Bill Would Allow Videographers to Sue Federal Officials Who Block Their Right to Record Police — The Right to Record Act of 2026 would let people sue officers for civil compensation.
What Anne of Green Gables Reveals About White Girlhood — “How dare you!” Anne Shirley seethes. Anne stands in her one-room country schoolhouse wearing a gingham dress. She grips in her girlish hands the pale wooden frame of her writing slate—or rather, w…
What Do We Actually Know About the Microplastics Inside Us? — Pervasive plastic contamination and unreliable methods have clouded the science on microplastics in the human body. In an interview, Australian scientist Cassandra Rauert, who built a plastics-free lab to study human…
A typographer mapped every decision in a single letter—kerning, weight, angle—and showed how changing one millimeter shifts the whole thing. Lettering is half the read.
FlyDubai Suspends Israel Flights After Mid-Air Attack — "The Pulse With Francine Lacqua" is all about conversations with high profile guests in the beating heart of global business, economics, finance and politics. Based in London, we go wherever the story is, bringing you…
On Women and The Water Cure: Nine Memoirs About Wild Swimming — “Wild swimming” is a term coined by British nature writer Roger Deakin in his cult classic Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain (1999), about his year swimming outdoors all over the UK. A …
Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers — The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: Julie Buntin (Famous Men) Nathaniel Rich (Cloudthief) Lucy …
Palindrome List – Palindromes, Palindrome Words, Examples — Words that read the same backwards.
Dutch royal house helped slave trade to survive, study finds — In-depth study also says the royal house made huge profits from Dutch colonial policies in past centuries.
Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming Yourself Across the Sweep of Life — A roadmap to the fulfilled belonging on the other side of “the great aloneness which knows not what is far and what is near, nor what is small nor great.”
On One of America’s Great Conspiracy Theorists (and His Yankees vs. Cowboys Theory of History) — On November 22, 1963—the day on which President Kennedy arrived in Dallas to lay the groundwork for his 1964 reelection campaign and Richard Hofstadter set off from Oxford to attend…
Venezuela’s Rodriguez blames ‘propaganda’ for quake response backlash — Venezuela's acting president Delcy Rodriguez dismissed criticism of the government's response.
Norse Mythology for Smart People - The Ultimate Online Guide to Norse Mythology and Religion — Norse Mythology for Smart People provides an accessible, entertaining, and reliable introduction to the Vikings’ mythology and religion, with scholarly sources cited for everything. Com
MangaUpdates — Manga is basically the Japanese equivalent of what you might know as comic books. They have a very unique style which has developed over many years. We hope here you can learn to appreciate the art that is manga and become an avid manga fan!
50 Hours to Draw Some Lines - Doug MacDowell — Hand drawn data visualizations by artist Doug MacDowell.
Safebooru - Anime picture search engine! — Safebooru is a anime and manga picture search engine, images are being updated hourly.
Here are the 2026 National Book Awards finalists. — Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in all five categories—Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature—for the 2026 National Book Award…
this graphic novel is literally just sequential stills from a security camera watching a guy decide whether to text his ex for three hours
The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK — RTK promises dramatic token savings for coding agents, but raw terminal compression is not the same as cheaper, safer, or more accurate software engineering.
“The Figure a Poem Makes,” a Poem by Donna Masini — It’s a slow start. Notice the way she’s holding the pen. Four-beat line to open, leaning blue, and—synesthesia—right at the jump. If she can shift to the conditional—yes! She lands clean on an …
What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools — Those who are convinced that there is more to things spend their time chasing it and not finding it often as not, and those who are convinced there isn't find themselves frustrated at the abyss.
The Short Story Project – A curated, audible collection of short stories for avid readers. — Curated short fiction.
Build yourself flowers — Living and working in a world of generated code.
For 50 Years the Major Oil Companies Have Known They’re Destroying the Planet — Near the end of the first century AD, in the highlands of northern Spain, the Roman governor, philosopher, and naturalist Pliny the Elder watched as mining cleaved a landscape. “What happens is far…
France’s Lescure Wants 2027 Budget That Brings Deficit Below 5% — French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said he will push for a finance bill for next year that brings a further improvement in public finances, and expects parliament “most likely” will allow a budget to pass.
21 reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked — Here are 21 reasons I delayed getting my EMT licensed, sorted loosely by ridiculousness.
“Filmmaker” suing PassThePopcorn may be banned user out for revenge — Allegedly fake filmmaker targeted trackers like PassThePopcorn, BroadcasTheNet, and HDBits.
writing tip: say something surprising
Lebanese in Brazil, Brazilian in Lebanon — Their families left Lebanon generations ago. For some Lebanese Brazilians, Lebanon’s pull never disappeared.
How—and Why—We Find Ourselves Trapped By Our Jobs — Leo Tolstoy should have been triumphant. By the 1880s, the Russian novelist had written the masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina, achieving what he’d spent his life pursuing. But he was con…
Anime News, Top Stories & In-Depth Anime Insights - Crunchyroll News — Stay on top of anime news and updates straight out of Japan with Crunchyroll News. From breaking stories to evergreen content, get all your anime and manga news updates in one place. You heard it here first!
Index of / — Every cartoon, catalogued.
Comic book artist drew the same panel 50 times to figure out why a character's face felt wrong. It was the eyebrow going up instead of down.
US Stocks (SPY) Poised to Turn a Corner, Citadel Securities’ Rubner Says — Citadel Securities’ Scott Rubner is growing “increasingly constructive on what comes next” as US equities head into the final quarter of the year.
Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace — “Self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair.”
Forgotten Landmines: 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This August — “You see, one can live without having survived,” writes Carolyn Forché. That sounds grim, and indeed it is, but it also points to one of the qualities that makes contemporary poetry so remark…
S. Korean Producer Prices Rise Most Since 2022 on Energy Costs — South Korea’s producer prices rose in May at the fastest pace in nearly four years, as higher energy costs and a broad-based increase in industrial prices continued to filter through the economy.
Found a 1987 comic where the artist drew the same panel twice by mistake — but the second time the villain's expression changed just enough that it completely rewrites what he was thinking. Ten year old me never noticed.
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.
Authorization Terminology is a Mess: Let's Fix It - IDPro — Authorization terminology often conflates ideas and presents complementary technologies as rivals. This post proposes a new taxonomy.
ICE Starts Gold Futures in London Market Dominated by Top Banks — Intercontinental Exchange Inc. has launched new gold futures contracts in London, in the latest effort to expand trading in a market built on over-the-counter deals that’s dominated by a handful of global banks.
Francis Lee Rogers, Painter and Avid Birdwatcher, Found Dead in Central Park — The 63-year-old unhoused artist, known for her depictions of the park, has been beaten to death, accoding to reports.
The Boring Part of Bell Labs — It took me a long time to realize that Bell Labs was cool. You see, my dad worked at Bell Labs, and he has not done a single cool thing in his life except create me and bring a telescope to my thir…
A math teacher spent a semester tracking which essays students actually read versus skimmed, then wrote about what he found. The data is brutally specific.
You Know Who Really Hates AI? Insurance Claims Adjusters — Of the Glassdoor reviews from claims adjusters that mentioned AI, a staggering 98 percent were negative. “AI is just a tool,” one person tells WIRED. “It should never be given the keys.”
Your old Chromecast can still do something useful even if you don't stream with it anymore — That old Chromecast might be more useful than you think.
Photographer Discovers Forgotten 19th-Century Photos of Japan and Reimagines Them Today — A photographer uncovered a trove of forgotten 19th-century photographs of Japan in her family home and used them as inspiration for a series of modern
Any Human Ever — One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.
Lit Hub Daily: September 4, 2026 — Suzanne Roberts offers advice (and prompts!) for writing about sex. | Lit Hub Craft How does time actually work? Jim Al-Khalili explores the flow of physics. | Lit Hub Science These Latin American …
Taiwan flexes military capabilities ahead of Trump-Xi talks — Taiwan has staged live-fire drills with missiles and attack drones as Donald Trump prepares to host China’s Xi Jinping.
The spell that wouldn't leave · mahl.me — On reading Terry Pratchett at sixteen, in the back of a French classroom, and a sentence that has been kicking over the furniture in my head ever since.
The Artist Who Colored Ghibli — Plus: news.
TrendForce warns of higher notebook prices and weaker demand in 2027 - 9to5Mac — TrendForce projects that global notebook shipments could decline by a high-single-digit percentage in 2027, depending on how manufacturers respond to...
Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case — Another lawyer was caught using ChatGPT in a legal brief.
How Wolverine: Weapon X Reinvented the Classic Marvel Tale — Barry Windsor-Smith was one of the most popular creators at Marvel Comics. Part of his popularity was due to his style. His comics did not look like or read like other comic books. It is important …
One Man’s Crazy Scheme to Create a New County in Northern Ireland — Rarely am I able to pinpoint precisely where a novel comes from. Patricia Highsmith once wrote, “ideas come to me like birds in the corner of my eye.” Until very recently this felt like an apt syno…
Five Essential Books on Women in the Early Civil Rights Movement — While the story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s is well known by all Americans, the decades preceding it remain a mystery to many. And while Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, …
‘Did he know?’: Why Israel is rejecting an October 7 reckoning — The fixation on Netanyahu’s failures allows Israel to avoid confronting what it has done in Gaza.
Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine — Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable.
Pelican-bicycle alternatives — Thirty SVG drawing prompts in the style of Simon Willison's pelican-riding-a-bicycle test, given to language models in 2025 and 2026.