📰 Another Dark Day at the Bezos Post: Ruth Marcus Resigns After Censorship /// TPA

Here’s the hopeful part: journalists like Marcus and Telnaes refuse to play along. By quitting rather than compromising their principles, they’re exposing the heavy-handed censorship happening behind the scenes. They’re showing us that the Post’s new “free markets and personal liberties” focus isn’t about expanding the range of permissible opinion—it’s about restricting it to views that align with Jeff Bezos’s worldview.

I’m sure there are some people still doing good work for WaPo, but I’m just trying to figure out how they have any subscribers left.

📉 The Dow plunges as recession fears mount. S&P 500, Nasdaq bleed worse /// QZ

And now an AL senator tried to say the market was doing too good before and this is actually a positive?!?! God forbid someone dissent by stating facts to our ruler.

💩 Donald Trump’s ‘The Apprentice’ to Stream on Amazon Prime Video /// Variety

Nothing fishy about this (and the timing) at all. Completely normal. Just keep funneling money to our one and only true King.

🪧 Protest time /// Indignity

Someone in my own neighborhood went to bed Friday night in Ivy League housing, as a green card holder, and now his American fate was getting the same cadence as that of the people who had been living as refugees for seven decades.

How anyone can defend criminalizing political speech is beyond me. Mahmoud Khalil still hasn’t been charged with a crime nor has any evidence of a crime been shown, but “this is the first arrest of many to come.”

👟 Bill Burr Goes Sneaker Shopping /// Complex

Man, I love Bill Burr. He’s the perfect type of person to talk some sense into those idiots and I’m stoked about his new special.

📹 Let’s build a basic task manager in 30 minutes /// A Better Computer

Prettt wild. This has me thinking I might be able to use Cursor to get TIV and Foofaraw closer to how I want them to be on my own…

🎟️ Fanatics And Ticketmaster Announce Plan To Get Even Worse, Together /// Defector

These days, it’s important that as many of my potential experiences as possible be clumsily crammed into a single location, like a 7-in-1 gel douche but for misprinted jerseys.

A pair made in hell.

🇺🇦 Putin “Is the Bad Guy”: Fox News Host Shuts Down Trump /// New Republic

Trump’s efforts to recast the villain in this story seem to be working. A recent CBS News/YouGov poll found that the percentage of Americans who viewed Russia as “the enemy” had dropped from 64 percent in 2023 to 34 percent.

I don’t know how anyone can look at Trump and assume he won’t eventually turn on them too. Allies, cabinet members, employees, no one is safe when he changes directions on a whim.

🇵🇱 Jesse Eisenberg Granted Polish Citizenship /// Wrap

I promise this won’t become a celebrity tracking blog, but I do think between this and his speech about how his wife got him interested in history and where he comes from is pretty cool.

🐣 Tweetbot’s developers are making a Bluesky app /// The Verge

More stale links! I am genuinely curious to see how they price this alongside the $25/yr for Ivory. What’s the assumed overlap between Ivory and Phoenix users? Expecting someone to pay $50/yr seems a bit much…

🤡 Newsom Gives Props to Conservatives, Charlie Kirk for ‘Flooding the Zone’ /// The Wrap

Kirk sadly went to my high school in the Chicago burbs. He’s a bit younger than me, but he’s always been a twerp—still not sure how he turned into this though. I also hate to say it, but I think what Newsom send about transgender athletes was blown way out of proportion as his focus was clearly on the mistreatment of a marginalized group of people who deserve to be treated like human beings.

📻 The Lo-Fi Art and Human Tools Era /// Pketh

As the world gets noisier, glossier, and more fake, the more valuable the human-touch becomes in both the real world and on the real web.

The world has been sterilized and optimized for shareholder value by late stage capitalism and actual user needs have been left to wither.

📮 Denmark’s postal service to stop delivering letters /// BBC

The decision brings to an end 400 years of the company’s letter service. Denmark’s 1,500 post boxes will start to disappear from the start of June.

Now that I mail out LLoN every month, I hate to see this. Getting things in the mail, especially letters, is a delightful experience.

🤲 Let’s Hold Hands

Not sure how I missed this fun little project when it was published a couple weeks ago.

🏫 The Middle Ages /// Pudding

Great stuff as always from Pudding. I’ve never thought about some of the situations of changing schools. Middle school was probably the last time I didn’t have anxiety.

📓 How I plan /// Sylvia’s Studio

I’m trying to get in the habit of planning better and taking stock of what I’m doing and Sylvia has a lovely workflow for that.

🪫 Trump Is Turning Off All 8,000 EV Chargers at All Federal Government Buildings /// The Drive

Make this make sense. This creates waste, doesn’t remove it.

🎧 Saya Gray /// Tiny Desk

The complete disregard given to drums here is disturbing and gives me anxiety, but it’s a killer set despite that fact. Gray has been steadily moving up my favorite active artists list and SAYA gets better with every listen.

📹 This is Evident

I’m excited for this. I’ve never been a big Vice or PBS viewer, but every time I watch one of their short docs I’m happy I did. So to see folks from those outfits (and Scripps) form a new venture in video journalism is exciting and I hope they can find success (and make lots of great stuff for me to link to here).

🖨️ Brother makes a demon-haunted printer /// Pluralistic

There’s a pretty obvious incentive at play when companies have the ability to unilaterally alter how their products work after you buy them and you are legally prohibited to change how the product works after you buy them.

Ugh, I hate this… I just turned the WiFi off on my printer, hoping the update didn’t find its way on it already. But, man, I think the above quote says it all about how things are just so out of whack.

🚗 About my Tesla /// Werd

One sticker I don’t have: the one that says I bought this before Elon went crazy. There’s no such thing. The warning signs were always there; my car situation is a prime example of how ignoring these kinds of ethical red flags lead to real losses in the long run.

A nice measured take about what it means to own a Tesla today. I don’t think people should feel obligated to sell a car they already own though. I love the stickers people have been putting on their cars and emblems they’ve been replacing to make it look like it’s some other car.

🎵 Finding New Releases using the app Albums /// Crucial Tracks

This is great and hues pretty close to my own personal workflow with Albums, but I keep MusicBox as an intermediary because some of the tagging/collection stuff is a tad more cumbersome in Albums.

🕳️ Old Rivals, New Vision /// Digg /// The Verge

I’m excited for this, but also a little tentative. AI tools for moderation sounds like a good idea, but AI tools to make things in Digg? No thank you.

💉 FDA meeting to choose flu vaccine composition canceled without explanation /// CNN

Hope y’all are ready for polio to come back. We as humans seem to be terrible at learning from history. Soon holocaust denial won’t be fringe because there won’t be anyone left who was alive when it happened and the same will be true of eradicated diseases when the likes of RFK do everything they can to remove vaccines from our collective consciousness.

🏟️ Disney Plus is adding a bite-sized version of ESPN’s SportsCenter /// The Verge

I think this is a fun idea to continue adding value. It kicks off a little early for me on the west coast, but I’ll give it a shot here and there. The biggest problem with news and sports is how ephemeral they are when it’s not something truly live. People don’t want to open an app just for a quick sports or news show when they get it from the apps they already spend hours in.