I’m trying a new thing. Well, it’s really an old thing, but it’s new for me. About six billion years ago, people used blogs to share links they thought were cool. Then social media killed blogs and people started sharing links on Twitter. Now, social media is unbearable so I’m sharing links here.
New links most days.
I can’t wait for my favorite movie to destroy our friendship (h/t, Critical Linking):
I was worried that she would dislike it so much that she would kind of dislike me too, through osmosis. Or that I would realize that we have completely different senses of humor, and that perhaps we aren’t very close after all.
In a second term defined by the scope of Trump’s unrestrained ambition, America’s first property developer-turned-president is at times approaching the job like a modern day Howard Roark or Baron Haussmann, determined to leave his distinctive mark on the physical spaces that define the presidency and the nation’s capital.
Interminable back-to-school traffic:
Some parents and guardians were even ordering UberEats and DoorDash deliveries to their car outside the school as they waited, [Loudon County Sheriff’s Deputy Chris] Hutchens said.
Saying nothing and feeling self-important about it is not a bad summation of the entire experience of social media. But it was amazing to me how everyone thought it was the result of a very clear plan or an extremely well-defined motivation.
I hope you don’t need to be persuaded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, but the people who study this stuff for a living are yelling at the top of their lungs that it’s happening:
Eighty-six percent of those who voted among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars backed the resolution declaring Israel’s “policies and actions in Gaza” had met the legal definition set out in Article II of the 1948 UN convention on genocide.
Butlerian Jihad Now (content warning for a discussion of suicide):
Some things are just too important to simulate. Maybe one of them is each other.
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