📐 Tracings — Are.na

Really cool channel/experiment happening on Are.na around the theme of “trace”. Starting with one glyph and having the community continuously retrace each others tracing.

🎸 blink-182 — The Zane Lowe Interview

Just two more days until the album is officially out. I can’t say I love the six songs they’ve released from it so far, but it’s still nice to have new music from these three guys again.

🎙️ An interview with a Hamas leader — The Intelligence

This is an incredible piece of reporting from The Economist, sternly and cogently pushing back against basically everything Hamas says. It’s the kind of interviewer that’s rarer and rarer in the US these days.

🦤 Musk argues with EU commissioner over Israel/Hamas disinformation on X — Ars Technica

Glad to see someone do something to try to counteract the petulant child’s promotion of disinformation.

📺 Review: Loki, “Ouroboros” | Season 2, Episode 1 — Episodic Medium

I think I was a lot higher on Season 1 than most and I also thought this season premiere was excellent and feel like we are in store for an even better season two.

😔 Tragedy in Israel — Puck

Julia Ioffe is terrific, but has the most horrific beat, going from Ukraine to Israel… This was a really great personal essay about her views on the history of Israel and Palestine.

🐂 Schedule Release Video — Chicago Bulls

It came out awhile back, but this Pokémon theme schedule release video is incredible. Loved the Wemby moment too.

🏀 Spurs at Thunder Highlights — NBA Preseason

It’s just preseason, but the first half battle of 7ft twigs definitely lived up to the hype.

🏒 Blackhawks rookie Connor Bedard ‘as advertised,’ GM says — ESPN

Puck drops tonight in Pittsburgh at 5PT and I’m so excited to see Bedard make his debut. I’m worried it’s impossible to live up to the hype at this point, but hopefully they give him freedom to have fun and grow into the role.

🐂 In a ‘prove it’ year, the Bulls are betting on continuity — ESPN

Unfortunately, I highly doubt they ‘prove’ anything this year. I’m so excited to watch basketball again and so depressed about the state of my Bulls.

🍄 Kinopio’s Design Principles — pketh

I think it’s pretty well known I love Kinopio. It has that delight that most software is missing these days and Pirijan captures his design principles here, which he’s truly followed to make something great.

🥽 So long iPhone. Generative AI needs a new device — The Economist

He likens ar specs to mobile phones and vr headsets to desktops.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I’ve been super excited about smart glasses since Google Goggles.

🌑 a new foofaraw (b1) — foofaraw

The newsletter is back! And on Buttondown now! Calling this a beta season as I experiment a bit and figure out how I want to handle a few things.

💽 Several Songs About Fire — A Savage

A surprisingly fun week of releases, but this solo album from the singer of Parquet Courts stood out slightly above the rest (will touch on those in the newsletter).

👩‍👦 Motherless (Live on Fallon) — Killer Mike

Damn… seeing Killer Mike choke up to get through this has me fighting to keep my eyes dry.

🥱 Waking to an Attack from Hamas — The New Yorker

I’m too stupid/ignorant to wade into the politics of this conflict (I have thoughts, but they don’t matter), but whatever your stance, these things are incredibly sad and scary.

🎙️ A yard act to follow — Checks and Balance

I have so many thoughts on zoning based on my move from Chicago to Seattle and this episode was great at capturing a lot of those sentiments. The Economist really kills it with their mix of reporting/conversation/storytelling in their podcasts.

🌄 Reservation Dogs Redefines the Coming-of-Age Story — The New Yorker

Don’t get me wrong, I think it was amazing, but this piece captures why it didn’t always follow through on its potential given the hype (“best show of the decade”). Maybe it’s my bias, but The Bear (so far) has it beat.

🐳 How We Made A Good Enough Zine — Good Enough

I love the team at Good Enough except for the fact they made this awesome little zine immediately after I tried to make a crappy little media one-page zine of my own… Super helpful to see how Shawn put it together and got it printed though.

🕊️ Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel peace prize — The Guardian

Iran’s state news agency IRNA accused the Nobel committee of “politicising” human rights.

“Politicising human rights…” What a thing to say.

💨 NFL asks networks to promote Taylor Swift concert film for free — The Fader

The “Taylor Swift Jets” SEO to avoid private jet talk is a top tier take.

☔ Three Years in Seattle — Are.na

Just getting started with this, but I’ve created a new channel on Arena to document and reflect on my three years in Seattle. Still thinking through all the potential things I could include, but I plan on printing it with print.are.na eventually.

🇺🇸 Joel Embiid commits to Team USA for 2024 Olympics — ESPN

This is huge. Not only is Embiid one of the best big men in the world, it’s the US’s biggest hole in their available talent pool and roster.

📱 This Is A Test — New Yorker Cartoon

Superb.

💩 Low Demand for Travis Scott Creates Liquidity Crisis in Ticket Reselling Economy — 404 Media

Love to see it. Scalpers are trash and Travis Scott is a PoS in an NDA kind of way (_{“allegedly”}).