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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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 âHELP(2)â, 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 isnât enough. Just give these guys $1k-a-month to help meet their basic needs, at least. The NBA just...
World Monitor & WIREDâThe system ingests 100-plus data streams simultaneously,â 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 âground-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 couldnât fulfill the same deal as Anthropic while holding to the same high standards and principles.And itâs all of these shortsighted nincompoops that are going to...
AthleticShit.I mean good for himâhopefully thereâs no medical thing pushing him to thisâbut go enjoy your money while youâre 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 doesnât have LeBron as one of the best leaders he played withâcause he wasnât. LeBron as a leader is so overrated. Itâs why he needed Wade and Bosh and Irving and Love.
World of ReelThis is complete bullshit. Itâs always been about consolidation so they can charge more and produce less. Maybe they pump out thirty the first year, but it will trickle down until itâs no different than today.
The HillâThis change is part of a broader, ongoing effort to align all of Gallupâs public work with its mission,â a spokesperson for Gallup said. âWe look forward to continuing to offer independent research that adheres to the highest...
ABC NewsOver the last few months, the two have occasionally skirmished along their winding, porous frontier as tension has escalated. The latest confrontation is by far the most serious.Wait! Isnât this one of those wars the president...
McSweeneyâsMy fellow Americans, despite what everyone else says, we are living in the golden age of America. Not your golden age, though. My golden age. As in: I am very old, and everything I own is either solid gold or gold-plated or...
Brooklyn PaperSo youâre telling me the people who are only trying to âmake elections more secureâ and not prevent people from voting by passing a strict voter ID law just made it harder for New Yorkers to get said ID? HmmmâŠ
DefectorYou wouldnât trust anyone in the Trump administration to water your garden properly, and yet they get to decide who and what gets blown up. Everyone else has to suffer the consequences, this time none more greatly than those...