The Guardian: here’s how Substack makes money hosting Nazi newsletters. These newsletters weren’t even hard to find or subtle: swastikas and in-app recommendations from one antisemitic newsletter to a bunch of others. [theguardian.com]

Whoa! Someone recently uploaded some high-quality versions of unreleased Boards of Canada tracks from 1985-1996. This seems to be legit, judging from the excitement in the YT comments and on Reddit… [kottke.org]

What We Will Use as Weapons: A List of School Supplies. “This is a protest quilt. It was made by an artist whose day job puts her on the front lines of one of the most grotesque realities in America today. She is a teacher.” [kottke.org]

How Edo (Tokyo) transformed from a city on the brink of ecological collapse 400 years ago to “one of the most sustainable and efficient cities in history”. [youtube.com]

Printing Films is a collection of vintage films that showcase the technologies and processes of printing, journalism, and typography. [printingfilms.com]

Why don’t filmmakers just film on location instead of using visual effects? Lots of reasons, including not disrupting communities, control of weather & sun position, or can’t get permission. [fxrant.blogspot.com]

Dan Sinker writes about the transformative experience of seeing a work by Jenny Holzer when he was 14. “Truisms was a revelation. Art could be just words. Art could be just at home slapped on a POST NO BILLS wall as it could in a gallery.” [dansinker.com]

“How did medieval French handwriting become ‘the Nazi font?’ And why did Hitler make it illegal?” TIL that Hitler gave a speech to the Reichstag about how much he disliked blackletter fonts. [weirdmedievalguys.substack.com]

Do you remember Oddpost? It was an early email web app that used dynamic HTML to mimic the design and functionality of a desktop mail app, 2 years before Gmail launched. [thehistoryoftheweb.com]

Tinder Hasn’t Worked, So I’m Putting Myself on Zillow. “I realize that my late-’80s construction might not land me in the “trending” section right away…” [mcsweeneys.net]

It was unclear if Mr. Hirohito was aware that the planes he had sent towards Hawaii carried bombs.

I’ve always said more popstars should duet with puppets, so Sabrina Carpenter and Kermit the Frog singing Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton’s ‘Island in a Stream’ as part of The Muppet Show’s latest special is perfect (to me). [instagram.com]

The Triumph of Europe's Social Democracy: "European countries have achieved unprecedented levels of prosperity and social well-being, largely due to collective investments in health, education and public infrastructure." [kottke.org]

Professor Walt Hunter on the merits of challenging students: Stop Meeting Students Where They Are. “Whole novels aren’t possible to teach, we are told, because students won’t (or can’t) read them. So why assign them?” [theatlantic.com]

The Mountain That Weighed the Earth. How scientists in 1774 used a Scottish mountain to estimate the mass of the Earth to within 20% of the modern number by measuring the mountain’s gravitational effect on a precision plumb line. [signoregalilei.com]

I missed this last fall: Kareem Rahma (Subway Takes) interviews Zohran Mamdani & NYC cabbie Mouhamadou Aliy about their experience protesting & hunger-striking together. "I'm sorry, how can you not vote for this guy?" [kottke.org]

Some cool animations made from Japanese receipts by Michele Merlo. [instagram.com]

I watched this video this morning and highly recommend you do too.

Times New Resistance is a free font that's identical to Times New Roman but autocorrects some words as you type, e.g. "ICE autocorrects to the Goon Squad and the word Trump autocorrects to Donald Trump is a felon". Brilliant. [kottke.org]

10 Movies to Stream for Black History Month, from The Flying Ace (1926) to Killer of Sheep (1978) to Moonlight (2016). [nytimes.com]

Hour-long YouTube training session on how to observe & record ICE/CBP. “This call will give you the tools to exercise your rights in a moment when federal agents are terrorizing our communities and using excessive force.” [youtube.com]

Must-watch: A powerful performance of a pro-immigrant Shakespeare speech by Sir Ian McKellen on Colbert's show; it resonates powerfully today. "This is the strangers' case; And this your mountainish inhumanity." [kottke.org]

The CIA has deleted the CIA World Factbook (a popular almanac about the countries of the world) from the web. Fuck this. All these assholes do is pillage & destroy. [apnews.com]

Measles Is Causing Brain Swelling in Children in South Carolina. 876 measles cases in the state so far, and some children have developed encephalitis. “Among children who get measles encephalitis, 10 to 15 percent die.” [wired.com]

Michelangelo's First Painting, Made at Age 12. (This is an intense painting; painting it in a 7th grade art class today would result in a parental summons to the principal's office.) [kottke.org]

The Tour Down Under’s winner won despite being blasted off his bike by kangaroos. “Two of them blasted through the peloton when we were doing probably 50 kph and…went left, right, left right, left right and I ended up hitting its backside.” [apnews.com]

“Virginia Oliver, a feisty, salty-tongued lobster boat skipper who fished off the New England coast wearing earrings, hot-pink lipstick and an occasional scowl for more than 80 years, until she was 103, died on Jan. 21 in Rockport, Maine. She was 105.” [nytimes.com]

Shared Claude is a website anyone can change via LLM chat. “Text the number below to shape this website in real-time.” (Does anyone remember Metababy?) [sharedclaude.com]

Wow, these paper flowers from 11th-century China are amazingly well-preserved. [thisiscolossal.com]

A small collection of lovely "how to" videos from the National Film Board of Canada, including how to build an igloo and how chain link fences are made. [kottke.org]

An almost 2-hour mashup mix by dk darkly of music from France’s two most well-known electronic duos, Daft Punk and Justice. Also available on Bandcamp. [youtube.com]

A lovely drawing of a sparrow on a shard of limestone, made by an Egyptian artist 3500 years ago. "This may have been a practice drawing of the sparrow hieroglyph..." [kottke.org]

The Evolutionary Brilliance of the Baby Giggle. “Laughter and humor are fundamental to how babies learn about and participate in the world.” *Highly recommend* watching the laughing baby videos to brighten up your day. [nytimes.com]

Only 7 gasoline cars were sold in Norway last month. Seven! 98 diesel cars & 29 hybrids were also sold, but the rest were EVs. And this comes after Norway cut EV incentives. (via @waldo.net) [electrek.co]

Roxane Gay: “Humanity is, always, enough. We have a right to protest, legally carry a firearm, drive while Black, walk in a neighborhood at night, play in a park, sleep in a bed or do anything else whether we are wonderful people, and beloved or not.” [nytimes.com]

Good god, this story: Mother Says Asking 13-Year-Old Son to Swim Four Hours to Save Family ‘One of the Hardest Decisions’. “I knew he was the strongest and he could do it.” Australia: a nation of athletes. [theguardian.com]

City Map Poster Generator can create printable minimalist map posters for any city in the world. [kottke.org]

The full trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2. The pitch perfection of Miranda completely forgetting Andy gives me hope that this will be a worthy sequel. [youtube.com]

Been thinking a lot about this Ted Chiang quote recently: “I tend to think that most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism. And I think that this is actually true of most fears of technology, too.” [kottke.org]

Vibe-coding gone wild. “Stories of family groceries delivered to data centers, and “world burnt bacon day” became memes — and resulted in class-action lawsuits against kitchen appliance manufacturers like Breville, Viking, and Cusinart.” [nearfuturelaboratory.com]

A collection of thousands of photographs of NYC restaurants (2002-2008) taken by Noah Kalina. Quite an archive of interior design from that era. [interiors.noahkalina.com]

AI company Anthropic has released the constitution they use to train their Claude LLM: "a holistic document that explains the context in which Claude operates and the kind of entity we would like Claude to be." [kottke.org]

The Case of the Green Covers is a risograph-printed zine that documents the history of the “Green Penguins”, “a series of hundreds of crime novels published with green covers by the UK publisher Penguin in the 1960s”. [justseeds.org]

Podcast interview with two photojournalists who have been covering ICE in Minnesota. “It’s a conversation about what they’ve seen, the vital role of photojournalism at this moment, and the personal toll of doing this work.” [phonographpodcast.com]

Haven’t watched this 90-minute video yet, but I’ve seen so many recommendations for it that I’m posting it as a to-do list item for myself: You are being misled about renewable energy technology. [youtube.com]

Good god, what a horrible typo: Chileans! Chileans! (broke my rule about always cutting/pasting proper nouns)

A group of 50 Chilians recently spent several hours powering a human-operated chatbot. Some questions were answered quickly but “when they didn’t know the answer, they walked around the room to see if someone else did”. [apnews.com]

Watch Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello lead a Mpls crowd at the iconic First Avenue in singing Killing in the Name. "In this very room Prince created a revolution, now it's our turn." [kottke.org]

The Border Patrol Is the Problem. It Always Has Been. “If you are uncomfortable with what the Border Patrol is doing in Minneapolis, you are uncomfortable with the Border Patrol, full stop.” [nytimes.com]

Elon Musk and other internet racists started an internet war over Christopher Nolan’s casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy, thereby immediately disproving their point. [yahoo.com]