In 1969, a small music management company in Bay City, Michigan hired four young, hotshot musicians from Texas to impersonate the British psychedelic rock band, The Zombies. 55 years later, we bring you THE TRUE STORY OF THE FAKE ZOMBIES. Listen now! open.spotify.com/show/5a8DgRlUY…

We've got a very cool thing up on Gothamist today - a super-granular map of gun violence in NYC, down to the block level, contextualized by brittany.kriegstein's tenacious reporting and her painstaking accounting of every New Yorker killed by bullets in 2024. gothamist.com/news/new-york-…

The Google commercial where the dad has his daughter use AI to construct a note to her favorite athlete rather than encourage her to write what she actually wants to tell her hero takes a little chunk out of my soul every time I see it.

This is going to be the defining footage of this election. Keep it in a special place

Oh God, they formatted their layoff notice like an Axios story. Horror compounding horror.

Last fall, a woman in Ohio threw her Chipotle burrito bowl at an employee. Then a judge sentenced her to two months of working in fast food—to teach her to be more empathetic. I tried to find out if it worked: grubstreet.com/article/chipot…

The debate over school phone bans is such a mirror image of the debate over smoking bans in the 20th. In a few years we'll be amazed that it was considered a debate at all nytimes.com/2024/08/11/tec…

Japanese News explains the US Election

oh man this makes me miss the jeff jarvis parody account. Though actual jeff jarvis is almost as good

Why did Harris do well in those NYT polls last week in the key battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin? Harris is doing significantly better than Biden among Trump's base of white working class voters. If she puts up these numbers with them, she'll win.

parking spaces not a good replacement but come on, the Negril sheds had gotten so ratty by the end, with those plastic tarp things. That picture on the left is 4 years old

Farewell to the Prince of Vanderbilt Avenue

1 hour of ThielCore to build and accelerate to

Political and ethical philosophy cheat sheet

Just another broadcaster in New York that’s better than Michael Kay.

"The effect of the trial was to confine SBF to yet another box on a shelf next to identical boxes marked “fraud” and deter anyone from taking an honest interest in him." washingtonpost.com/opinions/inter…

Young William T. Vollmann (left) pictured with Jonathan Franzen, ca. 1989.

A story about paleontology: "an especially nasty area of academia," "a honeypot of narcissists," "a snake pit of personality disorders." nymag.com/intelligencer/…