The Independent Variable
The Independent Variable
Kevin Humdrum
Welcome to The Independent Variable, the official linkblog of the interwebs covering culture, politics, sports, and tech since 2012.
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threads.com via instagram.com I try not to link to Threads (or the MLB for that matter), but these photos that play on the lines from the Rule of Thirds are just too damn good not to share.
ft.com “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful,” he said. “I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants. If we’re not there, there are...
kottke.org This is embarrassing. It’ll probably be a huge success.I'm just trying to figure out if these people have absolutely no shame, or if they are embarrassed and do it anyway because they think they can make a buck off of it. As...
mcsweeneys.net It’s certainly a rare bourbon, the kind of bottle you only get by calling in lots of favors (or having something really damning on your supplier). But is the Director Ka$h Patel Kash Patel FBI Director edition Woodford...
arun.is And this process leaves me confident that I’m not falling into the trap I fell into before, where I was letting AI do the thinking and writing for me.I get it, AI is useful in some areas. Hell, I'm being asked to vibe-code for my...
theguardian.com I honestly didn't see this one coming. Feels like a really weird acquisition for Allen, but I guess it's relatively cheap compared to its peak. I still think this whole idea of user-generated content being something that...
mothership.blog Friend of the foof, Ellie Black, with a wonderful webcomic for Mothership. Highly, highly recommend!
dirtylittlezine.com via library.dirtylittlezine.com Make a printable 8-page folded zine from a single sheet of paper. Free browser-based editor with photo layout, captions, and 300 DPI JPG/PDF export.Awesome little tool to help you make...
worldofreel.com Aster once quipped that he couldn’t believe A24 was “stupid enough” to give him $35M to make “Beau Is Afraid.” They shelled out another $30M for “Eddington,” which also failed to ignite. Maybe that’s the end of that...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com Global affairs journalist David Rothkopf wrote today in The Daily Beast: “Not since Vietnam have we seen a more systematic effort by an administration to lie about the nature, costs, consequences, and...
gkeenan.co When an opportunity like this presents itself, it feels absurd to turn it down. I've lived too much of my life trying to cling to what feels comfortable, and it's never been worth it.Really wonderful to see Keenan and Katy...
worldofreel.com She argued that the genre has “Marvel-ized” storytelling, flattening characters into predictable heroes and villains, whereas real life — and more interesting cinema — involves morally complex, “messier” people with mixed...
arrowtype.com via futurefonts.com Kyrios is a curious, slightly psychedelic blackletter family. Though it may seem like a modern idea, it is an interpretation of lettering from a grave monument carved in the late 1800s, located in...
kottke.org This is top tier Banksy.
foofaraw.press The first anthology from Foofaraw Press has arrived.A little bit of self-promo here, but over on the litmag I run, we released our first full length anthology. It's a book of 30 stories that were submitted to us based on...