get You to Care /// WIRED > In an ideal world, Fairphone wants their phones to be “the last phone that you’ll have to buy”—and they’ll try their darnedest to make sure you’ve the software and spare parts to make t... https://tiv.today/2025/07/fairphone

🤖 Grammarly acquires AI email client Superhuman /// TechCrunch Can’t say I saw this one coming… AI in email, especially in a work context, feels a bit weird, no? No one has any privacy concerns, especially now that they are for sure just going to b... https://tiv.today/2025/07/supergrammar

🖋️ Writing and Interacting /// Nerve Endings Firing Away > You shouldn’t feel the need to own every word you say. After all, it’s the knowledge that you gain from saying or hearing those words that is more important. While I’m kind of go... https://tiv.today/2025/07/writinginteracting

📨 June 30, 2025 /// Letters from an American > The last time the level of government spending was at that 8% of GDP was 1933, before the New Deal. In that year, after years of extraordinary corporate profits, the banking system had collapsed, the unempl... https://tiv.today/2025/07/gdpspending

🔗 Linkity Link One of the links I came across from things to click, which is a clone of Clone.fyi (https://clone.fyi/), but better because Brad (https://bradbarrish.com/) adds his own commentary to each link. X https://tiv.today/2025/06/linkity

🖱️ things to click Just stumbled across this blog and clicked through the entire 23 pages. Opened up way too many links that I need to check out now. X https://tiv.today/2025/06/click

💬 Pirijan, Creator of Kinopio > Without juniors and interns a field has no future. 100%! And we are seeing the deterioration of these roles everywhere. Doing the menial junior level tasks is how people learn a job top to bottom. Pushing for AI to take ... https://tiv.today/2025/06/juniorlevel

🤖 Rick Rubin collaborated with Anthropic to create The Way of Code /// kottke.org > Inspired by Laozi’s Dao De Jing, it’s Rubin’s take on intuitive programming. This is weird to me. On the one hand, I hate AI. On the other, I get how Rick Rubin ... https://tiv.today/2025/06/thewayofcode

🛻 What is going on with the Tesla Robotaxi logo? /// Fast Company > “A good logo always tries to convey the brand promise,” says type designer and Hoefler & Co. founder Jonathan Hoefler. “And this one definitely foreshadows the tragic collisions ahea... https://tiv.today/2025/06/robotics

👮 ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops /// 404 Media > “We deserve to know who is shooting us in the face even when they have their badge covered up,” McDonald told me when I asked if the site was made in res... https://tiv.today/2025/06/fucklapd

🪟 In defense of the already-killed Tahoe beta 1 Finder icon /// Birchtree > Cards on the table, I’m a weirdo who actually liked the Finder icon in Tahoe developer beta 1. I think it looked great and was a proper reimagining of the icon I’d been staring a... https://tiv.today/2025/06/finder

💭 You think? /// Ben Tsai > I didn’t think the thoughts that would have produced those words in my brain. I think that matters. 100%. A common refrain is that the moment you try to teach something or put it to paper is when you realize how much you real... https://tiv.today/2025/06/youthink

📧 Why Derek Thompson Is Leaving The Atlantic For Substack /// THR > So Thompson will take his thoughts on abundance, culture, the NBA, technology and other topics to the platform, where he hopes he will have the freedom to express himself in away that he c... https://tiv.today/2025/06/thompson