The Independent Variable

The Independent Variable

Kevin Humdrum

Culture

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

https://tiv.today/

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• 🎧 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