In fairness to Kneecap and Sally Rooney, if I had to embroil myself in a battle of wits with a world leader, I’d probably pick Keir Starmer too.
“Surrealing in the Years: Starmer has chosen the wrong opponent in Sally Rooney”, Carl Kinsella for The Journal
Like all things tech, I have purposely decided not to learn much about AI, but this week I decided to dip my toe in, and wrote this as a memorial to the brain cells lost.
“The Spectral Evidence for AI”, Sarah Lyons in her newsletter The House of Mirrors
He adjusted the dachshund to show a student that “anyone could be adjusted.”
“Suburban animal chiropractor searching for briefcase he inadvertently sold”, Izzy Stroobandt for NBC5 Chicago
Submitted by ranjit.
Okay, so let me tell you about my doorbell, from a #networking perspective.
Submitted by Chris.
This is difficult to discuss without sounding like a scold, a killjoy, or a hypocrite, so let me say right up front that I cherish dollars.
“The Disobedient Dollar”, Chris Feliciano Arnold for The Approach
There is probably no getting away from the goofyfication of everything
“Are pints ‘content’?”, Hazel Southwell in her newsletter Behind the Bar
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A photograph cannot inspire an antiwar movement if the antiwar movement has been spirited away in the night to a facility in Louisiana.
“Palestine was the problem with TikTok”, Sarah Jeong for The Verge
I have a solution: wolves
Headline to a George Monbiot editorial in The Guardian
Submitted by Anne, via Rob Manuel’s newsletter.
“RFK Jr. Fires Piss Czar” will be a visible headline sitting directly next to Bon Appetit and Guns & Ammo.
It would be SHOCKINGLY more reasonable for him to propose building a ladder to the moon.
Submitted by Erin.
Even the trees know the vibes are very bad here.
“Vibes”, shon faye for her newsletter Idle Thoughts
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It may be one of my new favorite cube-based artworks.
“Why Is This Artist Growing Metal in a Box?”, Ben Davis for artnet
Loud chewers in any other context are profoundly irritating, but these bats get a pass because it’s kind of hard to be quiet while crunching through mouse bones perched upside-down.
“Scientists Discovered Bats Group Hugging and It’s Adorable”, Becky Ferreira for 404 Media
Submitted by Hugh.
And Just Like That … was a state of mind, and that mind was in a coma.
“And Just Like That, And Just Like That … Is Dead”, Rachel Handler for Vulture
Diamandis’s network, known to its constituents as the Peterverse, is largely peopled by slim, graying, well-off men who finger their Oura rings like horcruxes.
“How to Live Forever and Get Rich Doing It”, Tod Friend for The New Yorker
I kind of wish he hadn’t gone down the erection pathway.
Peter Diamandis as quoted in the above New Yorker article
Submitted by Jason, which is how I ended up reading the piece and finding the previous deranged sentence.