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Today somehow marks 20 years of writing/editing/designing/producing kottke.org as my full-time job (and almost 27 years in total). Thanks for reading! [kottke.org]

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Dylan is lofi hip hop girl 🥹

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this bangs

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Apple TV+ is streaming an 8-hour remix of the Severance theme song that is perfect music for your innie to refine macrodata to. Legit adding this to the work music rotation. [kottke.org]

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A Robert Frost poem from 1918, ironically entitled “Nothing New”, has been published for the first time in the New Yorker’s 100th anniversary issue. [newyorker.com]

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen this photo before, of artist Amy Sherald and former First Lady Michelle Obama sharing a hug during a session for Sherald’s iconic portrait of Obama. [kottke.org]

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“Egyptologists have discovered the first tomb of a pharaoh since Tutankhamun’s was uncovered over a century ago.” [bbc.com]

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This is an amazingly realistic 3D model of San Francisco’s Sutro Tower that you can zoom, pan, fly through, and interact with. It was made by stitching together thousands of drone photos via “Gaussian splatting”. [kottke.org]

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"Be an adult. Own your garbage." actually works in so many different contexts

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Craig Mod on how “leave no trace” and “pack it in, pack it out” is not just for campers and backpackers in Japan. “The Japanese way is the correct way. Be an adult. Own your garbage.” [craigmod.com]

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here is the thing about the “argument” that democrats should have run roughshod over the law when they had the chance: it is much easier to break the law to destroy a program than break the law to create one.

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Here’s what it’s like watching all 24 hours of Christian Marclay’s The Clock at MoMA. “Although I’m literally sitting in a clock, time is meaningless. One hour flies by and the next is like spending an afternoon at the DMV.” [moma.org]

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I can already tell this is going to be my favorite thing of the day: this 2019 video of Doechii singing and rapping about anxiety over Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know. [kottke.org]

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Betty White is getting a stamp from the USPS that commemorates her “warmth, wit and charisma”. The first-day-of-issue event is being held at the LA Zoo on March 27 and is open to the public (RSVP info here). [about.usps.com]

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I saw Paddington in Peru last weekend and so it’s been difficult to take Ben Whishaw seriously as a hitman in Black Doves. [youtube.com]

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I saw Paddington in Peru last weekend and so it’s been difficult to take Ben Whishaw seriously as a hitman in Black Doves. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R0d...

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Edith Zimmerman imagines books written by fairy tale and Disney princesses in their 40s, incl. “A Whole New World: Life With Bifocals” by Jasmine & “Where’s That Sea Witch When You Need Her? Turning Back Into a Mermaid Once the Kids Are Grown” by Ariel. [drawinglinks.substack.com]

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Reflections on 25 years of Interconnected. Big congratulations to Matt Webb on his blogging silver jubilee. His is one of the most active & creative minds on the internet. [interconnected.org]

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Two things. 1. KDO is still focused on the coup happening in the US right now. 2. But I’m doing Foolishness Friday again…there’s some art, good news, and fun stuff coming your way today. ✌️ [kottke.org]

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Nothing stops the mail

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heck of a short story prompt

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Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board. “This is something that does not belong to the president or the White House. It belongs to the American people.” That goes for everything else they’re trying to steal too. [washingtonpost.com]

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An essay on the role of music in political change, with example from Belgium, Chile, the Baltic states, Russia, and the USA. [contestedhistories.org]

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How to Organize Our Way Out of the Trump-Musk Putsch. “The one thing we know from historical fights against authoritarians is that success depends on a persistent, courageous, broad-based, and unified opposition.” [thenation.com]

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Surviving Fascism: Lessons from Jim Crow. “Accept that this is happening. Denial won’t change the outcome.” [scalawagmagazine.org]

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Thing I should not be surprised by but I am somehow surprised by: a gold-framed photo of Trump’s mug shot on the cover of the NY Post hangs in an office near the Oval Office. [npr.org]

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How Democracy Supporters Can Still Beat Back the Rising Tide of Fascism. “We are (still) in the majority. They are divided. Extreme levels of material inequality are eroding democracy. Knowledge is power. Organization matters.” [lithub.com]

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“Masses of enraged, terrified people are looking at the analog, slow-motion leadership of Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer and the zero-calorie rhetoric of House leader Hakeem Jeffries and want them replaced by people who know how to fight.” [thenation.com]

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My Open Letter to Elon Musk. “I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath.” [democracydocket.com]

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A bunch of libertarians took over a small NH town and couldn’t stop the bear attacks. “Several of the town residents had taken to feeding the bears, more or less just because they could.” Ah, FAFO strikes again. [newrepublic.com]

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Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities (and imagination). “The world we have known is the world that is bound up with the movement toward greater destruction. What about a world we are yet to know?” [lithub.com]

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Political scientist Adam Przeworski (born in Nazi-occupied Poland) is keeping a diary. “I am trying to find categories in which to place the current situation and historical precedents from which one could draw some enlightenment. I fail in both.” [adamprzeworski.substack.com]

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I subscribe to a flight deals mailing list so now three times a day I check my inbox and play "hmm, could I live there?" for a few pleasant minutes until I'm jolted back to reality.

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“If you’re looking for some great databases of the ongoing resistance (as well as some other useful resources) here’s a thread of where to start.” (via @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social) [bsky.app]

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87% Of Loud Crashing Noises Are Nothing, Report Top Experts From Other Room. “Despite initially reporting ‘Dammit!’ and ‘God dammit!’ separated by several seconds…” [theonion.com]

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Sorry but it is truly fucking crazy what is happening in geopolitics right now and I feel like I'm losing my mind every time I read an article about how we've completely reversed 100+ years of allies and enemies overnight.

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Thing I would like to see/use: an Insta Stories clone built on atproto.

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Where Do Trans Kids Go from Here? “I never thought that my country would want to disappear my child, and would want to essentially deny her existence as a person.” Heartbreaking, infuriating, cruel, immoral. [newyorker.com]

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Ryan Broderick on “flooding the zone with shit” in governance and social media. “Social media, the machine that now decides what pop culture looks like, is now an inherently right-wing space.” [kottke.org]

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Here’s a site that tracks how much of Project 2025 has been implemented. Currently at 34%. (via @jennileder.bsky.social) [project2025.observer]

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Is this the most extreme ratioing in the history of social media? 5 likes & 1 retweet vs 798 replies & 239 quote posts.

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“Firing civil servants and dismantling government departments is how aspiring strongmen consolidate personal power”. Here’s how that has played out recently in Türkiye, Benin, Hungary, and Venezuela. [theconversation.com]

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