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I will share this clip from the Modest Heroes anthology anytime I see it because it's one of the coolest, most engrossing pieces of animation you'll ever see in your life.
From: Invisible (2018), dir. Akihiko Yamashita, Studio Ponoc

The wild misadventures of a weightless, invisible man -- from the Modest Heroes anime anthology
June 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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traveling to Finland I was completely speed camera-pilled. head and shoulders better experience *for driving*, as well as far far safer for pedestrians and cyclists heatmap.news/politics/hel...
May 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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In the 19th century, Luddism raised the question of how to maintain the legitimacy of an economic system where workers create value yet remain subjugated to the market and the prerogatives of capitalism. Now, A.I. poses the same inquiry.
How to Survive the A.I. Revolution
The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better?
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May 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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as someone who is cautiously interested in watching more basketball I found this so interesting and helpful
How To Watch Basketball | Defector
The NBA playoffs are in full swing, and as such, I find myself watching and talking about the games with people who do not watch as much basketball as I do, probably because watching basketball is not...
defector.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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An interview with a fired EPA environmental justice program analyst 🎁 defector.com/an-interview...
An Interview With A Fired EPA Environmental Justice Program Analyst | Defector
The way Amanda Cronin sees it, her environmental education began at the farmers’ market in her hometown in New York’s Hudson Valley. She marveled at the sheer abundance of produce, so much so that,…
defector.com
May 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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God I love stories like this.

'Rhythm Nation' used to crash hard drives.
How a Janet Jackson song crashed laptops for 9 years
In 2001, Microsoft support employees made a shocking discovery: Janet Jackson's hit, "Rhythm Nation," could cause laptops to crash. New details have now come to light showing what was done about it.
www.pcworld.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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I spent well over a month talking to investors to get the actual data behind what’s happening to the games industry. I was going to say “enjoy!” but it’s, uh, not great.

youtu.be/9HM9nmqNioQ
The games industry is screwed 2.0
YouTube video by Charalanahzard
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April 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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babe wake up new animigraffs video and it's 66 minutes about water infrastructure
How Hoover Dam Works
YouTube video by Animagraffs
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April 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Kurt Vonnegut man
April 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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during grummz time at blizzard, red 5, and his time when he was supposed to be working on em8er and to 3 days ago, he’s living a second life

here are all the details with the archival evidence + more

timeline video:
Goonernomicon: Grummz | Part 1
YouTube video by MLYP
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March 30, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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March 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Okay so I made a video.

youtu.be/OOK5xkFijPc
Power isn't energy. The difference matters more than you may know.
YouTube video by Technology Connections
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March 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Watched Frances Ha for movie night, what a gentle, wonderful, sad-funny movie… and also, a perfect New York story
March 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Another piece from my husband’s newsletter you guys might find interesting—on the fake music on Love is Blind, and the tricky economics of making “real” music: smartdumb.substack.com/p/supposedly...
Supposedly Fake Songs on Supposedly Real Television
in search of smartdumb: Love Is Blind Season 8; Supposedly Fake Artists; Supposedly Real Songs; Liz Pelly's Blind Love For Real Artists
smartdumb.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I thought this was such a good read that speaks to competition and meaning. www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-false-...
The False Gospel of Stuff and Status
We have become disciples of a flawed creed. To chase passion and value people is a much wiser way to live; or Ikigai, Detectorists, and the real meaning of life.
www.forkingpaths.co
February 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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"The unified message I took away from the ads was that the time of new ideas is receding, and society along with it. The theme was the soft acceptance of a comfortable death." defector.com/for-sale-the...
For Sale: The End, And The Means To Wait For It | Defector
In one Super Bowl commercial, an octogenarian actor waxes lacrimal about freedom, a privilege bought for you with the blood of troops 80 years ago, a privilege whose outer bound and cleanest expressio...
defector.com
February 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Late to this, but great explainer for anyone in your life who (in good faith) wants to know why Ai generated garbage is bad, why artists and creators hate it, why it’s happening to begin with, and why consumers of media deserve better.

@maxread.info for @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...
Drowning in Slop
A thriving underground economy is clogging the internet with AI garbage — and it’s only going to get worse.
nymag.com
January 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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On this week's @onthemedia.bsky.social I spoke with @telliotter.bsky.social about Wired's incredible reporting into DOGE.

And @ryanjreilly.com about Trump's purges at the DOJ.

Brooke spoke with @ezralevin.bsky.social about overcoming Democratic paralysis:

www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
February 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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every paragraph of this is a banger
February 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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When I wrote this 11 days ago, I genuinely did not think they would move this quickly or aggressively, but what we are witnessing is very much state capture
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-dange...
DOGE: Dangerous Oligarchs Grab Everything
What Marc Andreessen revealed about the tech-industrial complex
donmoynihan.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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We need to get off the internet 🎁
We Need To Get Off The Internet | Defector
I will admit, there was a point at the start of New York magazine’s profile of the jubilant young Trumper right when I started to get nervous. The article opens on Inauguration Day, depicting a party…
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February 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
www.theatlantic.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Ben writes about the web as a universe of discovery and the feeling like we’re missing something.

At @ministryoftesting.com we’re taking the approach of Community Knowledge Management, it’s an philosophy/approach more than a specific thing.

@ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy 👋

werd.io/2025/the-ind...
The indie web should be a universe of discovery
In Oxford, my hometown, the flagship Blackwell’s bookshop looks like any ordinary bookstore at ground level. But if you go down a set of stairs,
werd.io
January 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Why do video games cost so much to make these days? A recent NYT article pinned bloated budgets on the graphical arms race, but that's only a small part of the equation. The real problem? Rampant mismanagement.

This week's column is a spicy one: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Why So Many Video Games Cost So Much to Make
Graphical fidelity is only part of the reason that game budgets have swelled to hundreds of millions of dollars
www.bloomberg.com
January 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM