🐻 Bears trade QB Justin Fields to Steelers — Sun Times

Old news at this point, but I had to capture for prosperity. Given they are drafting Williams, it’s probably the right move.

🎹 Musicboard — App Store

Letterboxd for music and it’s pretty smooth so far. Going to keep it around for a bit. I’m @humdrum, as always.

🙃 The Flipbook Experiment — The Pudding

Cool project from The Pudding, although Are.na already did it 😝.

🌐 Issue 03 — The HTML Review

Always one of the coolest things on the web. Stoked to dig into the new issue.

⛹️ The N.B.A.’s Rulebook Problem — New Yorker

I agree with a lot of this, but ultimately, it still comes down to the players. They should be docked a games worth of pay for every four calls they argue and are wrong about.

🏀 Zion Is Looking More Like Zion. And the Pelicans Are Looking More Like Contenders — Ringer

Some positive news in the world of basketball! I haven’t been watching much, but Zion being Zion means sometimes good things can happen.

😅 Amazon Tells Warehouse Workers to Close Their Eyes and Think Happy Thoughts — 404

Look at that, they’ve solved the worlds problems. Just close your eyes and it’ll be all better.

🔭 Space Camp and The X-Men-ification of Trans People — TPA

Stop treating us like mutants, especially if you can’t bring yourself to understand that the mutants in X-Men were the ones being persecuted.

This shit is so depressing to read about. The vitriol from some people over others merely existing is just so sad.

🍋 After Testy Interview With Elon Musk, Don Lemon Says His Deal With X Is Canceled NY Times

Lemon:

His commitment to a global town square where all questions can be asked and all ideas can be shared seems not to include questions of him from people like me.

I mean, yeah, we all knew that was the case. But good for Don in (likely) grabbing another paycheck while not having to do any work along with his CNN payout.

👮 Ari Aster’s Next Film at A24 ‘Eddington’ to Star Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal, and Austin Butler — IndieWire

This is too good to hold for the newsletter! Beau is Afraid was my #1 movie last year and to have Joaquin back alongside Stone and Pascal in the next one is mind-blowing to me.

🛝 App Demo — Muddy

SharePoint + Slack + Arc = Muddy..? I don’t know. This app is definitely not for me, especially since I’m not looking for collaborative tools, but there’s some interesting stuff in there. The group surveillance aspect is pretty off-putting though.

📺 President Biden’s reaction to seeing MTG before the speech is all of us. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Chris D. Jackson on Twitter

Meant to drop this in with the other SotU posts yesterday…

😰 My Anxiety — New Yorker

My work suffers, of course. How could it not? I’m sadly not a perfectionist but, rather, an avoider and a regretter. There are periods when I will respond to e-mails at a reasonable pace, and then there’s the e-mail about a potentially lucrative project that I ignored for months. I haven’t even opened it; I don’t know what it says.

Boy, do I feel seen. Don’t even get me started on the “getting out of bed” section…

👽 Spawn, Scorched, and More — Humble Bundle

Second humble bundle I’ve linked to this week. I’ve always wanted to go back and read old Spawn. $20 for 43 volumes of Spawn and Spawn related books. Now I can.

🎵 What Makes an Album the Greatest of All Time? — Pudding

Really great stuff as always. I definitely think the biggest factor was the change/addition of panelists. I still think Sgt. Peppers deserves the 1 spot though.

📣 So Much for “Sleepy Joe”: On Biden’s Rowdy, Shouty State of the Union — New Yorker

Biden wasn’t exactly a happy warrior on Thursday night, but he was a forceful one. He seemed unfazed by the occasional word salad that he made of his script. He was definitely not soporific. The speech kept one part of the evening’s traditions intact–it was terribly long, more than an hour–but the general vibe was different than most State of the Union addresses I can recall–sharply confrontational, intensely divided.

🥊 Joe Biden comes out fighting against Donald Trump — Economist

Mr Biden not only attacked his opponent but goaded Republicans in the chamber and scolded the justices of the Supreme Court, who sat before him, for their decision to overturn Roe v Wade. Coming from this president, an institutionalist who reveres such traditions, that in itself was a signal that he recognises Mr Trump has shifted American politics onto new terrain, and that Mr Biden intends to take the fight to him there.

🐺 Anthony Edwards Did Not Expect To Jump That High — Defector

At some point in the near future he’ll almost certainly be the best two-guard in the NBA, but right now he’s still just 22, and not yet the sort of player that can be entrusted to steer the offense every possession without stress.

I didn’t catch this one, but I think it’s safe to say this was a career defining game for him. Regular season-wise.

🛸 US once considered program to reverse-engineer alien spacecraft, Pentagon report reveals — POLITICO

The effort was eventually rejected by DHS leaders “for lacking merit,” and never actually recovered any other-worldly craft.

In a world where people only read headlines, we need to quit this shoddy shit. They’re doing exactly what they said happened in the first paragraph.

🛌 Floored — Jen Sorensen

Super thoughtful look at one of the things we take for granted with an empathetic POV.