Besides the bygone stairway to hog heaven, the scans also revealed the foundation of what was once a soap factory.
“Ghost stairs and pig bones sit in the way of new NYC train tunnel”, Stephen Nessen for Gothamist
Incredible headline, also.
All of the political fumbling of these tech billionaires reveals them to be babies with guns, utterly lacking in the maturity necessary to wield the power that has been placed in their hands.
“Visionaries Without Vision”, Hamilton Nolan in his newsletter How Things Work
A lacewing nymph has created a collaged carapace out of the bodies of beheaded ants and snippets of snail shells, before gluing its folk-horror assemblage to the bark of a tree and retiring inside it to consider its options.
Is A River Alive?, Robert Macfarlane
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For those of us keeping score at home, that's two stories about the hack and its overall political implications, both of which are less informative than Bloomberg; one story using hacked data to smear a mayoral candidate; and two stories jerking off.
“The Columbia hack is a much bigger deal than Mamdani’s college application”, Elizabeth Lopatto for The Verge
Dinosaur action is understood in all languages and across all cultures.
“JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH opening | The Jurassic series | Where we are now | July 4 to 6, 2025 4th of July weekend”, David A. Gross for his newsletter FranchiseRe movie industry newsletter
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Of course, American alligators—the actual living animals, rather than the snapping beasts of the White American imagination—are not on anyone’s side, particularly.
“Why Do Fascists Dream Of Alligators?”, Asher Elbein for Defector
In our own time, one must ask: is standing safely on the shore overwhelmed by Romantic-era thalassophobia really so different from bed-rotting and reading about deep sea diving accidents?
“the dark frisson of knowledge”, Kate Wagner in her newsletter The Late Review
A full list of these resemblances will no doubt be compiled by a future graduate student, bent over an A.I. as if it were a Moog synthesizer.
Review of Vera, or Faith by Dwight Garner for the New York Times
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Places like Forest Grove, that linger on the edge of the wilderness and civilization, tend to be home to weirdness.
“How a Strange Noise Overtook a Town, Then Suddenly Disappeared”, Colin Dickey for Atlas Obscura
Maybe we will come to a point where everybody is doing so many good deeds all the time that we can start to be picky about the contents of their hearts, but until then: by any means necessary.
“The Whippet #186: Forms of Floral Larceny”, McKinley Valentine for their newsletter The Whippet
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This monkey is not full of juice; he is a dried out and dusty contraption with angular, clumsy movements.
A review of King Kong by Jorge Luis Borges (translator unknown)
Alas, so far science has produced no evidence that anything gives your life meaning.
“Billionaire math”, Avery Pennarun on his blog apenwarr