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kottke.org @kottke
7 Mar 2024
Just dipping in quickly to say that you can find kottke[dot]org on Bluesky, Mastodon, and the web if you're tired of this Infowars group chat. bsky.app/profile/kottke.org botsin.space/@kottke kottke.org
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kottke.org @kottke
24 Jul 2023
As you might have noticed, this acct is no longer active. Twitter has shut off API access to the app I've used since 2008 to post links here. Until a change in ownership (or in the owner's stability & political views), there will be no more kottke[dot]org content posted here.
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kottke.org @kottke
24 Jul 2023
Luckily, there are many options for following the site that don't involve your participation in a de facto InfoWars group chat: Web: kottke.org 2X weekly email digest: kottke.org/newsletter/ RSS: feeds.kottke.org/main

kottke.org

Jason Kottke's daily links and commentary on art, science, technology, design, film, and culture since 1998.

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kottke.org @kottke
24 Jul 2023
Here's where the site is most active on social: Mastodon: botsin.space/@kottke Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/kottke.org Threads: threads.net/@jkottke Seriously everyone, it's time to go. đź‘‹
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kottke.org @kottke
23 Jun 2023
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that an American billionaire, in possession of sufficient fortune, must be in want of a Supreme Court justice." washingtonpost.com/opinions/…

Opinion | Supreme Court, consider justice sponsorship!

Look at those robes. All that wasted black space where the names of sponsors could be!

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kottke.org @kottke
22 Jun 2023
Maybe Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan parasite which humans can get from cats, makes humans want to share cat videos with each other. kottke.org/13/07/are-viral-c…

Are Viral Cat Videos Actually Viral?

Or rather, protozoan? Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite which is transmitted from rodents to cats through a crafty mechanism…it makes mice attracted to

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22 Jun 2023
Lego Stop-Motion Recreation of Iconic Scenes From The Shining, including the creepy twins, Jack feverish at the typewriter, and Danny riding his Big Wheel through carpeted hallways. kottke.org/23/06/lego-stop-m…

Lego Stop-Motion Recreation of Iconic Scenes From The Shining

The creepy twins. Jack feverish at the typewriter. Danny riding his Big Wheel through carpeted hallways. The elevators of blood. These familiar scenes from St

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22 Jun 2023
"My e-bike has changed my life. I’m happier, healthier, and more active. My relationship to my community has been completely transformed." slate.com/business/2023/06/e…

What You Don’t Understand About E-Bikes Until You Ride One

Mine changed my life. One could change yours, too.

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kottke.org @kottke
22 Jun 2023
Everything Must Be Paid for Twice. The first price is the cost of acquisition and then "in order to make use of the thing, you must also pay a second price. This is the effort and initiative required to gain its benefits." raptitude.com/2022/01/everyt…

Everything Must Be Paid for Twice

One financial lesson they should teach in school is that most of the things we buy have to be paid for twice. There’...

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22 Jun 2023
Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit, a spreadsheet that includes "satellite and mapping services, tools for verifying photos and videos, websites to archive web pages, and much more". docs.google.com/spreadsheets…

Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit [bit.ly/bcattools]

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kottke.org @kottke
22 Jun 2023
Oooh, the trailer for 3 Body Problem, a forthcoming Netflix series based on the sci-fi trilogy of books by Cixin Liu. I have (perhaps unreasonably) high hopes for this show! kottke.org/23/06/the-trailer…
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22 Jun 2023
All episodes of season 2 of The Bear are now streaming on Hulu. 👀 hulu.com/series/the-bear-05e…

The Bear

FX’s critically acclaimed series The Bear is about food, family and the insanity of the grind. It’s a losing battle every day in the restaurant business, and as Carmy pushes himself harder than ever...

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kottke.org @kottke
21 Jun 2023
Using the metaphor of a cancerous tumor as an unruly village, Kurzgesagt explains how cancer develops in the human body, how the body fights against it, and how, sometimes, the cancer develops into something unmanageable. kottke.org/23/06/the-reason-…

The Reason Why Cancer Is So Hard to Beat

Using the metaphor of a cancerous tumor as an unruly village, Kurzgesagt explains how cancer develops in the human body, how the body fights against it, and h

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21 Jun 2023
Why do all pop music radio stations in the US sound the same? The short answer is consolidation caused by deregulation but that's not the whole story. kottke.org/23/06/why-pop-rad…

Why Pop Radio Stations All Sound the Same

On his YouTube channel this week, Phil Edwards explores the question of why all pop music radio stations in the US sound the same. The short answer is consoli

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21 Jun 2023
Abolish Venture Capitalism. "Venture capitalists have supercharged surveillance, [economic impoverishment], and dispossession. Why should we trust them with so much power over the economy?" thenation.com/article/econom…

Abolish Venture Capitalism

Venture capitalists have supercharged surveillance, immiseration, and dispossession. Why should we trust them with so much power over the economy? 

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kottke.org @kottke
21 Jun 2023
Netflix is making an Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action series; here's a very short, very teaser-y trailer. youtube.com/watch?v=QOg9LUIv…
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21 Jun 2023
Kurt Vonnegut's Response to Book Burning kottke.org/12/03/kurt-vonneg…

Kurt Vonnegut’s Response to Book Burning

Kurt Vonnegut is just the bee’s knees, isn’t he? Here’s a letter he wrote in 1973 to the head of the school board at Drake High School in North Dakota after the

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21 Jun 2023
Search engine logic: The Sega Genesis was also known as the "Mega Drive" so if you search Google for "the book of megadrive", the top result is for the first book of the Bible. google.com/search?q=the book…
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kottke.org @kottke
21 Jun 2023
Max Park struggled with fine motor skills as a kid, a symptom of his autism. Now he's the fastest in the world at solving a Rubik's Cube. npr.org/2023/06/20/118285067…

He once had motor skill challenges. Now he's the world's fastest Rubik's cube solver

What puzzles most people — like solving a Rubik's cube — makes sense to Max Park. And the world of speedcubing has helped the autistic 21-year-old crack the code on what might come easy to others.

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kottke.org @kottke
21 Jun 2023
Meet Mr. Doodle and take a tour of his house, every square inch of which has been covered in doodley black & white drawings. Could you imagine actually living in this space?! kottke.org/23/06/meet-mr-doo…

Meet Mr. Doodle

For some reason, a chap calling himself Mr. Doodle has covered his entire house, like every single inch, with black and white illustrations. As a top commente

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