Let's be honest about why we read Belle Burden. open.substack.com/pub/westofbe...

Well. Roland Garros is looking up.

Belle Burden’s “Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage” tells the story of her divorce and resulting financial imperilment. It’s the runaway publishing phenomenon of the year. But what does it omit? 🧵 newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vJfUWI

Elina Svitolina on Gael Monfils, and may we all be seen by those we love. www.theplayerstribune.com/elina-svitol...

I want Aleshea Harris to make more movies. Took full advantage of the camera and New Orleans in Is God Is. Go see it.

Never want Coco to lose but sure want Elina to win.

C'mon Meddy

Let this radicalize you

Reading Lemann in bed for Mother's Day, sending thanks to Hub City Press for reissuing this jewel.

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

Sent my husband to the mixed team captain meeting because I had a match. He said, "A lot of those women really like you and the ones that don't are twats," and that's my love language.

May the ghost of LBJ rise and haunt.

It turns out replicating human brains is expensive

Ultimately Silicon Valley’s fatal flaw is that it has a glut of losers in a loser echo chamber and they have no idea why nobody else thinks their ideas are good and fun

A large part of my adult life is writing "Thank you!" when I mean please leave me alone.

This is close enough to my birthday for me to claim it as a present. I will be seated.

I love Helen DeWitt. Spotty wifi, a bad haircut, volunteering her ex-husband, deeply relatable and endearing.

Thanks to a new law enacted in New Mexico, the state’s largest immigrant detention center will be forced to close. One of the lawmakers who sponsored it said, "New Mexico is not going to participate in the business of human misery."

We know they are indecent and power hungry and fine with being complicit. But to see them all shrug while the president does some kind of weird, war crime riddled social media negotiations, is a horror. No one’s going to stop him? Not enough self-preservation to step in?

A good post from @dandrezner.bsky.social about the difference between reading books and reading the wikipedia summaries of books. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-illite...

UCLA is impressive.

Reflections on the Claude Code source code leak from @techtrenches.dev “The leak isn’t the story. The code is the story.”

References that confused students this week: the Unabomber, Greta Thunberg

This is SO GOOD.

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

"I realize now that I did more intensive work on my jump shot for a longer period of time than I have worked on anything else in my life." defector.com/i-miss-my-ju...

Every tech revolution begins and ends with porn.

$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year: -1.4 million people on Medicaid -19 million kids getting free school lunches -1.4 million people getting affordable housing -1.1 million hungry seniors fed -0.8 million children given free child care

Mavis Staples could be my religion.

Sometimes I think music is as close as we get to what we think religion does. It’s wild how it affects so many physiological things.

See, the thing is we haven’t been—not because past presidents were perfect angels or thrilled with Iran, but because they didn’t want to close the Strait of Hormuz, evacuate American civilians from the whole region, and set the world economy on fire.

"What if we cld rebuild the Internet from scratch to make it more equitable + just? ...Britt S. Paris investigated alternative Internet infrastructure projects, [examining] the myriad + contradictory promises, utility, + obstacles to building a completely new Internet." (h/t @infopetal.bsky.social)

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

I smell AI.

These Olympic games have sure made being an athlete look like a pile of misery and stress. All I feel is relief when they do well and sadness when they don't.

Figure skating is cruel.

"There is something about an artist putting on a good show that dares to say ~this~ is what America is, extending to both north and south, together, making for one world that is welcoming, diverse, and joyous. And who wouldn't rather live in the joy right about now?"

That Dunkin commercial should be launched into the sun

I turned on the Super Bowl because I wanted to see the halftime show and saw that Dunkin Donuts ad and a crypto ad and I hate absolutely everything now. Burn it all to the stumps.

These commercials have been flopulous.

These commercials are bottom of the barrel.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Every single software program associated with my job sucks: Outlook, Qualtrics, Watermark, Oracle, etc. How are they all this clumsy? What happened to user experience?

I have been of the opinion for about five years now that we are all mostly clinging to the *idea* of social media. But that it has not existed, as we mean it, since Jack sold Twitter. The minute capital lined up to fold social media into its technocratic political consolidation, it stopped existing.

Minnesota is the best of us.

Lacoste should be fined for these shorts.

Done and donated.