Tootfinder

"Weimer’s obsessions are no secret – they were probably the reason Christian Democratic Union chancellor Friedrich Merz appointed him as commissioner for culture and the media."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Why independent bookshops strike fear in the heart of Germany’s culture tsar
First he came for Berlin’s film festival. Now it’s books. Wolfram Weimer seems to be on a mission to curb progressive thinking, says Guardian Europe columnist Fatma Aydemir

That's handy, a list of trails to avoid.
Welsh locations named some of the best dog friendly running trails in the UK
https://nation.cymru/culture/welsh-locations-named-some-of-the-best-dog-friendly-running-trails-in-the-uk…

Welsh locations named some of the best dog friendly running trails in the UK
Ella Groves A new study has revealed the best dog-friendly running trails in the UK, with two Welsh locations making the top ten list. With so many trails to explore across the UK, the experts at Canine Cottages have compiled a list of the top ten dog-friendly running trails. The list is ranked based on […]

In Every Language, given ‘music’ to search international WikiPedia, gives all sorts of things from culture to culture, but given ‘Jazz’? You tell me if there isn’t a distinct global international transnational statement given by these results!
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/81084667537

Trump pick for State Department drops out after drawing heat for comments about 'white culture' (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/10/trump-state-department-white-culture-00822112
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p132#a260310p132

The Fascinating History Ignored by Critics of a Bridge's New Name via @… https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/12/12/…

The Fascinating History Ignored by Critics of a Bridge’s New Name | The Tyee
In 1808, a Kwantlen man saved the life of Simon Fraser. The Pattullo Bridge’s replacement will stand as testament.

Analysis: news organizations' open-source activity has fallen from a peak of 2,092 new public GitHub repositories in 2016 to 396 in 2025, an ~80% decline (Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/journalism-lost-its-culture-of-sharin…

Journalism lost its culture of sharing. Here’s how we rebuild it
The data are clear: The open-source culture that defined an earlier era of online journalism has collapsed.

"The Olympics are ditching PFAS waxes — and the ‘ridiculous’ speed they gave skiers"
#Olympics #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

The Olympics are ditching PFAS waxes — and the ‘ridiculous’ speed they gave skiers
A key source of speed is gone, as concerns over toxic “forever chemicals” reshape Olympic skiing and the science behind winning on snow.

A look at the history and rise of Markdown, which has been adopted across the tech industry in the decades since its quiet launch in 2004 by John Gruber (Anil Dash)
https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/

How Markdown took over the world
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

You know what really sucks about being raised in Polish culture? You learn to always expect criticism and sarcasm.
Someone tells you a compliment? In the best case, you feel uneasy about it. In the worst, you start suspecting it was veiled sarcasm.
Once I've read here a suggestion to compliment strangers. I don't know if I'll ever be able to do that. I'd keep worrying that I may be misunderstood, either as being sarcastic or as expecting something.
#Poland #ActuallyAutistic

Following federal cuts to history-focused organizations, the president of the Canadian Historical Association, Colin Coates, sent this letter to Marc Miller, the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture.
One thing might not be obvious: Coates's reference to Carney's recent Quebec City speech suggests Canadians' need for historical context right now. He doesn't agree with Carney's claims. In fact, most Canadian historians would dispute them.

Street photographer documents Eugene, one portrait at a time
https://lookouteugene-springfield.com/story/arts-culture/2026/03/08/street-photographer-documents-eugene-one-portrait-at-a-time/

Street photographer documents Eugene, one portrait at a time
This 24-year-old photographer and barber uses his Instagram and TikTok accounts to share his street photography from the corners of downtown Eugene.

The Page Isn’t Dead, Your Attention Is Under Siege
Every few years we are invited to attend the same funeral. Someone declares that nobody reads anymore, that the printed page is finished, that books are an aging technology destined to become a museum object while the living culture migrates to earbuds and short video. It is a tempting story because it flatters our sense that we are witnessing a clean break with the past, a decisive turn of the wheel.

The Page Isn’t Dead, Your Attention Is Under Siege | David Boles, Blogs
Every few years we are invited to attend the same funeral. Someone declares that nobody reads anymore, that the printed page is finished, that books are an aging technology destined to become a mus…

Det her er et af de sjoveste indlæg, jeg længe har læst. Og så giver det håb for fremtiden. "Donald Trump is the political equivalent of a lead life vest." #trump #USPol #Gop

MAGA Is Losing The Culture War
From Bad Bunny to Epstein to Elections, MAGA Is In Deep Trouble

I'm betting on Betteridge's Law for this one. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6936576/2026/01/06/heated-rivalry-nhl-hockey-culture-change/

Hit show ‘Heated Rivalry’ became a TV phenomenon. Can it change hockey culture?
The show has taken over pop culture and is opening up conversations about a complex topic within hockey.

Trump Has Lost The Culture (Brian Beutler/Off Message)
https://www.offmessage.net/p/trump-has-lost-the-culture
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p60#a260210p60

An interview with LastPass CEO Karim Toubba on the company-wide changes after the 2022 data breach, new services such as controls to curb shadow SaaS, and more (Charlie Osborne/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/lastpass-2026-rebuilding-trust-ceo-interview/

Can you trust LastPass in 2026? Inside the multimillion-dollar quest to rebuild its security culture
After a string of high-profile breaches, the password manager's new CEO says security is now at the 'very heart' of what it does.

from my link log —
Nearly every sport except long-distance running is fundamentally absurd.
https://slate.com/culture/2012/06/long-distance-running-and-evolution-why-humans-can-outrun-horses-but-cant…

Why Nearly Every Sport Except Long-Distance Running Is Fundamentally Absurd
At first glance the annual Man vs. Horse Marathon, set for June 9 in Wales, seems like a joke sport brought to us by the same brilliant minds behind...

Opinion: Texas is losing the reading battle while leaders fight a culture war over books - El Paso Matters https://elpasomatters.org/2026/02/03/opinion-texas-reading-crisis-culture-war-literacy-reform/

Opinion: A politicized reading list won’t fix Texas’ reading crisis — investing in teachers will
Instead of investing in teachers, funding and evidence-based literacy instruction, Texas is fueling culture-war debates that do nothing to reverse its worsening reading crisis.

Las Vegas Raiders star Ashton Jeanty praises wife for being there 'no matter what' https://www.sportingnews.com/us/culture/entertainment/news/las-vegas-raiders-star-ashton-jeant…

4 Cowboys Players Who Brian Schottenheimer Could Cut This Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/4-dallas-cowboys-players-brian-schottenheimer-could-cut-offseason

Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/500k-t

500,000 tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

How film companies contributed to war efforts. “What happens if we think of film not as part of the culture industry, but as part of the chemical industry?” Tales of a Militant Chemistry by Alice Lovejoy.
https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/202…

Not Your Idea of a Kodak Moment
A new book explores the photo industry’s dark past.

Learning To See Again:
For over twenty years I've been seeking out alternative stories in our surviving material culture and sharing them with my photographs and words.
-- Andy Marshall
https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/about-2/

About Me - Learning To See Again
For over twenty years I've been seeking out alternative stories in our surviving material culture and sharing them with my photographs and words.

UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy refers DMGT's proposed acquisition of the Telegraph to Ofcom and CMA over concerns about consolidation of rightwing papers (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Lambrini Girls:
🎵 Company Culture
#LambriniGirls
https://lambrinigirlsband.bandcamp.com/track/company-culture-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Svm9cZMKVHOII0NECMhiy

Culture shock
#anime

Nicki Minaj's dancing on the other hand. 🙄
(just making a point)
#hypocrisy #SuperBowl #culture

Event: Rejoicing Rabbis and the Roman Economy of Emotions
https://ift.tt/o8YfS92
ResearchGate: Publishers Take Formal Steps to Force Copyright Compliance A summary of…
via Input 4 RELCFP htt…

TIL that the writer and director of The IT Crowd is a transphobe: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/sep/03/how-graham-linehan-gender-activism-led-to-comedian-career-and-personal-armageddon
Sad…

Media Mothership
Host Craig Norris, PhD, covers the latest news, absurdities, and trends in modern media and culture...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/media-mothership/

Super Bowl pop culture prop bets: Cardi B proposal? Kendall Jenner-Devin Booker relationship? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7010877/2026/02/04/super-bowl-prop-bets-pop-culture-cardi-b-bad-bunny/

Deer stones culture - Wikipedia
#mongolia #history

Deer stones culture - Wikipedia

https://apple.news/AoHfQ36cCQJargAfZ06dI1w

When the Two Sides of the Culture War Meet — The Atlantic
Turning Point USA’s halftime show had some surprising overlap with the performance it was meant to protest.

"If any of the work, that any of us do, contributes to the stretching of culture, the stretching of boundaries of empathy that’s expected of an audience… that’s the holy grail."
—Riz Ahmed
#acting #coaching

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A request. If you enjoy Cascadia Journal, could you please send a link to a friend? This newsletter has no paywall, and each weekday you get an a quick roundup of news, environmental reporting and arts & culture from across the Cascadia bioregion. Plus, opinionated essays about the Pacific Northwest's pushback

Museums Association: 'organisations need to act urgently to adapt to the reality of the climate crisis' https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/opinion/2026/02/culture-in-a-changing-climate/

Culture in a changing climate - Museums Association
Emma Howard Boyd on why organisations need to act urgently to adapt to the reality of the climate crisis

People tell me that #AI code is fine, because you can run automatic tests. But tests can only tell you if code is doing the thing you want it to do.
To know what it SHOULD do, we used to have requirements. But now requirements are themselves vibe-coded slopotypes.
People were hoping that this would get them higher velocity, but testing the requirements in production only produces waste an…

Checking an LLM's work is a systemic, not an individual, problem.
Only a culture of design critique can prevent sloppy AI-generated problem definitions.

A few years back, a friend of mine was part of a team that collected and compiled lots of #language samples for preservation of #culture and further #research, named

🚄 Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings
(could we drop our frames for a second and ask if the 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙 problem with America is that we're not like that?)
https://aethermug.com/posts/culture-is-the-mass-synchronization-of-framings
…

Regime change in Iran could also weaken Russia further, so we have a clear European interest here, also with regard to the war in Ukraine. But ofcourse the most important thing is that the Iranian people with their rich history and culture can enjoy more freedom.
#iranprotests #geopolitics

How Hollywood's once-reliable bets are floundering, as stars matter less, auteur filmmakers become selling points, and sequels lose their grip on the box office (David Sims/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/03/…

Hollywood’s Star Power Is Shifting
Auteur filmmakers have become as much of a selling point as the actors they work with.

Before we walked over to the bar to ring in the new year last night, I polished off MASTERS OF ATLANTIS as my last book of 2025. I'd put it on my to-read list after this review ... whew, back in 2020?
https://slate.com/culture/2020/12/master…

"Digitizing Intangible Culture, Identity and Memory: Eurotales, a Museum of the Voices of Europe"
#language

Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/500k-t

500,000 tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

An interview with Pentagon AI head Emil Michael about Anthropic leaking to the media to win anti-Trump users, dealing with Amodei and his "politburo", and more (Pirate Wires)
https://www.piratewires.com/p/inside-pentagon-anthropic-deal-culture-clash

Inside the Culture Clash That Tore Apart the Pentagon’s Anthropic Deal
despite anthropic frustrating the admin with its blogging and very slow 'politburo' of ethicists, emil michael,

How does Ukrainian culture survive war? One Austrian foundation has a long-term answer: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/26/how-does-ukrainian-culture-survive.html

Just spreading the word about our great MA in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Loughborough University. As it happens, I met with our wonderful students this morning to talk about the current state of the literary market and the diversity deficit in publishing on an amazing module called 'The Market, Literary Prizes and Canon Formation'.

This bird is disappearing from Indonesia’s forests for its song https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/this-bird-is-disappearing-from-indonesias-forests-for-its-song/

This bird is disappearing from Indonesia's forests for its song
The rising popularity of songbird singing competitions in Indonesia has led to the dramatic decline of the white-rumped shama, a bird known locally as murai batu. Mongabay Indonesia video contributor Rizky Maulana Yanuar recently reported that keeping such birds is deeply rooted in local culture. In Javanese society, a man is considered to be successful […]

Culture, nature, community
#SilentSunday

[hype alert] Brain chip implant: visually impaired Korean YouTuber applies for Musk's clinical trial https://www.mk.co.kr/en/culture/11976079 Kim Hansol (OneshotHansol) on YouTube

Brain Chip Implant: Visually Impaired Korean YouTuber Applies for Musk’s Clinical Trial - MK
Oneshot Hansol, a visually impaired YouTuber (32, real name Kim Hansol), has applied to take part in a clinical trial run by Neuralink, the company led by Tesla chief executive Elon Musk.On February 7..

Klint Kubiak embracing opportunity 'to earn the right to coach' Las Vegas Raiders https://www.raiders.com/news/klint-kubiak-embracing-opportunity-to-earn-the-right-to-coach-the-las-vegas-raiders

from my link log —
How Markdown took over the world.
https://anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
saved 2026-01-10

How Markdown took over the world
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Culture:
🎵 The International Herb
#Culture
https://open.spotify.com/track/0GGPUysb8GpCG76dQH63te

Join us for Open Source Career Day talk 'Fast Code, Fragile Culture' by Khewna Dawar at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/fast-code-fragile-culture

Hard House History
Hosted by Hard House icon Paul Glazby, this podcast dives deep into the evolution of the Hard House movement, exploring the music, the culture, and the unforgettable nights that defined an era...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/hard-h…

Call for Proposals "Bodies of Culture" Conference, November 6-7, 2026
https://ift.tt/NDAuQIf
updated: Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 2:09pmfull name / name of organization: Tal Granovsky Amitcontact…
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"This bird is disappearing from Indonesia’s forests for its song"
#Indonesia #Birds #Animals

This bird is disappearing from Indonesia's forests for its song
The rising popularity of songbird singing competitions in Indonesia has led to the dramatic decline of the white-rumped shama, a bird known locally as murai batu. Mongabay Indonesia video contributor Rizky Maulana Yanuar recently reported that keeping such birds is deeply rooted in local culture. In Javanese society, a man is considered to be successful […]

If anyone comes into my mentions with anything along the lines of “the shooter was trans, therefore”…
expect a public excoriation and immediate block.
This is not the place for your gd culture war.
We don't even know the full motivation yet, all we know is this was a deeply troubled young person who did not get what they needed to survive and be a productive member of society.
That is a failure on all of us. This event is our collective failure.
First we support the community and the people directly affected... then we figure out how we could have supported this family in a way that would have prevented this outcome.
#canPoli #TumblerRidge #CdnPoli #LGBTQ

Reactionary forces doing reactionary things

I went to see my neighbor who is a bus driver.
He spent roughly an hour explaining which of his favorite Smetana/Janacek/Dvorak pieces are favorites of his passengers and how he doesn’t dare to play them the favorite opera pieces but he feels deprived of them so he has to listen while commuting to the work (on a bike of course).
This was more culture talk than with the sum of my tech friends in the last three years, particularly if you include the genAI crew.

AI Chatbots Are Poisoning Research Archives With Fake Citations https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don’t Exist — And They’re Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

They told you to pick one thing. To find your niche. To make yourself smaller.
But what if your many interests aren't scattered? What if they're connected?
What if refusing to fragment yourself is exactly what the world needs now?
On why being multi-passionate might be your greatest strength, not a flaw to fix.
Read more: [link]

The Lie of the Niche: Why Being Multi-Passionate Is a Strength
In a culture obsessed with specialization, curiosity is treated as a flaw. This essay explores why wholeness, imagination, and multi-passionate lives may be exactly what this moment requires.

I’m not on Instagram, but…
Quickly! Who knows Slavoj Žižek’s Insta handle? 😉 https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/116185411840320365

How Liam Coen got the Jaguars to the playoffs: 'It makes us want to fight for him' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47518705/nfl-playoffs-jacksonville-jaguars-coach-liam-coen-coach-year-buffalo-bills

Folks that don't 'get' the Sinners thing - it's an important movie as a statement for black folks, their culture, how they've been treated through the years, and how they're still treated. Period pieces are tough for me, but once I got into it, yeah, it's damn good. Coogler did a great thing there.

Klint Kubiak embracing opportunity 'to earn the right to coach' Las Vegas Raiders https://www.raiders.com/news/klint-kubiak-embracing-opportunity-to-earn-the-right-to-coach-the-las-vegas-raiders

Many folks are reflecting on Prince’s extraordinary halftime performance, the greatest of all time. What you may not know is that it was a profound, nuanced statement and a powerful reclaiming of a proud Black music tradition. Some background: https://anildash.com/2021/02/05/how-pri…

How Prince won the Super Bowl
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Heated Rivalry: Queering Sports in Popular Culture
https://ift.tt/EoQZhps
updated: Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 2:09pmfull name / name of organization: Journal of Fandom…
via Input 4 RELCFP htt…

A Hongkong, on n’attaque pas impunément les échafaudages en bambou
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2026/01/09/a-hongkong-on-n-attaque-pas-impunement-les-echafaudages-en-bambou_6661086_3210…

A Hongkong, on n’attaque pas impunément les échafaudages en bambou
Ces ouvrages très résistants sont partie intégrante de la culture locale. De nombreux habitants de la ville les défendent contre les attaques jugées ineptes après le feu qui a tué 161 personnes le 26 novembre 2025.

The List of Epstein-Linked People Losing Jobs Grows and Grows | WSJ https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-list-of-epstein-linked-people-losing-jobs-grows-and-grows-a0ea90a4?st=NQ15S…

Just spreading the word about our great MA in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Loughborough University. As it happens, I met with our wonderful students this morning to talk about the current state of the literary market and the diversity deficit in publishing on an amazing module called 'The Market, Literary Prizes and Canon Formation'.

A lot of folks got very excited about the MacBook Neo — but Apple's been selling a machine with almost these exact specs for *years*. So what did the bright colors and rounded fonts really try to solve? Maybe Apple's embarrassment about serving Walmart customers. https://www.anildash.com/2026/03/08/neo-ap

The Neo solves Apple’s embarrassment
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Barron Trump wore a blue tie, (gasp)
a color traditionally associated with the Democrats
https://www.irishstar.com/culture/entertainment/barron-trump-tie-state-union-36780798#Echobox=1772061580

Barron Trump's choice of tie raises eyebrows at State of Union speech
Trump's son Barron sparked conversation with his wardrobe choice at the State of Union address

The Seahawks didn't just win the Super Bowl. They did something even more challenging https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7033901/2026/02/10/the-seahawks-didnt-just-win-the-super-bowl-they-did-something-even-…

Reviews for Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture
https://ift.tt/1zENrkh
updated: Friday, January 9, 2026 - 7:06pmfull name / name of organization: Queer Studies in Media…
via Input 4 RELCFP

« En 2025, 243 termes recommandés par la Commission d'enrichissement de la langue française sont parus au Journal officiel. Nous en avons présélectionné dix mais, maintenant, c'est Š vous de choisir votre terme préféré ! »
https://www.culture.fr/franceterme/Actuali

I've been working on this one for a while. The multi-trillion-dollar AI industry? Their *most advanced platforms* are controlled by a plain text format that John Gruber made up for his blog, and then bounced off of a 17-year-old Aaron Swartz, before sharing it with the world for free. *That* is the internet. Here's the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world.

How Markdown took over the world
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Pure Bathing Culture:
🎵 Pendulum
#PureBathingCulture
https://purebathingculture.bandcamp.com/track/pendulum
https://open.spotify.com/track/4uY8sch0P4EHaTSPKf1ADD

CFP: Greece and Germany — Literature, Philosophy, Culture, and the Arts
https://ift.tt/PxGYgUf
updated: Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 2:12pmfull name / name of organization: Dedalus: Portuguese…
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New article: 'Seeing Library Collections Through New Lenses: The Potential of Large-Scale Digital Collections' in the Journal of Victorian Culture's Digital Forum, edited by @emilyjlm.bsky.social and Joanna Taylor
https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcaf021
(I kinda love th…

After talking with ~40 people at Anthropic, a look at its "Yes, and..." culture where every idea is welcomed and judged based on vibes, like a hive mind (Steve Yegge)
https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b

The Anthropic Hive Mind
As you’ve probably noticed, something is happening over at Anthropic. They are a spaceship that is beginning to take off.

Sunrise Market Is a Rare Gem. And a Dying Breed via @… https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/01/02/Sunrise-Market-…

Sunrise Market Is a Rare Gem. And a Dying Breed | The Tyee
Steve Burgess takes readers inside a beloved Downtown Eastside grocery store. Last in a series.

A Tow Center probe found that GOP-aligned Metric Media filed 9K FOIA requests across the US in the past year, often about culture-war issues like banned books (Miranda Green/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/pink-slime-networks-are-weapon…

How
Metric Media filed more than nine thousand public records requests last year. It used the data to target Democratic politicians and private citizens.

🚁 US Black Hawk helicopter trespasses on private Montana ranch to grab elk antlers
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/01/us-black-hawk-helicopter-trespasses-on-private-montana-ranch-to-grab-elk-antlers/

US Black Hawk helicopter trespasses on private Montana ranch to grab elk antlers
Crazy, but that's how it goes.

Veleni Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Poison in Italian Literature, Culture, and Language
https://ift.tt/GfN2oxc
updated: Friday, January 9, 2026 - 7:05pmfull name / name of organization: Istanbul…
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Derek Carr Finally Admits What Went Wrong With Josh McDaniels on Raiders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/derek-carr-josh-mcdaniels-culture/

Nine years ago, predicting the rise of “self-driving news”. Now, major publishers are seeing 90 % drop-offs in traffic from search engines as LLMs generate synthesized versions of news stories instead of sending readers to read original media articles. https://anildash.com/2017/03/01/tech-a

Tech and the Fake Market tactic
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Culture:
🎵 Two Sevens Clash
#Culture
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ueq6n73MAh23KMabKrpI0

The Cinema of the Thunder Dragon: A Critical Mapping of Bhutanese Visual Culture
https://ift.tt/SYkeZxm
updated: Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 2:12pmfull name / name of organization: Raiganj University and…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Rams offer 'clear-cut example' of what Falcons want to be, but will this staff get there? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6921233/2025/12/29/rams-falcons-mnf-raheem-morris-job-culture/

How Anthropic's ruthless efficiency comes in part from its mission-obsessed culture, which eliminates the friction that tends to slow things down at Big Tech (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-0…

NowThis acquires Salary Transparent Street, a social-first short-form interview series that reveals salaries, and plans to add a finance video podcast and more (Tess Patton/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/culture-lifestyle/culture/now-this-acq…

Gen Z Media Company NowThis Acquires 'Salary Transparent Street' Digital Franchise | Exclusive
“I started Salary Transparent Street to fix a broken system, and make conversations about money feel human, accessible” Hannah Williams says

YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio, two large channels that used AI to create fake movie trailers; the platform earlier suspended the channels' ads (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/youtube-terminates-scr…

YouTube Shuts Down Channels Using AI To Create Fake Movie Trailers Watched By Millions
YouTube has terminated two prominent channels, Screen Culture and KH Studio, using artificial intelligence to create fake movie trailers.

The number one thing I've been hearing from people in tech lately is, basically, "How the hell am I supposed to work in this industry anymore?" Though most folks are kind of afraid to say it out loud. So I wrote about how to think about it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a-tech

How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026?
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which had about 75K digital-only subscribers and 40K print subscribers, ends its print edition after 157 years (Kay Powell/Atlanta Magazine)
https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-cultu

An obituary for the AJC's print edition, from its legendary obituary writer
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution print edition, 157, dies on December 31, 2025, succumbing to burgeoning digital news coverage. No service is planned. The paper’s survivors will include 40,000 Atlanta Journal-Constitution print subscribers. In lieu of flowers, readers are asked to refresh their browsers.

Event: Rejoicing Rabbis and the Roman Economy of Emotions
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ResearchGate: Publishers Take Formal Steps to Force Copyright Compliance A summary of…
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A profile of Sherrese Clarke, who grew HarbourView Equity Partners' assets to $2.7B by acquiring 70 music catalogs with songs from Bruno Mars, Nelly, and others (Jabari Young/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jabariyoung/2026…

Meet Private Equity’s Pop Culture Queen
Sherrese Clarke, founder and CEO of HarbourView Equity Partners, has turned the music catalogs of top artists—including Bruno Mars, Nelly, and Justin Bieber—into lucrative alternative assets. Now she’s doing the same for film, television and sports.

The persistence of the foreign film category at the Oscars feels increasingly misplaced as foreign films and shows are now mainstream viewing due to streaming (Jack Simpson/Monocle)
https://monocle.com/culture/why-the-academy-awards-should-…

Why the Academy Awards should get rid of its foreign-language category 
Film’s gilded night is drawing ever closer and today The Academy will shortlist the titles up for winning an Oscar...

A look at the electronic music scene in 2026, where bigger venues, higher ticket prices and social media have turned dance floors into spectator events (Tiffany Ap/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-02-20/a-boo…

The Dance Floor Is Disappearing In a Sea of Phones
Electronic music’s club culture is facing an existential moment as bigger venues, higher ticket prices and social media turn dance floors into spectator events.