53 years in the making.

Slow blogging day today; I spent some time on the KDO undercarriage and a new little members-only feature for the Rolodex: a simple list of links to the latest posts from Rolodex sites. (Click on “Latest Posts”; like I said, it’s a wee feed reader.) [kottke.org]

Service journalism lives! Thank you @judedoyle.bsky.social ! subscribe to his newsletter: jude-doyle.ghost.io/so-hows-the-...

About Vya: nyushowcase2026.cargo.site/vya-thesis (more here: www.adrianaxjacobs.com/blog/the-fin... )

Next week is 10 years since we lost Prince. Since then, the community of Prince scholars has come together regularly for academic symposia on his legacy and works; you can watch for free this weekend if you'd like to join us online or in person at NYU. Just register here! iwonderu.polishedsolid.com

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

Hacks is on

10 Blur songs for Damon Albarn’s birthday? You got it. St. Charles Square Trimm Trabb Beetlebum Blue Jeans Swamp Song Pyongyang Death of a Party Barbaric Best Days To the End

KDO is 28 years old today. "Older than Google. Older than The Matrix. Older than Christopher Nolan's feature film career. Older than Elle Fanning. Older than Kurt Cobain when he died. It might outlast American democracy." [kottke.org]

I don’t really know what to say about this other than that it deserves your full attention. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

I wrote about participating in @anthropic.com's Claude Code Anniversary hackathon: medium.com/@djacobs/pin...

Paul Ford on AI and the Infinite Software Era. “All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingly excited.” [nytimes.com]

We could have had nice things

ON THE NIGHT OF HER HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT, I INTERVIEWED TRINITY RODMAN FOR GQ!!!! If you love me you'll read it, if you hate me, you'll hate read it! www.gq.com/story/trinit...

“These are the domestic weaknesses that helped to make the country susceptible to becoming a concentration camp regime.” degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-a...

gamegirladvance.com in 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20051024000602if_/http://www.gamegirladvance.com:80

Wordle 1,659 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This is my favorite thing I wrote all year. My first story in the New York Times. But it was already my favorite before it ever published, for a couple reasons and if you’ll indulge me… www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/s...

This week we started a public access collection of Free Community Defense & Anti ICE Art for free distribution. Please contribute & help spread the word! Thank you to Chanci for this "Abolice Loon" submission. See the collection so far at defend612.com/art, along with submission guidelines.

This is one of three major Federal actions against healthcare for trans people this week. While the two bills passed by the House are not expected to pass the Senate, all three of these actions are heartbreaking to see. Both House bills would have failed if the Democratic caucus had held together.

6 years ago, a federal ban on gender-affirming care for young people was absent from the national Dem agenda, seemed unlikely to almost everyone who isn’t trans. 6 years ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene was a QAnon crank with a crossfit gym. Yesterday her ban passed out of the House with three Dem votes.

Entirely Too Many Thoughts About Wake Up Dead Man. An excellent, long & close read of Wake Up Dead Man, particularly its focus on “religion, faith, and grace”. [reactormag.com]

And a happy TypePad shutdown Sunday to you as well, m'lord.

I moved my Substack to Ghost. If you were already subscribed on Substack, you should automatically be subscribed on Ghost. Will be updating the site details later today and writing something new soon, but for now please sign up here: critical-thinking.ghost.io

I love this post - thank you @scripting.com for bringing this energy to blogging, for decades!

it was legit fun and interesting and there are a ton of upcoming trainings in all five boroughs if you want to join in also you get a hat

Number 6 prints are now available for pre-order in the shop! *Limited run of 25- no reprints/restocks/rejoinders/rebounds... www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products...

For me, this is the most remarkable Backlisted episode. After seeing the 1989 movie (which was … a lot), I started this show unenthused and knowing for a fact I would never read it. After @salenagodden.bsky.social’s spectacular reading, though, I bought the book and rated it 5 stars.

"When beings and the world are full of evil, transform unfavorable circumstances into the path of enlightenment, lol" —Chödrön, with Dobkin

🧨 New @wired.com cover package dropped

Of course I am clicking and browsing faster than a typical human, I am a professional blogger

This week a Republican congressman called for the denaturalization of a Democratic elected official, invoking a key mechanism through which the Holocaust was perpetrated. In response, Democratic Party leaders have rushed to cable news to declare that the Republicans have a point about that guy.

If you’re wondering where the past several days of Classic Blogs have come from, it’s from Jason’s blogroll in 2004. kottke.org on October 20, 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20041020081358if_/http://www.kottke.org:80

if i dismissed that young dev, we both would have missed out on that nice connection. i noticed more new folks in the chat starting to engage and ask questions too, ones they can ask an ai - but i was approachable to them in that moment so they didn’t have to. just something i have been noticing!

I hit my limit so I wrote a call to arms. It's called We Are The Internet. I hope you will read it and share it. Thanks. www.leahreich.com/we-are-the-i...

‘“I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable. I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this,” said U.S. District Judge to the #Trump admin!

“accustomed to remaining free”

It’s A PHYSICAL EDUCATION parade hour. I have only ever seen people say “no please go ahead!!” when anyone is nervous about promoting their book, so I am going to promote with a penetrating unblinking stare until someone admits verbally that they cannot take it anymore

The core is VERY good actually! Kinetic, humorous, uplifting, and at times challenging.

State repression of peaceful protests can subject activists to injury and even death but—when broadcast to the world through media—often turns mass opinion against the state. bsky.app/profile/owas...

Sabrina Imbler spoke with Patrick Kelly about his research improving the health of people who use drugs and how the new administration's cuts threaten people impacted by the opioid crisis. defector.com/an-interview...

She's A Beast newsletter subscriptions are on sale this week! $7 a month or $70/year ($5.83/month) and you get a free copy of LIFTOFF: Couch to Barbell ($20 value). In about an hour I'm also sending a newsletter to paid subscribers only about all the ways Pilates is dangerous :/ tap in

When left-wing American Jews comment on a rise in antisemitism in the US - without ever mentioning Israel or attempting to scapegoat Palestinian solidarity activism - here are some trends over the course of the decade since Trump first ran for President that they are likely referring to:

welp I sent an email

I regularly say it but here’s another reason: Defector is far and away the best site on Al Gore’s Internet. Think about it. It emanates from a sports background, and yet contains such multitudes as to include this work of absolute genius. Pay them money. I have since Day 1. You won’t regret a minute

I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

one thing about Abolish ICE in this moment is people can see how it’s not going to happen through Congress, but through people’s own ongoing actions, whether that’s legal remedies to free people from detention, coming together to monitor ICE arrests and activity—delegitimizing ICE day in and day out

thank you to the catholic church for giving us an old school get these jokes off day online

I've had a newsletter since before it was cool (2014) and its latest format is a monthly collection of art, ideas, and internet. Latest edition below, and you can subscribe here: lauraolin.com/newsletter buttondown.com/lauraolin/ar...

Two books by online pals are out today: Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod and A Physical Education by Casey Johnston! [kottke.org]