We're doing this because it is critical that people in the same physical community interact with each other more in low-stakes, positive ways, and also it makes life more fun. Maybe you know someone who needs a pep talk/off ramp from the stranger danger mindset. www.eventbrite.com/e/1994617919...
How to Talk to Strangers
There are 8 billion new friends out there. Or at least encounters that can make memories and good stories. And that’s all life is, really.
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If the African continent is a subject of interest to you, allow me to recommend perhaps the most perfect book ever about the subject that i just had the honor of reading. "Africa is not a Country" by Dipo Faloyin
Africa Is Not a Country - Wikipedia
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TIL: San Francisco has a crabbing group (as in to catch crabs in open water and take them home in a bucket) for women and non-binary folk. Unsurprisingly, it is an enormous hit.
How a group of crabbing baddies became SF’s most unexpected support group
They lost their jobs, picked up rods and snares, and built a 500-person crew of Bay Area women who crab, chant, and cure the loneliness epidemic one low tide at a time. Even the Fish and Game Warden a...
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How long before Lettrboxed tries to convince you that there were only 500 movies ever made and 393 of them were produced by Netflix?
Netflix Among Parties in Early Talks to Buy Letterboxd: Report
Letterboxd has reportedly held exploratory sales talks with Netflix, Paramount, Sony Pictures and other parties.
variety.com
Today's question: Would you call this a continuity error? This is the trailer for Ryan Murphy's new series THE SHARDS, which takes place in 1981. The song, they use ( "Let's Go All The Way" ) by Sly Foxx was released in 1986, meaning it did not yet exist in the world of this series. Thoughts?
The Shards | Official Trailer | Igby Rigney, Kaia Gerber, Hayes Warner | FX
YouTube video by FX Networks
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Why some cities have bigger issues with people setting off fireworks at all hours on July 4th? I grew up 40 mile from Ohio border, a state where you could purchase dynamite and no one would care. And I've never heard anyone from Columbus or Akron talk about illegal boom booms on Independence Day
Folks, my BSKy account was hacked. Please disregard everything said after my remark about square pizza. Was not me :)
That's the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport off X. Among other things, it oversees media ownership, press regulation, and broadcasting policies, as well as online platforms via Ofcom. That includes tech and internet sectors, and UK Online Media Literacy Strategy against disinformation. 💥👏🏼
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last mo.UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy quits TwitterX. This should be the first of many.
The local news just cannot fathom why a 400 million dollar bribe jet from another country is controversial.
MEDIA LITERACY: 6-year-olds spot disinformation, can we? "By teaching its citizens how to critically engage with media content to debunk hoaxes, mis- and disinformation, as well as to produce content of their own, Finland wants to promote media literacy as a civic skill.” fortune.com/2025/01/29/f...
Finland teaches 6-year-olds how to spot disinformation—and they might be better at it than you | Fortune
"Media literacy is essential to building societal resilience, and Finland realized this quite early on."
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San Francisco, I am pleased to report, has no shortage of square pizza joints (those of us from Michigan do not say "Detroit Style" ) but there's one opening in August with the name "Piedays" which is the best name of such a thing I have ever heard. www.instagram.com/tgi_piedays/
Bring on more of this, in every city, in every nation, from West Geneva and so forth... (via @kottke.org )
What Happens When Kids Design Playgrounds? Lava, Mushrooms, Giant Chess.
nytimes.com
My Retro TVs is a way to watch television online from every decade of the medium (beginning in the 1950s) ON a set from that decade. Here's me watching XANADU (1980) (via @tinarotheisenberg.bsky.social ) www.myretrotvs.com
You know what I miss? Websites where your cursor turns into an earthworm... (via iwebthings.joejenett.com)
digital humus - Home
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A huge coffee table book about the History of Brand Design is coming out. It looks like this (stunning)
From Olivetti to Instagram: a short history of modern brand design
In an excerpt from Taschen’s The Elements of Brand Design, Katharina Sussek and Jens Müller chart the genesis and evolution of modern branding and visual identities, from the 19th century to how we ex...
itsnicethat.com
Did you know Alan Greenspan was still alive? Did you know he lived to be 100? (via www.clone.fyi )
Alan Greenspan, economist and longtime head of the Federal Reserve, dies at 100
The powerful economic policymaker died Monday from complications of Parkinson’s disease, said his wife of 29 years, NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell.
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Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.
Rav@rvbdrm.com · 2mo agoNew Yorkers singing Empire State of Mind
We need a name for site that are continuously updated links of links. Organizations (@mediagazer.com , @techmeme.com ) and run by individuals ( @waxy.org ). I call them control panels. as in... Thoughts @webinista.com , @ewanspence.co.uk , @clivethompson.bsky.social @jmcnally.bsky.social ?
Listen if Joyce Carol Oates isn't using AI to write her zillion books a year, no stuck novelist should be desperate enough to turn to it.
Wanna have your own Yahoo 1.0 Personalized "Home Page" or some such nonsense? Behold Protopage! protopage.com (via www.maiawelbel.com)
Create your own Protopage
Protopage is your own personal page that you can access from any computer. You can monitor news headlines from almost any web site, even obscure ones.
protopage.com
Expression of the Day: "Right as Rain" "Right as Rain" is believed to have originated in 19th century England where the frequency of rainy days meant that, when it was raining everything was normal, copescetic i.e. "right."
Kevin Edict: Everyone must now root for a professional sports team that has never won a championship. We're calling this the Buffalo Sabres Law.
Please point me to a newsletter that is a sibling/cousin of @densediscovery.bsky.social
I'm hearby calling this "Web 1.0 disease" which afflicts any of us who grew up with the early internet when "pile of links" meant promise/possibility. My pal @clivethompson.bsky.social knows what's up here...
Nancy Friedman@fritinancy.bsky.social · 2mo agoMay links! Typos, typefaces, misspellings, Halupedia, name changes, and more. Credits: @fuggirls.bsky.social @erikhansson.bsky.social @clivethompson.bsky.social @kottke.org @grantbarrett.com @laughingsquid.com @nameberry.bsky.social @babynames.bsky.social fritinancy.substack.com/p/may-linkst...
so, I wrote a piece for the @nytimes.com Magazine ... ... about small businesspeople using OpenClaw -- a "harness" for AI -- to try and automate chunks of their jobs sometimes it works quite well sometimes it drives *straight* into a wall often, both! gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/m...
The Small-Business Owners Managing Whole Armies of A.I. Employees
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Record.Club is @letterboxd.social for Music. Perhaps we should be friends? (via @densediscovery.bsky.social ) record.club
Record Club
Record Club is a social music network that makes it easy to track, rate, review and compile lists of your favorite releases with a community…
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