📚 Cory Doctorow Novel Collection — Humble Bundle

18 of his books for $18 in support of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

🕴️ Corporate Fetish is the response to Girlhood — Feed Me

Paywall unfortunately, but Emily’s essay at the end does a great job going into the fashion trend. What’s missing is the corporate world desire to entice people back to the office, which I think is a major element.

🎰 Did Apple Just Make a Gambling App? — Atlantic

The following year, it became the exclusive broadcaster of Major League Soccer, and now it may be readying an up to $2 billion bid for the rights to Formula 1 racing.

Nothing super enlightening in the article, but I completely missed that Apple was bidding for F1.

🇷🇺 Moscow After Navalny — Puck

What we saw this weekend was the end of that hopeful arc. First, the protest movement had been killed, and now so too had its leader. And though over 10,000 people in Moscow came out to bid Alexey farewell, what did it change, really? Putin would still be re-elected overwhelmingly for another six-year term, Russian missiles would keep killing Ukrainian children for no discernible reason, and dissent would land hundreds and thousands more Russians behind bars. If we thought the repression of Russian society was bad 15 years ago, it has become Stalinesque now.

🏀 Clark passes Maravich to become NCAA DI’s all-time leading scorer — Guardian

Truly historic stuff.

🎺 Tiny Desk: Butcher Brown — NPR

Solar Music made my top ten albums last year, and while they might not have the stage presence of Juvenile, not much in this world beats live, soulful music.

🐂 A quick vid on Onuralp Bitim’s debut — Noh’s Notebook

Never even heard of this guy—I haven’t been paying much attention to the Bulls since I let me League Pass lapse—but I love to see it! If he can keep up what he did last night, he can easily be a role player off the bench for any team.

🎮 The Nerve of Balatro For Being This Good — Aftermath

One more on Balatro for good luck.

🎮 It Is, In Fact, Preferable To Suck Real Bad At A Game Like ‘Balatro’ — Defector

I haven’t purchased a new video game since 2020, but this might do it. A rogue-like, deck-building, poker game?? How can I say no??

🤖 Former Twitter engineers are building Particle, an AI-powered news reader, backed by $4.4M — TechCrunch

For those missing Artifact, it looks like you’ll have something that should at least last a bit longer.

🗞️ Welcome to Zeteo

Mehdi Hasan’s new video company is set to launch in April with shows, essays, newsletters, and podcasts. Excited to see what they end up building.

🦾 What If “Face to Face” by Daft Punk Used Newer Samples? — Nickster

This is incredible. Via today’s Garbage Weekend.

🕳️ Why Am I Down Here? — Aftermath

Spot on. This weeks Drive-Away Dolls has a shot from below, looking up from a trunk at the two stars too.

🌬️ The Weather is Perfectly Interesting, Actually — Atlantic

If you’re not going to talk about the weather, what are you going to talk about? Your kids? Your dog? Are you sure that’s the gripping material you think it is?

📰 Say We Do — Paul Czege

This is a killer little one page broadsheet zine that you can print yourself for $1. I think this is the model that I’m going to switch my little letter of nonsense to as well rather than mailing it out

🇺🇦 Two Years of War in Ukraine — Atlantic

🏀 NBA debuts NB-AI to enhance the live game watching experience — Fast Company

Just plain ol’ dumb. Nobody wants this.

🛌 How Long Is Too Long to Stay in Bed? — NY Times

The last couple weeks have been rough at work for both me and my wife so this was a welcome read.

📺 The CNN, MTV, and Disney of the future — Garbage Day

And eventually it won’t feel strange to not own a TV and only own a wearable of some kind because eventually there won’t be any communal content left to watch with other people.

I just don’t think this is true. Storytelling will always be communal. Households, families, couples, etc. What shows people are watching is still something I hear people talking about everywhere.

🏟️ Apple Sports — App Store

As someone always looking for something to replace ESPN’s app, I think this is actually pretty nice. Still missing some important features—consolidated view of My Teams and My Leagues to start, but widgets and live activities would be welcome too.

🏹 Iran sends Russia hundreds of ballistic missiles — Reuters

Duckers. Pardon my French…