Next week is 10 years since we lost Prince. Since then, the community of Prince scholars has come together regularly for academic symposia on his legacy and works; you can watch for free this weekend if you'd like to join us online or in person at NYU. Just register here! iwonderu.polishedsolid.com

a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

Hacks is on

10 Blur songs for Damon Albarn’s birthday? You got it.

St. Charles Square
Trimm Trabb
Beetlebum
Blue Jeans
Swamp Song
Pyongyang
Death of a Party
Barbaric
Best Days
To the End

Also reported as six years this evening - which would be not quite as good! They just have more upside than the 20% built in if that’s the case.

I read it was four years.

KDO: 28 Years Later… It’s getting a little ridiculous, isn’t it? 28 years of kottke.org, as of today. Older than Google. Older than The Matrix. Older than Christopher Nolan’s feature film career. Older than Elle Fanning. Ol

KDO is 28 years old today. "Older than Google. Older than The Matrix. Older than Christopher Nolan's feature film career. Older than Elle Fanning. Older than Kurt Cobain when he died. It might outlast American democracy." [kottke.org]

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

I don’t really know what to say about this other than that it deserves your full attention. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

@simonwillison.net et al's thinking about Resonant Computing (resonantcomputing.org) was a heavy influence on my thinking. I built Resonant Computing Principles into my Claude.md file: github.com/djacobs/Pinw... (See the first section - "Prior Art & Philosophy").

Pinwheel Fates: My MMO Basketball Simulator I was one of 500 accepted to Anthropic’s Build with Claude Hackathon (out of 13,000 submissions) and shipped Pinwheel Fates: a 3v3…

I wrote about participating in @anthropic.com's Claude Code Anniversary hackathon: medium.com/@djacobs/pin...

Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun We’re entering a new renaissance of software development. We should all be excited, despite the uncertainties that lie ahead.

Paul Ford on AI and the Infinite Software Era. “All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingly excited.” [nytimes.com]

I'm trying these now on a new project. I'll tell you how it goes!

We could have had nice things

Trinity Rodman on Her Historic Contract and Outsized Style The Washington Spirit star is now the highest-paid women’s soccer player in the world. “I’m happy that I am the player they’re willing to take that chance on…kinda setting a standard for what other pl...

ON THE NIGHT OF HER HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT, I INTERVIEWED TRINITY RODMAN FOR GQ!!!! If you love me you'll read it, if you hate me, you'll hate read it! www.gq.com/story/trinit...

In the U.S., we currently have the existing brutality of the carceral system, cultural acceptance of disparate treatment for people of color, forced Native American exile to reservations, the long echoes Japanese American internment during World War Il, the continuing operation of places like Guantanamo, and the willingness of both major political parties to use a detention-based punitive approach to immigration. These are the domestic weaknesses that helped to make the country susceptible to becoming a concentration camp regime.

“These are the domestic weaknesses that helped to make the country susceptible to becoming a concentration camp regime.” degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-a...

I wonder if they even considered
Offering him something like 3 yrs/120M, so they could get more in trade.

Screenshot of gamegirladvance.com in 2005

gamegirladvance.com in 2005
web.archive.org/web/20051024000602if_/ht...

Wordle 1,659 1/6*

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How Fast Should Your 12-Year-Old Throw?

This is my favorite thing I wrote all year. My first story in the New York Times. But it was already my favorite before it ever published, for a couple reasons and if you’ll indulge me…

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/s...

This week we started a public access collection of Free Community Defense & Anti ICE Art for free distribution.

Please contribute & help spread the word!
Thank you to Chanci for this "Abolice Loon" submission.

See the collection so far at defend612.com/art, along with submission guidelines.

This is one of three major Federal actions against healthcare for trans people this week. While the two bills passed by the House are not expected to pass the Senate, all three of these actions are heartbreaking to see. Both House bills would have failed if the Democratic caucus had held together.

6 years ago, a federal ban on gender-affirming care for young people was absent from the national Dem agenda, seemed unlikely to almost everyone who isn’t trans. 6 years ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene was a QAnon crank with a crossfit gym. Yesterday her ban passed out of the House with three Dem votes.

Entirely Too Many Thoughts About Wake Up Dead Man - Reactor Digging in to the nuances of religion, faith, and grace tucked inside the latest Benoit Blanc mystery

Entirely Too Many Thoughts About Wake Up Dead Man. An excellent, long & close read of Wake Up Dead Man, particularly its focus on “religion, faith, and grace”. [reactormag.com]

That’s not abnormal, for privacy reasons. It just means there’s news + a follow-up conversation to be had. Not necessarily good or bad news.

Then what happened?

The spirit of 1990 lives on

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I love this on many levels!!

And a happy TypePad shutdown Sunday to you as well, m'lord.

I’m hearing you