🧑‍⚕️ Dick Vitale Beats Cancer Again /// The Wrap

This is an old link, back from December, but Vitale is such an infectiously positive person that this is great to see.

🎧 LiAngelo Ball’s “Tweaker” Will Have You Bent and Swerving /// Hearing Things

I put off listening to this for a lot of obvious reasons (at least if you follow the NBA), assuming it would be a hot dumpster fire of a song. But it’s actually not bad and that’s coming from someone who doesn’t like most modern rap.

🐎 Help Extend Horse /// Horse

This would be a huge win for Horse. Go drop an emoji on the PR so we can get some extensions like 1Password and maybe Obsidian Web Clipper in my daily driver.

🕹️ Game Awards 2024 by Sphygmus on Kinopio

Really fun space from friend to the humdrum life, @sphygmus, taking notes throughout the Game Awards.

📰 Kara Swisher Wants to Take The Washington Post Off Jeff Bezos’ Hands /// Daily Beast

This is an old one, but somehow the situation seems even worse at WaPo then it did just a month ago.

🦖 Gamifying Capitalism /// Dinosaur Comics

🦈 ‘Shark Tank’s’ Kevin O’Leary Says He’s Near Deal to Buy TikTok /// The Wrap

When he says he needs Trump’s help, I think it means he wants Trump to find a way to reduce the sale price somehow. I don’t see this happening at all.

🖱️ Stimulation Clicker /// Neal

🗂️ Announcing The Index: Reader-Supported Journalism /// Westenberg

I’m a big fan of Joan’s work and writing and enjoyed the previous iteration of The Index so it’s safe to say I’m excited about this new version that seems to be going a little bit more in-depth than before.

🖼️ DOOM: The Gallery Experience

🌹 Derrick Rose returns to Simeon for homecoming game, honors 1984 state-championship team /// Chicago Sun-Times

I thought they did a really great job with D-Rose day all around. It hit me in the feels pretty hard watching the halftime thing, although his abrupt “I’m a businessman now” end to his speech was a bit weird.

🚲 This Glorious Machine /// Robin Rendle

Robin has me seriously considering an e-bike now. And what a beautiful page.

🔠 Azurio /// Narrow Type

I’m drooling over this. I don’t currently have a use for it, but it’s right in my wheelhouse.

☕️ Starbucks Just Introduced An 8-Ounce Cortado /// Sprudge

Why?! Why are they like this? After running roughshod over the macchiato, wreaking havoc on every barista the world over who now has to clarify which macchiato a customer wants (the espresso with a dollop or the Big Gulp caramel bomb?) Starbucks is now ramping up their assault on barista interaction and flanking them at cortado. This is linguistic dereliction. Starbucks is playing god and this is some Tower of Babel-type bullshit.

While I tend to be of the opinion names don’t matter—I still hate this.

🤳 Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves /// 404

“Used Meta AI to edit a selfie, now Instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me,”

I hate this so much.

💣 How Crazy Was The Las Vegas Cybertruck Bomber? /// Defector

But behind any available reasons and rationalizations was the well-established fact that the American press would rather attribute violence to the influence of ISIS than attribute violence to the influence of Donald Trump.

💳 Claire Rousay Explains Her Credit Card Statement /// Hearing Things

⛏️ Picks & Shovels by Cory Doctorow /// Kickstarter

🕵️ The search startup trying to turn the web into a database /// MIT Review

📚 There’s No Shortcut To Publishing A Book /// Defector

If you are an unethical or otherwise dumb business—and there are many—you will believe that the quantity of work is more important than quality.

✅ Mark Zuckerberg: Fact-Checking on Meta Is Too “Politically Biased” /// THR

A bit telling they think facts are biased—and allowing people to spew lies will get them in the good graces of the next administration.

📚 Retrospective, reading /// annie’s blog

Audiobooks aren’t really for me but I think it’s cool that they’re available and give us yet one more way to access the treasure. People who want to argue about whether listening to a book “counts” as reading a book are dumb and can fuck right off.

I obviously love the sentiment in this post about the treasure troves that are libraries, but loved this line even more. Plus Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver just moved to the top of my to-read list. I personally had a terrible year reading books, finishing just two, I think…

🪟 Adobe now has a tool to get rid of ugly window reflections in photos /// The Verge

This sounds incredible and an actual good use of AI.