☕️ What Does A Great Cup Of Coffee Taste Like? — James Hoffman

Really fun and highly produced video from James. One thing I struggled with when I was starting to make espresso at home was “is this actually that good?” And he does a great job getting into the emotional experience of a good cup of coffee, but ultimately, it’s about finding what you enjoy the most.

🎼 The Blue Album Live in Spotify Studios — Weezer

Oh man, this was so great. When that “Say It Ain’t So” guitar kicked in I got all giddy.

🎥 Bando Stone & The New WorldTrailer

Another link that’s been sitting in the Drafts… new movie from Donald Glover that will also have an accompanying Childish Gambino album, which will, apparently, be his last.

🤖 ChatGPT Now Has PhD-Level Intelligence, and the Poor Personal Choices to Prove It — McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

Speaking of McSweeney’s, I got a kick out of this one.

👩🏽‍⚖️ Americans Ask Supreme Court for Immunity From Trump — Borowtiz Report

May not be the best time to post this one, but it’s been in my Drafts for awhile now… Plus it’s high-time I link to Borowitz since he left The New Yorker. These days I feel like I prefer to get my news from The Onion, Borowitz, and McSweeney’s.

🥅 Nothing but Nets — Brand New

That Nets wordmark is sooooo damn good. Combine that with all the killer City Edition jerseys and they have the best design in the NBA by far.

🎸 The Improbable, Unstoppable Rise of Goose — The Atlantic

Back when I was getting ready to go to my first Phish show in 2021 (having never listened to them before) I started to do some research—listening to Phish and looking up similar bands to get a feeling for the music. Goose was the one that stood out to me at the time and while I haven’t gone to see them live yet, I’ve kept up with them through Bandcamp and YouTube. It’s cool to see them really break through now.

👑 DeMar DeRozan agrees to 3-year, $73.7 million deal with Kings — Yahoo Sports

It’s probably one of the better case scenarios for DeMar at this point in his career given how things have shaken out this summer. He can still ball though.

👾 Pokémon Is All About Reading - The Paris Review

And while I’m never stepping on a court serious with AI or LeBron or Steph—shit, I couldn’t even check Damon Young last year at his local gym—anyone can play against some of the best in the Pokémon game by virtue of its general openness, whereby openness, of course, involves money.

I don’t know what it was about this, but I really enjoyed it. It’d be nice if TPR did more like this in the future. A low-brow topic, travelogue, and a black POV. All great.

🌅 My Strict Morning Routine — The New Yorker

Now, I know what you’re probably thinking: Doesn’t eating the same thing day in and day out get boring? No, it doesn’t, especially since there are countless varieties of Hot Pockets, including breakfast, lunch, and dinner offerings.

Besides all the stepping on glass, I feel like they nailed my morning routine. Especially the hot pockets…

📒 Internet Phone Book

A very cool internet project from the folks at Naive Yearly that will be in print! Very cool to see this, especially as I’m working on my own internet project coming to print. And it’s sponsored by Kinopio too.

🔎 Throw it Away — foofaraw

Back for S4! Some exciting things to come this season!

📦 Packaged and Repackaged — The Present Age

As Fisher pointed out, if young people don’t develop a habit of consuming news directly from primary sources, they may never do so. This threatens the survival of news-gathering institutions and undermines the very foundation of an informed citizenry.

Spot on. And in more ways than one. Every industry is treating AI and “cost cutting” in a way that will severely limit aspects of their workforce and their audience in the future.

📘 Fitzcarraldo Editions Makes Challenging Literature Chic — New Yorker

I’ve been wanting to subscribe to Fitzcarraldo‘a offerings for ages now, but the shipping from the UK to the US basically doubles the cost… Really cool to learn about its origins and how they basically ride or die with their writers that they believe in. The design is obviously stellar. Lots of lessons here if I ever get serious about printing things as foofaraw press…

💰 Skydance Media, National Amusements Reach Tentative Deal for Paramount — Variety

What a rollercoaster. This always felt like the best deal for the industry and the creatives that make it up, but I didn’t imagine them coming back to the table after it was called off last month.

🥁 Lamb Of God Drummer Hears Imagine Dragons For The First Time — Drumeo

I’ve watched a lot of these and this is by far the best one. It shows how much a song can be improved with a talented (and fierce) drummer, on a real kit, just having fun with it. That’s real rock. And I don’t even like Lamb of God.

🧃 Why AriZona Iced Tea CEO won’t raise 99-cent price: ‘It’s my little way of giving back’ — CNBC

“I don’t know about never, [but] not in the foreseeable future,” he told Today. “We’re going to fight as hard as we can for consumers, because consumers are my friend.”

Arizona and Costco are two companies who just do it right. We are in this endless cycle of capitalism gaming markets and always having to make more, but why? The CEO of Costco isn’t one of these outrageously paid CEO’s (still super wealthy though) and they’ve kept the hot dog price low. I don’t know what the Arizona guy makes (he’s got quite the high net worth), but the fact they’ve managed to make a profit while offering the drink at $0.99 is a testament to good business, good operations, and goodwill.

🍤 Yoppaman

This is an incredible little animated short. Very much feels like The Boondocks meets Gundam and I’m here for it. As I understand it, it’s too cool artists and Donald Glover has joined to help produce so they can make independently. I really hope we get more episodes of this wildness.

🍄 Making the Kinopio Source Code Public — pketh

Delivering software is more like delivering a gooey crying baby. It’s alive. Squirming, growing, and changing because the technologies it relies on do too. Physical materials rarely change, but web browsers, operating systems, and servers sure do.

It’s incredibly cool to see this out in the wild. Code is gibberish to me, but I think it’s quite obvious how much work Pirijan puts into Kinopio and getting it ready for this open source* release.

🦕 The First 2024 Presidential Debate By The Numbers — The Onion

• 135,000,000: American adults who were apparently worse choices for president.
• 73: Undecided votes at stake.

Well, they nailed it. Good luck to everyone planning to watch (I think I might; I’m not sure why though). I hope your blood doesn’t boil too much and you find a way to stay sane.

🧑‍⚖️ Julian Assange’s plea deal — Tangle

Assange also rarely interacts with state governments to figure out what information he has that might put innocents at risk. In the most notorious example, the Taliban once used documents released by WikiLeaks to identify Afghans who were aiding the U.S. and then sought them out for retribution.

I personally think time-served is probably the right move here. Considering not only the five years he spent in jail but the years holed away in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. The people saying he’s done nothing different than a journalist are way off base though. Journalists use judgement (and common sense) when they decide what to publish to avoid putting people in harms way and (hopefully) not to advance their own agenda in corrupt means. Assange failed both of those measures handedly.

🏀 Knicks’ OG Anunoby to return on five-year, $212.5 million deal — Yahoo Sports

There it is! I’m not sure how they can afford Hartenstein now though and it’s important the Knicks have another C given Robinson’s injury history. I’m sure they’ll pick up Precious $5mil option, but that’s not enough.

But the starting lineup of Brunson, Bridges, Anunoby, Randle, and Robinson is super formidable. Plus Hart and DiVincenzo off the bench.