Pretty Metroidvanias, free Bomberman-style chaos and other new indie games worth checking out — Start your weekend by diving into our latest roundup of what's new in the indie gaming space.
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week — Deb Olin Unferth’s Earth 7, Andrea Wulf’s The Traveler, and Dave Eggers’s Contrapposto all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book r…
Here are the winners of the 61st Annual Nebula Awards. — The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of American (SFWA) has announced the winners of the 61st annual Nebula Awards, one of SFF’s most prestigious honors, “given to the writers of the…
Read "Working in Public" — Nadia Asparouhova explains why OSS funding is hard. https://press.stripe.com/working-in-public
The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Creativity and Time — “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
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Futility Closet — Futility Closet is a collection of entertaining curiosities in history, literature, language, art, philosophy, and mathematics, designed to help you waste time as enjoyably as possible.
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Nature’s Oldest Mandolin: The Poetic Science of How Cicadas Sing — “The use of music,” Richard Powers wrote, “is to remind us how short a time we have a body” — a truth nowhere more bittersweet than in the creature whose body is the o…
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Lande Hekt Announces New EP Threadbare: Hear "Circles" — Earlier this year, the former Muncie Girls leader Lande Hekt released Lucky Now, her first solo album since her band broke up in 2023. It was lovely. Today, Hekt announces plans to follow that record with a new EP called…
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Chantel Acevedo on Reimagining Her Father Through Fiction — When I consider my father, who disappeared almost entirely from my life in my infancy, I think of what I don’t know. I don’t remember his hands, or his voice, how he formed arguments, whether he wa…
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'Backrooms' twisty ending, explained: What exactly is the world through the door? — Inside the liminal space nightmare.
Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You — It all started with a routine task. I use GitHub issues for all of my public-facing projects but my preference is keeping track of things in Org Agenda. To reconcile the two, I would manually...
The Hard Times – Punk News Comin’ Your Way! — Satire for the punk scene.
A Tiny E Reader — I like books. You’d probably know that if you’ve seen my bookshelf page. But, I don’t like physical books. Yeah they do look good on a physical shelf, and I do like that part of them. I just don’t like reading them. The main issue for me, is that not every book
Novlr: the creative writing workspace designed with your writing goals in mind — With Novlr, you can achieve your writing goals. Built by writers and owned by its writing community, Novlr helps you progress along every stage of your writing journey.
This Deadly Shellfish Poisoning Has No Antidote. A Protein Found in American Bullfrogs Could Change That — A study in mice found that a protein called saxiphilin acts like a sponge against a deadly toxin produced by algal blooms. The harmful agent, which accumulates in certain…
A Poet’s Account of the Power of the Yodel — The yodel: the perfect acknowledgment of that which cannot be hidden anymore and therefore also that which we have always had to hide. The yodel: the flickering Adam’s apple. Not unlike a sound we …
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The Art of Losing and the Art of Beckoning Love Back: The Story Behind One of the Greatest Poems Ever Written — You wouldn’t have bet on it, the frail famous poet teaching at Harvard as a visiting professor and the athletic secretary of the campus residence half her age. But…
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HDFC Bank’s Bonds Fall to Record Low After CEO’s Shock Exit — Newly issued dollar bonds by HDFC Bank Ltd., India’s most valuable lender, slid to record lows on Tuesday as Chief Executive Officer Sashidhar Jagdishan’s unexpected decision to step down continued to weigh on…
UBS's Panseri on Global Bond Yields, ECB Hike Expectations — UBS Wealth Management France CIO Claudia Panseri discusses the Yen as global bond yields surged on inflation concerns. She speaks with Lizzy Burden on Bloomberg TV. (Source: Bloomberg)
The Tragedy of Loving Sylvia Plath — My Sylvia Plath fandom dates back to the early nineties, when I was in my late teens and randomly pulled The Bell Jar off the shelf at my local library in suburban Salt Lake City. I had never heard…
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Qatar pledges support for efforts to end Libya’s political division — Qatari minister meets army chief amid efforts to bridge longstanding political divisions in Libya.
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Lenovo's new Android tablets get 7 years of updates, flagship chips, and 4K displays — The new pair of Lenovo Yoga Tab tablets offer flagship-tier chips and specs with 4K display, 7 years of updates, and more.
Before We Are Erased: Why I Founded Gaza Publications During the Genocide — During the early days of the genocide, I was in the city of Rafah, displaced, sleeping under a roof that I didn’t know would still be there by morning. Shells were falling around the building where…
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Jeff Jarvis on Mark Twain, America’s First Celebrity Author and Publisher — In the history of the invention of the typesetting machine and the consequent birth of mass media, Mark Twain is the Zelig of our tale, returning frequently as a typesetter in his brother’s ratty n…
Twitch and Amazon hit with lawsuit for training AI with streamers' content — The class action suit claims that Amazon never obtained consent from Twitch streamers to be used to train its AI models.
Hacker Public Radio (HPR) ~ The Technology Community Podcast — Hacker Public Radio is a podcast that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday. Our shows are produced by the community (you) and can be on any topic that is of interest to hackers and hobbyists.
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Big-name studios encouraging architects to use AI — <p>The world's most prominent architecture studios are embracing AI for everything from coming up with designs to project analyses and reports, Dezeen research has found. Twenty-six leading architecture studios from around the…
Austin Improv Comedy Shows, Classes – The Hideout Theatre – Austin's Longest-Running Improv Theater and School — The craft of improvisation.
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Lingthusiasm — A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Weird and deep conversations about the hidden language patterns that you didn't realize you were already making....
Lit Hub Daily: July 6, 2026 — Michael Dirda makes the case for Moby-Dick as the ultimate American novel. | Lit Hub Criticism Why the “legendary” dinner party from Plato’s Symposium is actually about love. | Lit Hub …
Fairphone 6 + PostmarketOS working main camera! — Catcrafts — Today i bring the working main camera! Building on the work nondescriptpointer did on the wide lens camera i have written the driver for the main camera and now its working alongside auto focus and color correction.…
tvOS 27 to add Siri AI for Apple TV 4K, per new leak - 9to5Mac — Siri AI was unveiled for most Apple platforms—but Apple TV missed out. A new leak, however, points to tvOS 27 including Siri AI after all.
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Fed’s Warsh: Full Speech at Jackson Hole Symposium — Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh said inflation isn’t meaningfully slowing and warned that policymakers must be confident that it is, otherwise the central bank has “work to do.” He reiterated that policymakers will…
Qatar PM visits Tehran as Iran faces mounting US economic pressure — Qatar’s Prime Minister met Iran’s foreign minister in Tehran as the US vowed to intensify economic pressure on Iran.
I Made You Up Inside My Head — Chinese numbers distinguish between two different types of zero, which are really two types of nothing: one is an absolute nothing, the one that I suppose shapes the limits of the universe, where n…
'Not bad for the worst team in Premier League history' - Hull's perfect start — Hull striker Oli McBurnie has a playful dig at his team's critics after beating Coventry to win their opening two Premier League games.