🔠 Olde — Ohno Type

Oh no… do I use this for the title of my blog and headers now… This is exactly what I was looking for when I was searching for new typefaces awhile back. Blackletter with a little fun, bubbly flavor.

🐦 Twitter Is Just Running Ads for Stealing Semen Now — 404

Just here to share this headline. Carry on.

💕 Love is an Investment — @03_mania

This is hilarious. Wonderful little animation.

Here’s a little love plus interest.

🍮 The Pudding Cup 2023

Just the absolutely coolest stuff. I love seeing data displayed beautifully and in a fun way.

🐻 Bears flirt with building on lakefront — Axios

Honestly, if I’m Chicago, I just tell the Bears to buzz off to Arlington Heights and then work on attracting a different team to Solider Field with a promise of building a new stadium at a certain point.

🐂 How the Bulls are using Corner Offense principles to create better flow — Stephen Noh

I love watching Noh break down the Bulls. He absolutely nails how detrimental LaVine can be to the offense with his limited ability to read the floor and move off-ball.

🤡 Tucker Carlson Is Launching His Own Streaming Service — WSJ

Anyone looking to burn money? This man is charging more than Apple and Disney. Clowns gonna clown.

📮 Stamp Fans

@maya posted about this the other day and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. I think I’m going to do it. In March I mailed out that $3 single-page zine, but I think I have a way to a) do this myself and b) make it fun (and better than that zine).

⚾️ Ohtani to defer $680M in Dodgers deal — ESPN

Wild stuff. And smart. His $70mil annual average will only hit the Dodgers cap at $46mil, due to him only taking $2mil a year up-front.

🪦 The Possible Death of Every Noise at Once… — furia

This is a huge bummer. Really sucks to hear this individual was part of the Spotify layoffs. I loved getting to explore all of these mini-genres that Spotify uses for classification.

📗 Hatiye Garip’s whimsical comic embraces tactility and audio to create an accessible publication — It’s Nice That

This looks absolutely delightful even before talking about the accessibility.

🤖 Ambient Hum Introduction — KAA

I have Khaled’s first book in print and this was an instant buy for me. Really neat to get all the background on Moon Racket, which feels very similar to my history with my grub character (albeit mine is nowhere as polished or fleshed out).

🚋 A more realistic trolley problem — @instachaaz

This is basically what goes through my head every single day.

🏟️ Ohtani joining Dodgers on 10-year, $700M deal — ESPN

Wow. Good for him. He is basically two players, so if you look at it that way, it’s $35/yr for each of em.

⚽️ Salah joins elite list with 150th Premier League goal — PL

Moooo Salah! Incredible stuff and it doesn’t hurt that it coincides with Liverpool moving into the top spot in the table.

💽 Heady Metal by Divorce — foofaraw

Final newsletter of the season/year is an issue of Willful Listening reviewing a great folky rock EP. We’ll be back on Jan 8th with our regular Monday media guide.

🐂 Are the Bulls better without Zach LaVine? Looking into Chicago’s improved record and how it impacts trade rumors — Sporting News

LaVine is obviously talented, but I he doesn’t fit here and I think is a big reason for the lack of growth from others.

🤣 Non-alcoholic White Claw: New 0% Alcohol beverage comes in 4 flavors — USA Today

How innovative…

👹 Texas Supreme Court Temporarily Halts Court-Approved Abortion — NY Times

Pardon my French, but these people are fucking monsters.

📓 iA Writer in Paper — iA

Beautiful. The whole time I was reading this I was thinking “I’m so glad I didn’t buy a new notebook for 2024 yet” only to get to the end and see it won’t go on sale for pre-order until next year… I want it now!

🧩 Puzzmo, my favorite new website of 2023, has already been acquired — Birchtree

Matt is being overly optimistic, imo. It’ll start that way, but inevitably, in two years time Gage and Co. will leave, the standalone product will be shuttered, and then Hearst will cut their puzzle budget.

🤖 A Google AI has discovered 2.2m materials unknown to science — The Economist

They chose 58 of the predicted compounds and were able to synthesise 41 of them in a little over two weeks.

The firm has made public a subset of what they think should be the 381,000 most stable structures.

Can’t say I full understand it, but I’m completely fascinated by it.