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Am I the only one who sees the new Siri icon and thinks it should be the badge of some random Chinese car manufacturer?
If you are someone who has often been told that you are too nice to people, that you tolerate far more than you should, you have probably found yourself wondering whether you should finally lash out or continue being the person you are....
Richard Hell & the Voidoids + The Feelies - CBGB, New York City, July 1 / July 2, 1978We’ve been hanging out a lot at CBGB this summer — and why not? It’s a cool place to hang out. Today, we’ve got audience tapes recorded during a...
Richard Hell & the Voidoids + The Feelies - CBGB, New York City, July 1 / July 2, 1978We’ve been hanging out a lot at CBGB this summer — and why not? It’s a cool place to hang out. Today, we’ve got audience tapes recorded during a...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
In a recent piece for Lithub, Roshan Sethi writes about picking up William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair in the summer of 2024, when he was already upset by how Hollywood was treating him. Sethi, a film director and writer, felt...
So, today, a certain relative of mine gave me an invitation letter for the wedding of another certain relative of mine.I’m quite impressed with that invitation letter, since it actually lists several of my close relatives whom I know...
An interesting 20-minute Config talk from the Instagram designer Rose McManus: It covers some of the same areas we recently talked about: diacritics and Polish S (and a fun video about English conventions from a while back), but it...
picodevilpicodevil is here to help you livecode visuals! let’s chop up some videos with patterns!Today I'm releasing Picodevil, a new tool for livecoding visuals. It comes from trying to answer the question: what if Strudel sampled video...
The most important disclaimer in this post is that I don't have any particular idiot in mind, and even the people that might come into examples sounding like idiots in the moment, surely had highs and lows, and this is just one of the...
Better late than never, I guess. So after July was derailed by hand, foot and mouth disease, I lost a decent chunk of time and didn’t get around to my usual quarterly wrap. But nevertheless, Q2 2026 was pretty busy and I managed to knock...
AP: “The Pacific Island country of Nauru has changed its name to the Republic of Naoero, its president said, matching the spelling and pronunciation in the national language.” See also RNZ coverage. This follows other countries’ name… More
Earlier this year, I read Daniel Hahn’s excellent translation memoir Catching Fire, and I loved the experience so much that I jumped at the chance to read essays about translation by Jhumpa Lahiri – an author I’ve come to late, but whom...
I have spent three years arguing that automation taking work away from us is a reason to want it rather than a reason to fear it. I still think that. But almost every objection worth answering comes from the left, and working through...