We are a remarkably stupid species. www.theverge.com/podcast/7848...

Disney sure picked a terrible time to raise prices

“Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke.”

Canceled Disney + Hulu + Wapo + and NYT and subscribed to @wired.com and @theverge.com

This is...incredible?????

If u watch the whole clip here this is about as good as you’re gonna get from a Republican leader rn; contrast it with the myriad other prominent conservatives in politics and media calling for blood, gore, and preemptive blame games

Utterly unhinged. What a profound lack of self awareness and humanity.

Shocked to discover Laserdisc was first introduced in the late 70s. My dad first bought one in 1992.

Impecable cinematography

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Turned 45 yesterday and in the best way possible it just hit differently. Proud of where I am and the community of friends and family that surrounds me.

Vanity Fair staffers threaten to walk out over a proposed Melania cover: “We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife… if this happens, i’m gone, and so is half my team.” www.thedailybeast.com/i-will-walk-...

A dark money group is not required to disclose its donors, which is why we don't know who funds The Sixteen Thirty Fund. By contrast, the Omidyar Network publicly discloses its grants and funding sources. It is not a dark money group. Here's more on Sixteen Thirty

Tech giants survive by locking us in. The easiest rebellion? Refuse to stay loyal. Cancel subscriptions, switch tools, and play the field. Cheating on your tech bros is not just ethical — it’s necessary. open.substack.com/pub/unsucces...

My legs are starting to cramp but that's ok.

US Senator Jon Ossoff has launched an investigation into the abuse of women and children in US immigration detention, citing among other reports, the WIRED story below: www.ossoff.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

A fucking DYSON SPHERE??? A DYSON SPHERE. Around the entire solar SYSTEM? What absolutely kills me about these dudes is that so many people genuinely think these guys are smart!!!!!!!!! A fucking Dyson sphere. Around the solar system. I have no words

So the US president is talking with our European allies and Trump stepped out to check in with Putin, presumably about what was okay with him.

Loved doing this interview with my old io9 colleague @cyriaquelamar.bsky.social -- who asked great questions about noodles and authenticity and robots.

Chemical pollution is “a threat to the thriving of humans and nature of a similar order as climate change” but decades behind global heating in terms of public awareness and action, a report has warned. [from @environment.theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org]

Good.

Scoop @puck.news: Carol Leonnig, a 25-year veteran of The Washington Post, is leaving the paper and joining MSNBC. The latest in the long and extensive exodus of Washington Post journalists under CEO Will Lewis.

Good god adulting is frustrating.

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

substack bestseller

Hamas must go. “In the context of ending the war in Gaza, Hamas must end its rule in Gaza and hand over its weapons to the PA, with international engagement and support, in line with the objective of a sovereign and independent Palestinian State” www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Full video:

Your subjective sense of things going slowly, and then speeding up, is real, Arthur C. Brooks writes. But you can also control it: https://theatln.tc/pMpk0603

It's fucked that we are at thus milestone.

Women are “naturally experiencing their emotions more intensely, and those are gifts. They’re not symptoms of a disease," said Roger McFillen, a doctor on an FDA panel that largely argued against pregnant women taking antidepressants.

This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice

We are in an era that will see much more migration all over the world and figuring out how to integrate new cultures into our cities is vital to all our well beings. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/w...

Don't forget to look for inspiration off-line. If your primary sources are pinterest that means it's already been curated by someone else. Go deep dive into bookstores, pull out old photobooks your relatives still keep around, EXPLORE, Go Spelunking for the culture artifacts that weren't digitized.

a very happy july 4 from me and @lopatto.bsky.social 🇺🇸 www.theverge.com/policy/69730...

I'm finally digging into @scalzi.com marvelous "When the Moon Hits Your Eye" and came across this little jab at Andy Wier

Y'all ever feel this is the Bad Place?

The fact that the US president has the power to end human civilization within 15 minutes should, by any rational consensus, be eliminated immediately. But nuclear war is insane. Everything about it is insane. (thread)

In short, Future Me is kind of the worst version of me. open.substack.com/pub/unsucces...

Fucking new neighbor is blasting disco music so I'm blasting Kendrick Lamar.

"In our home there are 23 devices with screens — 15 of them are mine. They range from a 1.68” smartwatch to a 62” TV, with a chaotic but lovingly curated collection in between:" unsuccess.substack.com/p/too-many-s...

Today has been unexpectedly challenging.

Star Trek TNG, S5E2: The Tamarians establish first contact with the Federation by inviting Picard onto a wilderness retreat to share their dankest memes 10/10 arguably the best Star Trek story about first contact

President Trump’s immigration crackdown reached influencer level last week when Khaby Lame, the world’s most-followed person on TikTok, was detained by U.S. immigration agents in Las Vegas and then left the U.S. nyti.ms/44bwoac

You know what sucks? Blu-ray box sets. You know what sucks more? Not being able to stream Twin Peaks anywhere in Mexico. You know what really sucks? Thinking we’d have everything, always, forever — and realizing we don’t. New post: open.substack.com/pub/unsucces...

Update from Freedom Flotilla Coalition Press Officer, Hay Sha Wiya: "The Madleen is currently under assault in international waters. Quadcopters are surrounding the ship, spraying it with a white paint-like substance. Communications are jammed, and disturbing sounds are being played over the radio."