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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An Infinite MindI love āFight Club,ā āShutter Island,ā and āAmerican Psycho.ā (The movie and comic adaptations, too, for that matter.) Unreliable narrators are sublime. I donāt begrudge authors or filmmakers playing fast and loose with...
LinkGood list/resource for things you can do around various giant conglomerates who have influence over the administration and/or are enablers of ICE. I think my Apple One subscription is the only place Iām still subscribedāand I had a...
Here is the Little Letter of Nonsense for February! Available to paid subscribers as a PDF and/or in print, delivered straight to your mailbox.
YouTubeThis is one to keep an eye on when it premiers March 1 on HBO. It stars Jason Bateman, David Harbour, and Linda Cardellini, but more importantly, it comes from writer and creator, Steve Conrad who is also the mind behind the...
World of ReelOriginally, the film would jump ahead to the 1980s for its ending, with Marty having made the shoe store he works at in the beginning of the film into a massively successful franchise. Now a rich man (but not a ping pong...
Moontype FoundryAn absolutely stunning and delightful typeface. Instant buy for me.
Vanity FairāThis is not the first time that Ye has tried to apologize. In December 2023, he posted a brief apology on Instagram, written in Hebrew and directed to āthe Jewish community for any unintended outburst caused by my words or...
NY TimesDude has six super bowls as a head coach and two as a defensive coordinator. I hate the Patriots dynasty as much as the next guy (so help me god it doesnāt happen againā¦), but what else do you need to do to get into the HoF?!
NY TimesMr. Sala [the Mayor of Milan] added: āBringing to Milan a militia which distinguished itself ā this is not my opinion ā with criminal acts, which kills, which enters in the homes of American citizens without authorization, I do...
NYTāAppear to Contradictā really?! The videos flat out prove the government is lying. You can clearly see him holding a phone before heās taken to the ground by a group of gestapo. Then one of the thugs pulls the gun away from Alex...
One Word at a TimeIf you know anything about me, you know I love a good storyāso much so I started my own short fiction litmag, but thatās neither here nor there. Michael Staniforth is doing a review of a different short story every day...
NY TimesāConsidering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of PeaceāThis is pure insanity. What a childish, insecure, petty old man. The...
World of ReelWhen Sandler digs deep into a performance, like the one in āPunch-Drunk Love,ā thereās an eccentricity to it that most mainstream movie stars simply donāt have. He taps into something that I can best describe as wounded,...
Z1NZ0L1NAs long as colour electronic paper is as grainy as Kaleido and as slow as Gallery, you should stick with black-and-white E Ink displays (or go with colour LCD/OLED). If and when colour e-paper improves enough to be worth it,...
NY TimesHow insecure and petty do you have to be to have the name Kennedy blocked out with black tape until they can add your name. Last Trump news for the day, I promise/hopeā¦