Wrote about the little thrill of getting the job done flaminghydra.com/men-at-work/
Flaming Hydra is one of the truly great, special things on the internet. Here's an entry I loved from a couple weeks ago flaminghydra.com/issue-570/
Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
I've seen Marc Andreessen with a beard; with no beard; chubby with a lordly pride; chubby and ashamed; slimmed down suddenly via medicine and drowning in his old clothes; at "innovation conferences" straining for gravitas, and no matter what he simply cannot stop having a head that looks like that.
Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
The app itself is junk (search bar often just disappears from the interface; movies crash halfway through) but there's something called "Movie Vault" on Roku and the Crime section on there is just loaded with free/no-ads 60s/70s classics, grimy noir stuff, long-ass cars and disgraced detectives.
Brown University cut a deal with the Trump administration in July, adopting a slate of anti-DEI policies—and agreeing to send student data to the government—in exchange for funding.
I talked to students, faculty, and alumni who argue it was a capitulation and expressed fear. At @flaminghydra.com
