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If you live in the New Orleans metro area and are missing your pants, Admiral Galacticat may be to blame.

Bookshop is joining the ebook market, taking on Amazon. It's launched an app for Android and iOS. According to the Verge, Bookshop has signed deals with the big 5 publishers, and "most indie" publishers, allowing them to launch with about a million titles. Support for self-publishing, and possibly an ereader further down the line.

You may have read Dorothy Thompson's breathtakingly insightful 1941 Harper's article Who Goes Nazi?. Talla Lavin has updated it for our modern era in Who Goes MAGA?. You'll recognize your friends, family and neighbours, and maybe even yourself (but hopefully not in that way).

(Some of) Trump's Wildest Executive Orders Explained [slyt] Daily Show correspondent, comedian, and wearer of grey hoodies Josh Johnson does a 40 minute set with political humor.

"But what I would suggest is that John Coltrane never made rawer, realer, rip-your-face-off-and-pull-out-who-you-really-are art than his infamous Ascension date from June 28, 1965. In its tonal ferocity, it's merciless and yet, paradoxically, laden with that self-same quality that is the balm for all human suffering: mercy sprung from the well of compassion, understanding, and intimate communal byplay." - Colin Fleming, Jazz TimesAfter nearly...

"Audiobooks, indeed, are so much about personal connection—with the writer, their characters, what happens to them. Who tells that story to you is an intimate experience that can enhance and elevate—or contaminate and damage."This post brought to you by my just having listened to the full cast production of Dune. It was great!

Toxic male technique could reduce female mosquito population by poisoning them during sex. A new study by Macquarie University researchers has suggested that the toxic male technique could be used to address the prevalence of mosquito-borne illness. The scientists, which genetically modified fruit flies to produce venomous sperm, found that this technique reduce female fruit flies by more than half. Researchers say this approach...

Between the late 1950s and the middle of the 1960s, more and more Black Americans began envisioning the relationship between decolonization and the Black freedom struggle in a new way. Before then, the relationship was primarily seen as one of inspiration. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in these terms in a sermon delivered after his return from the independence ceremonies in Ghana in 1957....

Paul Krugman on leaving the New York Times: "One more thing: I faced attempts from others to dictate what I could (and could not) write about, usually in the form, "You've already written about that," as if it never takes more than one column to effectively cover a subject. If that had been the rule during my earlier tenure, I never would have been...

"In The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, a heart-wrenching documentary, co-directors Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri puncture the uneasy vein of child star building, explaining how often the practice ensnares the vulnerable. They do so by telling the story of once Swedish teen idol Andrésen, who at the age of fifteen was cast as Tadzio in Italian director Luchino Visconti's adaptation of Thomas...

"We had a nickname for Twilight Zone," Pat Lawlor said, "and it was 'In Excess Pinball'...we had just gotten done setting the record with Addams Family*, and Williams executives were willing to let us do anything, and we did, which was a big mistake." While he conceded that "extreme pinball players" would enjoy the game, he added that "from a commercial standpoint, we were...

THIS WEEK IN FANFARE... FIRST OFF (INSIDE): a list of 2025 Oscar nominated films with posts. NEW MOVIES: Universal tries rebooting the Wolf Man with director Leigh Whannell; Steven Soderbergh offers a new take on the haunted house in Presence; when a boyfriend steals the rent money, two friends go on an odyssey to stave off eviction in One of Them Days; Michelle returns...

"In a world dominated by automation and mass production, Rocha KRG's handcrafted 7-cylinder radial engine stands as a thrilling victory for the raw power of human ingenuity.""Over 500 painstaking hours, Rocha redefined craftsmanship, turning metal and passion into a symphony of precision and beauty. Every single component, meticulously machined, balanced, and polished, echoes the legacy of early aviation, where radial engines once roared to...

The South Bank of the Rubicon is the latest episode of The Alt-Right Playbook by Innuendo Studios previouslyLyrics to When the Chips are Down from the musical Hadestown

The approach to materiality of such images holds us back from premature abstract cognition, imprisoning us, albeit briefly, in the realm of the senses. The inherent brilliance of lyric poetry is its ability, with its best practitioners, to restrain our collective mania for codifying and explaining what each poem is 'really about.' In some ways, it seems implausible that lyric ever became about what...

Poco Apollo is a 2019 album by Icelandic composer Halldór Eldjárn, which started out as a generative music program he made that would turn photographs from the Project Apollo Archive into bits of score, which he then curated into a 25 minute cohesive piece which were performed by him and several musicians. He explained the process more fully in a lecture. You can hear...

In The Town Show, funny people Mark Chavez and Ryan Beil (Let's Make A..., Sunday Service Improv) interview guests about their hometowns, get silly, and build their own imaginary town, it's citizens, landmarks, and history.If you're a fan of Stop Podcasting Yourself you will probably be very familiar with Mark, Ryan, and many of the guests. Produced by Kelly & Kelly. YouTube feed of...

Two bittersweet scifi stories where women navigate genetics, relationships, and how hard it is to make a living. The New Mother is a 2015 novella by Eugene Fischer (caution for sexual assault, medical horror, and harm to children and pregnant people): Without her prescription bottles, all she had left were words. Pliant letters on the page. The story was what mattered. (Author's notes, reviews,...

"[The] movement away from centralized trust and safety teams enforcing universal rules may sound like a fix for social media's woes. Fewer violent clashes between culture warriors. Fewer histrionic accusations of "censorship." The players becoming the referees. Isn't that ideal? But new governance models come with new complexities, and it's crucial to grapple with what's on the horizon.What happens when sprawling online communities fracture...

New Zealand to loosen visa rules for digital nomads. The digital nomads include visitors such as IT specialists, as long as they are not receiving any income from NZ sources.

Who would you be, if you could be anyone? Have you become who you really are? Is being free all about self-actualization? Or is it about your civil liberties*? Maybe it's a photon and electron thing? Be free... and tell us what's up!* Some exceptions may apply See also: Free to Be... You and Me

2025 seems to be the year of Agents™️, even though no one really agrees on what they really are. With all the hype around agents, it's hard to truly know what these things can actually do or not. This is where 'The Password Game' comes in. from I had different agents play 'The Password Game' - they didn't do so wellThe Password Game, previously