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Trump Has Gone From Unconstitutional to Anti-Constitutional. “[Anti-Constitutionalism] rejects the premise that...
Trump Has Gone From Unconstitutional to Anti-Constitutional. “[Anti-Constitutionalism] rejects the premise that sovereignty lies with the people, that ours is a government of limited and enumerated powers and that the...
Editorial from Nature magazine: Vaccines save lives. Leaders must champion them. “We...
Editorial from Nature magazine: Vaccines save lives. Leaders must champion them. “We urge policymakers to help boost people’s confidence in vaccines, and not to undermine scientific and medical institutions or...
Don’t Be a Sucker!
In 1945, the US Department of War (the precursor to the Dept of Defense) produced this educational film on the “destructive effects of racial and religious prejudice” and the use...
What Are the Physical Limits of Humanity?
A new video from Kurzgesagt explores the limits of human exploration in the Universe. How far can we venture? Are there limits? Turns out the answer is very much “yes”…with...
A 6‑Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno’s Music For Airports. “The tonal...
A 6‑Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno’s Music For Airports. “The tonal field is the same, but now the notes are no attack, all decay.” 💬 Join the discussion on...
UbuWeb, a pirate library of avant-garde artifacts, closed in 2024. But last...
UbuWeb, a pirate library of avant-garde artifacts, closed in 2024. But last month, they started the site back up again. “Archiving reemerges as a strong form of resistance, a way...
Bad at Goodbyes is a podcast highlighting a different critically endangered plant...
Bad at Goodbyes is a podcast highlighting a different critically endangered plant or animal on each episode. Recently featured: Vancouver Island Marmot, Dama Gazelle, Koyama’s Spruce, Cuban Crocodile, and Pariette...
Fooling a Self-Driving Tesla Is Dangerously Easy
In his latest video, Mark Rober shows how easy it is to fool Tesla’s self-driving capability (they use cheaper video cameras) when compared with other self-driving cars (which use lidar)....
From The Climate Mental Health Network, a downloadable free zine for youth...
From The Climate Mental Health Network, a downloadable free zine for youth that “offers a collection of perspectives and tools to support other climate-concerned youth around the emotional impacts of...
The Women Who Wanted to Leave Their Husbands Over Politics. “This fall,...
The Women Who Wanted to Leave Their Husbands Over Politics. “This fall, I followed three women who had been thinking about divorce. What happened when Donald Trump won again?” Really...
Freedom of the Press Foundation: “[Wired] is going to stop paywalling articles...
Freedom of the Press Foundation: “[Wired] is going to stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.”
You may have already seen it, but I finally got around to...
You may have already seen it, but I finally got around to reading this piece: One Word Describes Trump. “Patrimonialism is distinguished by running the state as if it were...
Song Exploder talks to Theodore Shapiro about how he created the main...
Song Exploder talks to Theodore Shapiro about how he created the main title theme music for Severance. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
From One Million Experiments, a printable zine meant to be “used as...
From One Million Experiments, a printable zine meant to be “used as a template for those seeking to make an activism or organizing plan” with knowledge distilled from seasoned activists....
The Curious 100 from The Eames Institute is, “a celebration of one...
The Curious 100 from The Eames Institute is, “a celebration of one hundred courageous leaders and creative minds across the United States who are harnessing the transformative power of curiosity...
Indie game Blobun has a joke setting that eliminates its lesbian content....
Indie game Blobun has a joke setting that eliminates its lesbian content. But the main character is gay “so flipping the so-called ‘lesbian toggle’ in the options menu removes her...
If you’re mad as hell, one thing you can do is run...
If you’re mad as hell, one thing you can do is run for elected office. Run For Something recruits & supports “young, diverse progressives to run for down-ballot races in...
A really important point from Masha Gessen about the Trumpist attacks on...
A really important point from Masha Gessen about the Trumpist attacks on (and “denationalization” of) trans people: “The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen...
A good, long piece from Thomas Zimmer about how we “underestimated the...
A good, long piece from Thomas Zimmer about how we “underestimated the Trumpist threat and overestimated how resilient both the political system as well as American civil society would be…that...
Timothy Snyder on the terrifying deportations being undertaken by the Trump regime....
Timothy Snyder on the terrifying deportations being undertaken by the Trump regime. This is a prelude to any American being stripped of citizenship and expelled from the country for any...