- Where the Amish Go on Vacation. Some fantastic candid photography. Comment
- The Great Fire is Vanity Fair’s September 2020, guest-edited by Ta-Nehisi Coates. There is "an interview with Breonna Taylor's mother":https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2020/08/breonna-taylor that is well worth a read. We have an article on police "unions". A lot of articles about the current state of garbage that is America right now. #
- Inside the elite border patrol unit Trump sent to Portland. My friend Shey made joke about how America has exported democracy to itself. To quote the Simpson's, "it's funny cuz it's true." From the article, 'Bortac agents are among “the most violent and racist in all law enforcement”'. That's a high bar to cross. #
- YouTube : 8:46. Dave Chappelle did a live stand up special to take about George Floyd's death. Is it comedy? Probably not. It's amazing, though. #
- YouTube: How Can We Win? This video is so much fire in under 7 minutes. So good. I get annoyed when people feel like they need decry rioting and looting in the same breath they offer their support for the protest. “Starbuck’s gonna be OK, don’t worry,” I think. It feels like we are treating a dead body like a broken a window. Kimberly Jones asks you to step back and ask how we even got to this point in the first place. #
- The Unicorns Fell Into a Ditch. This article is too good, too quotable. bq. Third-party delivery platforms [or basically anything coming out of the VC backed Sillicon Valley tech scene], as they’ve been built, just seem like the wrong model, but instead of testing, failing, and evolving, they’ve been subsidized into market dominance. Read about pizza arbitrage and other good stuff. #
- Solving the "The Miracle Sudoku". This is really quite incredible. Kind of a joy to watch him slowly realize the problem has a real solution, and that it's within his grasp. #
- Unreal Engine 5 Revealed! This demo is unreal. #
- America's Racial Contract Is Showing. Sharp writing from Adam Serwer about how America's response to the pandemic has shifted and how it ties back to it's deep problems with racism. #
- Leo Tolstoy’s Children’s Stories Will Devastate Your Children and Make You Want to Die.
That’s a pretty great title.
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- Virtual rate cut forces Nintendo gamers into riskier assets. The Financial Times covering Animal Crossing is everything you would hope it would be. #
- The Best New York Accent Love NYC. Comment
- The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder.
I find stories like this so terrifying. You are living your life till you’re not.
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- Grim Reapers: How Trump and Xi set the stage for the coronavirus pandemic.
Some fantastic reporting about the rise of Covid-19.
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- How Will the Coronavirus End?
Some great science reporting from Ed Yong about how the virus may run its course in the US.
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- Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance.
I have no real idea who Tomas Pueyo is, but he’s written the two best articles about the Corona virus that I have read. This is the second.
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- We Need A Massive Surveillance Program.
In what feels like a real plot twist, Maciej Cegłowski (Pinboard) writes a blog post telling us we need mass surveillance right now. Why? Because of the world wide pandemic happening right now, of course. How have I not mentioned the Corona virus on this blog?
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- Be a Lady They Said on Vimeo
Cynthia Nixon (from Sex in the City) narrates this pretty slick NSFW video about being a lady.
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- In Praise of… Tintin.
Tintin as fashion icon.
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- That ninety degree scenery thing.
These photographs are amazing.
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- YelloPain: My Vote Dont Count.
It’s like school house rocks, but with a rapper.
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- What we still haven’t learned from Gamergate.
We haven’t learned a lot, it seems.
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