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• Main - Kottke.org2026-10-12✓ Read

  All the Percents on Star Trek: TNG

  I 100% love this video of every time someone says a percentage on Star Trek: The Next Generation. And the word “percent” has lost all of its meaning due to semantic satiation. (thx, caroline) Tags: language · Star Trek · TV · video

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• Main - Kottke.org2026-10-12✓ Read

  My friend Matt was recently here for a week in Tokyo and

  My friend Matt was recently here for a week in Tokyo and wrote up his experience and observations. “I don’t think humans were ever meant to experience that many eyes and faces at once, so it was a unique experience.”

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• Jacobin2026-10-12✓ Read

  AutoZone Workers Won a Union. Then the Company Fired Them

  Speaking with members of the newly formed AutoZone Workers Union, you would never guess that one of them had just been fired — and that another would be the next morning. That’s what happened to Nathan DuCongé and then David Valencia after they won their union election. On a Zoom call with Jacobin, though, their joy was contagious. DuCongé and his coworkers were all smiles and banter as they talked about their union campaign, how it feels to win, and the unexpected boost they received from filmmaker Boots Riley.

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• Inverse2026-10-12✓ Read

  25 Years Later, David Lynch’s Noir Thriller Masterpiece Continues To Confound

  There are only two things that are pure in David Lynch’s world, and those are love and terror. Both cut through the artifice of his films like the brilliant beams of light that illuminate Naomi Watts’ face when her character, Betty — a fresh-faced aspiring actress from Deep River, Ontario — arrives at LAX for the first time at the beginning of Mulholland Drive. Betty is about to learn the truth about Hollywood, a truth that’s darker and more horrifying than she ever could have imagined. So why do people think this is hilarious?

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• Jacobin2026-10-12✓ Read

  Robert Kramer Is the New Left’s Great, Forgotten Filmmaker

  When Robert Kramer’s 1968 film The Edge reached Los Angeles, its ad in the Free Press posed a provocative question: “Should we kill the President?” And while Lyndon Johnson survived that film’s alienated would-be assassin, Kramer’s next film left little question as to where he stood. Ice, shot in early 1969 and released in late 1970, imagined an armed leftist insurrection in New York City, taking the jolting documentary-like style of Gillo Pontecorvo’s Battle of Algiers (1966) and bringing its war home to the Big Apple.

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• Jacobin2026-10-12✓ Read

  Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers

  It seems every week a new piece about the decline and fall of the American reading habit goes viral. The idea that we’re entering a literary apocalypse that threatens to destabilize our democracy is perhaps overstated, but nobody is denying the book-reading trend is grim. In the most recent international assessment of adult skills, conducted in 2023, 28 percent of American adults scored at or below the lowest level of literacy — up from 19 percent just six years earlier.

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• Jacobin2026-10-12✓ Read

  The Philips Curve Is a Tool for Waging Class War on Workers

  For nearly three-quarters of a century, central banks and policymakers have relied on the Phillips curve: the idea that inflation can be kept in check by disciplining worker power and putting restraints on employment levels. In 2026, does that theory, and the depoliticization of monetary policy that accompanies it, still make sense? Perhaps the real question isn’t whether every inflation spike has the same cause and cure, but whether central banks should use higher unemployment as their default tool to stabilize prices at all.

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• VVOX2026-10-12✓ Read

  Why the right turned on Indian Americans

  In early October, Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio, went for a classic “politician on the stump” move: He picked up a kid. Or at least he tried to. Ramaswamy fumbled the boy a bit, producing a clip that quickly went viral on social media.

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• VVOX2026-10-12✓ Read

  The man who will likely be the next House speaker, explained

  Barring a catastrophic midterm polling miss, Democrats are on track to win a majority in the House of Representatives next month. Come the new Congress in January, that will mean a new House speaker — and if all goes to plan, that will be current House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

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• VVOX2026-10-12✓ Read

  The liver transplant system tried to fix its sex bias. Did it work?

  In theory, getting a donor liver in the United States when you need one should be an extremely equitable process: The sickest patients with the greatest chance to benefit from a donated organ should jump to the front of the line regardless of their gender, race, or other factors.

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• Inverse2026-10-11✓ Read

  90 Weird Gifts On Amazon That Are Pure Genius & Under $25

  The gift ideas on this list can spark laughter while making people pause and realize that they actually do need something this weird.

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• All That's Interesting2026-10-11✓ Read

  33 Vintage Photos Of Old Penn Station Before It Was Destroyed

  It used to be the fourth largest building in the world — now it’s a windowless underground pit.

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• VentureBeat2026-10-11✓ Read

  Your AI agents can execute every tool call correctly and still break every enterprise rule

  If you sit in enterprise boardrooms today, the pressure weighing on CIOs comes down to two things: Velocity and ROI. Boards expect a mature agentic AI strategy and a definitive timeline for deploying autonomous systems that deliver measurable business impact. Read more

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• All That's Interesting2026-10-11✓ Read

  The Incredible Story Of Unsinkable Sam, The Cat That Allegedly Survived Three Shipwrecks During World War 2

  Unsinkable Sam was a black-and-white cat named Oscar who was purportedly lived through three shipwrecks in 1941.

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• All That's Interesting2026-10-11✓ Read

  Kouri Richins Wrote A Book About Grief After Her Husband’s Death — Then She Was Convicted Of His Murder

  Kouri Richins poisoned her husband Eric with a cocktail laced with fentanyl.

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• Inverse2026-10-11✓ Read

  ‘Starfleet Academy’ Season 2 Has A New Cast And Fast-Approaching Release Date

  Here's everything we know about 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Season 2, including suprising new guest stars.

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• Inverse2026-10-11✓ Read

  Undeniably, The 75 Dopest Gifts Under $20

  This list is packed with amazing finds you'd never think to search for, but once you spot them, you'll know exactly who would love them.

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• All That's Interesting2026-10-11✓ Read

  How Jack McCall Murdered Wild Bill Hickok, One Of The Most Legendary Lawmen Of The Old West

  Jack McCall shot Wild Bill Hickok in the back of the head as he played poker in August 1876.

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• Inverse2026-10-11✓ Read

  65 Freakishly Clever Things You’ll Get a Sh*t Ton of Use Out Of

  Every cool item on this list has a surprisingly practical use.

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• Inverse2026-10-11✓ Read

  ‘Wildwood’ Is A Soaring Achievement Of Animation

  'Wildwood,' Travis Knight’s new stop-motion animated film for LAIKA, is a new pinnacle for the medium.

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