- I’m pretty sure I’ve already linked to The Labyrinth Locator, but it’s neat enough to warrant posting again in case you haven’t seen it.
- What was your favorite Super Bowl LX commercial? (I thought the Sabrina Carpenter ad for Pringles was the best one.)
- What it was like to be a bush at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance
- Rockhopper Penguins’ Athleticism Makes Them the Daredevils of the Animal World
- I am cautiously optimistic about both the upcoming Ryan Gosling sci-fi flick, Project Hail Mary, and The Adventures of Cliff Booth, the Brad Pitt/David Fincher sequel to the Quentin Tarantino film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
- The first in a wave of legal cases alleging that social media is dangerously addictive is now on trial.
- Here’s a great line from an essay about the death of programming: Someday years from now we will look back on the era when we were the last generation to code by hand.
Winter Olympics
- U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn — who has arguably been the biggest story of the Winter Olympics — crashed during her fifth Olympic Games. So she won’t go home with a medal, but she will go home with the heart of a champion.
- “The summer games are about pleasant activities — swimming! running! playing games with your friends! — and the winter games have 11 separate terrifying ways to almost die hurling your body at maximum speed down an icy mountain.”
- US reaches first Olympic curling mixed doubles final, will face Swedish siblings for gold
- Hot Mic At Winter Olympics Catches NBC Announcer Call Snowboarding Big Air Final ‘So Boring’ – via @blobcostas
A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara’d into Submission)
- You are probably getting brain damage from all those COVID infections.
- How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE – via @scalzi.com
- Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school – via @letatcestmoi
- Heartbreaking: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
- The President’s online drugstore isn’t what it seems.
- POTUS shares racist video depicting the Michelle and Barack Obama as monkeys
- Dr. Mehmet Oz, of all people, urges Americans to get the measles vaccine as cases rise across the country.
- “Life on Peptides Feels Amazing,” says everyone who’s buying from looksmaxxers on Instagram or AI bots in China and injecting them into their bloodstream.