Artemis II

Artemis II

A few amazing photos from the moon fly-by.

Palestinian Walks

Palestinian Walks

Raja Shehadeh

To go on a sarha is to wander aimlessly, not restricted by time and place, going where the spirit takes you, to nourish your soul and rejuvenate yourself. This book contains six sarhat the author takes between the early 1970s to the early 2000s.

Inventor of Bitcoin Unmasked? 🔗


Via: NYTimes →

For 17 years, the inventor of Bitcoin has been known only by an alias: Satoshi Nakamoto. Despite the many attempts to unmask the real Satoshi, he’s stayed hidden, even as his creation spawned an entirely new system of cryptocurrency, revolutionized finance and minted a new class of billionaires — including Satoshi himself.

The Guest House

The Guest House

Jalaluddin Rumi

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.

Banksy's identity revealed (Reuters) 🔗


Via: Reuters →

Banksy, born Robin Gunningham, later took the name David Jones. (Whether he still uses that name is unclear.) And Robert Del Naja, Gunningham’s graffiti idol, friend, and a man himself rumored to be Banksy, has on at least one occasion been his secret painting partner. Banksy wasn’t the Massive Attack frontman, whose 2024 climate action concert drew more than 30,000 fans to Bristol. But he has become a star performer in his own right. Case in point is the wild 2018 Sotheby’s auction in London of his iconic “Girl with Balloon.”

AI (GitHub CoPilot) is now involved on this site

AI (GitHub CoPilot) is now involved on this site

I described in about three paragraphs the capabilities my project needed to feature and how it had to tie in with other software I use, making the latter much more feature-rich…

Today's Listen - Side-Eye III+ (Metheny trio)

Today's Listen - Side-Eye III+ (Metheny trio)

Pat Metheny trio

2026 album from Pat Metheny. That is all.

Shows on BBC's iPlayer Archive 🔗


Via: Phil Gyford →

Some good dramas and documentaries to check out.

Chronicles of a NY Locksmith

Chronicles of a NY Locksmith

A touching small feature from The New Yorker about a small locksmith shop in Brooklyn

World Nature Photo Awards 2026

World Nature Photo Awards 2026

Jono Allen

Winner of World Nature Photography Award 2026 (Jono Allen)

Growing up in China as a White Man in the 50s

Growing up in China as a White Man in the 50s

Michael Crook talks about growing up in China in the 1950s.

Howard Zinn - What the Classroom Did not teach me about the American Empire 🔗


Via: Open Culture →

That huge acquisition of land called the Louisiana Purchase gave no hint of anything but vacant land acquired, no sense that this territory was occupied by hundreds of Indian tribes that would have to be annihilated or forced out of their homes in what we now call ethnic cleansing.

Year of the Fire Horse

Year of the Fire Horse

Chinese Lunar New Year

Žižek on the Epstein Files 🔗


Via: Substack →

Slavoj Žižek

The central motif of the movie Sinners… is the continuity between the musical bliss of blues and the horror of vampires. However, what if we read this continuity in the opposite direction …? Vampires do not fill the void of the impossibility of imagining a non-oppressive social order; their horror is the truth of every oppressive social order, and the bliss of immortal blues music is experienced only when we remain at a minimal distance from this truth.

The Golden House

The Golden House

Salman Rushdie

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The Skyscraper that Ruined Paris, and Why They're Now Trying to Make it Invisible 🔗


Via: Open Culture →

How This Skyscraper Ruined Paris, and Why They’re Now Trying to Make It Invisible

The Assault

The Assault

Harry Mulisch

A singular event in the ending days of WWII sets off decades-long reverberations for the sole survivor of a Dutch family.

Favorite Podcasts of 2025

Favorite Podcasts of 2025

Most-listened-to podcasts of the year

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Matsuo Bashō

A half poetic, half discursive travel journal by the inventor of the haiku.

Royal Game of Ur

Royal Game of Ur

An ancient Middle Eastern game that found its way to the west through the Jewish population of Kochi, India, after they migrated to Israel.