There's a podcast where someone just reads their old LiveJournal entries from 2004 and I came back to this because the secondhand embarrassment somehow feels necessary? 📻
How to Navigate Amazon’s E-Reader Monopoly — I made a promise to myself (and my partner) after we were forced to find a new apartment unexpectedly and had to deal with moving all of my books: from now on I would make an effort to read more di…
Death toll from capsized ferry in Zimbabwe rises to 92 — Search efforts to recover the remaining victims are still underway.
Inside the Ludicrous, Deadly Serious Plan to Take Over Greenland — “We want Greenland,” Trump said. Four men sprang into action to make fantasy a reality.
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…
Speech Accent Archive — Hear accents from everywhere.
Commonweal Magazine — Commonweal's mission is to provide a forum for civil, reasoned debate on the interaction of faith with contemporary politics and culture.
A Fatal Reaction - Longreads — "A cutting-edge gene-editing trial in China went disastrously wrong. A family wants accountability."
Ginger Software | English Grammar & Writing App — Powerful and effortless desktop & mobile solutions for improving your writing and productivity. Ginger Software is your personalized editor - everywhere you go.
Undiscovered Country: The 100th Anniversary of Virgina Woolf’s “On Being Ill” — I was lying in my attic bedroom reading a book, when my husband came up to speak with me. I wriggled over to make room for him and heard a muffled sound like a wet branch snapping. As I stood up, a…
Edwidge Danticat Wishes Her Former English Teachers Would Read Her Work — Edwidge Danticat’s new book, Dèy, is available now from Alfred A. Knopf, so we asked her a few questions about favorite characters, writing advice, writer’s block, and more. * Who do you most…
Online Trolls Harassed Her Six-Year-Old. That Was Only the Beginning. - Longreads — "How a group of sports fans at the University of Iowa sparked a clash involving a basketball star, a T-shirt company, and a reporter from halfway across the country."
How to Hold What Harrows You — We are shaped by all we have suffered — by what harrows us — and in turn shape our lives by how we hold our harrowing. Harrow shares its Middle English root with harvest. It is by suffe…
Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain - Here's how to do it — Because I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist of it is that when…
New Gemini overlay for Wear OS rolling out to Pixel Watch — Gemini on Wear OS is getting a new overlay design that takes after Neural Expressive on Android phones to boost cross-device consistency.
Hedgie (@HedgieMarkets) — 🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books…
3 exciting Netflix shows to binge this weekend—one brand new (July 17-19) — An SNL legend's Netflix debut, a family of lovable Chicago degenerates, and a flight that landed very, very late.
Barzani says Iraqi Kurdistan wants peace as regional tensions rise — Barzani says Iraqi Kurdistan wants peace as regional tensions rise
What Dogs See When They Look at Us — A humane study of how artists have captured our canine companions becomes a meditation on sympathy, trust, and the virtues we have bred them to display.
URL Design: Routes, Queries, and Fragments | JavaScript Tools Blog — Learn how to design readable, stable URLs and choose correctly between route paths, query parameters, and fragments in modern web applications.
A Global Journey: Understanding Centuries of Black Exclusion and Erasure in Healthcare — Sugarcane plantations reigned supreme in Trelawny, Jamaica, in the late 1700s, when there were more than one hundred estates. The parish, covered by loamy rainforest soil, was established…
Summer hosting on a budget: Shop these items at Amazon for under $25 — Snag backyard games, a portable speaker, s'mores kit, and inflatable toys for summer fun.
US Natural Gas Rises on Record-Breaking Heat, Lower Output — US natural gas increased, extending gains from the previous session, as forecasts shifted hotter over the weekend, indicating higher demand for the power-plant fuel as consumers ramp up their air-conditioning use. The…
Flex your football brain with our daily quizzes — Test your ball knowledge with today's Who Am I?, Five in Five and Brainteaser.
Colombia Quake Levels Buildings, Sparks Survivor Search — A magnitude 7.4 earthquake shook western Colombia on Monday, reducing buildings to rubble, sending residents into the streets and setting off a desperate search for people trapped under the debris. (Source: Bloomberg)
Pluralistic: The difference between “today’s task” and “accretive work” (02 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Watch fans react to every goal of England v Norway — The quarter-final of the World Cup saw the two teams face off in Miami, cheered on by fans back home.
Is This the End of Political Islam? — For decades, Islamic governance held allure in the Middle East. Now some scholars say the Islamist wave has passed.
2026 Holidays Daily Weekly Monthly by Brownielocks. — Bizarre holidays and trivia.
Anker fixes the two worst things about power stations — Cheap, small for 2kWh, and super efficient.
Putin says Russia will bolster air defenses in response to Ukrainian drone attacks — President Vladimir Putin says Russia will strengthen its air defenses to counter recent Ukrainian drone attacks, which have reached deep inside his country and cast a cloud over his showcase econ
Restaurants face backlash over AI-generated food photos — AI is turning restaurant menus into nightmare fuel.
Johnny Knoxville, America’s God of Mischief - Longreads — "What moves the star of 'Jackass' to risk his life for our entertainment? A very serious investigation."
Done in a weekend - the $12.5bn LA Lakers sale that shocked the NBA — The Los Angeles Lakers' record $12.5bn (£9.3bn) sale was agreed in the space of a weekend, leaving the NBA world and fans in shock.
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.
To Write As If No One Will See What You’ve Written: Why the Short Story Won’t Go Away — Every so often—sometimes in October, when the annual Best American Short Stories anthology is published, or on the infrequent occasions when an iconic short story writer like George…
Leave a Trace — Always leave something behind. If you find something interesting, leave a trace that you were there.
Dior dress and a man of honour: What we know about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding — The couple tied the knot in New York on Friday, after months of speculation about when, where and how it would happen.
He Was Deported to Eswatini in Southern Africa. He May Never Go Free. — As the Trump administration sends a growing number of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, some find themselves imprisoned with no way out.
Mr. Men I’ve Dated — Meet my exes, including Mr. Natural Deodorant and Mr. Conspiracy.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Prison Experiment - Longreads — "His life behind bars and his desperate campaign to get free."
15 Reasons Robotics is Hard — And why you should ignore demo videos
Will “American” Ever Be a Fully Distinct Language of Its Own? — More than a decade ago, while on research fellowship at the British Library, I used to while away off-hours at the various pubs in King’s Cross, including a slightly dissolute bar on Cromer Street …
Merci, Marjane: What the <em<Persepolis Author Meant to Me as an Iranian in Exile — I’m in my car, in a Trader Joe’s parking lot in South Pasadena. On the phone, my friend Monika is telling me about a lost dog in her Salt Lake City neighborhood, a blue heeler who’…
Apple decides undermining its own email privacy feature was a bad idea after all — Apple decides undermining its own email privacy feature was a bad idea after all.
When an American Airplane Crashed Into a School in 1944, an English Village Lost Almost All of Its Youngest Children. Why Has WWII's Worst Civilian Aviation Accident Been Forgotten? — On August 23, 1944, a test flight over the village of Freckleton, located in northwest…
Vintage Can Spout #vintage #gadgets — Vintage Can Spout #vintage #gadgets
Tiger Woods to change plea after crash arrest — The golfer will be in court on Wednesday for a hearing to change his plea after being charged with driving under the influence.
GitHub - alternbits/awesome-cuda-books: A curated list of best cuda programming books — A curated list of best cuda programming books. Contribute to alternbits/awesome-cuda-books development by creating an account on GitHub.
Former world champion Dott goes on trial over child abuse allegations — The 2006 world champion is accused of lewd and libidinous behaviour towards a girl and a boy in Glasgow and South Lanarkshire.
Black and Blue in Cleveland - Longreads — Both of Wilbert L. Cooper's parents were cops. In this excerpt from his memoir, Cooper recounts how his mother got into the force—and what the department did to try to keep her out.
The 17 Minutes That Changed America - Longreads — "For the briefest of windows, September 11, 2001, wasn’t yet a calamity but merely a strange accident. And that pivotal span forever altered the way we look at disasters, at the sky, and at one another."
The Business of Watches Podcast: Geneva Watch Days President And Former CEO Of Bulgari Jean-Christophe Babin — Babin previews this year's Geneva Watch Days and makes the case for what sets the gathering apart from other watch industry events.
Fifa regrets free ticket error but demands fans pay — Fifa says fans who were mistakenly given free tickets to World Cup group stage matches in Toronto must pay for them within seven days or lose the seats.
Acer shows off its AI desktop future with the RTX Spark design — It's a showcase of NVIDIA's latest chip tech.
How Bad an Idea Was Brexit? — It hasn’t done what its supporters promised—but it has reshaped politics not only in the U.K. but across Europe and in the United States.
Is AI making us think less? | Harleen Kaur | TEDxTarneit Youth — Harleen is 11 years old. She likes to read and play netball. You will also find her playing a lot with her siblings. When she is older, she hopes to be a lawyer. Harleen is a student at Wimba Primary School.…
“Matisse’s Femme au Chapeau: A Modern Scandal,” Reviewed — More than a century after its incendiary début, “Woman with a Hat” remains wonderfully resistant to the dictates of beauty and taste.
Lawrence helps England build big lead on rain-affected day at Lord's — Dan Lawrence hits an unbeaten half-century as England close on 177-7 in their second innings on day three of the second Test at Lord's, with the hosts leading by 357 and seemingly closing in on a series…
Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated | TechCrunch — Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools that threaten to undermine their livelihoods. That seems illegal, right?