How to Hold the Darkness: Notes on Living Through Uncertainty — There are times in life when the continent of certainty parts underfoot and, as the ash cloud of the old world rains darkness upon us, we are asked to swim in the rivers of lava that will make the …
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Diatoms and the Meaning of Life — In 1703, the world’s most esteemed scientific journal published a surprising letter from an anonymous correspondent. (At the time, until well into the twentieth century, anonymity often meant…
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There’s a New Coalition in the Democratic Party—and the Price of Membership is Criticizing Israel — A little over a week ago, Brad Lander—fresh off his recent ousting of incumbent Dan Goldman as the Democratic Party candidate for New York’s 10th congressional district—endorsed…
Chance, Choice, and the Avocado: The Strange Evolutionary and Creative History of Earth’s Most Nutritious Fruit — How a confused romancer that survived the Ice Age became a tropical sensation and took over the world.
speedrunner beat a souls game with a ddr pad. the input lag made it somehow easier 🎮
Sly Flourish: Run great tabletop roleplaying games. — Weekly articles with tips, tricks, tools, and advice for game masters written by the author of Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master.
ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life — ReactOS, the open-source operating system working for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows computer programs and drivers, has reached the milestone of being able to enjoy the classic game
Microsoft AI’s MAI-Transcribe-2 undercuts OpenAI, Google and ElevenLabs on price and speed — <p><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us">Microsoft AI</a> on Thursday released <a…
Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, has died at 58. — Marjane Satrapi, the author, artist, filmmaker, and activist behind the best-selling Persepolis series, has died at the age of 58. A leader in both France and Iran, Satrapi lived and wrote at a cul…
WhatsApp group chat used to send millions in cash, funding crime and extremism — The WhatsApp money launderers arranged cash transfers in the UK and around the world with no paper trail.
I saved over $1,000 after building this simple Excel subscription tracker — This straightforward Excel setup shows what I’m paying, when renewals are due, where I’m overspending, and which subscriptions I can cut.
Tinywind — Pixel Pirate Sailing Game — Outsail the Royal Navy in your browser. Real sailing physics, 5-minute voyages, 30 historical treasures to recover. Free to play.
My Ten Years in No Man’s Sky - NMSspot — Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the launch of Hello Games’ space exploration survival game, No Man’s Sky. On August 9th, 2016 the game landed on the Playstation 4 (with the PC version arriving a few days later). I remember getting…
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Francesca Wade has won the Plutarch Award for Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife. — Today, the Biographers International Organization announced the winner of the 2026 Plutarch Award for Best Biography of 2025: Francesca Wade’s Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife. “Gertrude Stein: A…
Copy Trading Offers Alternative to Traditional Investing — Steven Wang, Founder & CEO of Dub, launched the copy trading platform 3 years ago after dropping out of Harvard to become an entrepreneur. He says the app offers a unique alternative to sports betting, and fresh…
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Uncovered.ink · Judge a book by its writing — Read first pages blind. No cover, no name, no hype. Find out what you actually fall for.
Why did the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows have a special sticker announcing that it also had Tetris? - The Old New Thing — A contingency plan.
Kahlil Gibran on Silence, Solitude, and the Courage to Know Yourself — “In much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”
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Dolmenwood — Dolmenwood is a fantasy RPG built around the acclaimed Old-School Essentials rules, presenting a familiar game with a lavishly detailed world inspired by the fairy tales and eerie folklore of the British Isles. Streamlined rules and helpful introductory materials…
Play video games? You, too, could become an air traffic controller. — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is touting the success of a campaign targeting video gamers to train as air traffic controllers.
The Trap, The Art and The Science of Small Talk | Maryna Starodubska | TEDxUniversity of Tartu — “The beauty of small talk is that it is small: a tiny gesture with outsized power to make us feel seen.” Maryna Starodubska tells how different cultures break the ice in wildly…
A speedrunner just beat a 20-year-old game record by doing something the original developers literally patched out in 2004. They found the patch notes and reversed it.
Molly Crabapple on the Jewish Bund — Artist and writer Molly Crabapple joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about the Jewish Labor Bund and its socialist, secular, anti-Zionist principles. Crabapple, whose ar…
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Nature and Creativity: The Science of “Soft Fascination” and How the Natural World Resets the Brain — “Our everyday experience does not prepare us to assimilate the gaping hugeness of the Grand Canyon or the crashing grandeur of Niagara Falls. We have no response at the ready;…
Canada unveils huge new Lake Ontario sign in snub to Trump — Canada unveils huge new Lake Ontario sign in snub to Trump
Under the microscope: Ecco the Dolphin (Sega PC) — Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin
The 12 Kinds of Time and How to Be More Fully Alive — “I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars,” Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska wrote in her lovely poem “Possibilities.” Our preferences, of course, hardly matter to…
Discord launches Nitro Rewards, giving subscribers access to the base tier of Xbox Game Pass for no extra cost | TechCrunch — Discord's Nitro Rewards program will give Nitro subscribers access to Xbox Game Pass, and discounts from Logitech, SteelSeries, and other gaming brands.
Tech trouble leaves Chelsea game ref without comms — When referee Michael Oliver emerged for the second half at Stamford Bridge on Sunday something important was missing - his communications pack.
Introducing Lost Kite Editions, the Indie Press Bringing “Insurgent” Work to Minneapolis. — Rejoice, friends! The great city of Minneapolis is getting a new indie press. Lost Kite Editions (LKE) is a new nonprofit publisher specializing in poetry and literary prose. The press aim
Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates, extending to "the fundamental cosmological makeup of the universe" — Infamously simulation-heavy colony builder Dwarf Fortress is getting a Myth and Magic update later in 2026 that generates a sorcery system to fit your…
Iranian fishermen struggle to survive amid Hormuz blockade — The livelihoods of Iranian fishermen have taken a hit amid the US blockade on Iran’s ports in the Strait of Hormuz.
What to Do When Your Activism Leads to Threats From the Powerful — Claire Atkin had just touched down on the tarmac in her hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia, when her phone buzzed. On the screen flashed a series of texts from her neighbor: There was a man ou…
there's a podcast where someone just reads Wikipedia articles about obscure 19th century inventions. it's genuinely better than anything with a production budget... bombing builds character I guess
Linux gaming is getting faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features — As time goes on, fewer games than ever are unplayable on Linux
Splinter Cell veteran says realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth games: "it gets very hard to tell what’s light, what’s shadow, what’s dark, what’s safe" — Realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth games, says Clint Hocking of Splinter Cell and Far Cry fame.
Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal — Withdrawal symptoms following long-term SSRI use appear far more pervasive and serious than previously realised. Now medical bodies are rethinking how and when to stop taking them
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Paramount’s Purchase of Warner Bros. Could Cost 4,500 TV and Film Production Jobs and Hurt a Damaged Indie Film Biz — Paramount's purchase of Warner Bros. may mean 4,500 TV and film production jobs will be lost and could hurt the indie film sector.
On Trying—and Failing—to Write the Lives of Children in a Syrian Detention Camp — The boy is about five or six years old. He sits with his back against a giant red water tank, one hand on the spigot, the other on the post of the rusted metal platform that holds the tank up off t…
“Your dangerous shoe.” A Poem by Lila Matsumoto — When I woke up I discovered that Dorothy’s flatmate had taped up my broken shoe so tightly with electrical tape that I couldn’t get my foot in it to go to work. The flatmate had been very kind. He …
Valencia vs. Real Betis 2026 livestream: How to watch La Liga for free — Live stream select fixtures from La Liga without spending anything whatsoever.
Read an Original Review of All the King’s Men on Its 80th Anniversary — Perhaps you’ve recently been feeling a call to reread Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All the King’s Men. It could be because our world is a disturbing mirror t…
Windows GOG DOS Games on M-series Macs • F055 — GOG is great. I bought a few old games from them: SimCity 2000, Theme Hospital, Syndicate Plus. And by old games, I mean games from my childhood that still
Why Big Tech Is Incompatible with Democracy | Bruno Giussani | TED — Most of the technology powering life in Europe today — chatbots, the cloud, digital infrastructure — is owned by companies in the United States. Writer and curator Bruno Giussani makes the case that Europe's…
What I've Learned (So Far) Building Online Mini Games with Elixir and Swift — What I've Learned (So Far) Building Online Mini Games with Elixir and Swift -- My most recent side project is a little social arcade called Migo Games. You can check it out on the App Store for Mac and
How JD Salinger’s Experience of WWII Suffused All of His Writing, Even Catcher in the Rye — Among the things troops carried with them on the battlefields of World War II was the “heart shield bible”—a pocket-sized, government-issued book of scripture, sometimes with a metal…
The Magical 2-Ingredient Sauce I Stir Together Every Week (It’s Amazing on Almost Everything) — It’s great on everything from pasta to sandwiches to fries.
US-Canada trade war escalates as Trump threatens tariff hike on autos after Carney vows to retaliate — Mark Carney accused Trump of wanting to "destroy" Canada's auto industry, and said he would only resume trade talks if the US comes with the "right attitude".
Australian Minister Denies Softer Stance on Data Center Power — Australia’s Energy Minister Chris Bowen has rejected suggestions the government is softening requirements that future data center developments be powered by renewable energy.
Television to the Rescue! Camille Acker on the Craft Potential of TV — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I have always loved television, but as a kid, television was the “idiot box.” According to experts, this devic…
The 9 Best MagSafe Phone Grips for Your Butter Fingers (2026) — Keep your phone firmly in hand and add some personality with these comfortable, durable, and nifty smartphone grips.
South Carolina Republican Senate-Primary-Runoff Map: Live Results — Darline Graham and Ralph Norman compete for the G.O.P. nomination in November’s general election.