Musical break music.apple.com/us/album/glo...

“Apple is prioritizing spectacle over usability…. The interface is restless, needy, less predictable, less legible….” Raluca Budiu, “Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26” (Oct. 10, 2025) www.nngroup.com/articles/liq...

Musical break music.apple.com/us/album/fun...

Today’s puzzle on chess.com is really good: www.chess.com/daily/2025-1...

Today, we’re officially introducing Kagi News: a once-a-day press review that cuts through the noise. Global stories, community-curated sources, and zero tracking. Links below 👇

Musical break music.apple.com/us/album/sie...

We cannibals must help these Christians.

Musical break music.apple.com/us/album/i-f...

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Pascoal said he had composed thousands of pieces. "I am 100 percent intuitive," he once told NPR. Miles Davis called him one of the most important musicians in the world.

Musical break music.apple.com/us/album/mus...

Loving the concept and content on News Minimalist: newsminimalist.com Using ML to rank news stories by "importance" (scale, impact, novelty, credibility, legacy) and gives you a feed of only high scoring items. At first glance, better quality than the front page of the BBC, Guardian, or NYT

Qui sème le vent…

Salome Zourabichvili says October 2024's parliamentary contest that saw a pro-Russia party win most of the seats was rigged by Moscow. She says she is the legitimate leader of the people of Georgia.

Musical break music.apple.com/us/album/skr...

“There's no point in having fuck-you money in the bank if you never say ‘fuck you’!” Anil Dash, “How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs” (Sept. 09, 2025)

"Email has become a crucible. I can no longer say 'Attached is the draft.' I must instead write, 'Enclosed—though, of course, enclosure itself is a problematic modality—please locate a text-in-process, emergent rather than concluded.'”

Musical break music.apple.com/us/album/roc...

Aux sandwichs, citoyens! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

Why am I finding out about txalaparta only today? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Txalapa...

Musical break music.apple.com/us/album/wut...

We're hiring! We're now accepting applications for the W. Hodding Carter III Senior/Executive Editor, an endowed position focused on acquiring trade and scholarly books in US history & related fields. Interested in helping us shape this new imprint? Learn more & apply here ⬇️ bit.ly/3US7Ihq

“When writers like Williams speak of social justice today, they are referring almost exclusively to the management of large companies, elite schools, and nonprofits backed by the wealthy. And why? …

Got some nice stickers in the mail today. Thanks, @athensindy.bsky.social! (I'd love to see you post more on Bluesky, btw 😬) Don’t forget to support local journalism, wherever you are. In Athens, OH, it’s athensindependent.com/support-us/

Musical break music.apple.com/us/album/i-t...

“‘… We are, I know not how, double within ourselves, and as a result we do not believe what we believe, and we cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.’ The last sentence is from Montaigne, though she gives him no credit.” @catherinelacey.bsky.social, Biography of X (2023; Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Here’s how proposed federal funding cuts could affect your Ohio public radio station. www.statenews.org/section/the-...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel.)

“Awkward silences” (by @rebeccaroache.bsky.social, June 26, 2025, via @aeon.co) aeon.co/essays/whats...

As anti-government protests continue and Georgian Dream crushes dissent, could ex-president Salome Zourabichvili offer a political alternative Georgia? The Beet’s latest, courtesy of @gugachomakhidze.bsky.social! meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io

‘What is love anyway, Marguerite Yourcenar asks, that “species of ardour, of warmth, that propels one inexorably toward another being?” It is an eternal question, and perhaps unanswerable.’ Joanna Biggs on the French writer: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Editor Commentary: After first meeting Athens NEWS publisher Bruce Mitchell, I knew kismet had found us — a shared bulldog energy for public accountability against corruption. Bruce built a powerhouse local Ohio newspaper with an ethos that still inspires. buff.ly/gsKBeRW

“The discovery is doubly exceptional because it includes the most complete dermatoglyphic image identified to date…” ~43,000-year old Neanderthal fingerprint!

Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home April 17 – August 23, 2025 Poetry Foundation (Chicago) www.poetryfoundation.org/exhibitions/...

Musical break music.apple.com/us/album/cla... 👏👏👏 👏👏 👏 👏👏

Musical break music.apple.com/us/album/el-...

Apple Turnover: hypercritical.co/2025/05/09/a...

that new pope smell

Musical break music.apple.com/us/album/man...

Ohio University will close the Pride Center, the Women’s Center and the Multicultural Center in response to a new higher education law banning diversity efforts that takes effect this summer, the university president announced Tuesday.

Musical break music.apple.com/us/album/fal...

📢 We're Hiring an Acquisitions Assistant 📢 Are you passionate about publishing and eager to dive into the world of scholarly books? Join our team where you'll assist acquisitions editors in every aspect of the book acquisition process 🙌 Apply by May 5th 📨 uncpress.org/now-hiring-a...