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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pitchfork.com Over the weekend, 15 previously unreleased covers appeared on Rivers Cuomo’s YouTube page with little explanation and even less warningI get that people hate on Weezer because their new music isn’t great (or even good...
lexingtonalarm.org via gillianbrockell.com Love to see it! A live map to track ICE flights to know when they could be coming to your city. Feels like an important thing to share so maybe go and do that.
mcsweeneys.net via thingstoclick.com 13. Bread. What your grandma thinks Zohran wants.Things to Click already nailed the best one, but this one I pulled is fun as well. Lots of great lines.
youtube.com I discovered Cure for Paranoia last year (or the year before..?) when they were doing a new rap song every day that got very political. It was superb. Then I learned about all their Tiny Desk submission videos: superb again....
napavalleyregister.com 12 judges, 20 wines, the finest bottles Burgundy and Bordeaux could offer, alongside a handful of upstart California labels that most of the French wine establishment had never heard of. When the scores were...
emilyadel.lol via naiveweekly.com This is really creepy... but also a cool way to take something creepy and make something cool on the internet with it... I can't get myself to actually listen to any of these... but the rest of Emily's...
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...