🍻 New York’s Other Half Brewing is coming to Chicago — Eater

First, Hop Butcher finally opened up their taproom after I left and now Other Half is going to have a space alongside a new venue with 80 tap lines?!

💫 Baby star launches giant jets and shocks — BBC News

Another wild image from the James Webb telescope, this one of a star being born.

🐲 FLAMING HYDRA: 60 Brilliant Writers & Artists Join Forces by The Brick House Cooperative — Kickstarter

Instant back for me. M-F newsletter from some great writers for $3/mo. Yes please.

🏀 Victor Wembanyama Is Way Ahead Of Schedule — Defector

Along comes this Lovecraftian cosmic monstrosity who suddenly threatens to force a reconsideration of what makes for a playable big in the Western Conference.

Truly incredible. I hope he continues to work on his playmaking though.

🎼 Now and Then (Short Film) — The Beatles

Finally got around to watching this I find the process of them working together to make it much more fascinating than the song itself.

🪟 Window Swap

I’ve been collecting passive live web things to keep open on a second monitor on Are.na and this is one of the best. Makes me want to get a camera to set-up my own window in Napa. Looking at a harbor in Taiwan now and it’s delightful.

via: Public Announcement

🦤 The Boy and the Heron [English dub] — Trailer

It honestly looks like a true, epic masterpiece. Hits theaters December 8th.

🍎 Apple keeps exploring (and scrapping) new ways to detect users’ health — The Verge

I just wanted to be (what I assume will be) the millionth person to say “an Apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Carry on.

🛻 Let’s clear up a few things about ‘Blade Runner’ and the cyber truck — Read Max

I mean, taking anything Musk says seriously at this point is a waste of time, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t immensely enjoy this takedown anyways.

💽 Sonic Tonic — SWMRS

Really great indie rock album that came out last week. Fast paced, high energy, 20min record with some punk sensibilities.

🍑 The N.F.L.’s Rear Guard Is Angry About the “Tush Push” — New Yorker

The idea people would want to change a rule because someone else can do something better is so silly to me.

🎹 Royalty Calculator: What Are Streams Worth on Spotify, Apple Music? — Billboard

Pretty useful tool, I imagine. Wild how much more Apple paid out though. If I were a musician I feel like of want to encourage listeners to use Apple Music.

🐦‍⬛ The Edgar Allan Poe Library — The Nevermore

Very cool site collecting all the work from Edgar Allen Poe by @josh@hooray.computer.

🐉 Premonition of a Dragon Moon — Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan’s mini-site serving as a companion/public notebook to his upcoming novel, Moonbound. Awesome stuff, as always, from Sloan.

📊 You should look at this chart about music genres — The Pudding

Truly some incredible dataviz and web design. Love it. And the microgenres are super useful to find similar stuff. The name or definition doesn’t matter to me, but breaking big genres down by sound is helpful (and cool).

💸 Mike Johnson wants to pay for Israel aid by cutting the IRS budget. Some Republicans aren’t sold — Semafor

What idiocy. Ron Wyden gets it exactly right:

The idea that somehow you would basically condition support for Israel on giveaways to wealthy tax cheats takes your breath away.

🏥 Cazzie David Puts Netflix’s “Live to 100” Series to the Test — Air Mail

I felt this deep down in my core.

🏀 Knock Me Over With A Fucking Feather, Cooper Flagg Commits To Duke — Defector

Excited to actually have a reason to watch some college hoops again next year. Bulls should blow it up now so they have a chance to snag him in 2025.

🏈 Bears trading for Commanders’ Sweat — ESPN

I don’t know… why give up a pick for someone who could leave at the end of the year during an already crappy season that won’t get any better.

🏀 Clippers land Harden in deal with 76ers — ESPN

Just glad this saga is over. Even if temporarily given the chaos Harden brings everywhere he goes.

🏀 How the bold new NBA in-season tournament courts came to fruition — ESPN

I could read an entire book about the logistics and planning required to get this done quickly. Don’t love leaning into the City jerseys, but having distinct courts will be a good idea for the tournament.

🚚 Kompressor — lucas.love

If you have any need for a Mac app to do quick image compression/conversion or remove EXIF data, look no further. Design is both killer and simple.

📹 My Response to The New Yorker Article — Hasan Minhaj

I feel like I was one of the few people who thought the NYer piece was way overblown. If you think he’s a crazy liar his response might not mean much, but I feel vindicated for being on his side after this.