🎙️ Peter Kafka’s podcast returns to Vox Media under a new name — Axios

Really excited for this. Recode Media was one of the few must listen podcasts for me.

🎭 ‘SNL’ Reveals New Castmembers for Historic Season 50 — THR

Fascinating to see one come from a TikTok show.

🍷 Climate change could change the way you shop for wine — NPR

Cabs have become my go-to now that we live in Napa so this is a bit worrying.

🔡 Camelion — OH no Type Company

New sleek and very pretty sans serif from OH no.

🖱️ Every webpage deserves to be a place —Interconnected

I absolutely want to try to figure out how to do this with TIV.

⚽️ OffBall launches as new sports culture brand — Semafor

The link blog goes pro with this new sports focused blog and “feed.”

📝 I Added Margin Notes to my Blog — Nina Zumel

Another cool thing I need to add to TIV!

📰 Local News Is Dying, but Not in San Francisco — NY Times

Both good news and bad news here. Cool to see local news thriving in the city I live closest to now, but they are either super ugly sites or funded by billionaires. And yeah, how the site looks shouldn’t really matter, but I can’t help it. SF Gazetteer looks really neat though.

🗒️ The Black List Helped Reshape Hollywood. Can It Change Publishing? — NY Times

Aspiring novelists can now post manuscripts on the Black List, where they can potentially get discovered by the literary agents, editors and publishers who subscribe to the site.

I wonder if the Black List still has the same impact it once did in Hollywood since mid-budget movies just don’t exist anymore. I do think this sort of thing could work for fiction in discovering new voices though.

Is my blue your blue?

Neat litle website to find your dividing line between green and blue. My boundary is at hue 179.

🎤 Linkin Park has a new singer and a new album on the way — LA Times

Is it bad I’m more excited about discovering Dead Sara through this…? Curious to see what the new album ends up being, but I was never a huge LP fan.

🤡 How the Media Sanitizes Trump’s Insanity — The New Republic

This “sanewashing” of Trump’s statements isn’t just poor journalism; it’s a form of misinformation that poses a threat to democracy. By continually reframing Trump’s incoherent and often dangerous rhetoric as conventional political discourse, major news outlets are failing in their duty to inform the public and are instead providing cover for increasingly erratic behavior from a former–and potentially future–president.

I think TNR has been doing some of the best election coverage this year and having Malloy these last few months is a shining example of that. They aren’t necessarily breaking news, but putting things into perspective and not pulling punches.

📸 Why I left The Verge — Becca Farsace

I love what Becca gets to when talking about what made The Verge special. As one of my college professors gruffly said:

It’s all about the people!

But there are two topics of ownership discussed here: that of the videos Becca makes for their personal channel and those they make for The Verge. I can understand the hesitance of videos on a personal channel, but even bringing up the idea of ownership of videos made for The Verge is weird to me.

🥁 Metal Drummer Hears Led Zeppelin For The First Time — Drumeo

Do I post Drumeo’s often? Yes. Are they all awesome? Yes. This one is particularly special though, becuase the drummer, 66Samus has a unique process for creating an auditory cheat sheet for himself to play along to. I thought it was super intuitive, but also, how has no one done this before??

👩‍🎤 Chappell Roan: We Hid In The Alley Behind Her Hotel, Knocked Out A Concierge On His Smoke Break, Stole His Uniform, Used It To Sneak Into The Kitchen, And Hid Inside Her Room Service Trolley, And She Was A Complete, Ungrateful Bitch About It — The Onion

That says it all. Literally and figuratively.

📈 Graphs

Ever dream of a daily game where you have to match the graph to the dataset description? Me neither, but boy is it cool.

🎉 Surprise — Reliable Sources

Brian Stelter is back at CNN and the Reliable Sources newsletter. I never actually read the newsletter, but love Oliver Darcy’s Status, so I figure I should give this a shot when it restarts on Monday.

🎷 Jazz Band Covers Nirvana On The Spot — Musora

Seeing Ulysses Owens cover Nirvana on Drumeo was fun although I had wanted to see him infuse more of his style into it. So it was awesome to see him with his band do exactly that.

🕸️ A Website You Can Only Visit Once

Says it right there in the name. Some good advice on there too.

📍 ESPN Will Vie for Local Sports Rights — Variety

I think this is super smart for ESPN. It will be interesting to see how something like this gets implemented, but ultimately leagues want to broaden their audience and ESPN wants as many sports fan relying on them as possible, which aligns with their new Where to Watch feature. The other thing to keep an eye on is non-exclusive rights.

🖼️ The Sustained Two-Shot — Every Frame a Painting

Incredible video essay and incredible to have a new EFaP.

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🚔 Police are killing more Americans than ever. Where’s the outrage? — Economist

The only way to kill a civilian without a gun is at the hands of a “good guy” with a gun…

🦮 MAGA Enters Meltdown Mode With New Conspiracy on Tim Walz’s Dog — The New Republic

It’s wild both how far these morons will go and how much they’ll ignore and make things up in the hopes someone will believe them? I don’t know…

🎮 Morsels — Trailer

I keep thinking about getting into gaming again and this game looks right up my alley. Or maybe I’ll dive back into WoW…

🥤 Why Top Olympic Athletes Use Baking Soda to Boost Performance — Outside

Will be curious to see how this evolves. If I’m a professional athlete, I wouldn’t blink at $20 a serving, but for it to hit mass market, the price needs to come waaaay down.