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worth reading: april 17-june 17, 2025
happy mid-June (?!)
food and cooking:
food and cooking:
- “The Practicalities and Pleasures of Homemade Train Food” by Nylah Iqbal Muhammad
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“WTF is a Hormbles Chormbles?” by Jaya Saxena
- now this is a deranged candy bar made by real sickos. 10g protein no sugar?
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“Three things we learned about Sam Altman by scoping his kitchen” by Bryce Elder (unpaywalled)
- if someone wrote this about me and my kitchen I'd simply explode
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“A Passion for Fruit” by the editors of Archaeology Magazine
- :)
design-y things, Internet and otherwise:
- “Power Houses” by Gillian Laub
- only linked this because I like being nosy about furniture
- “Airbnb’s relaunch and the texture era of design” by Kyle Chayka
- compost.party
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“My website is ugly because I made it” by Taylor Troesh
- (the website in question)
art and making stuff:
- Trailer for “The Quilters”
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“Sebastião Salgado: A Life in Pictures” by Clinton Cargill
- these are spectacular!
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“The Vexing Art of Duchamp, Picasso and FromSoftware” by Ethan Davison
- what a weird thing to see in the New York Times.
- “In the age of slop, craft is rebellion” by Anu Atluru and Neal Agarwal
current events-ish......💀
- “against the fleeing to europe industrial complex” by Kate Wagner
- “Efficiency Without Morality is Tyranny” by Matt Duffy
- “Traffic Fatalities Are a Choice” by Abi Olvera
- special Harvard section:
- “Come At Me, Bro” by Yona T. Sperling-Milner
- “Hey you, hold onto your humanity. You’ll thank me later.” by Alexandra Petri
- “Low-Risk Flier” by J.P. Brammer
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“Playing Secretary” by Kerry Howley (unpaywalled)
- really good. the men with canes.....
tech things, loosely defined:
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Antikythera by Benjamin Bratton
- worth a scrollthrough - look at that web design!
- “Progress Unraveled” by Spencer Wright
- “The Political Dimensions of Solarpunk...Ten Years Later” by Andrew Dana Hudson
- Ethnologue database
bird things:
- “The Snowy Owls of Logan Airport” by Anna Miller Multimedia
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“The Curious Case of the Pygmy Nuthatch” by Forrest Wickman
- this one's a banger, highly recommended!!
non-bird fun things:
- “‘The Only Person in the World Claiming to Be the Pope Right Now’” by Ruth Graham
- Ye Olde Blogroll
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“We Bought a ‘Peeing’ Robot Attack Dog From Temu. It Was Even Weirder Than Expected” by Esat Dedezade (unpaywalled)
- as good as the title promises.
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“An Ode to the Lowliest (Deepest?) Horror Subgenre: Shark Movies” by Jim Vorel
- read all the way to the end for a spectacular punchline.
- “Why is Everyone Here Wearing a Bald Cap?” by Callie Holtermann and Ayesha Kazim
ian's shoelace site :)
- Ian’s Shoelace Site by Ian W. Fieggen
misc:
- “Do Patients Without a Terminal Illness Have the Right to Die?” by Katie Engelhart
- “The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins” by Scott Sayare
- “How to like everything more” by Sasha Chapin
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“Umlauts, Diaereses, and the New Yorker” by Jonathon Owen
- extremely boring and perhaps only of interest to me.