📈 Graphs

Ever dream of a daily game where you have to match the graph to the dataset description? Me neither, but boy is it cool.

🎉 Surprise — Reliable Sources

Brian Stelter is back at CNN and the Reliable Sources newsletter. I never actually read the newsletter, but love Oliver Darcy’s Status, so I figure I should give this a shot when it restarts on Monday.

🎷 Jazz Band Covers Nirvana On The Spot — Musora

Seeing Ulysses Owens cover Nirvana on Drumeo was fun although I had wanted to see him infuse more of his style into it. So it was awesome to see him with his band do exactly that.

🕸️ A Website You Can Only Visit Once

Says it right there in the name. Some good advice on there too.

📍 ESPN Will Vie for Local Sports Rights — Variety

I think this is super smart for ESPN. It will be interesting to see how something like this gets implemented, but ultimately leagues want to broaden their audience and ESPN wants as many sports fan relying on them as possible, which aligns with their new Where to Watch feature. The other thing to keep an eye on is non-exclusive rights.

🖼️ The Sustained Two-Shot — Every Frame a Painting

Incredible video essay and incredible to have a new EFaP.

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🚔 Police are killing more Americans than ever. Where’s the outrage? — Economist

The only way to kill a civilian without a gun is at the hands of a “good guy” with a gun…

🦮 MAGA Enters Meltdown Mode With New Conspiracy on Tim Walz’s Dog — The New Republic

It’s wild both how far these morons will go and how much they’ll ignore and make things up in the hopes someone will believe them? I don’t know…

🎮 Morsels — Trailer

I keep thinking about getting into gaming again and this game looks right up my alley. Or maybe I’ll dive back into WoW…

🥤 Why Top Olympic Athletes Use Baking Soda to Boost Performance — Outside

Will be curious to see how this evolves. If I’m a professional athlete, I wouldn’t blink at $20 a serving, but for it to hit mass market, the price needs to come waaaay down.

🪱 RFK Jr. Brings Much-needed Sanity to Trump Campaign — Borowitz Report

More satire for our wonderful Sunday evening.

🍼 Larry David: My post-birth abortion — The Washington Post

“No way I’m taking him home. He’s embarrassing. Am I supposed to show that monster to my parents and my friends? I can’t even look at him without cringing.”

I love Larry David.

💬 The Fake Quotes in the ‘Megalopolis’ Trailer Were Likely AI-Generated — IndieWire

What a predictable trainwreck of a situation. Need some advice? Don’t use AI. This was such an obviously avoidable situation—it just doesn’t make sense to me how lazy some people are sometimes.

🤯 Trump will host an ‘awards gala’ for rioters who stormed the Capitol on January 6 — The Independent

If I tried super hard, I could see how some supporters might build distance between Trump and Jan 6th in their mind, but I don’t know how a reasonable person can see this and be okay with it.

🥽 My Life’s Work — New Yorker

Not going to be everyone’s cup of tea, but I had fun with this one.

🏛️ The ubiquitous J.B. Pritzker, the man behind the Democrats’ party — The Economist

It’s been great to see JB get a bit more of a national spotlight via the DNC. I do think he’d make a great President, but it’s going to be some time before he even gets an opportunity to run at this point.

☎️ Flying Lotus Composed Two Apple Ringtones — Pitchfork

I don’t think I’ve even looked at the ringtones in years—everything I remember hearing before is hidden behind “Classics,” and there’s tons of great ones now. I switched to FL’s Chalet.

🧟 Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: The Complete Listing: Atrocities 1–1,056 // McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

This is absolutely perfect and the true journalism we need at the moment.

🗳️ I’m Voting Postcards // Chris Glass

Love these!

🐻 Caleb Williams Made Some Throws // Defector

Arm strength, mobility, and vision are all individually important, but what matters now, more than it ever has before, is how well a quarterback can use them all at once. The guys who can do that can make throws, and the guys who can’t usually end up with clipboards in their hands.

🕷️ Sony Announces a New Spider-Man Villain Solo Movie Every Year Until Their Demands Are Met // Hard Drive

First of all, we want a billion dollars. Second, we want to be able to use Spider-Man again. Third, we want the U.S. nuclear codes. You give us that, and maybe we can think of taking the Bad Bunny El Muerto movie off of our release slate.

🥶 Blue Man Group Hears “Welcome To The Black Parade” For The First Time — Drumeo

I wish the mixing were a little better since the non-Blue Man overpowers everything a bit, but this was still a ton of fun.

🏛️ Trump tries to undermine Harris’ legitimacy as a candidate — POLITICO

“What happened to Biden? I was running against Biden and now I’m running against someone else,” Trump said. “I said, ‘Who am I running against, Harris?’ I said, ‘Who the hell is Harris?’”

Maybe it’s just me, but someone who doesn’t know who the current Vice President of the United States probably isn’t fit to be President.

💰 On hobbies, side projects, and money ❋ Manu

This resonated with me a lot given I’ve talked a bit about having aspirations of building foofaraw into something more than just a blog. I’m also launching a paid component of TIV…

♠️ ESPN Bet Is A Black Hole // Defector

I don’t have any problems with gambling, but the shoveling of shit down your throat a la Rot Economics is just tiresome.