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A bunch of people who have never heard of Radiohead listen to Creep for the first time. Some of them were in tears. It *is* a pretty great song.

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The Pudding: How do animals sound across languages? “How can cultures hear the same physical sounds yet translate them into language so differently?”

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Always a delight to see the newest issue of Laura Olin’s newsletter in my inbox.

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This One Goes to 27. I have somehow been pursuing the “moderately anachronistic” practice of blogging for 27 years, “almost cartoonishly long for a medium optimized for impermanence”.

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Wired has a big story (150+ sources) that takes a look Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’. “The next step: Unleash the AI.” 😱

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Sarah Wynn-Williams’s memoir about working at Facebook, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, is on the bestseller charts after Meta tried to get the book pulled from sale. The Streisand effect strikes again.

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Ted Lasso is returning for a fourth season. Not every actor is on board (yet)…it’ll be interesting to see where this goes.

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Trailer for season two of Poker Face. If you haven’t seen it, it’s directed by Rian Johnson (Knives Out/Glass Onion) and Natasha Lyonne plays an itinerant Benoit Blanc sort of character. Very good.

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Harvey Silikovitz tried 10 times to get on Jeopardy! over 24 years and finally made it. (And won!) “He’s pretty sure he has made history as the first Jeopardy! contestant to play with Parkinson’s.”

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Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run. “You may believe that Khalil does not deserve free speech or due process. But if he does not have them, then neither do you. Neither do I.”

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404 Media has obtained a list of 200+ sites monitored by a contractor for ICE (Amazon, Apple Music, BabyCenter, Bluesky, Facebook, Github, GoFundMe, etc.). They can “pull a target individual’s publicly available data” from these sites “all at once”.

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US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms. The Us joins a list of countries with “deteriorating civic space conditions, in relation to freedoms of peaceful assembly, association and expression”.

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OMG, there’s an “S” in today’s Spelling Bee puzzle! (Is this the first time?)

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Things have been a little weird lately so I missed this when it came out but lolol: mustaaaaaaaaaard!

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It’s Infrastructure Week! I’m taking the rest of the week to work on some long-neglected backend things. See you back here on Monday.

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The creator of Poetry Is Not a Luxury Instagram account is coming out with a poetry anthology in May: Poetry Is Not a Luxury: Poems for All Seasons.

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Skywriter takes Bluesky threads and makes webpages out of them.