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Unexpected Cameo by Patton Oswalt
5secondfilms has been making ultrashort movies this since 2008! Here's their 2025 year in review, which is 7½ minutes long. You can fit a lot of five secondses in that much time. If you don't get one,...
One of the most profound & important events in modern economic history
The general pattern is that the Great Downzoning was driven by interests more than by ideology. The Downzoning happened where it served the perceived interests of property owners, and failed to happen...
The Merrie History Of Looney Tunes
YouTuber KaiserBeamz has mainly focused on reviews of classic (and less so) anime through their Kyoto Video series, but they have had a long running passion project of recounting the century-plus hist...
Becoming a crappy cover artist of your own work.
Joshua Schachter makes art with pen plotters (and related machinery). His best known works are when things don't go quite right. Joshua talks about his road to enlightenment in this short (5 minute) T...
Is your 100-year-old friend getting old?
The New Yorker: Rudderless? Rare are the magazines that can surprise you. Harper's? Sometimes. The New Yorker? Once upon a time (Hiroshima, Silent Spring), but, not so much anymore....
RoundUp paper pulled due to undisclosed industry data and funding src's
``In retracting the [RoundUp] study last month, the journal, Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, cited "serious ethical concerns regarding the independence and accountability of the authors." Mart...
'We thought they'd like to hear some rock'n'roll'
"Inside the van are a motley crew: an 81-year-old Irish music industry veteran; a 72-year-old Texas rocker; an Australian keyboardist; a Ukrainian saxophonist; and three twenty-something musicians fro...
"... not epistemic agents but stochastic pattern-completion systems."
"By systematically mapping human and artificial epistemic pipelines, we identify seven epistemic fault lines, divergences in grounding, parsing, experience, motivation, causal reasoning, metacognition...
Whistleblower exposes food delivery apps
In this reddit post, a developer working at a major food delivery app, talks about the extreme algorithms implemented to exploit delivery drivers, among other things...
Beware the Five Apps of the Apocalypse
A smart, strategic, and sensitive plan for rewilding the web....
"The internet disrupted every word-driven industry"
Dull work much of lexicography may well be, but it also happens to be significant work—perhaps as significant as any the world of culture has to offer. For a dictionary sets the limits on the meaning ...
Bigtop Burgers, complete at last.
Bigtop Burgers is a gently heartwarming and comic series of surreal animated shorts about a clown-themed burger van and their rival horror-themed food truck, Zomburger. For Christmas and New Years Wor...
It's kind of better talking to someone you know you'll never see
The Humans of Arc Raiders is a documentary-style Gamefilm by The Serialist (CW: descriptions of traumatic mental and physical health situations, criminality, and toxicity)."I just thought it would be ...
Jason Williamsom of Sleaford Mods "The mornings are my afterlife"
"The mornings are my afterlife" Jason speaking very eloquently and gracefully about life after drugs, and a way out for addicts. I've never done drugs, but seen many lives destroyed by drugs. The musi...
How incredible that somebody thought this up, made it and put it out
'A good idea, infinite drive, and lots of Diet Pepsi': How YouTube essayist Majuular's life changed course telling the story of Ultima across 2 years and more than 20 hours of documentaries - "Eleven ...
"This was Paris in 1970"
"The city of Paris ... organized in the spring of 1970 an amateur photography competition aiming to produce exhaustive photographic coverage of [the city], divided into a grid of 1755 squares." Click ...
Tokyo venture allows housebound people to work while telecommuting
Tokyo venture allows housebound people to work while telecommuting. Ory Yoshifuji's Tokyo business employs housebound individuals to operate robots as waitstaff at a cafe and as personal tour guides i...
The Who Cares Era
Dan Sinker: "The writer didn't care. The supplement's editors didn't care. The biz people on both sides of the sale of the supplement didn't care. The production people didn't care. And, the fact that...
Ad lucem per experimentum
Medical Breakthroughs in 2025. "If you fell unconscious in 1950, no one around you would know how to perform CPR: it wouldn't be invented for another 10 years.1 Or take type 1 diabetes, where survival...
T[I]MES -> [B][I]N(G)(O) -> [B][I][G][O][T]
Former NYT editor Billie Jean Sweeney offers an insider's view of the NYT's increasingly anti-trans stance since 2022 , accelerating under Joseph Kahn's appointment as executive editor that spring, su...