DJ Shadow and the BBC Symphony Orchestra will be performing a “collaborative reimagination for orchestra” of his seminal album Endtroducing… in December. Tickets are already sold out, but there will be a recording! [djshadow.com]
The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster. “He’s endlessly mythologized by a shitty corporate press, eager to ignore his virulent racism & financial fraud bc he’s accumulated obscene amounts of money.” [karlbode.com]
How to get out of bed. “There is no 28 point shot in basketball. The only way to come back from a 27 point deficit is one shot at a time. Two points here. Two points there. A few three pointers sprinkled in.” [buttondown.com]
Hot new job: telescope ranching. "People from all around the world send their telescopes here to observe the night sky from this place with no light pollution. We set them up and they can all access their stuff through a computer remotely." [kottke.org]
How The Heck Do Solar Panels Work? “Every hour, the Earth receives enough sunlight to power all of human civilization for a year. It arrives silently, from all directions, at no cost.” [perthirtysix.com]
Artist Claire Salvo has painted the starting five of the world champion NY Knicks on a set of US one dollar bills. She’s pasted the images up around NYC, is offering prints, and is auctioning off the hand-painted originals. These are very cool. [kottke.org]
Randomly thought of Brendan Dassey today. He’s still serving out his life sentence for, IMO, having absolutely nothing to do with the murder at the center of Netflix’s Making a Murderer. [en.wikipedia.org]
Paul McCartney on Song Exploder. I think he was with The Beatles at some point? [songexploder.net]
Extinction-Level Capitalism. "AI is inherently political technology. If AI works as intended, it will gradually corrode our liberal democracy, risking an irreversible shift into another political and economic configuration." [kottke.org]
Mad Max creator George Miller wants to make one more Mad Max movie and a TV series before calling it quits. [polygon.com]
Mike, how do I get out of bed every day? How do I try?
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Rockwood, Texas is home to a unique business, Starfront Observatories. Owner/operator Bray Falls hosts hundreds of other people’s telescopes in perfect conditions — ultra-dark skies (Class 1 on the Bortle scale), clear w
An interactive exploration of how solar panels work: from photons and the bandgap of silicon to Wright’s Law and the political will problem.
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The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus are to perform with DJ and producer DJ Shadow at a one-night-only concert at London’s Barbican Hall on 18 December 2026. Recorded for broadcast on BBC 6 Music, this special event marks the 30th anniversary of DJ Shadow’s groundbreaking debut album Endtroducing….
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Brendan Ray Dassey (born October 19, 1989) is an American prisoner from Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, who was convicted of being a party to first-degree murder, mutilation of a corpse, and second-degree sexual assault. He was sentenced to life in prison with the earliest possibility of parole in 2048
Once again a broken U.S. press couldn't bother to convey the truth to the public when it comes to America's shittiest rich person.
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Artist Claire Salvo has painted the starting five of the world champion NY Knicks on a set of US one dollar bills. If you’re in NYC, you may have seen these cheekily pasted up around the city.
She’s selling a prin
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Paul McCartney tells the story behind his song "Ripples in a Pond."
Matthew Butterick is a lawyer, programmer, writer, and designer. He’s written a long, interesting piece about the inherent risks of AI called Extinction-Level Capitalism. It is well-worth a read; I’ve excerpted several p
