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How Millennials’ Y2K Nostalgia Is Fueling This New Round of TV Revivals — Including ‘Scrubs,’ ‘Buffy’ and ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ Millennials' Y2K nostalgia is helping fuel this new round of TV reboots, including 'Scrubs,' 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and 'Malcolm in the Middle.'

AKA Reverend Chu writes better headlines: variety.com/2025/tv/news...

This is one of my favorite recent random texts from a stranger. The whole “still in my room or in your dad’s room” is rich narrative material. Also the comma usage makes me wonder if the recipient is Captain Pete or the reverse. Thanks, Uranus x Mercury season!

starting to wonder if y2k turned off computers and social media for a couple years if we wouldn’t all have been better off

approaching the “cancelling thanksgiving to protect the epstein files” delta

I have bookmarked for tracking Doctorow's @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy "When AI prophecy fails," which feels consistently timely bsky.app/profile/plur...

World Ayahuasca Forum. September 9-13, 2026

What a crazy six months! I've barely had time to be here. But I'm chuffed, honored, and delighted to be in service as Co-Director, World Ayahuasca Forum 2026 and Strategic Advisor at @iceers.bsky.social collaborating with Yorenka Tasorentsi Institute! Learn more: www.ayahuasca2026.com

“I cherish the band, but I don’t expect anyone else to”: it’s nine years since the last Radiohead record and I accidentally got the only interview for it As A Moon Shaped Pool turns 9, this writer recollects a night on the tiles in Paris with Thom Yorke & co.

Calling @charliechu.bsky.social www.loudersound.com/features/a-n...

YouTube video by Woodhull Freedom Foundation The Byte Barrier: How Algorithms Are Silencing Our Sexual Voices

Video now up - I did a panel with @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social @bloggeronpole.bsky.social and the @woodhullfreedom.bsky.social on the silencing of sexual voices online. Complete with ASL interpretation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Ax...

The only thing I use chatgpt for is to write LinkedIn posts for me.

I love that even X has a Twitter clone.

Like and Subscribe: How YouTube Changed the World - What happens when YouTube gets political? - BBC Sounds As YouTube spreads, so does information - the good and bad. We explore the consequences.

I got to take part in this cool look-back at how YouTube changed the world, with the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Good mail day.

No country in their right mind should sign a trade deal with the US that involves agriculture

Bill Maher Fires Back at Larry David for ‘My Dinner With Adolf’ Essay Spoofing His Trump Meeting: ‘It’s Kind of Insulting to Six Million Dead Jews’ After Larry David wrote 'My Dinner With Adolf' spoofing Maher's White House dinner with Trump, Maher says David was "insulting to six million dead Jews."

Bill Maher sincerely believes you shouldn’t be insulting to six million dead Jews unless any of them believed anything or were sincere about anything or had any beliefs he didn’t like.

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A free speech activist on child influencer laws + Shein village, Jesus Swiftie fancams, a monastery for hackers, TikTok footnotes, Seatopians, the Ice Bucket Challenge returns, Coachella billboards, and the rise of the 'infinite fringe'

Tell me how I stayed up late to get this newsletter out today and somehow lost 13 subscribers. Like what in tarnation?!?

This was….five months ago

Today is the one year anniversary of my moving to Finland. Uskomatonta! 🇫🇮

They are so lucky to have you!

Barlow in post mortal coil cameo as well. 🙏

Aaron Swartz at the STOP SOPA rally in January 2013, in front of Chuck Schumer’s office.

The wonderful thing about this famous picture is that it was taken as we were all standing in front of Chuck Schumer’s office and it shows Aaron absolutely going OFF on him. Thirteen years ago, and Aaron was right as always. (Thx to @self.agency for capturing the moment!)

Helsingissä 10 helmikuu.

This.

I’m not saying you should do this. All I’m saying is that grabbing a hot pan without an oven mitt really took my mind off of politics for a moment.

Do You Work For the Federal Government? ProPublica Wants To Hear From You. We’re doubling down on our coverage of government agencies and federal policy. With your help, we can dig deeper.

Re-upping this: www.propublica.org/tips/federal...

This is grossly irresponsible reporting by the AP. What’s being offered is not a buyout. The deal is if you agree to resign in September you can continue working remotely until then. There is no buyout or severance.

Go ahead. Make your day.

A gift from the gawds.

You may have always cared about surveillance, maybe you care more today than you did yesterday...

Either way, you should check out and save this Surveillance Self-Defense Guide from our trusted friends at the @eff.org

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A great read. And perhaps a window into what could be in store for the U.S.