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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economist.comOn Monday Mr Trump did the rounds of American business television channels, repeating his claims of “great conversations” with Iran. Iran has firmly denied the existence of such talks in public and rejected offers from...
birchtree.meWhat is the Venn diagram of people who thought Clubhouse and Sora were the next big thing, and is it a perfect circle?I think a big "feature" of the start-up age we've been in since "apps" on our phones became a thing, is...
theneedling.comCould you imagine how sad it would be if a foreign terrorist destroyed or ended your life instead of domestic one? Not on our watch.Would be funny if it weren't so true.
motherjones.com7 years of free school lunches. 3 years of Medicare dental coverage. 2,000 Trump heads on Mt. Rushmore.This is the argument I and others have been making for years. These war mongers don't blink an eye at spending billions...
techcrunch.comSuch a shift could represent a solid revenue driver for Apple. Google has included ads in its navigation app for years, and Bing Maps also offers a similar advertising capacity to local business owners.Apple should use all...
theverge.comFridman, the podcast’s host, defines AGI as an AI system that’s able to “essentially do your job,” as in start, grow, and run a successful tech company worth more than $1 billion.“Essentially” is doing a whole lot of work in...
nytimes.comIn an email to The Times late on Thursday night, Ballard denied using A.I. to write “Shy Girl,” contending that an acquaintance she hired to edit the self-published version of the novel had used A.I.On the one hand, I love...
youtube.comHonora by Flea is my most anticipated album of the year and it comes out this Friday. He and his band absolutely kill it during this performance. I need more of this in my life and hope he gets to do a Tiny Desk concert based...
worldofreel.comNetflix executives reportedly “laughed off” the idea that they require movies and TV shows to repeatedly recap their plots for audiences.If I were a betting man, I would wager a lot of money that either a) the executives...
worldofreel.comNo word on whether he will actually get credited for the rewrite, but he definitely did extensive work, and this was, according to Sneider, at the request of DiCaprio.I didn’t love Killers of the Flower Moon and after...
aftermath.siteAs does Jensen Huang's commitment to looking like a huge dork.I can’t help but absolutely love the compare and contrast here. It does amaze me that these billionaires like Huang and Musk don’t pay someone to dress them....
m.youtube.comMartin McDonagh has been on a (slow) heater as of late and now he gets to work with a fine cast in John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, and Parker Posey.
thehtml.reviewthe html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the webHaven’t gotten to it yet myself, but The HTML Review is always wonderful and always a huge inspiration for how we can do publishing different on...
comicsbeat.comAnouk Ricard's celebrated graphic novel, Animan, is a clever sort of anti-superhero parody that is always working toward the next joke.It's honestly been awhile since I've read some comics given I'm behind in basically ever...
worldofreel.comCoel seems an odd fit to reboot “Bloodsport,” which tells me this must be a total reimagining of the original. Maybe there will be a female lead.Apologies for blowing up feeds with test posts, but I think I’m finally done...