The Independent Variable

Kevin Humdrum

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Welcome to The Independent Variable, the official linkblog of the interwebs covering culture, politics, sports, and tech since 2012.

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• “There’s No Basketball Case”: Why the NBA Is Expanding Anyway 2026-03-26 08:34pm
• The Madison Becomes Taylor Sheridan’s Biggest Series Debut Ever in Ratings 2026-03-26 08:24pm
• Stephen Colbert’s next epic quest? Writing a new Lord of the Rings movie 2026-03-25 08:36pm
• 1 Picasso 100 Euros 2026-03-25 02:19pm
• Mockdown — ASCII Wireframe Editor 2026-03-25 01:00pm
• The Merlin Bird ID app is now the Merlin Fight ID app 2026-03-25 11:34am
• Instagram and Facebook are about to be filled with affiliate content 2026-03-24 10:18pm
• Pentagon’s ‘Attempt to Cripple’ Anthropic Is Troublesome, Judge Says 2026-03-24 05:24pm
• Netflix’s One Piece Showrunner Adapting Monstress Into Adult Animated Series - Reactor 2026-03-24 04:50pm
• Donald Trump’s latest climbdown suggests he wants to end the war 2026-03-24 04:49pm
• Sora is dead 2026-03-24 04:34pm
• ICE Agents Just Making Sure They’re the Only Terrorists at Airport 2026-03-24 04:11pm
• Trump wants $200 billion for bombs. Here's what that could buy instead. 2026-03-24 03:43pm
• Apple Maps may be about to get ads 2026-03-24 12:11pm
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’ 2026-03-24 11:56am
• Horror Novel ‘Shy Girl’ Canceled Over Suspected A.I. Use 2026-03-24 11:15am
• Flea: Thinkin Bout You | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2026-03-24 10:15am
• Netflix Denies Claims It Forces Filmmakers to Repeat Plot Points for Viewers: “Haters Gotta Hate” — World of Reel 2026-03-24 08:13am
• Paul Thomas Anderson Rewrote Martin Scorsese’s ‘What Happens at Night’ — World of Reel 2026-03-24 08:10am
• Hideo Kojima's Commitment To Acronym Jackets Remains Undefeated 2026-03-24 08:08am
• Wild Horse Nine — Trailer 2026-03-23 10:41pm
• the html review 05 2026-03-23 10:25pm
• Graphic Novel Review: ANIMAN is a funny, offbeat gem 2026-03-23 10:09pm
• Michaela Coel to Direct and Write ‘Bloodsport’ Remake for A24 — World of Reel 2026-03-23 09:33pm
• The Castle: Annotated 2026-03-14 05:34pm
• 🎨 What's My JND? 2026-03-13 08:45pm
• 🏗️ Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam 2026-03-13 08:43pm
• 🇺🇸 Larry David's New HBO Series Sets Title, Release Date and Cast 2026-03-13 08:38pm
• 🇮🇹 Italy beats Mexico to advance at WBC, along with Team USA 2026-03-13 08:37pm
• 🎲 Just admit you’re playing the game 2026-03-12 03:54pm
• 🏀 Heat’s Bam Adebayo drops 83 points, second-highest scoring game in NBA history 2026-03-10 08:56pm
• 🧩 A tricky wordplay game 2026-03-10 02:44pm
• 😱 Screamer News 2026-03-10 11:31am
• 🎵 Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi 2026-03-06 07:48am
• 🎵 HELP(2), by War Child Records 2026-03-06 07:36am
• 🏀 A handful of ex-ABA players hope for a last-second financial long shot from the NBA 2026-03-05 10:53am
• 🌍 World Monitor - Real-Time Global Intelligence Dashboard 2026-03-05 07:40am
• 🔊 How We Built Monologue for iOS 2026-03-03 09:24pm
• 📱 The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling 2026-03-03 08:20pm
• 🤖 OpenAI amending deal with Pentagon, CEO Altman says 2026-03-03 07:52pm
• 🐻 Bears Pro Bowl center Drew Dalman retiring at age 27 2026-03-03 12:53pm
• 🏀 Dwyane Wade: These are the three best leaders I played with in the NBA 2026-03-02 05:23pm
• 🍿 David Ellison Claims Paramount-Warner Bros. Will Produce 30 Theatrical Releases a Year — Is That Even Possible? 2026-03-02 05:21pm
• 🗳️ Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years 2026-03-01 09:20pm
• 🧨 What to know about the latest fighting between Afghanistan and Pakistan 2026-03-01 09:16pm
• 💸 My Fellow Americans, We Are Richer Than Ever Before. Well, You Aren’t, but We Are 2026-03-01 09:14pm
• 🛂 Brooklyn Public Library ends passport services after State Department order • Brooklyn Paper 2026-03-01 09:13pm
• 💣 Regime Change Is Blowing Up A School Full Of Children 2026-03-01 09:11pm
• 🎸 Buddy Guy — Tiny Desk Concert 2026-02-28 08:31am
• 🤖 OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash 2026-02-27 08:18pm
• ⛰️ The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God by Gorillaz 2026-02-27 12:14pm
• 🌁 mist 2026-02-26 11:24pm
• 🪐 Space & Time Magazine 2026-02-26 11:59am
• 🌐 Miniroll & Miniship 2026-02-26 11:56am
• 🏳️‍⚧️ Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday 2026-02-26 09:13am
• 🏒 U.S. Men’s hockey team honored at State of the Union, Trump says women’s team coming to White House 2026-02-24 08:04pm
• Glimmering fragments 2026-02-14 09:00am
• 🫠 Ai Weiwei on China, the West and shrinking space for dissent 2026-02-11 09:13am
• 🇭🇰 Jimmy Lai: Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon gets 20 years' jail under national security law 2026-02-11 09:13am
• 🧸 Chicago Cubs spring training preview: Players feel primed to contend after banner offseason 2026-02-10 06:16pm
• 🤖 As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts 2026-02-10 04:47pm
• 🤖 From Chatbots to Dice Rolls: Researchers Use D&D to Test AI’s Long-term Decision-making Abilities 2026-02-09 12:30pm
• Week 06—2026 2026-02-08 12:17pm
• 🔫 Mexican Cartels Overwhelm Police With Ammunition Made for the U.S. Military 2026-02-07 10:29am
• Walden: Annotated 2026-02-07 09:00am
• Walden: Annotated 2026-02-07 09:00am
• ⚽️ Ronaldo to boycott 2nd Al Nassr game in protest of PIF 2026-02-05 08:23pm
• 🧑‍⚖️ Top Minnesota prosecutor says ICE cases are sidelining ‘pressing priorities’ 2026-02-05 08:15pm
• 🏛️ The testimony of Aliya Rahman 2026-02-04 04:40pm
• 🧠 Healing Together Conference 2026-02-04 08:12am
• ✊ Resist and Unsubscribe 2026-02-03 04:20pm
• February 2026 2026-02-01 01:58pm
• 📺 DTF St. Louis (Trailer) 2026-01-28 10:57pm
• 🧛‍♂️ Josh Safdie Confirms ‘Marty Supreme’ Was Supposed to End With Kevin O’Leary as a Vampire 2026-01-28 03:01pm
• 🔠 Onigiri 2026-01-28 10:34am
• 🎤 Ye, Formerly Kanye West, Tells VF About His WSJ Apology Advertisement 2026-01-28 10:32am
• 🏈 Bill Belichick, legendary Patriots coach, snubbed by Pro Football Hall of Fame 2026-01-28 10:27am
• 🧊 ICE Agents Will Join Olympics Delegation in Italy. Many Italians are Angry. 2026-01-27 11:02am
• 🔫 Videos of Shooting Appear to Contradict Federal Officials 2026-01-24 03:23pm
• 📚 Story/Day/Year 2026-01-20 07:00pm
• 🤡 Trump Links His Push for Greenland to Not Winning Nobel Peace Prize 2026-01-19 10:14pm
• 💎 Adam Sandler: “I Will Make At Least 50 More Movies Before I Am Dead, and 25 of Them Will Be Good” 2026-01-19 09:48am
• 📚 You shouldn’t buy a colour e-reader (yet) 2026-01-19 09:47am
• 🤡 As Kennedy Center Rebrands It’s Mired in Black Tape 2026-01-19 09:47am
• 💸 Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time 2026-01-19 09:46am
• 🏈 Trump Says He Will Sign Executive Order Giving Army-Navy Football Game an Exclusive TV Window 2026-01-19 09:41am
• Week 03—2026 2026-01-18 08:31pm
• 🫀 A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion. 2026-01-18 06:31pm
• Now... 2026-01-17 08:46pm
• January 2026 2026-01-17 08:31pm
• 😵‍💫 Yeah, same. 2026-01-17 08:27pm
• 👹 GWAR cover "Pink Pony Club" by Chappell Roan 2026-01-16 11:11am
• 🤖 Elon Musk’s X Restricts Ability to Create Explicit Images With Grok 2026-01-15 02:21pm
• 😞 I can’t do this 2026-01-12 10:17am
• 🏴‍☠️ The United States has captured Venezuela’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro 2026-01-03 07:05am
• 🎧 Streaming music is the lie we tell each other 2025-12-22 02:05pm
• 🤖 Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee 2025-12-21 08:54am
• 🌐 Hypertext theme 2025-12-21 08:52am
• 😡 Megyn Kelly Fumes Over Charlie Kirk Not Being Named Time’s Person of the Year: ‘A Thumb in the Eye’ 2025-12-15 07:29pm
• 🦎 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Respond to Spotify Impersonator: “We Are Truly Doomed” 2025-12-11 03:12pm
• 🎞️ What Can Fashion Learn From A24? 2025-12-10 10:37pm
• 📧 December 10, 2025 2025-12-10 10:36pm
• 📼 SAYA DEMO MIXTAPE by Saya Gray 2025-12-10 09:01pm
• 📮 What's in my NOW? 2025-12-10 03:32pm
• 🧻 I hate the Pantone color of the year 2025-12-09 06:00pm
• 🎼 Quitting Spotify, ethics, and pay per stream 2025-12-09 12:57pm
• 🤖 Inside the Creation of Tilly Norwood, the AI Actress Freaking Out Hollywood 2025-12-09 12:19pm
• 🪿 Will Geese Redeem Noisy, Lawless Rock and Roll? 2025-12-09 11:32am
• 🎵 Pay per stream is a messy metric 2025-12-09 11:22am
• 🖼️ There’s beauty in the question — Mohammed Sami 2025-12-09 07:08am
• 🧑‍💻 Why Sell Lifetime Plans, in a Default Subscription World? 2025-12-08 09:01am
• 🎉 5 literary magazines for sci-fi and fantasy readers 2025-12-08 08:58am
• 💣 Will Congress rein in Pete Hegseth and his boat-bombing campaign? 2025-12-08 08:57am
• 📝 ProNotes 2025-12-08 08:23am
• 🆕 So many ".new" options 2025-12-07 09:12pm
• 📚 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 2025-12-07 12:05pm
• 🍷 The Michelin Guide is coming for wine. Here’s what it means 2025-12-07 10:50am
• ⚽️ America is now the biggest market for international football 2025-12-07 10:41am
• 🔬 The Undermining of the C.D.C. 2025-12-07 10:21am
• 🏥 A Battle with My Blood 2025-12-07 09:58am
• 💊 Trump says he will pardon ex-Honduras president convicted of drug trafficking 2025-11-29 09:04am
• ⛑️ USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths 2025-11-28 01:59pm
• 📹 Au 8ème Jour 2025-11-28 01:10pm
• 🤖 AGI is not possible even in 10 years 2025-11-28 01:06pm
• 📧 Dealgorithmed 2025-11-28 12:23pm
• 🤖 Coke's New AI-Generated Ad Required 100 Staff and 70,000 AI-Generated Clips, and It Still Looks Like Garbage 2025-11-28 12:22pm
• 🎸 Live at Ford Field by Jack White & Eminem 2025-11-28 12:13pm
• 🤖 OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates 2025-11-25 05:26pm
• 🤖 San Francisco’s youngest billionaires are betting on a new kind of job boom 2025-11-19 08:14am
• 💸 Everybody Stand Down: New Yorker Columnist’s Child Doesn’t Care About Sports Gambling 2025-11-19 08:08am
• 💽 Enema Of The Garden State by Madi Diaz 2025-11-19 08:06am
• 🎙️ My new business + tech podcast 2025-11-19 08:05am
• 🧀 Hollywood’s Cheesiest New Star: Parmigiano Reggiano Signed By UTA for Film and TV Placement 2025-11-19 08:04am
• 🏛️ Democrats didn’t just rebound. They dominated. 2025-11-05 12:41pm
• 🤖 Prove this photo is real 2025-10-28 11:06am
• 🏀 Billups, Rozier arrested in gambling investigations 2025-10-24 09:54am
• 🌠 Disney Nixed a Ben Solo ‘Star Wars’ Movie Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Adam Driver Says 2025-10-23 09:20pm
• 🤖 OpenAI buys Sky, an AI interface for Mac 2025-10-23 09:17pm
• 🤡 Trump Keeps Attacking Americans. Why Does He Get Away With It? 2025-10-23 09:13pm
• 🐂 Takeaways from the Bulls season opener 2025-10-23 09:12pm
• A system to organize your life 2025-10-20 08:55pm
• 💼 Personal Business 2025-10-18 09:11pm
• 🇺🇸 No Kings Day Pt. 2 2025-10-18 09:09pm
• 📺 Watching Apple TV in Apple TV on the Apple TV 2025-10-15 04:05pm
• 🆕 Jimmy Fallon wants to turn Wordle into a TV show 2025-10-15 04:02pm
• 🦾 Intro to Issue 58: Cyberpunk 2025-10-15 03:59pm
• 🔠 Die Grotesk design information 2025-10-09 10:38pm
• 🤖 The sort of mother fucker who makes SlopTok 2025-10-09 10:35pm
• 🤖 A cartoonist's review of AI art 2025-10-07 09:04pm
• 📚 ShortBox Comics Fair kicks off on October 1 2025-10-01 10:27pm
• 🤖 AI-Directed movie ‘The Sweet Idleness’ releases trailer amid AI actor Tilly Norwood controversy: ‘the first movie’ made by an ‘AI agent’ 2025-10-01 10:23pm
• 🔫 FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws 2025-10-01 10:21pm
• 🤖 OpenAI launches a social network 2025-09-30 05:40pm
• 🥤 Mountain Dew gets dirty with a new cream soda and fans are freaking out 2025-09-30 03:09pm
• 🏎️ Tesla makes it hard to get $50,000 Roadster deposit refunded after 8 years 2025-09-29 10:49pm
• 📰 The Nerve 2025-09-29 01:22pm
• 🧪 Ready for vibe VLOOKUP? 2025-09-29 11:46am
• 🏈 Why Defector is intervening to make public a confidential document in the Tyreek Hill case 2025-09-26 07:09pm
• 🦹 Countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence 2025-09-25 10:19pm
• 🛠️ OmniTools: free web-based tools for every day tasks 2025-09-23 08:38pm
• 🌊 Hello, world! 2025-09-23 08:38pm
• ◼️ ‘The Bear’ writer Alex O’Keefe says he was handcuffed & detained by police after “an old white woman” on a train complained about him 2025-09-23 06:35pm
• 🧊 We’re suing ICE for its $2 million spyware contract 2025-09-23 05:26pm
• 💉 They pump so much stuff into those beautiful little babies 2025-09-23 05:17pm
• 👺 California becomes first state to ban face coverings for most law enforcement 2025-09-21 10:29pm
• 🍖 Food insecurity 2025-09-21 10:27pm
• 🧸 Ben Johnson made this harder on himself 2025-09-19 11:11am
• 🦅 Colbert's The Word 2025-09-18 09:56pm
• HELP WANTED: More linkbloggers 2025-09-18 07:58pm
• 🗯️ In Charlie Kirk’s name: Trump officials signal move to limit free speech 2025-09-18 08:34am