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While sad, why should anyone go to a movie theater anymore? Tickets and concessions are expensive, TVs are huge, home audio or headphones sound great. The marginal cost of streaming the next video is zero.

I've been reading front of paywall STAT since it started, I subscribed for about 6 months in 2025, and I cancelled because it's too damn expensive.

I just had one that gave me a 75% discount on my monthly subscription fee when I told it I was cancelling to save money。

Unfortunately, I think we all have someone like that

She’s just practicing for knocking the lenses down on the floor

You say dimension. I say dementia. Let's call the whole thing off.

I've been reading you for a long time, but never thought to donate (my bad). I, too, have been having allergic responses to musty stuff, and this just earned you a donation.

Thanks! I was able to access an e-copy of it at my university library. The intro is more sympathetic than I was expecting. I'll keep reading.

Where should I start?

Damn. Do I really need to understand Leo Strauss and his descendents (witting and witless) to get the full picture here?

Paying off for 4 years is something, but is it enough?

It's interesting witht the sound off.

Ouch!

YouTube video by John Bowie Lanford The Graduate: Plastics

youtu.be/Dug-G9xVdVs?...

Now do Edelweiss.

This way they could sell naming rights for the inauguration — The Gazprom Inauguration is not far into our future.

I feel like I've spent a billion dollars on Richard Thompson CDs and concert tickets. Is he there yet?

YouTube video by tyler munro Justin Townes Earle Performs "Harlem River Blues" on Letterman

I love the live cut from David Letterman. Jason Isbell, who also plays guitar on the record, was so young: youtu.be/5LLqFF89UtU?...

I wish the name is the thing was not a thing, because "newsletter" and "substack" are kinda dumb. Blog as a generic catchall for this kind of content was just fine. Full confession - I pay the most attention to things I can set up RSS feeds for. Hope that applies to your Patreon content/.

For what it’s worth, what they’re doing ain’t exactly clear

While I'm glad that Longwell and Miller are on the side of liberal democracy at this moment, I don't trust them for the long haul and I fully expect that they will try to undermine anyone who manages to be in a position to clean up the mess they helped make. JVL - now he interests me and I trust him

No VCs or vanity billionaire owners.

"I want a Google Reader" was always the wrong way to think about it. What you really mean is "I want an RSS server" and a client app (or web app), and those never died.

Don't worry at all about which service/app is the best. They're likely all pretty good and you can adapt efficient workflows on any of them.

Just pick an RSS server -- I use Feedly and pay for it -- and a client app (I use Reeder on Apple devices). I read all my subscribed newsletters this way. Sometimes I have to share the articles back to the website, where I then share them to a read-later app (I use Readwise). It can be done quickly.

My primary criterion, even above electability, is who is most likely to clean house. If we don’t do that, any respite will be temporary. As for Newsome, he’s good with a quip, but I don’t trust him to clean the house

You are letting VF and the NYT off way too easy. There’s an alternate view to this story where they are the most important part of it.

I suspect that both numbers are significantly lower now because from March 2020-May 2021, for most of those women, that was their first exposure to COVID-19. Now, the vast majority of women will have built up significant immunity to COVID-19, and most infections are milder.

Going to Appalachia

Other than making work for lawyers, why is this smart?