Today is Tom Stoppard Day in the UK — Today in London a who’s who of the literary world will be observing what may be the inaugural memorial day for the late playwright Tom Stoppard. Celebrations center around the renaming of the Duke …
Australian Wheat Crop Rebounds at Crucial Time for Global Supply — Prospects for Australia’s upcoming wheat crop are turning more optimistic, helping to buffer an increasingly grim global supply outlook for the grain.
László Krasznahorkai Writes Because He Fails — The Nobel laureate on his notoriously long sentences, our estrangement from beauty, and why he would “never voluntarily reread” one of his books.
Kareem Rahma and the Tyranny of Web Video Shows — With a relaunch of “Keep the Meter Running,” on YouTube, the new-media host is trying to turn TikTok-clip fodder into full-blown TV.
Relay — Podcasts for the tech-curious.
How the World Cup Made Me Norwegian — At this stage of the competition, switching national loyalties can be as easy as changing jerseys.
there's a podcast where someone just reads reddit posts about people's worst apartment neighbors and honestly it's the only thing making my commute bearable!!
You Must Remember This - Longreads — "On the nature of autobiographical memory."
I just canceled my Google Drive subscription and replaced it with a local alternative that respects my privacy — Cloud backups can be useful, but I had enough
Barack Obama in the Trump Era — The reporter Peter Slevin asks the former President the question on many Democrats’ minds: Why isn’t he doing more in a time of crisis?
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Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning — “Everything depends on the individual human being, regardless of how small a number of like-minded people there is… on each person……
Glacier mass balance | Climate Dashboard — Climate dashboard
Moroccan migrants stage sit-in as thousands remain stranded in Ceuta — Moroccan migrants are protesting in Ceuta, demanding asylum two weeks after more than a massive migrant surge.
There's a podcast where the host interviews people about the one thing they quit and never looked back. Most of them describe relief. A few describe rage. Still thinking about the rage ones.
Inside Trump’s White House, the Epstein Files Caused a Freakout — The president’s top advisers gathered in a series of Situation Room meetings as they struggled to contain a scandal engulfing Donald Trump himself.
The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought — In the days before the Civil War, the South worked hard to censor any literature that cast slavery in a negative light. Officials in Charleston, S.C. went through mailbags for abolitionist n
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Accidental Historian - Longreads — "With little fanfare, Ray Di Pietro has attracted tens of thousands of devotees. His images are artfully composed, spontaneous, honest, and, well, kind."
Here are the winners of the 2026 Women’s Prizes in Fiction and Nonfiction. — Today, the UK’s Women’s Prize Trust announced the winner of the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction, which “champions excellence, originality, and accessibility in women’s writing,” and is awarded to th…
Trump signs executive order seeking early access to new AI releases — Under new rules, tech companies will be asked to share AI models with government for review before public release
There's a podcast where the host reads bad Amazon reviews of normal things for an hour. I listened to someone's genuine fury about a spatula and couldn't stop laughing for two days.
iOS 26.6.1 and macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 Fix Nearly 30 Security Vulnerabilities — The iOS 26.6.1, iPadOS 26.6.1, and macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 updates Apple released today fix almost 30 security vulnerabilities, according to Apple's security support document. This is Apple's third security…
Mark Dominus (@mjd@mathstodon.xyz) — I think many people misunderstand the purpose of code review. The purpose of code review is not for the reviewer to find bugs, and certainly not for them to ensure that the code is bug-free. Anyone who depends on code review to find bugs…
Mindscape — Science, philosophy, and ideas.
Are There More Bunnies in Toronto? - Longreads — "I never used to see rabbits in Toronto. Then they were everywhere. Then I lost my mind."
On the First—and, So Far, Only—Book Ban Case Ever Heard by the Supreme Court — There had always been efforts to ban books, of course. And in the 1970s, those efforts exploded. In the early part of the decade, the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom …
The Solution to the Power Grid's Woes Might Just Be Sitting in Your Driveway — More electric vehicles are becoming capable of providing backup power at a time when the US is increasingly in need of more electrons.
Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI — The AI race, the future of AGI, and the inside story of OpenAI. Greg Brockman is the co-founder and President of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and GPT-5. He was the first engineer at Stripe before leaving in 2015
The Long Road to Margaret Thatcher’s Britain — In Paul Graham’s book “A1: The Great North Road,” life along a major British thoroughfare reveals fissures in the nation’s identity.
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How War Has Redefined Marriage in Gaza - Longreads — "Celebrating the bond between two lives is a declaration that life itself, however diminished, is still worth living."
4 insane Netflix series you must watch before school starts — These are the shows everybody will be talking about at school, so make sure to watch!
America!: Newly Declassified Secrets from the C.I.A.’s Ice-Cream Archives — Orange-creamsicle lovers and a cult of soft-serve radicals, revealed.
Celestica’s $3 Billion Deal Joins Data Center Funding Rush — Celestica Inc. is looking to raise $3 billion from selling new shares, joining a flurry of companies raising funds for data centers to power the artificial intelligence buildout.
Accidental Tech Podcast — Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
Enterprises with AI context layers report agent failures at more than twice the rate of those without one — <p>A company builds a governed context layer specifically to stop its AI agents from confidently giving wrong answers. Once that layer is live, the company is more than…
The Extraordinary Life And Quiet Death of the World’s Largest Iceberg - Longreads — "Forty years after breaking away from Antarctica, the frozen colossus known as A23a died as it lived: drifting around the bottom of the globe, fascinating ardent observers, and offering…
The Business of Watches Podcast: Benjamin Arabov, CEO Of Jacob & Co. — A watch brand we don't always cover on Hodinkee is growing sales and volumes with its polarizing products and unique take on horology. Plus, we need your business-related questions for next week's Q&A episode!
Fall of Civilizations Podcast — A podcast that explores the collapse of different societies through history.
Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams - Writer Beware — A few weeks ago, I wrote about a rising and extremely prolific marketing scam that I’ve been able to trace back to operators in Nigeria. Using highly personalized (AI-generated) email…
Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep — Marfa Public Radio is literally never asleep. It operates 24/7 (except when lightning strikes) and there’s so much that goes on behind the scenes to make this happen– fundraising, compliance, protocols, emergency response, maintenance…the…
Third Coast International Audio Festival — Sound-rich audio stories from around the world, galore!
The Lucrative Bird-Singing Contests That Are Pushing Species to the Brink - Longreads — "Millions of songbirds in Southeast Asia are trapped and smuggled each year for keeping as pets or entering in competitions. Scientists warn that it's fueling a crisis."
Deadly ferry fire leaves dozens missing in Indonesia’s Java Sea — Deadly ferry fire leaves dozens missing in Indonesia's Java Sea
Does Google even want to win at AI? — Is the shakeup at Google DeepMind a strategy or a crisis?
The History of English Podcast | The Spoken History of a Global Language — The story of our language.
Spurs' Vicario set to join Juventus on loan — Tottenham accept a loan offer from Juventus for goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, which includes an option to buy.
Secrets From Centuries of Paris History Are Emerging From Archaeological Digs After the Notre-Dame Cathedral Fire — Ahead of planned redevelopment around the iconic Gothic landmark, researchers are digging into the city’s past, through medieval and Roman layers
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“Domesticity,” by Lindsay Turner — “The owls weren’t in distress, although / I thought they sounded like it.”
The Met Turns Orientalism Inside Out — In a new show, exotic colonial fantasies are set beside paintings that depict the so-called East from within.
Earwolf Podcast Network — Earwolf is a comedy podcast network with shows like Comedy Bang! Bang!, Office Ladies, How Did This Get Made?, and more.
The Annotated Nightstand: What Victoria Chang is Reading Now, and Next — Attending a reading from Victoria Chang a few years ago, I remember her cheerful comment about how her new poems were a concerted effort to be about nothing, really. She then proceeded to read a pi…
Elevated errors for Opus 5 — Claude's Status Page - Elevated errors for Opus 5.
Why Is Europe Burning? — “We put all these ingredients in a cocktail shaker, and the result is massive fires that far exceed the extinguishing capacity of firefighting teams,” a Spanish firefighter said.
A Syrian intervention in Lebanon would be too costly for Damascus — Despite pressure from the US to intervene against Hezbollah, the Syrian government is unlikely to do so.
‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ star confirmed for third Apple TV project - 9to5Mac — Actor James Marsden, who recently played Owen Ashe in Your Friends & Neighbors, was confirmed this week for his Apple TV third production.
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