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• Main - Kottke.org2026-10-15✓ Read

  Where You Should Live: Five Factors to Keep in Mind

  I ran across this post on Instagram by Bobby in Space (who posts about design and the psychology of place) and wanted to pull it onto the actual internet. Here are some snippets of his “5 hills I will die on as someone who studies the psychology of place”. I don’t think these are universal (e.g. people who live in rural areas likely prioritize other needs) or even necessarily the most important considerations (climate, sunlight, crime, schools), but they resonated with me.

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• Inverse2026-10-15✓ Read

  39 Years Later, One Star Trek Legend Is Ready To Explore A Brutal Backstory

  Back in 1987, when Star Trek: The Next Generation debuted, one character represented a bold, new step for the franchise. As Tasha Yar, actress Denise Crosby set the tone for TNG, playing a female chief of security on the USS Enterprise. Inspired by the character of Vasquez from Aliens, Next Generation creator Gene Roddenberry, the early TNG writers, and Crosby herself, infused Tasha with strength, bravado, and a very brutal and tragic backstory.

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• Jacobin2026-10-15✓ Read

  How Bernie’s Campaigns Reorganized the Organized Left

  Ten years ago, while socialist Bernie Sanders was making his historic run for the Democratic presidential nomination that drew millions of supporters and promised a “political revolution” to live long past his campaign, I was part of a small revolutionary organization that pooh-poohed him as a faux renegade.

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• Main - Kottke.org2026-10-15✓ Read

  Teaser trailer for season three of The Lord of The Rings

  Teaser trailer for season three of The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power. Maybe this isn’t the best show in the world, but I have been enjoying it. I thought s02 was better than s01 so at least the trajectory is promising.

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• Inverse2026-10-15✓ Read

  I Watched the Elon Musk Documentary So You Didn’t Have To

  Alex Gibney ('Going Clear,' 'Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room') directs this biographical documentary about Elon Musk, including his time with Tesla, SpaceX, and DOGE.

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• Jacobin2026-10-15✓ Read

  Britain’s Military-Industrial Complex Is Promoting War Fever

  War fever has gripped the European political establishment. War in Ukraine and rumors of continent-wide conflict with Russia are now the staple justification for rearmament, ballooning arms budgets, and the reintroduction of conscription across Europe.

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• Main - Kottke.org2026-10-15✓ Read

  Tiny Little Office is “an office suite with no accounts

  Tiny Little Office is “an office suite with no accounts and no server that holds your work. Every document lives in the address of its page… Copy the link and you have copied the document.” Includes a word processor, spreadsheet, calculator, etc.

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• Inverse2026-10-15✓ Read

  45 Years Later, A Scrappy Indie Movie Is Still Revolutionizing Horror

  There was a cabin in the woods

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• VVOX2026-10-15✓ Read

  The surprisingly hopeful quest to fix concrete

  No, Rome was not built in a day, but it was built at breathtaking speed, its temples, amphitheaters, and aqueducts rising with the help of a magical blend of volcanic ash and lime. Today, that miraculous mortar has a less than enchanting name: concrete.

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• VVOX2026-10-15✓ Read

  Will November stop Trump’s agenda?

  Welcome to The Midterms, Actually. Every week I’ll be writing about two things: one big idea or trend I see forming across the 2026 primaries, and one thing I’m hearing from a voice on the ground. Let’s get into it.

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• Inverse2026-10-15✓ Read

  What Happened To Jason? ’Crystal Lake’s Shocking Sci-Fi Ending, Explained

  Crystal Lake was supposed to make sense of Friday the 13th’s incredibly complicated lore. What began as the quintessential summer-camp slasher has morphed over the decades into a story about immortal zombies, cryogenics, and space travel. Peacock’s new streaming series was supposed to simply set up the twist of the very first movie — that Pamela Voorhees is the murderer — and establish how her deformed son Jason could have survived his initial drowning.

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• The Markup2026-10-15✓ Read

  Patients: All my best tips on how to opt out of data sharing

  Even when patients are told they can opt out, medical providers often don’t give patients instructions on how. For patients who are interested in opting out, here are my best tips on how to start.

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• The Markup2026-10-15✓ Read

  MyChart and a major hospital said I could opt out of sharing my health data. But they didn’t make it easy

  My journey included a notary, a hospital that won’t honor its own policies and employees that gave me wrong information.

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• Inverse2026-10-15✓ Read

  The Best Neo-Noir You’re Not Watching Is Better Than Ever

  Since the Coen Brothers split up to do their own solo projects, Hollywood has been trying its utmost to fill in the gap that they left. We’ve occasionally seen sparks of Coen-esque brilliance in a handful of indie features, but TV has proven to be where the spirit of the Coen Brothers’ style lives. Noah Hawley’s Fargo series is the obvious first choice, though the FX anthology show was a case of diminishing returns.

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• VVOX2026-10-14✓ Read

  Trump is taking his midterms anger out on Ukraine

  This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Is Trump turning on Ukraine?  What’s happening? Ukraine says its access to Starlink, the satellite internet system run by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company, and Starshield, the military version of the same technology, is being throttled as President Donald Trump’s animosity toward the country mounts. Why is Trump angry with Ukraine?

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• Inverse2026-10-14✓ Read

  60 Dope-as-Hell Things on Amazon That Are Actually Life-Changing — & Damn They’re Cheap

  These genius finds deliver a surprising amount of usefulness for very little money.

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• All That's Interesting2026-10-14✓ Read

  Archaeologists Believe That This Mass Grave Found In Latvia Holds The Brutalized Victims Of A Viking Raid

  A 1,200-year-old burial with six sets of remains that was found at Čunkāni-Dreņģeri cemetery may hold the grisly aftermath of a Viking raid.

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• Main - Kottke.org2026-10-14✓ Read

  The Muffled Thud of Fire in the Hole

  From a 2014 article on The Dark Power of Fraternities by Caitlin Flanagan, this is one hell of an opening paragraph: One warm spring night in 2011, a young man

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• Main - Kottke.org2026-10-14✓ Read

  It’s time to de-privatize the US government. “The problem

  It’s time to de-privatize the US government. “The problem is not just that privatization is often inefficient because it adds a nontransparent layer of profiteering on top of government functions. The problem is that government loses basic capacity.”

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• Inverse2026-10-14✓ Read

  Street Fighter 2026 Movie: Cast, Release Date & Everything We Know

  The highly anticipated Street Fighter reboot releases later this week, and here's everything fans should know going into it.

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