A Funkaoshi Production

Our bodies are festivals of variation. And in sports, we celebrate those differences—until we don’t. In certain sports, people are much more skeptical and far less accepting of variations among women athletes. With all our uniqueness, it seems strange to me that we laud some anatomical variations and are so hostile towards others. What matters is not whether a particular variation is common or rare, but how we perceive it in terms of the societal categories we have made. And because of our perceptions, some athletes end up adored. Others are shamed for some of the very characteristics that could help make them great.

It feels like you could write this story every day for the last year. The NY Times looks at all the death Ramy Nasr has had to deal with due to the war in Gaza.

Were it not for his children, Mr. Nasr said, he would not want to go on. “I wish I had died alongside my siblings,” he said. “Those that die are better off.”

The web design for this little anthology of modern religion essays is great.

A short movie by Eric Kissack (of The Good Place fame) which also stars Dustin Milligan from Schitts Creek.

Children are universally considered innocents in armed conflict. However, every single signatory to this letter saw children in Gaza who suffered violence that must have been deliberately directed at them. Specifically, every one of us who worked in an emergency, intensive care, or surgical setting treated pre-teen children who were shot in the head or chest on a regular or even a daily basis. It is impossible that such widespread shooting of young children throughout Gaza, sustained over the course of an entire year is accidental or unknown to the highest Israeli civilian and military authorities.

Impressive reporting from the Local.

This is a really incredible interview that walks through how the film was shot.

The long interesting history of the Git version control system. I love git.

A fantastic deep dive into the rise and fall of Austen Allred and his bootcamp schools.

This was short and sweet.

Israel’s supporters might argue that this is not the Shoah, but the belief that the best way of honouring the memory of those who died in Auschwitz is to condone the mass killing of Palestinians so that Israeli Jews can feel safe again is one of the great moral perversions of our time.

The parents have set up a site that out lines in great detail the failures at the heart of her death.

I love weird programming projects like this. I wish I had all the messages Shima and I have sent each other, going back to our time in University on ICQ.

I’m confident that Suno sees itself as the next Spotify, only without all the pesky human artists that need to get paid to live and make art, because that’s the exact the kind of idiotic pitch that would raise — and eventually flush down the toilet — hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital. Even though it’s a complete dead end.

Amazon’s warehouse feels like something from the Victorian era crossed with Cyberpunk.

Craig Mod discusses an interesting phone sized eReader.