A lot about the world is very heavy right now but if a college football podcast that got jettisoned by Vox during the pandemic for not having a marketable audience can raise this much money for refugees in Atlanta in two days then just think of all the stuff we can all do together
So amazing and so well-deserved!!!!
They’ve been doing amazing things with Honeycrisp varietals. What I want to see is something with the bakeable texture of a Granny Smith, but the flavor of a Honeycrisp.
That’s a thousand dollar idea right there.
Also, if you're not a writer, it's hard to explain the ubiquity of these AI scam solicitations. This is an inbox *after* filtering
Now that is a stately avocado
heartwarming video of astronaut Christina Koch greeting her dog for the first time after returning from space. the pup can be seen snarling, back arched, before scampering to its word buttons and pressing "IMPOSTOR" repeatedly, then "FALSE. SKIN. FALSE. SKIN." several times
A black and white photo of two “tomboyish” looking women with their arms slung around each other, one of them holding a kitten. They're outside and wearing work clothes.
Two cool ladies and a small pal. Photo from my collection, ca. 1930s.
For the FT this weekend, I wrote about the 70-year history of one of my favourite weird books — Naomi Mitchison's fantasy (?) novel for children (??) Travel Light, which @amalelmohtar.com calls "like sunlight... beautiful, warm and strange"
www.ft.com/content/412a...
This article shows that Arizona has experienced a 47% decline in SNAP enrollment or about ~400,000 people losing critical support to buy groceries in the last year. This decline is not because of more jobs: the AZ economy (same as U.S. overall) has been treading water, unemployment has increased.
A tweet that reads "About 5 years ago I worked in a restaurant and Ludacris came in, ordered spring rolls, and sent them back. When I apologized he said “don’t apologize, spring rolls are unpredictable.” I think about this at least once a week."
semi related, he generally seems like a thoughtful person
Corporate media is cooked. Worker-owned media is the future. Come with us if you want to eat.
Major major news from a truly stellar group of folks. Congratulations to @feedravenous.bsky.social on launch!!
To analogize the Al information-collapse scenario: It's like if the modern information economy was a bee farm, where journalists are the honeybees. (We do sting people from time to time). Information is honey, and society loves honey! You don't even need to meet a bee to eat it. But making honey is so slow... Then a new Al-powered robot arrives that makes it a lot cheaper and faster to get the honey to consumers — by driving over the flowers, smashing open the beehive and killing all the bees in the process. There's no more honey to collect next time, and the robot is left to scrape up whatever is left in the debris. One day you get to the grocery store, and crud is the only thing on the shelves. Suddenly dinner is less appetizing but you don't know why. Oh, and society has gotten addicted to riding around on the bee-smashing machine.
Wherein I write about the step beyond Google Zero and imagine the AI information ecosystem collapse:
mattdpearce.substack.com/p/who-really...
this is the sort of discussion i like to see on the internet. try to be more like these people
www.reddit.com/r/AskFoodHis...
@awalkerinla.bsky.social is ON IT
www.torched.la
Sunset Strip 1977, my after-shool hang from WeHo Elementary. Sun Bee Liquor, Licorice Pizza (pre-Ahhs), PowerBurger. I recall Filthy McNasty's (pre-Viper Room) had a pic of Filthy flipping you off, Tower Video still a nude club and a movie billboard later advertising "The Bitch."
I wrote about a camp, 27 girls who drowned due to astonishing failures to plan, and hundreds of families going back anyway. nymag.com/intelligence...
next time I’m a head chef I’m going to have a secret “chef’s menu” that you can get omakase style and it’s just a handful of shredded cheese, half a burnt pretzel and four Red Bulls. Also you have to eat it squatted over a trashcan or sitting on a pickle bucket
What an incredible story: Meatpacking workers who speak 57 languages are ON STRIKE against the behemoth JBS in Greeley, CO. Reminds me of historical accounts of the Lawrence, Mass. strike of 1912, where workers spoke dozens of languages, and often sang to communicate.
I never would have guessed I’d become so familiar with the e-mail genre: Robot Desperately Pretending to Be a Fan of Your Writing
Klassy Karrot
Holtville, CA
We could have avoided so much useless aesthetic moralism by making sure that all brutalist buildings have generous landscaping budgets. [Neave Brown’s Alexandra Road Estate in London, 1978]
WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings
Wrote a lil newsletter about the strange and hyper-regional candy I grew up eating on St. Patrick's Day in Philly. Basically, they're balls of cream cheese frosting and coconut dusted in straight cinnamon, and I love them
to all who celebrate this annual tradition
Tremendous commentary here as well. This is what I assume Russian dashcam videos are saying in Russian.
no one on earth doing it like connor o'malley right now, absolutely unmissable
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJER...
☘️ Cumming Tap ☘️
Cumming, IA
