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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VarietyThis is the news Iāve been waiting for! June 26th!
ESPNAm I the only one who didnāt realize people in Europe even played baseball? Impressive showing by the Italians though!
ManuYou either believe in something and youāre willing to power through, or you donāt, and you do what everybody else is doing.I guess itās safe to say Manu doesnāt believe in the idea that āthe truest sign of intelligence is the ability...
The Heat center, who is known as one of the leagueās 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 2022ā23...
ParsewordA new daily word game from the creator of Wordle. Thereās 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 clickedāalthough Iām...
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 āHELP(2)ā, 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 isnāt enough. Just give these guys $1k-a-month to help meet their basic needs, at least. The NBA just...
World Monitor & WIREDāThe system ingests 100-plus data streams simultaneously,ā 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 āground-breaking for the business model fueled by surveillance and advertising," said Katarzyna Szymielewicz, president of the Panoptykon...
ReutersSurprisingly absolutely no one with half a brain, OpenAI actually couldnāt fulfill the same deal as Anthropic while holding to the same high standards and principles.And itās all of these shortsighted nincompoops that are going to...
AthleticShit.I mean good for himāhopefully thereās no medical thing pushing him to thisābut go enjoy your money while youāre young and have a restful life with your family. That should be the goal for most folks anyway, but boy is this...
AthleticI just love that even D-Wade doesnāt have LeBron as one of the best leaders he played withācause he wasnāt. LeBron as a leader is so overrated. Itās why he needed Wade and Bosh and Irving and Love.