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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JNDThis already did the rounds, but it was fun to give it a go myself. I got a 0.0040 on it.
The VergeDespite that, Mezzell paints the shutdown as temporary, saying, “We’re not giving up. Digg isn’t going away,” with “A small but determined team is stepping up to rebuild with a completely reimagined angle of attack.”I think...
VarietyThis is the news I’ve been waiting for! June 26th!
ESPNAm I the only one who didn’t realize people in Europe even played baseball? Impressive showing by the Italians though!
ManuYou either believe in something and you’re willing to power through, or you don’t, and you do what everybody else is doing.I guess it’s safe to say Manu doesn’t believe in the idea that “the truest sign of intelligence is the ability...
The Heat center, who is known as one of the league’s best defenders, entered Tuesday with a career scoring average of just 16 points per game and has only averaged more than 20 points per game once in his career (20.4, in the 2022–23...
ParsewordA new daily word game from the creator of Wordle. There’s a lot of fun and unique gameplay design that just shines. It took me a few go-arounds to really get the hang of it, but once I did, it just sort of clicked—although I’m...
screamer.newsSo I built something on Friday and it's already gone through a ton of revisions, but it's at a point where I think I'm pretty happy with it. I wanted a simple place I could go to quickly catch up on the major topics of the...
BandcampLetters Charity is a nonprofit organization on a mission to use Art as a conduit to transform passive compassion into immediate assistance through the distribution of money given, without expectation or judgment, directly to...
Bandcamp & War Child UKIn addition to the stellar cast of musicians involved, renowned filmmaker and Academy Award Winner Jonathan Glazer acted as Creative Director for ‘HELP(2)’, working with Academy Films to assemble a team of...
AthleticIf these 23 old heads are having to gig for Uber and Amway at 80-years old, whatever pension they are getting from the NBA isn’t enough. Just give these guys $1k-a-month to help meet their basic needs, at least. The NBA just...
World Monitor & WIRED“The system ingests 100-plus data streams simultaneously,” Habib notes. The result is a constantly updating map of global tensions: conflict zones with escalation scores, military aircraft broadcasting positions...
lucas.loveI just learned that friend of the Variable, Lucas, developer extraordinaire, developed the Monologue app for iOS, taking the initial concept and prototype that was vibe-coded based on the Mac app and turning it into an...
PoliticoThe fact that the Commission said TikTok should change the basic design of its service is “ground-breaking for the business model fueled by surveillance and advertising," said Katarzyna Szymielewicz, president of the Panoptykon...