Bryce Payne

I didn't realize it at the time but I started publishing on the web before @theatlantic.com.

I reflected on what the web was like 30 years ago in a series earlier this year:
read.bryces.blog/p/web30

Bingeing TikTok reels may be hazardous to your well-being.

71 studies, >98k people: The more short-form videos teens and adults watched, the more they struggled with attention, self-control, and stress and anxiety.

Read a book. Watch a movie. Long live longform.

Some city centers become deserted once it gets dark.

That's when Utrecht really starts to shine!

This car-free neighborhood was designed to revolutionize American cities » Yale Climate Connections A discussion with the founder of Culdesac, a real estate developer devoted to building walkable places.

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/this...

Johnson: The biggest reason there aren’t more walkable neighborhoods in the U.S. is that they’ve basically been banned.

My grocery store charges for paper bags, but car parking is "free" (aka priced in to everything on the shelves).

Both parties should support this. Using AI to generate a video of a candidate saying something he didn’t say should be illegal. Especially since many voters think it is real. I will condemn any candidate from either party who does this.

Personal Business | Are.na Editorial “Whatever else anything is, it ought to begin by being personal.”

“A Personal Business is run by people who are truly into what they are doing, and invested enough to offer products, services, and/or experiences that are both high-quality and idiosyncratic.” [are.na]

After a 2 year renovation, the Niketown in downtown Portland reopened yesterday. PDX is also Nike's world head quarters. I happened to be downtown & tried to pop in but there was a line around the block! I love this giant "UMBRELLAS ARE FOR TOURISTS" signage on the side though 🤣, very Portland

What do you make of this (isolated to OR sites)?

The Skinny Font Taking Over Tech Companies and the White House After decades of obscurity, a bookish style of lettering is everywhere. Some typeface connoisseurs say it’s gone too far.

Fonts go in and out of fashion, too.

Serifs are back, baby.

What the Look of Your Favorite Podcast Is Trying to Tell You

Fascinating visual journalism.

Reality bites.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.

The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

What Auckland's Costco could have been

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

Jon Stewart says he wants to stay at ‘The Daily Show,’ urges people to ‘fight like hell’ | CNN Business “We’re working on staying,” the Comedy Central host said Sunday when asked about his status on stage at The New Yorker Festival in Manhattan.

“You don’t compromise on what you do, and you do it till they tell you to leave. That’s all you can do.”

Amen

www.cnn.com/2025/10/27/m...

Whoever could have imagined there would be negative downstream consequences professionally for making a corrupt deal with the Trump admin….

People being blunt that Trump seemed confused and said his dementia test was a hard IQ test.

We are in a timeline in which People Magazine is publishing legit hard-hitting news headlines while CBS and CNN publicly humiliate themselves.

I don’t like this timeline. But I’m loving People Magazine right now.

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Portland is on fire alright… with autumn splendor!

Is Print the Future of Local News? This Co-Op Thinks So | The Tyee Freshet News, owned by workers, has launched to cover Burnaby, New Westminster and the Tri-Cities.

Spurred on by local supporters and backed by their union, four laid-off journalists established a workers’ non-profit co-op to create a new community-focused publication. Freshet News launched its website and weekly newsletter last week.

thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

It wasn't fake. It was edited. But Reagan really did spend a five-minute speech – an April 25, 1987, national radio address that the Reagan Library has published on YouTube – to rail against tariffs. It was a full-throated expression of support for free and fair trade.
https://cnn.it/4o5pBGv

Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Independent newspapers disappear as private investment firms take over Independent newspapers are more likely to represent rural communities that are at greater risk of becoming a "news desert."

@axios.com: "Around 50 million people in the U.S. today live with limited or no access to local news."

This is not good.

Ikea made a tiny bed for your smartphone. If a dedicated plate for meatballs wasn’t weird enough, Ikea created tiny beds with NFC functionality that reward you with in-store vouchers if you keep your smartphone tucked in for seven hours every...

Ikea made a tiny bed for your smartphone.

Really.

Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says The firm said its estimate of additional expenses for companies is probably conservative.

Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says.

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/t...

#Tariffs #Consumers #Economy #Business #Bills

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn A network of former intelligence and security officers says democratic decline is accelerating under Trump’s rule

US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn | Trump administration | The Guardian

This made me laugh ⬇️

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