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Why do all American diners look the same? Architectural Digest finds out.
What a great piece on masculinity.
Google is breaking the web’s social contract. Is it time to rescind our invitation to Google?
Tools more than 18,000 years old have been unearthed in Oregon.
I can’t believe Poop Fiction is a thing but also love that it is.
Matt Langford has a great post on how to verify your domain on Nostr and Bluesky for micro.blog users. This comes in handy if you don’t have access to modify DNS records.
I really do enjoy Nathan Pyle’s Strange Planet comic. It’ll be interesting to see how the animated series on Apple TV Plus pans out.
Christian fascists are just making up evidence to get to the Supreme Court now. This is a sham court.
If you were around in the 1990s you probably remember destroying your fingers on the PowerCheck meter on Duracell batteries. Did you know there’s a fascinating history behind it, including a patent battle?
Proton Pass has launched. I love Proton’s services and can’t wait to move from Bitwarden to Proton Pass but there’s two things preventing me from moving: Ability to store credit cards and a Safari extension for the Mac. Once it has those two things I think I’m all in.
Congrats to Roman Bürki and Tim Parker of St. Louis City SC on being selected for the MLS All Star roster.
I will have to play around with micropub posting with iOS shortcuts later. Looks pretty simple.
The future of this country is looking really scary, especially if corporations can vote in elections.
I’m stuck in a YouTube rabbit hole of history videos. Tonight’s topics were: The Norte Chico, the Olmec, and Cahokia.
Dan Moren has a new book coming out this fall called All Souls Lost, described as “a supernatural detective story set in the Boston area ithat involves spooky goings on at a big tech company.” Can’t wait for it. You can preorder it now.
I’ve been testing out a couple of Lemmy instances as a replacement for Reddit. I think I like the community over at midwest.social. They are a friendly bunch and what’s great about Lemmy is you can subscribe to communities from other instances, so it really doesn’t matter which instance you join.
Finished reading: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar 📚
This interview with the Reddit CEO was a disaster. I don’t know how he could be the CEO much longer.
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