📱 Today (Beta) /// Semantical

Did not see this beta invite landing in my inbox this morning. Don’t remember how I came across Semantical, but it was a few years ago. I believe some of the people spent time at Cultured Code—and just as I gave up Things for Reminders.

🎭 Today’s New Comics /// Challengers Comics and Conversations

So much going on here. With Foofaraw temporarily paused, if you want to know the best comics coming out, watch this. If you have no interest in comics, but want to commiserate with the folks at the best comics shop in Chicago, watch this. The books this week are truly too on the nose.

😶‍🌫️ Collective Amnesia and Nightmares /// A Humdrum Life

Not sure how active I’ll be here or on foofaraw as I allow myself to wallow in despair for a bit.

🔡 Pearl by Nondescript /// Future Fonts

Here I was thinking I had settled on Swear by OHno to accompany Kyrios on this site. Pearl seems absolutely perfect though.

📝 Forever ✱ Notes — A free framework for Apple Notes

I don’t personally want a complicated system to use within Apple Notes (seems antithetical to me), but if you do, this is a great little system in a box.

🗳️ Pro-Trump Election Interference Has Begun in Key Swing Districts /// The New Republic

This is fucked.

🍒 When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? /// 404

I’m not sure I have much to say about this, but it’s a fascinating experiment. I have always felt it a bit odd that a body part some people can walk around with out in the open is censored on others. Also, I’m curious what TERFs and right-wingers think of this… since, in their minds, they trans women aren’t women at all (which, I obviously, and wholeheartedly disagree with).

🦸The Comics Courier, A New Comics Criticism Journal by Tiffany Babb /// Kickstarter

Four days left to back this incredibly cool comics criticism journal. Need more of this stuff, and in print!

🎃 Trick or Treat or Trump /// The New Yorker

Scary, indeed.

💽 Subvert — The Collectively Owned Music Marketplace

Surprisingly, I don’t think this is the first Bandcamp alternative + collective, I’ve seen, but something about this one gives me hope it might actually have a shot.

🎭 It’s now the Washington Post humor writer’s job to endorse Harris for president /// WaPo

The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.”

The whole situation with these papers is idiotic. The cracks in capitalism, and more importantly, a major issue with one of the candidates, becomes incredibly clear if you have the mental capacity to read between the lines. Related: Karin Klein does a great job explaining why she resigned over the decision not to endorse at the LA Times for THR.

🗂️ The Index

Even better than News Minimalist, is The Index, “100% News. 0% clickbait,” curated by Joan Westenberg. This is basically exactly what I wanted this site to be, but actually executed well by someone who can write.

🐢 News Minimalist — All news ranked by significance

While I’m a pretty big skeptic of AI, I think this is a decent way to utilize it. It reads a ton of articles and gives it a significance score based on a variety of criteria.

🏀 One minute video summary of Lonzo Ball’s preseason debut /// Noh’s Notebook

I’m so freakin’ excited for Lonzo Ball getting back on the court in a Bulls uniform. I don’t have any lofty expectations, of course, just seeing him on the court again and hopefully make it through a season (even on a minutes restriction) would be a success. Like Noh mentioned, Ball’s feel for the game on both ends of the floor is excellent so I can’t wait to see that on display again. And honestly, just being on the floor after the long away is a victory, both mentally and physically.

🎙️ The Undefinable with Michael Allred /// Off Panel Podcast

This whole interview is so good. Allred is a legend and Harper does a great job interviewing here and getting nugget after nugget of gold.

🎧 What Should a Music Magazine Be in the TikTok Era? Pitchfork Alumni Have an Idea. /// NYT

I’ve been eagerly awaiting the music version of Defector/404 since everything went down at Pitchfork and it’s finally here in the form of Hearing Things. Excited to see what they do.

🗳️ What the Polls Really Say About Black Men’s Support for Kamala Harris /// New Yorker

It’s worth remembering that Black men voted for Clinton in 2016 at a level that surpassed white women by thirty-six points.

Might be an unpopular opinion, but blaming any group of people is stupid. I’ve heard white women say they think women are too emotional to be president—which is idiotic. And as a white guy, if any group is to blame, it’s the ones who vote over 50% for the spray tanned nincompoop. There are, hands down, more white men that vote against their own interest than any other demographic.

🔫 NRA chief involved in gruesome cat killing as college fraternity member /// Guardian

Are we really surprised that someone obsessed with guns is cool torturing and killing a cat?

🚕 Tesla’s sporty, two-seater robotaxi design puzzles experts /// Reuters

In their defense, when you get a cab in the city, you’re probably stuck with just the backseat—but that still gives room for three. Ridiculous that they are just like, “yeah, two seats is good.” So much for “forward thinking.”

🛰️ NASA set to launch Europa Clipper probe to search for signs of habitability /// New Scientist

This is pretty cool.

🏥 We’re Turning Our Emergency Room into a Spirit Halloween /// McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

Of course, I get it–this seems drastic. But let’s face it, rural hospitals like ours are barely hanging on. Medicare plans drown us in paperwork, making it impossible to turn a profit unless we start offering luxury VIPappendectomies with complimentary champagne. Meanwhile, private insurance companies are busy collecting premiums while doctors are stuck on the phone chasing prior authorizations, leaving little time to care for their patients. The result? Patients fighting to survive in a system that’s barely functioning. Talk about spooky.

Talk about efficiencies. Helloooo nurse.

👨‍💻 HTML for People

Been meaning to link to this since Blake launched it, but it’s been hectic. As someone who only knows a tiny bit of HTML from tinkering with this site template on Blot, I’m super stoked to dig into all of this and actually start to understand how all of this works.

🌌 The Move /// Omeleto

This is the kind of stuff I’m really hoping to cover more of over on foofaraw. I love short films, but it’s often hard to find good ones.

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