Vegemite is not a human right(cnn.com)
8 points by sumnole | 5 comments
CNN/AP news article reporting that a Victorian judge rejected a murderer's challenge to the state prison ban on Vegemite, which he argued breached his cultural rights.
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Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor Are Further Removed from Prosperity(lusopt2016.blogspot.com)
6 points by inandout | 0 comments
A Portuguese-language blog post discussing why global economic inequality between rich and poor keeps widening, citing technology, cost of living, and billionaire wealth.
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Learning to Be Me (1990) [pdf](gwern.net)
18 points by zahrevsky | 3 comments
PDF of Greg Egan's science fiction short story "Learning to Be Me," about a brain-implanted jewel that learns to imitate its host's mind.
Lego collaboration with Daft Punk(lego.com)
56 points by pieterr | 45 comments
LEGO announcement page revealing a LEGO Ideas collaboration with Daft Punk, based on a fan-submitted Daft Punk Concert set selected for product development.
Online censorship is crushing indie webcomics(xtramagazine.com)
90 points by Tomte | 64 comments
An opinion piece in comic form on Xtra by webcomic duo Hazel and Bell about how social media algorithms and payment processor restrictions are hurting indie queer webcomics.
Why Gopher in 2026?(gopher.muffinlabs.com)
108 points by andsoitis | 59 comments
A personal phlog entry on SDF's Gopher space, viewed through a web proxy, reflecting on why someone would use Gopher in 2026 and on simpler, less commercial tech.
America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?(apricitas.io)
474 points by gnabgib | 495 comments
Apricitas Economics post analyzing the loss of over 200k US jobs in media, film, and the arts over four years and how much generative AI may be responsible.
The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning (2023)(ratfactor.com)
111 points by andsoitis | 36 comments
A personal wiki card by Dave Gauer arguing that limitations, like simple tools, story structure, and small budgets, foster creativity and learning.
Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz(missileer.watch)
172 points by liotier | 115 comments
Missileer.watch is a site that streams 11175 kHz HFGCS shortwave audio, transcribes US nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, and explains the network and launch capsules.
The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise(de.numista.com)
132 points by schleck8 | 44 comments
A Numista catalog page for the St. Helena 5 pence coin depicting Jonathan the tortoise, blocked here by a reCAPTCHA check.
PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory (2025)(hallofdreams.org)
4 points by bmacho | 1 comments
Blog post investigating how PhysicsForums inserted ~115,000 backdated LLM-generated posts attributed to real former users, framed around the Dead Internet Theory.
The Fall of Scientific American(thenation.com)
49 points by littlexsparkee | 32 comments
A Nation investigative article on how Springer Nature pressured Scientific American's editorial staff over political coverage, leading to unionization efforts and the magazine's sale to LabX.
We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970(thanksforthatjim.bearblog.dev)
105 points by speckx | 112 comments
A blog post comparing the 1970 sci-fi film Colossus: The Forbin Project, about an AI seizing control of US defences, to current trends in AI and politics.
Two Million Hornets(dark-mountain.net)
30 points by promulgate | 4 comments
An essay by Tom Smith from Dark Mountain Issue 30 about trapping invasive Asian hornets, wildfires, and changing mountain communities in northern Spain.
Florida officer found dead man, impersonated him for years, renovated his home(nbcnews.com)
47 points by Michelangelo11 | 26 comments
NBC News report on a Lauderhill, Florida police officer arrested for allegedly taking over a dead man's home after a welfare check and impersonating him for years.
How is music possible(henrikkarlsson.xyz)
134 points by rafaelc | 87 comments
An essay by Henrik Karlsson on Escaping Flatland exploring why music moves us, weighing music psychology, Schopenhauer's metaphysics, and emergence as explanations.
Total Historian(theideasletter.org)
18 points by benbreen | 4 comments
An essay in The Ideas Letter by Nicholas Mulder on historian Marc Bloch, prompted by his induction into the Panthéon in Paris.
Reforming English Spelling(blog.oup.com)
33 points by jruohonen | 93 comments
OUPblog column by Anatoly Liberman arguing for a minimalist, gradual reform of English spelling and describing the English Spelling Society's recent congress.
No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner(blog.jim-nielsen.com)
128 points by speckx | 147 comments
Blog post comparing Daniel Ellsberg's account of RAND nuclear strategists skipping retirement plans to the apocalyptic and utopian rhetoric of AI labs like Anthropic.
Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier(tvfandomlounge.com)
353 points by robtherobber | 358 comments
A TV Fandom Lounge article on Disney+ and Hulu raising subscription prices days after updating terms to allow ads on all tiers, including Premium, alongside weak Nielsen ratings.
This I Believe (1952)(awakin.org)
139 points by ctoth | 79 comments
Robert A. Heinlein's 1952 "This I Believe" essay on the decency of neighbors and humanity, reposted on Awakin.org with reader reflections.
Railpass(train.samismith.com)
109 points by CharlesW | 29 comments
Railpass is an interactive web experience by Sami Smith that shows train-window ride videos, here the Kitakyūshū Monorail in Japan, with weather and sound options.
One of the Greatest Inventions in the History of Human Transport(humantransit.org)
61 points by skadamat | 14 comments
Human Transit blog post by Jarrett Walker on Blaise Pascal's 1662 Paris carriage network, the first fixed-route public transport, and its network design principles.
Radio Days(oldster.substack.com)
5 points by NaOH | 2 comments
A personal essay in Oldster Magazine where Michael A. Gonzales recalls childhood mornings in Harlem listening to WNEW and WABC radio and how it shaped his musical taste.
Retired decorator's Pokémon cards sell for £1.5M(bbc.co.uk)
42 points by HelloUsername | 39 comments
BBC News article about a retired decorator from Woking whose attic-stored sealed Pokémon card collection sold for £1.56m at Ewbank's auction house.
Where Wealth Is Moving in America(thestatedtruth.com)
26 points by hihetej | 94 comments
Blog repost of a Tyler Durden/Visual Capitalist map showing net interstate income migration by U.S. state in 2023, based on IRS data analyzed by Realtor.com.
The Last Museum: Semantic search across 5.8M artworks from major museums(lastmuseum.com)
107 points by surprisetalk | 30 comments
The Last Museum is a website offering semantic search across millions of artworks from major museums, with filters by date range, artists, and cultures.
How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made(kottke.org)
182 points by bookofjoe | 50 comments
A kottke.org post sharing a video on how a Nishi-Izu workshop founded in 1882 makes katsuobushi using the traditional tebiyama smoke-drying method.
When Do We Become the Person We Ought to Be?(graphsaboutreligion.com)
18 points by toomuchtodo | 61 comments
A Graphs about Religion Substack post analyzing a 557-person survey on how Americans rate their own moral character by age and religious practice.
A Cocktail Party in the Street: An Interview with Alan Stillman (2010)(ediblegeography.com)
5 points by NaOH | 0 comments
A 2010 Edible Geography interview with Alan Stillman about founding T.G.I. Friday's in 1965 as the first singles bar and its growth into a restaurant chain.
Appreciating the beauty of all your body's scars and scratches(1000awesomethings.com)
69 points by surprisetalk | 43 comments
A 1000 Awesome Things blog post by Neil Pasricha celebrating the scars and blemishes on your body as reminders of your life story.
Pillowfort Is Closing(pillowfort.social)
48 points by BrenBarn | 37 comments
A staff announcement on Pillowfort stating the social blogging platform will close on December 4th, 2026, with refund and blog export details.
Learning to live with Waymos(newyorker.com)
32 points by njrc | 84 comments
A New Yorker magazine feature by Molly Fischer on how people are adapting to living alongside Waymo driverless robotaxis, told from the back seat.
The painter behind Manhattan’s Gilded Age interiors(engelsbergideas.com)
45 points by hoffmannesque | 4 comments
Engelsberg Ideas essay on James Wall Finn, a little-known decorative painter whose murals adorn Gilded Age Manhattan interiors like the NYPL Rose Main Reading Room.
The Real Kevin Bacon(pudding.cool)
355 points by xnx | 91 comments
An interactive Pudding visual essay using a network graph of film co-stars to explore the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game and which actors are truly most central.
Washing machines took decades to catch on(daily.jstor.org)
39 points by herbertl | 43 comments
JSTOR Daily article on why electric washing machines were slow to spread in interwar America, covering forced selling, racial dynamics, and commercial laundry competition.
A Place Among the Fiddlers(longreads.com)
18 points by gmays | 0 comments
A Longreads feature by David Alm about attending the 90th Old Fiddler's Convention in Galax, Virginia, and the old-time music tradition's uncertain future.
Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month(mastodon.gamedev.place)
417 points by AshleysBrain | 406 comments
A Mastodon post by Ashley Gullen reporting that Facebook Pages now require a paid subscription to post more than two links per month; the page returned a 429 error.
My Friend Bob Cringely(tyma.com)
188 points by zinxq | 54 comments
Paul Tyma's personal blog post recounting his friendship with tech journalist Bob Cringely, beginning with a 1996 phone call about Tyma's Java book.
Americans Are Spending More Money to Drive Worse Cars(theatlantic.com)
24 points by fortran77 | 89 comments
An Atlantic technology article by Andrew Moseman on why Americans keep paying more for gas cars instead of switching to electric vehicles despite high gas prices.
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Pentulive (Puppy Live) [video](yle.fi)
59 points by NaOH | 8 comments
Yle's Pentulive hub page featuring a 24/7 live video stream of a lagotto romagnolo mother and her six puppies, plus related news, podcasts and chat.
Kevin Bacon's missing clothes finally delivered in Ireland(rte.ie)
3 points by austinallegro | 0 comments
RTÉ entertainment news article reporting that actor Kevin Bacon's missing clothes were finally delivered to him in Ireland.
The Lucrative World of Literary Scams(thedial.world)
56 points by samclemens | 8 comments
A reported essay in The Dial by Snigdha Poonam investigating AI-assisted scams targeting authors, such as fake book clubs, publishers, and agents.
What Is Gridifcation(musicalform.substack.com)
440 points by gumby | 208 comments
Substack essay from the Musical Form Institute comparing tempo variation in 1975 vs 2025 Billboard hits to argue modern pop production is grid-quantized to machine perfection.
'Der Viener Schlinger': The meat cannon that launched 20k hot dogs(flatwaterfreepress.org)
91 points by NaOH | 53 comments
Flatwater Free Press feature on 'Der Viener Schlinger,' the hot dog cannon used at Nebraska Cornhuskers games that has launched about 20,000 hot dogs.
Sanity's Edge – A voice BBS from 1994(sanitys-edge.shouden.us)
21 points by indigodaddy | 1 comments
A web preservation of Sanity's Edge, a 1994 Tampa voice BBS, letting visitors pick a date to hear the board's recorded prompts from that era.
William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace(colo.to)
266 points by Eric_Gullichsen | 120 comments
Essay by Eric Gullichsen recounting the history of attempts to trademark the term "cyberspace" and William Gibson's connection to it.
British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled(liveandletsfly.com)
64 points by bookofjoe | 77 comments
Live and Let's Fly blog post reporting that British Airways warns passengers filming crew with Meta smart glasses could have their tickets cancelled.
Gen Z Is the First Generation Dumber Than Their Parents(vice.com)
35 points by Alifatisk | 31 comments
Vice article reporting a neuroscientist's claim that Gen Z is the first generation to score lower cognitively than their parents.
The Electronic Disturbance Theater and Electronic Civil Disobedience (1998)(thing.net)
30 points by jruohonen | 9 comments
A 1998 essay by Stefan Wray describing the Electronic Disturbance Theater, its FloodNet tool, and the theory and practice of Electronic Civil Disobedience.
Germany's 17M Immigrants: Where They Come From(visualcapitalist.com)
6 points by bushwart | 10 comments
A Visual Capitalist infographic article showing the countries of origin of Germany's roughly 17 million immigrants.
Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot(phillyvoice.com)
20 points by johnnyApplePRNG | 3 comments
PhillyVoice news article about a retired University of Pennsylvania professor arrested for blocking an Uber Eats delivery robot in Philadelphia.
Owner of Former UWS Barbecue Restaurant Indicted for Wage Theft: Manhattan DA(westsiderag.com)
4 points by healsdata | 0 comments
West Side Rag local news article reporting that the owner of a former Upper West Side barbecue restaurant was indicted for wage theft by the Manhattan DA.
Pattern matching beats narrative reasoning(blog.scottstevenson.net)
36 points by tosh | 20 comments
Scott Stevenson's Substack essay arguing that good bets come from pattern matching rather than narrative reasoning and can't be easily explained in words.
I Became a Citizen of Japan(derekwessman.com)
190 points by luu | 102 comments
Personal blog post by Derek Wessman recounting his experience becoming a naturalized citizen of Japan, mixing anecdotes, opinion, and facts.
Elon Musk's foundation is opaque, miserly and self-serving(economist.com)
12 points by kensai | 2 comments
An Economist business article arguing that Elon Musk's charitable foundation is opaque, gives away little, and serves Musk's own interests.
Tennyson's Faith: A Nobler Type(hedgehogreview.com)
8 points by prismatic | 1 comments
A Hedgehog Review book review essay by Sam Gee on the religious faith of poet Alfred Tennyson, from the Summer 2026 issue.
Amazon uses AI to monitor union risk in UK warehouses(opendemocracy.net)
115 points by DeepLogin | 41 comments
openDemocracy article reporting internal documents suggesting Amazon uses an AI model with hundreds of data points to monitor union risk in UK warehouses.
A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the tale of Otto Z(theguardian.com)
50 points by Hooke | 14 comments
A Guardian long read about Otto Z, a German figure involved in a death, a plagiarism scandal, and a quest for revenge.
Capturing 400 American Girls and Their Most Meaningful Objects(petapixel.com)
13 points by eustoria | 4 comments
PetaPixel article about a photographer who spent six years photographing 400 American girls with their most meaningful objects.
Geographical Fun: Being Humourous Outlines of Various Countries (1868)(publicdomainreview.org)
9 points by Thevet | 1 comments
A Public Domain Review collection page presenting the 1868 book Geographical Fun, which depicts European countries as humorous caricature figures shaped like their maps.
Archive of Our Own(archiveofourown.org)
88 points by debo_ | 20 comments
Homepage of Archive of Our Own (AO3), a non-profit archive for transformative fanworks run by the Organization for Transformative Works.
Butlerian Jihad(dune.fandom.com)
317 points by wetwater | 186 comments
Dune fandom wiki article on the Butlerian Jihad, the fictional crusade against thinking machines in Frank Herbert's Dune universe.
Gdynia and the Dream of a Maritime Poland(engelsbergideas.com)
104 points by lermontov | 30 comments
Engelsberg Ideas essay on how Gdynia grew from a Baltic fishing village into a major port embodying interwar Poland's modernising ambitions.
GifCities(gifcities.org)
65 points by augury | 12 comments
GifCities is the Internet Archive's search engine for animated GIFs from archived GeoCities pages; the capture showed a rate-limit error.
Go Piss, Girl: The plight of the public potty(thebaffler.com)
18 points by prismatic | 27 comments
A Baffler essay by Kate Wagner on the decline and scarcity of public toilets and the problems this creates.
The First Candid(newyorker.com)
49 points by Thevet | 12 comments
New Yorker Paris Postcard piece on Daguerre's 1838 Boulevard du Temple photo, the location sleuths identified, and the plaque Paris is placing there.
There Are over 1M New York City Street Signs. Here's How They Are Made.(nytimes.com)
50 points by bookofjoe | 23 comments
New York Times article about how New York City's more than one million street signs are made in the city's sign shop.
Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low(news.gallup.com)
107 points by karakoram | 81 comments
Gallup news article reporting that the share of people worldwide wanting to move permanently to the U.S. has hit a new low, though the U.S. remains the top destination.
Bark: The Toll-Free BBS for 90s Teens(blog.bityard.net)
38 points by bityard | 10 comments
A personal blog post recalling BARK, a toll-free bulletin board system for teenagers in the 1990s, and the author's early online communities.
Artificial intelligence is capitalism's final destination(equator.org)
58 points by tirumaraiselvan | 19 comments
An essay by Arundhati Roy in Equator magazine, "Apocalypse Now and Then," arguing that artificial intelligence is capitalism's final destination.
Japanese people still aren't having sex. And nobody knows why(sciencefocus.com)
22 points by baranul | 32 comments
BBC Science Focus news article reporting that around 1 in 10 Japanese people reach their 30s without having had sex, and that the causes remain unclear.
Processing my father's death by climbing in his footsteps(nytimes.com)
8 points by elemeno | 0 comments
A New York Times Magazine interactive essay about a writer processing their father's death by climbing a Yosemite route he once climbed.
Coconuts in Medieval Britain (2015)(themarysue.com)
26 points by wolfi1 | 6 comments
A 2015 Mary Sue article examining whether coconuts could plausibly have been in medieval Britain, as joked about in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Beyond the Glass(longreads.com)
19 points by Petiver | 3 comments
A Longreads personal essay by Daniel Barnum about a grieving son finding meaning among a museum collection of skulls after his mother's death.
Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia(6abc.com)
39 points by snarky-comments | 29 comments
6abc Action News report on a woman arrested after blocking an Avride delivery robot during a confrontation in Center City Philadelphia.
We are entering a period of overlapping crises(hamishcampbell.com)
60 points by speckx | 63 comments
Blog post by Hamish Campbell on the Open Media Network site arguing that climate breakdown, inequality, tech disruption, war and political instability form overlapping crises.
Why We're Banning AI(currentaffairs.org)
187 points by vinyl7 | 140 comments
Current Affairs magazine article explaining the publication's decision to ban the use of AI in its work.
We still use paper(humanpro.co)
60 points by gx | 68 comments
A blog essay arguing that despite AI, people still use paper, keyboards, and word processors, and asking to what degree AI will replace existing tools.
Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive(morewrong.lol)
17 points by bookofjoe | 2 comments
Satirical post on MoreWrong, a LessWrong parody site, in which a fentanyl dealer argues that offsetting donations such as bed nets make his drug sales net life-positive.
AB Fab – On Anthony Burgess(lrb.co.uk)
6 points by feltsense | 1 comments
A London Review of Books essay by Ian Penman about the novelist and composer Anthony Burgess.
Back to School, in Gaza(newyorker.com)
8 points by hebelehubele | 2 comments
New Yorker essay by Mosab Abu Toha describing children in Gaza returning to school in tents amid bombed-out buildings, without chairs or desks.
Hatching (Heraldry)(en.wikipedia.org)
64 points by theanonymousone | 18 comments
Wikipedia article on hatching in heraldry, a system of lines and dots used to indicate tinctures in monochrome depictions of coats of arms.
An ESPN producer who quit because of sports gambling(cjr.org)
139 points by danso | 96 comments
Columbia Journalism Review interview with Nicole Noren, an ESPN producer who quit in protest over the network's ties to sports betting.
Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years(dataforprogress.org)
543 points by hubraumhugo | 519 comments
Data for Progress blog post presenting survey data showing Americans' social activity has declined sharply over the past 30 years, amid concerns about a loneliness epidemic.
Details Leak from Meeting Where Weiss's 'Handpicked' Editor Threatened CBS Staff(mediaite.com)
53 points by slowin | 8 comments
Mediaite article reporting leaked details of a meeting where an editor picked by Bari Weiss warned CBS staff about legal grounds for firing.
Smart people don't think others are stupid(sive.rs)
62 points by andsoitis | 49 comments
A 2012 short essay by Derek Sivers arguing that dismissing groups of people as stupid shows a lack of understanding, from his book Hell Yeah or No.
The road we were told not to take(aspendailynews.com)
13 points by mpweiher | 2 comments
An Aspen Daily News opinion column titled "The road we were told not to take"; the page returned a CloudFront 403 error instead of the article.
Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?(alexwennerberg.com)
384 points by epestr | 362 comments
Blog post by Alex Wennerberg arguing that rationalist community blog posts are excessively long and that verbosity substitutes for thoroughness.
A Tudor life in the time of plague (2020)(historytoday.com)
43 points by pepys | 3 comments
History Today article on how plague shaped Tudor life, starting with the christening of Henry VIII's heir Edward VI.