A Poet on the Factory Floor: On Daily Life in China’s Industrial Centers — on the pristine production floor the air you breathed was just another product sitting at workstations wearing antistatic rings you let out the stench of rust let in the summer breeze and revived, …
Are Elder Millennial Women in America Ok? A Historical Accounting — To be human is to go through multiple cycles of belief and cynicism throughout your lifetime. To quote the canonic meme guy sitting at a table, debate me. But I think that people my age have grown …
This artist has been drawing the same character every single day for 12 years... the evolution is 😭
MangaDex — Read comics and manga online at MangaDex, with high quality images and support creators and translators!
US judge voids Donald Trump's $1.8bn settlement with IRS that gave him immunity from tax audits — The judge said the suit was brought for 'improper purposes' and referred a Trump attorney for possible disciplinary action.
Elon Musk finally launches X Money. What could possibly go wrong? — Expect bumps with X Money rollout as major US financial markets are excluded.
Google Search isn't the undisputed king anymore, and these 3 private rivals prove it — You absolutely need to use one of these, but which one is best for you?
How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love — “We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come… We live everything as it comes, wi…
Tories pick themselves up off the floor with unexpected Scottish by-election win — The Conservatives secured a comfortable victory over the SNP in Aberdeen South after throwing everything at the seat.
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Why are you still using Google Assistant on Android? [Poll] — Google Assistant has an official end-of-life date – September 4. While many have already made the jump to Gemini, a...
India’s Unloved Heavyweight Stocks May Be Poised for a Rebound — A combination of under-ownership and attractive valuations could draw buyers.
There's a database of every panel where Spider-Man's web actually breaks, organized by year and tensile strength, it's weirdly thorough
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What has been the impact of new owners on The Hundred? — BBC Sport looks at the impact new owners have had on The Hundred as the first season since private stakes were sold in teams draws to a close.
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Studio Ghibli Collection - Madman Entertainment — Studio Ghibli is one of the most acclaimed animation studios in the world, and the home of some of the most revered and beloved animated works to have ever graced the screen.
Apple says gaming slowdown and App Store changes hurt services growth | TechCrunch — Apple said a slowdown in mobile gaming and changes to the App Store’s business model — including court-ordered payment rule changes in the U.S. — weighed on its services business, even as the…
Greece pins hopes on heat-seeking satellites to predict forest fires — The country, which suffers each summer, builds an arsenal of high-tech surveillance to help pre-position firefighters.
How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for Our Resistance to Change — The most assuring thing about life is that we can change, that things can change, that they are always changing. The most maddening is that despite living in a universe that is one constant transmu…
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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…
Insignificant Bullets, Evil Poachers, and L.A. Culture | Work in Progress
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Daniel Mason, Rachel Aviv, Emeline Atwood and more: 21 new books out today! — It’s July, and it’s time to be absolutely inundated with summer novels. This week, we’re treated to the new book by North Woods author Daniel Mason, Country People, the hotly anti…
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Can Naomi Osaka defeat Aryna Sabalenka at Wimbledon? — Naomi Osaka has been on a hot streak at Wimbledon and has yet to drop a set. Up next: world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka.
My Software North Star — Loris Cro's Blog
Making Peace With Your Unlived Dreams | nik.art — I will never be a great snowboarder. For various genetic and non-genetic reasons, my knees are barely capable of surviving a three-hour hike, let alone the landing after a 1080. In fact, I’ll probably never be a snowboarder at all
Explore 1,300+ Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century, Now Restored and Available Online — Today, if you want to know about any of the flora or fauna that surround us, you have only to look it up online.
Against Usefulness — In a Brooklyn warehouse, a man handed me a piece of paper that was a running computer program.
A Chorus of Poets: On the Possible Existence of Multiple Homers — Dawn touches the sky with her rosy fingers, and I realize that I forgot to put the bin out. I turn on the radio, and the news is full of stories about powerful men with fragile egos catapulting the…
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.”
Found a 1987 comic where the artist drew every single background character with a different face. You notice it immediately but can't stop looking.
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Don's Maps - Palaeolithic / Paleolithic European, Russian, Ukrainian and Australian Archaeology / Archeology — Resources for the study of Palaeolithic European, Russian, Ukrainian and Australian Archaeology
Best Animation Scripts (Free PDF Downloads) — Here are the best animation movie scripts. A library of the most iconic and influential screenplays you can read and download right now.
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...
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AnimationResources.org - Serving the Online Animation Community — Provides resources for self-study for animation professionals, students, educators and researchers.
The Library of Congress digitized 150,000+ comic pages and made them searchable by panel. You can actually find every appearance of a character across decades.
We've made the world too complicated — https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/WildJungle%2842249210%29.jpeg We've made the world too complicated. I'm writing this with technology I...
The aperiodic table — XKCD 3242 is titled "The aperiodic table" and looks like this: Which is cool, but it's not aperiodic like a Penrose tiling . So, with a li...
Annotated every margin of a library book by accident. Spent three hours trying to erase pen from pages that weren't mine.
A comic artist spent two years drawing the same character in different moods. The subtle changes in how his shoulders sit completely reframe everything.
pixiv — The Japanese art community.
Today's Hurdle hints and answers for August 10, 2026 — Everything you need to win.
The Cost of Safetyism — What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard.
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More Bounce to the Ounce! — A love letter to the rocket that everyone is too chicken to build
Japan’s Producer Price Gains Stay High as BOJ Mulls Rate Path — Prices for Japan’s corporate goods continued to rise at an elevated pace in July, keeping high cost pressure on companies, as central bank officials continue to consider whether to proceed with additional interest…
What We Know About Iran's Hormuz Agreement With Oman — Iran said it reached an agreement with Oman on a proposed route for shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a potential step toward a reopening of the critical waterway for energy supplies. Bloomberg's Michael Heath breaks…
Meta claims its own AI also hacked into a third-party service during testing — Meta says its AI model accessed the internet during testing and hacked an organization thanks to a blunder by its evaluation partner.
Pimco Sees Fed on Hold Through 2026 as Inflation Moderates — Marc Seidner, CIO for non-traditional strategies at Pimco, discusses the outlook for inflation, the US economy and Federal Reserve policy. "We're much less fussed about about the inflation outlook on a forward-looking…
Hermann Hesse on Solitude, the Value of Hardship, the Courage to Be Yourself, and How to Find Your Destiny — “Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny.”
‘Camp Miasma’ Raises an Important Question: How Are Our Favorite Slasher Franchises Doing? — With "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma" now playing in theaters, it's a good time to check in with the real franchises that inspired the film.
I love this little video of burbling pasta sauces (sound on). Wish there was a 10-hour YT version for work bac — I love this little video of burbling pasta sauces (sound on). Wish there was a 10-hour YT version for work background noise…