Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Mayor Mamdani names criminal justice reformer Stanley Richards as NYC’s new Department of Correction commissioner Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails system @gothamist.com @wnyc.org gothamist.com/news/mamdani...

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries. This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...

I scraped app defaults data via this directory: defaults.rknight.me To create a bird's-eye view of what apps are popular on the IndieWeb: andrewmarder.net/defaults/data/ #indieweb

Wow @lukemiani.bsky.social went for it. Huge risk for a tech channel to do this. Major respect. youtu.be/CzHaChKlYq4

This is why I love the Internet: gridranger.frama.io

I watched the entire video, so impressive. www.reddit.com/r/homelab/co...

I love the styling of cobb.land 😍

I wrote a blog post about using Meshtastic! 🤓

A thread of self-hostable software I enjoy using...

A thread of self-hostable software that looks cool. Inspired by: selfh.st/survey/2025-...

Who makes more than you and the jobs they have, depends on your annual salary of course flowingdata.com/2025/12/02/w...

Halp! I was planning to update this page with the latest batch of books NPR loves: andrewmarder.net/books/ Unfortunately Amazon has made it harder to access the product advertising API. If you have access to the API and are game to help me, please reach out. Happy reading! 📖

I'm moving from Google Photos to Immich. AMA. Here are some notes on how I'm hosting Immich: andrewmarder.net/immich/

Incredible sketchy plots by @jwolondon.bsky.social in @observablehq.com. 👏 observablehq.com/@jwolondon/m...

Fun with streets… from 2007, here's what a map of the United States* looks like made up of only roads. No other features have been added to this image, however they emerge as roads avoid mountains, and sparse areas convey low population. * the “lower 48,” sorry AK & HI www.benfry.com/allstreets/

In an unassuming back room in the Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco sits a 2,000-pound replica of the White House. Step closer, and you’ll notice the unmistakable cylindrical form of a bullet, and then of many, many bullets.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

There are some gems/rares that I cannot write about in more than a sentence. And yet these are the ones that make up the majority. These will be the Christmas gifts for readers. Here is a small sample of my favorites. This is about a tenth of them.

I'm a huge fan of @marimo.io. It just feels right. 👍👍

8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.

I like squares! ☑️☑️☑️

I’m howling.

Lexington MA school official schemed to overcharge for public records

For Python package management I use a mixture of pixi, uv and conda depending on the task I'm doing. I wrote up a long form post about the history of these tools, why each one exists, and why I settled on these choices in my workflow. jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2025/p...

I recently discovered Conventional Comments (conventionalcomments.org) for providing a pseudo-standard set of labels for feedback and just tried it for an article review and it was really helpful to specify issues vs. thoughts vs. suggestions, etc. Hopefully it's helpful for the authors too!

@umassamherst.bsky.social your campus would be perfect for some awesome murals like these. 🎨

I wrote some notes about how I'm moving my personal data away from Google's all-seeing eye: andrewmarder.net/degoogle/ #degoogle

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - Frank Herbert, Dune

A skydiving man captured in front of solar activity - actually real! #linkoftheday www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/...

Hey Chicago! 'General Strike' is an exhibition of 70+ artist matchboxes opening this month at Joy Machine. A portion of proceeds will be donated to the ACLU, and the opening reception is November 21. See you there! www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/gene...

There is no pathway to upward wage mobility as an Amazon driver, as opposed to drivers at a unionized workplace like UPS Stark figure from @dschneider.bsky.social @profsheenalives.bsky.social @juliesulabor.bsky.social Kevin Bruey

The Australian Inland Mission's stunning cartographic work between 1922 and 1970. Link: attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/helping-th...

Søren Solkær, 'BLACK SUN' www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...

"The complex web of human interactions that thrived on the internet’s initial technological diversity is now corralled into globe-spanning data-extraction engines making huge fortunes for a tiny few."

How men and women spend their days, a view into responsibilities and priorities between the sexes flowingdata.com/2025/11/04/s...

Truly astaunding! 😂

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Social scientists often talk abt the contact hypothesis theory for which interpersonal interaction under certain circumstances can significantly improve intergroup relations. We don‘t know if public transit systematically creates these circumstances, but we do know that cars systematically do *not*.

A very nice rundown of what private data sources can and cannot tell you about the state of the economy right now.

I just signed up to be a PSF supporting member. I really appreciate the Python community. 🐍

New release of PowerLMM.js! Browser-based power analysis for longitudinal models with dropout. Now includes: - Power analysis summary report - Reproducible & shareable configs (URL/JSON) - Calculations validated against R - Hypothesis region visualization powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com

Updated Fall time for free weekly open office hours for anyone in the world with Econometrics questions. Wednesdays 3:30-5:30PM Central European Time (US EDT 10:30/EST 9:30AM) or by appointment; sign up and drop by! Details and signup at: donskerclass.github.io/OfficeHours....

Some advice from the 3rd century

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵