🙈 Bulls fans boo late GM Jerry Krause during Ring of Honor ceremony — The Athletic

Jeez… this is such a bad look for Chicago. Shameful and disgraceful. Reminds me of when Toronto cheered Durant’s injury, but worse.

🥽 It’s like Persona, but real life, but virtual — The Verge

Not sure spending 6+ hours a day with a headset on is a great idea, but ~the future~, I guess. I know there are different learning types, but I think the relationships, both with classmates and teachers, are a big part of education.

🐩 Washington’s DeBoer agrees to become next Alabama coach — ESPN

Whelp, there it is… feel bad for all my Seattle friends who get to watch their team fall back to mediocrity…

🙈 Is it a Nazi Bar?

This is a great little tracker of Substack’s recent issues from @jeffperry. I had a similar idea, but this is way better than anything I would’ve come up with.

💡 an idea — lynx

Somewhat related to the news talk on micro.blog, I started thinking about how I could build a little app similar to The Economist Espresso or FT Edit. The idea being, every evening, there’d be five links posted to keep you updated. This is a quick prototype with yay.boo.

🌮 99% of Americans live near a Mexican restaurant — Axios

Based on the inclusion of “fast-food” I’m assuming they are including Taco Bell and Chipotle, which shouldn’t really count, but I can’t imagine ever not having good tacos in my life.

📉 Regulators Approve New Type of Bitcoin Fund, in Boon for Crypto Industry — NY Times

While I don’t care for crypto or web3, this is still pretty significant news. I’m just hoping Betterment doesn’t put my money in any of these ETFs.

🌊 Nick Saban, architect of Alabama football dynasty, to retire — The Guardian

I don’t follow college football closely so this doesn’t mean much, but I didn’t see this coming at all. The program he built there is truly a remarkable feat.

🇺🇸 Calendargate: How a horny beer calendar led to a right-wing meltdown — Vox

Maybe, just maybe, these are actually the folks who want to control/silence people. Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit editions are way more revealing than this calendar too.

🐡 Nude man caught after ‘cannonball’ into aquarium at Alabama Bass Pro Shop — AP News

Trying my hardest to link to all the real important news this year.

🔫 US president could have a rival assassinated and not be criminally prosecuted, Trump’s lawyer argues — Semafor

This is super cool… Biggest problem with this is I’d wager there’s a group of his supporters (a rather large one at that) who are not only jazzed when they hear this, but would encourage it.

🐇 r1 — rabbit

As cool as the device designed by Teenage Engineering is, this feels more like marketing for an AI-assisted RPA play.

🗺️ An internet map — Diagram

Very cool website/map of different pockets of the internet.

🏙️ Donald Trump didn’t sign loyalty oath for Illinois ballot pledging not to ‘advocate the overthrow of the government’ — Chicago Sun-Times

Doesn’t actually mean anything, but such a weird move considering… looks around at everything. The whole “I’m going to be a dictator” thing doesn’t help either.

🥳 It’s a new year I guess s3e1 — foofaraw

My newsletter is back…

📚 The bliss — and benefits — of slow reading — FT

Luckily (?) for me, I’m already an incredibly slow reader. But because of that I don’t reread books. Ever. Now I’m considering trying to work something like Cat’s Cradle in every year though.

⌨️ It’s Time to Embrace Slow Productivity — New Yorker

When there’s too much for us to imagine actually completing, we short-circuit our executive functioning mechanisms, resulting in a feeling of anxious unease.

As much as I don’t enjoy my job, my time is pretty much mine do with as I please, but when the rain comes it pours and I’ve definitely experienced that anxious unease.

🇧🇷 The Real Ronaldo — Virtual Art Gallery

Very cool digital art exhibit dedicated to the Brazilian striker, Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima, aka the real Ronaldo. Watching Ronaldo and Brazil, (where my dad was born) in the 2002 World Cup is what got me into soccer in the first place.