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A great unreleased track from Kendrick Lamar called Bloody Murder. It samples Radiohead's Everything In Its Right Place and was recorded during the studio sessions for Good Kid, M.A.A.D City.
[kottke.org]
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Great Unreleased Track From Kendrick Lamar: Bloody Murder
This has been out in the world for a while, but I just ran across it the other day: Bloody Murder is an unreleased track recorded during the studio sessions for Good Kid, M.A.A.D City. It samples Radiohead’s Everyt
https://kottke.org/26/04/kendrick-lamar-bloody-murder
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From Heatmap News & MIT, the Electricity Price Hub is “a new public data platform that provides monthly, utility-level estimates of residential electricity rates and bills across the United States going back to 2021…”
[electricity.heatmap.news]
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Map
To understand how this data was compiled, please see our methodology document.
https://electricity.heatmap.news/
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Scientists have genetically engineered tobacco plants to produce five psychedelic compounds, including psilocybin, DMT, and psychedelic compounds secreted by the Sonoran Desert toad.
[404media.co]
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Scientists Create Plant That Produces Ayahuasca, Shrooms, and Toad Psychedelics All At Once
The proof-of-concept system produces psilocybin, DMT, and other compounds in leaves of the tobacco plant, potentially easing pressure on wild species and preserving Indigenous traditions.
https://www.404media.co/scientists-create-plant-that-produces-ayahuasca-shrooms-and-toad-psychedelics-all-at-once/
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"It’s hard to imagine women not being present in a book about maintenance, and yet — and I wish I was joking — the only woman of any significance in the entire book is… The Statue Of Liberty."
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On Stewart Brand’s Maintenance: Of Everything
I was thankful to read Marcin Wichary’s review of Stewart Brand’s Maintenance: Of Everything. I first heard about the book months and months ago; it sounded potentially interesting but I was afraid it was goi
https://kottke.org/26/04/stewart-brand-maintenance
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Not sure what level of prank/gag/stunt this is (note today’s date), but this is supposedly a fully functional compass that only points to the Olive Garden in Times Square.
[olivegardencompass.com]
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The Compass To Olive Garden
FULLY FUNCTIONING BRASS COMPASS THAT GUIDES YOU TO THE OLIVE GARDEN IN TIMES SQUARE
https://www.olivegardencompass.com/
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The Pioneering Coffee House Serving Since 1645. “In Oxford, ‘runners’ would go from coffee house to coffee house, picking up all the best news and delivering it back to customers, said Garner. You’re talking human wi-fi.”
[bbc.com]
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Secret Oxfordshire: The coffee house serving since 1645
Radio Oxford visits the historic shop that has been serving the city since the Civil War.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly1y3mv40ro
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After two years off, Tom Scott is back with a new YouTube series: “I took a road trip through every county in England, and filmed something interesting in each of them.”
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I left YouTube two years ago. Time to come back.
▶️ See Episode 1 now: https://nebula.tv/videos/tomscott-i-helped-break-a-142yearold-bell-and-thats-okay • or it's right here next week! ❓ LATERAL, free weekly podcast: https://lateralcast.com/ https://youtube.com/lateralcast/ • 👥 THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: https://youtube.com/techdif • 📰 WEEKLY NEW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz3lSKgz4q8
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All of Humanity's Problems Stem From Marc Andreessen's Inability to Sit Quietly in a Room Alone. "Zero introspection is not just a personal quirk or a supposed productivity hack. It’s a permission slip for zero accountability."
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“All of Humanity’s Problems Stem From Marc Andreessen’s Inability to Sit Quietly in a Room Alone”
Tech investor and billionaire Marc Andreessen has many bad opinions (as evidenced by his investment portfolio). On a recent podcast, he shared a real boner: that he isn’t introspective, that people 400 years ago we
https://kottke.org/26/04/andreessen-inability-sit-quietly
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Nothing Works in Trump’s America — Except Racism. “Trump is objectively bad at running the government, but he’s objectively good at running a Klan rally, and his supporters value the latter so much that they forgive the former.”
[thenation.com]
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Nothing Works in Trump’s America—Except Racism
In this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent explores Trump’s stunning incompetence. Plus: Baseball is back—for now.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/newsletter-laguardia-tsa-baseball/
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The 2026 issue of the HTML Review, “an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web”.
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the html review 05
the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web
https://thehtml.review/05/
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Mark Simonson reminisces about when he discovered type design. “The idea of coming up with an original alphabet design fired my imagination. And learning that it was possible to design type professionally was a revelation.”
[marksimonson.com]
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The Day I Discovered Type Design
Fifty years ago this month, March 1976, at 20 years old, is when my interest in type design began.
https://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/the-day-i-discovered-type-design/
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“By focusing its narrative on the tech industry itself, Halt and Catch Fire’s staying power has only increased. The story it tells still has something to say about our present-day reality.”
[dirt.fyi]
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“Dude, the Internet.”
Prestige Silicon Valley television.
https://dirt.fyi/article/2026/02/dude-the-internet
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For the latest episode of Design Matters, Debbie Millman interviews Timothy Snyder about “how we misunderstand freedom, why truth and empathy are under threat, and what this political moment asks of us”. Millman is an *excellent* interviewer.
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Design Matters with Debbie Millman
Design Podcast · Updated Weekly · Design Matters with Debbie Millman is one of the world’s very first podcasts. Broadcasting independently for over 15 years, the show is about how incredibly creative people design the arc of their liv…
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/timothy-snyder/id328074695
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Endgame for the Open Web, brought on by LLM bots, content summarizing while driving no traffic, increasing paywalls for information of all kinds, locking down APIs (due to AI abuse), attacks on Wikipedia, disruption of open source communities, etc.
[anildash.com]
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Endgame for the Open Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
https://www.anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/
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NASA’s LRO found a new crater on the Moon…it’s 225 meters across and 43 meters deep. “According to predictions based on other lunar landmarks, a crater that big should form only once in 139 years.”
[sciencenews.org]
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In a rare event, the moon got a massive new crater
A crater as wide as two American football fields formed in spring 2024, a size expected roughly once a century. A NASA orbiter got to watch.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/moon-new-crater-nasa-orbiter
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The future of energy is being decided now. "The US is basically aligning itself as the last big petrostate. We're going to go down with the fossil fuel ship, and China is aligning itself as the first electrostate."
[kottke.org]
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The US Is the Last Big Petrostate
In a conversation with economist Paul Krugman, climate journalist David Roberts asserts that the United States and China are going in different directions in energy, one forwards and one back. One of the grand interna
https://kottke.org/26/03/us-the-last-big-petrostate
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Help! My Favorite Athlete Is an Idiot (Alt headline: When Sports Heroes Have Terrible Opinions). “Just root for the jersey and not necessarily the nitwit wearing it?”
[nytimes.com]
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Opinion | When Sports Heroes Have Terrible Opinions
Sports used to be an oasis from political squabbling. But now the bad opinions of star athletes have become impossible to escape.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/opinion/sports-politics-athletes-opinions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XVA.xCEB.T63tNo8s9DtB
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Astronaut Michael Fincke was rendered unable to speak while on the ISS, prompting an evacuation to Earth. “We’re almost 100% sure that this is a space-related thing.” Uh, I’ve been reading a lot of sci-fi recently; this is *exactly* how It starts.
[nytimes.com]
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Astronaut’s Condition That Led to Space Station Evacuation Remains a Mystery
The astronaut, Michael Fincke, experienced a medical emergency in January that rendered him unable to speak, he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/science/nasa-astronaut-medical-evaluation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.W1A.U255.7DhaSPrHSLDK
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A new study shows that since 1990, the United States has caused $10 trillion in global climate damages. China is responsible for $9T. “Our emissions have caused damage not only to ourselves, but pretty substantial damage in other parts of the world.”
[theguardian.com]
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US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds
US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/25/us-climate-damage-research
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Jesus Clarifies Return Will Be Strictly Limited To Carpentry Business. “My sole focus during this Second Coming will be various woodworking projects and not the establishment of a messianic kingdom.”
[theonion.com]
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Jesus Clarifies Return Will Be Strictly Limited To Carpentry Business
JERUSALEM—In an effort to soften the blow for a human race eagerly awaiting His glorious arrival, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, clarified Monday that His return would be strictly limited to His carpentry business. “While I will soon appear once more upon the earthly realm, My sole focus during this
https://theonion.com/jesus-clarifies-return-will-be-strictly-limited-to-carpentry-business/
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I love these looping GIF animations from perfectl00p that use Windows 3.1 elements (Minesweeper, Solitaire, SkiFree, Notepad).
[threads.com]
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PERFECTLOOP (@perfectl00p) on Threads
Persona
https://www.threads.com/@perfectl00p/post/DTn-GUzkXI_
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Ultra-Rare DJ Set From Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter. You can watch the entirety of his collab DJ set with Fred Again on YouTube.
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Ultra-Rare DJ Set From Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter
For his recent London run of shows, Fred Again coaxed Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter out of his helmet and in front of the decks for a 2-hour collaborative DJ set. And you can watch the whole thing on YouTube.
https://kottke.org/26/03/rare-dj-set-daft-punk-thomas-bangalter
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Folks, the first 5 mins alone 🤘🏼🤩
#FredAgain
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Ultra-Rare DJ Set From Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter. You can watch the entirety of his collab DJ set with Fred Again on YouTube.
[kottke.org]
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Ultra-Rare DJ Set From Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter
For his recent London run of shows, Fred Again coaxed Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter out of his helmet and in front of the decks for a 2-hour collaborative DJ set. And you can watch the whole thing on YouTube.
https://kottke.org/26/03/rare-dj-set-daft-punk-thomas-bangalter
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Test footage from a slime simulator game made by former Epic Games employee Asher Zhu. You try to stay hydrated in the hot Tokyo summer by showering and drinking beverages from vending machines.
[youtube.com]
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I made a physically correct slime simulator
update on my Slime game💚 You sent your trusty minion into the nearby human city to gather intel. But it's summer.. keeping that slime hydrated is a serious commitment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_3mvosV_oU
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A list of chain restaurants whose names contain unusual structures, presented in decreasing order of how appealing it would be to eat in such a structure. (White Castle, Waffle House, etc.)
[onefoottsunami.com]
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A List of Chain Restaurants Whose Names Contain Unusual Structures
Obviously, words like “restaurant” or “grill” do not qualify as unusual.
https://onefoottsunami.com/2026/03/18/a-list-of-chain-restaurants-whose-names-contain-unusual-structures/
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There’s an upside-down “H” on the facade of a Frank Lloyd Wright building in Illinois. Here’s a deep dive into how it got there.
[inconspicuous.info]
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H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright Typographic Mystery
The famed architect made a surprising error on one of his most notable buildings — or did he? A deep dive to uncover the truth.
https://www.inconspicuous.info/p/h-bomb-a-frank-lloyd-wright-typographic
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A comparison of different sorting algorithms (bubble, merge, heap, timsort). You can run them one at a time or race all seven.
[tools.simonwillison.net]
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Sorting algorithms
https://tools.simonwillison.net/sort-algorithms
6 days ago
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Stephen Colbert is co-writing a Lord of the Rings movie. “The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past is set 14 years after the passing of Frodo. Sam, Merry and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure…”
[deadline.com]
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Stephen Colbert Set to Adapt Next 'Lord of the Rings' Movie
'Late Show' host has a gig after leaving the CBS latenight show: He's adapting the next 'Lord of the Rings' movie.
https://deadline.com/2026/03/stephen-colbert-lord-of-the-rings-1236764923/
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“Feminism is far from dead, but people love to write its obituary,” writes Rebecca Solnit. “In reality, it’s naively defeatist to assume millennia of patriarchy…could be or should have been fully disassembled in one lifetime.”
[theguardian.com]
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The one thing everyone gets wrong about feminism
People love to declare the death of the women’s movement, pointing to the ‘failure’ of #MeToo or the Epstein files, but don’t give up the fight just yet, writes Rebecca Solnit
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/15/feminism-isnt-dead-rebecca-solnit
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We watched Zoolander last night and right before the Derelicte DJ throws on Relax, there’s a 2-second snippet of something that sounded super familiar. It took me a bit to track it down, but it’s trance banger Free by Mono Culture.
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Mono Culture - Free (Extended Vocal Mix) [Nerve 1998]
Mono Culture - Free (Extended Vocal Mix) Label: Nerve Released: 1998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFOA6jBBcU0
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A new edition of On Liberty, a canonical work of political philosophy, “is the first to officially name Harriet Taylor Mill as a co-author alongside John Stuart Mill”.
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“On Liberty” Now Officially Has Two Authors - Daily Nous
An edition of On Liberty published this month is the first to officially name Harriet Taylor Mill as a co-author alongside John Stuart Mill. The new volume is edited by Piers Norris Turner (Ohio State), Jo Ellen Jacobs (Millikin), Helen McCabe (Nottingham), Lilly Osburg (Karlsruhe Institute of Techn
https://dailynous.com/2026/03/19/on-liberty-now-officially-has-two-authors/
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“COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show”. Not surprising when you look at excess mortality numbers for that period.
[scientificamerican.com]
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COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show
We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-killed-150-000-more-people-in-its-first-two-years-than-official-toll/
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“Plain text accounting is a way of doing bookkeeping and accounting with plain text files and scriptable, command-line-friendly software.”
[plaintextaccounting.org]
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Plain Text Accounting (PTA) - plaintextaccounting.org
Welcome! Plain text accounting is a way of doing bookkeeping and accounting with plain text files and scriptable, command-line-friendly software, such as Ledger, hledger, or Beancount. This site collects the PTA community's tools, docs and practices. It is maintained by Simon Michael (hledger projec
https://plaintextaccounting.org/
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Just renewed my membership for The Kid Should See This, a genuine internet treasure.
[thekidshouldseethis.com]
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The Kid Should See This • Smart videos for curious minds of all ages
Over 7,000 Videos: TKSST shares stories about art activities, astronauts, auroras, ballet, chocolate, classical music, composting, cookies, dance, desserts, farms, food chains, fossils, harvesting, instruments, the Milky Way, the moon, NASA, national parks, orchestras, the sun, the Overview Effect,
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/
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I'm taking some time off. In the meantime, we're doing another open thread: what's going on in your world? What are you working on? Reading or watching or listening to anything good these days?
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It’s an Open Thread #2
Hey folks. The site is going to be very light this week and early next week — I’m spending some time with my family and accompanying my daughter on some spring break college visits. I’ll be back to full force
https://kottke.org/26/03/its-an-open-thread-2
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An interview with Andy Weir about the accuracy of the science in Project Hail Mary. “I’m proud that the only true violation of physics in the story is something you have to go down to the quantum level to find.”
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A ‘Hail Mary’ for Earth, Built on Solid Science
Andy Weir discusses his science-fueled novel “Project Hail Mary,” which has been adapted into a film that opens in theaters on Friday.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/science/hail-mary-andy-weir.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UFA.YzOO.C4gLpJuMR6BF
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“Stop naming things after people, living or dead. No schools. No streets. No courthouses. No fountains. Just quit it.”
[fritinancy.substack.com]
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Stop naming buildings (and streets, and parks, and ships, and mountains) after people
Eventually, inevitably, someone will decide that your well-meaning gesture was a terrible error.
https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/stop-naming-buildings-and-streets
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This is great: MTV Rewind allows you to watch music videos from the 70s to the 20s, organized by decade. There are also “channels” for 120 Minutes, MTV Unplugged, Yo! MTV Raps, etc. 33,000+ videos in all. Nostalgia bomb.
[kottke.org]
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MTV Rewind
MTV Rewind is an interface through which you can watch music videos from the 70s to the 20s, organized by decade. There are also “channels” for 120 Minutes, MTV Unplugged, Yo! MTV Raps, Headbangers Ball, and the first
https://kottke.org/26/01/mtv-rewind
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Shel Silverstein’s short poem Homework Machine (1981) was prescient about the limitations of LLMs. “I guess it’s not as perfect / As I thought it would be.”
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The Imperfect Homework Machine
Shel Silverstein’s Homework Machine was one of my kids’ favorite poems of his when they were little. First published in 1981, the short poem turned out to be rather prescient about AI, especially the earlier LLMs, whic
https://kottke.org/25/12/the-imperfect-homework-machine
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A cartographer posits that our maps should be messier. “The idea that we must have a crisp line dividing one country from another is often inaccurate when it comes to what states are actually claiming.”
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‘We need messier maps’
From President Trump’s bid to acquire Greenland to Beijing’s claims over the South China Sea, cartographer William Rankin tells Mike Higgins how maps sometimes don’t help geopolitical decision-making.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/2026-03/we-need-messier-maps
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This is a diabolical phishing attack. “That generated a real case ID, and triggered real Apple emails to my inbox, properly signed, from Apple’s actual servers.”
[ma.tt]
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Gone (Almost) Phishin’
This is a little embarrassing to share, but I’d rather someone else be able to spot a dangerous scam before they fall for it. So, here goes. One evening last month, my Apple Watch, iPhone, an…
https://ma.tt/2026/03/gone-almost-phishin/
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This is hilarious. A man was pictured in two different photos on the same front page of a local newspaper: one of him painting a holiday sign and a gs station security cam still of him taking a wallet.
[nowiknow.com]
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The Man Who Made the Front Page Twice
They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity. And at first, that proved true for Michael Millhouse, a sign painter from Lewiston, Idaho. In December 2007, he was out painting Christmas greetings on storefront windows around downtown. A photographer from the Lewiston Tribune happened to spot him a
https://nowiknow.com/the-man-who-made-the-front-page-twice/
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“Some countries are better positioned to weather this energy crisis than they would have been just a few years ago. That’s because of the rapid growth of renewable energy, battery systems and electric vehicles…”
[npr.org]
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Oil and gas prices are soaring. Some countries are ready with solar panels and EVs
As an energy crisis grows, some countries are more prepared because of renewable energy and electric vehicles. Pakistan reduced its reliance on imported natural gas because of the growth of solar.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/16/nx-s1-5732984/energy-iran-war-solar-pakistan-crisis-renewable-evs
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"Of the current 200 nations in the world, the British have invaded all but 22 of them."
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Britain Has Invaded All but 22 Countries
Of the current 200 nations in the world, the British have invaded all but 22 of them. The lucky 22 include Sweden, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Bolivia, and Belarus. The full analysis is available in Stuart Laycock’s book
https://kottke.org/12/11/britain-has-invaded-all-but-22-countries
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An online museum of Chinese cigarette packaging art.
[ciggies.app]
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中国卷烟博物馆 · Chinese Cigarette Museum
The only comprehensive English-language archive of Chinese cigarettes — 3,200+ SKUs across 200+ brands with pack imagery, specs, pricing, and ratings. Browse Zhonghua, Panda, Liqun, Yellow Crane Tower, and thousands more.
https://www.ciggies.app/
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The words shark (the animal) and shark (a predatory scoundrel) may have two different origins. “This would make ‘shark’ possibly the only word borrowed from a Mayan language into English directly.” (via @kissane.myatproto.social)
[bsky.app]
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Word Family Friday (@wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social)
The English word "shark" was two different meanings: a predatory cartilaginous fish and a predatory scoundrel. We sometimes understand the predatory scoundrel to be by metaphor from the predatory fish, but evidence suggests these two meanings have entirely separate origins—German … and Maya?? 🧵 1/18
https://bsky.app/profile/wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social/post/3mgfwl4qxvk2j
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Parachord is “a new kind of music player that invites all your streams, local audio files, and playlists scattered across multiple services to the same party”. Interesting!
[parachord.com]
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Parachord
Your music is everywhere... now you don't have to be.
https://parachord.com/
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Every Fashion Designer, Explained. If you don’t know anything about fashion, this video will get you up to speed quickly. Vivienne Westwood, Nigo, Issey Miyake, Miuccia Prada, Dapper Dan, Hubert de Givenchy, etc. etc.
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Every Fashion Designer, Explained
This video is an overarching guide on getting familiar with the most historically important, best of all time fashion designers, and most importantly why their work has shaped fashion and all fashion weeks at all major cities since. Luxury fashion would not be the same without the likes of Lee Alexa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjOMFo_026A
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