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The Bully Lie
In this episode of This American Life from a few weeks ago, Masha Gessen read an excerpt from their book Surviving Autocracy about the particular kind of lie used by...
What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler. This “comical figure” was regularly...
What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler. This “comical figure” was regularly ridiculed in the German & international press right up until he became chancellor. It did very little to...
Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal (No Man’s Land) was attacked by a...
Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal (No Man’s Land) was attacked by a group of 15 armed Israeli settlers and then arrested by the Israeli army. “They let the settlers attack...
The expanding size of American cars over the past few decades is...
The expanding size of American cars over the past few decades is increasing congestion by reducing the vehicle capacity of roadways. SUVs are longer, require more braking distance, and drivers...
A recent study found that Black Lives Matter protests had a “significant...
A recent study found that Black Lives Matter protests had a “significant and decisive impact” on the 2020 election. “This represents one of the most consequential impacts of a social...
Free Warner Bros Movies on YouTube
For some reason, Warner Bros. has uploaded 41 of its movies to YouTube that are free to watch. Among them, Waiting for Guffman, The Accidental Tourist, The Bonfire of the...
Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America by Elie Mystal...
Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America by Elie Mystal “reimagines what our legal system, and society at large, could look like if we could move past legislation...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans. “I had very...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans. “I had very strong doubts that this text group was real, because I could not believe that the national-security leadership of...
Ikea Australia posted an ad referencing Severance — “for work that is...
Ikea Australia posted an ad referencing Severance — “for work that is mysterious and important” — which features an MDR cluster of four desks. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org...
The View From the Indie Bookseller
I really liked this thread from independent bookseller Charlotte Moore-Lambert; it starts: being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of...
Archaeologists have found 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania. “This finding has pushed...
Archaeologists have found 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania. “This finding has pushed back systematic bone tool production by more than a million years and challenges previous assumptions about the technological...
For Fascists, Hypocrisy Is a Virtue
A.R. Moxon: It’s best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It’s how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be...
Utrecht’s fish doorbell is up and running again to help spawning fish...
Utrecht’s fish doorbell is up and running again to help spawning fish navigate the city’s canals. “If you see a fish, press the doorbell. This alerts the lock operator to...
“A string of high-profile arrests and detentions of travellers is likely to...
“A string of high-profile arrests and detentions of travellers is likely to cause a major downturn in tourism to the US, with latest figures already showing a serious drop-off.”
Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy. “Yes,...
Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy. “Yes, there’s danger in opening our gates to this statue. But there’s also danger in keeping it out… the...
Severance Scenes in Underwater Paint Swirls
Using paint in water to simulate clouds or smoke, Rudy Willingham created these magical scenes of characters from Severance (Instagram). Willingham also created this cool animated zoetrope record with dancing...
An analysis of pop music’s greatest two-hit wonders. “Pop stars are remembered...
An analysis of pop music’s greatest two-hit wonders. “Pop stars are remembered because they are very famous. One-hit wonders are remembered for the opposite. Two-hit wonders are stuck in the...
What the hell? Saturn now has a total of 274 moons. That’s...
What the hell? Saturn now has a total of 274 moons. That’s so many that they may have to relax the naming conventions because there aren’t enough Norse deities to...
Everyday Icons: Amy Sherald
A great behind-the-scenes look at the work and process of artist Amy Sherald in these two videos from Art21. In her studio in New Jersey, artist Amy Sherald paints portraits...
In seeking information on how 21st century humans lived, future archaeologists will...
In seeking information on how 21st century humans lived, future archaeologists will rely on fossils of soda cans, chicken bones, clothes, and concrete. Oh and, “wherever those future civilisations dig,...