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Trailer for season two of Poker Face. If you haven’t seen it,...
Trailer for season two of Poker Face. If you haven’t seen it, it’s directed by Rian Johnson (Knives Out/Glass Onion) and Natasha Lyonne plays an itinerant Benoit Blanc sort of...
Harvey Silikovitz tried 10 times to get on Jeopardy! over 24 years...
Harvey Silikovitz tried 10 times to get on Jeopardy! over 24 years and finally made it. (And won!) “He’s pretty sure he has made history as the first Jeopardy! contestant...
Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run. “You may believe that Khalil...
Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run. “You may believe that Khalil does not deserve free speech or due process. But if he does not have them, then neither do...
404 Media has obtained a list of 200+ sites monitored by a...
404 Media has obtained a list of 200+ sites monitored by a contractor for ICE (Amazon, Apple Music, BabyCenter, Bluesky, Facebook, Github, GoFundMe, etc.). They can “pull a target individual’s...
US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms. The...
US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms. The Us joins a list of countries with “deteriorating civic space conditions, in relation to freedoms of peaceful assembly,...
OMG, there’s an “S” in today’s Spelling Bee puzzle! (Is this the...
OMG, there’s an “S” in today’s Spelling Bee puzzle! (Is this the first time?) 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Things have been a little weird lately so I missed this when...
Things have been a little weird lately so I missed this when it came out but lolol: mustaaaaaaaaaard! 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
It’s Infrastructure Week!
Following on from my post this morning, I think this is a good time to step back from the site for a bit and focus on some long-neglected backend things...
The creator of Poetry Is Not a Luxury Instagram account is coming...
The creator of Poetry Is Not a Luxury Instagram account is coming out with a poetry anthology in May: Poetry Is Not a Luxury: Poems for All Seasons. đź’¬ Join...
Skywriter takes Bluesky threads and makes webpages out of them....
Skywriter takes Bluesky threads and makes webpages out of them. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
How Much Do I Really Need to Know?
On Inauguration Day in January, Eliza McLamb wrote about her abstention from social media for a month and the challenge of keeping up with current events “without either turning towards...
The First Three Episodes of Andor Available Online for Free
Disney has uploaded the first three episodes of season one of Andor to YouTube: No idea how long they will be up or if they’re visible outside of the US....
Eyes on the Street
I ran across this story from Vanessa Guerrero on Instagram recently. She originally posted it to Twitter a few years ago; here’s the full text: Living in LA, I’ve lived...
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE is interviewing (current & former) federal workers for a series that...
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE is interviewing (current & former) federal workers for a series that “aims to capture both the personal significance of [their] work and its broader impact on the American public”....
“Covid was a privatized pandemic. It is this technocratic, privatized model that...
“Covid was a privatized pandemic. It is this technocratic, privatized model that is its lasting legacy and that will define our approach to the next pandemic,” says Siddhartha Mukherjee. “There...
I Am Trapped in the Criterion Closet. “How long have I been...
I Am Trapped in the Criterion Closet. “How long have I been in this place? I cannot say. In the darkness, time has lost meaning. The only days I remember...
When This [Medical School] Professor Got Cancer, He Didn’t Quit. He Taught...
When This [Medical School] Professor Got Cancer, He Didn’t Quit. He Taught a Class About It. “He wanted his students to understand the humanity at the core of medicine.” 💬...
The latest edition of Jodi Ettenberg’s link-drenched Curious About Everything newsletter just...
The latest edition of Jodi Ettenberg’s link-drenched Curious About Everything newsletter just dropped. I was going to steal about a dozens links from this, but you should just go read...
Purged gov’t employees, while scrambling to find work & health insurance, face...
Purged gov’t employees, while scrambling to find work & health insurance, face MAGA relatives who are cheering their firing. “Some members of her mostly conservative family have unfriended her on...
I woke up Saturday wondering how observers of Ramadan time their fasting...
I woke up Saturday wondering how observers of Ramadan time their fasting in polar regions, where sunrise & sunset don’t exist for months on end. “Muslims in the Arctic are...