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Can you go 82-0? “The objective of 82-0 is to construct a historical NBA roster capable of achieving a perfect undefeated season.” You get to “draft” 5 players from randomly chosen teams & decades, then that team plays a simulated season.

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Early Live Performance by Talking Heads (1976). This “must-watch” 90-minute show is more than a year before their first album and includes songs like Psycho Killer, Thank You For Sending Me An Angel, and Love → Building On Fire.

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Paul Giamatti appears on The Tommy Tiernan Show. Here’s the catch: “Each episode Tommy welcomes mystery guests and interviews them without any preparation or knowledge of who will be joining him until they meet in studio.”

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Haiku is a generative music album for MacOS. “Haiku is a work of generative music that builds its own sound from nothing each time you open it, and never plays the same way twice — a record that exists only while it is playing.”

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"Fuck the Empire!" Andor won a Peabody Award the other day and Tony Gilroy went hard in his acceptance speech. “If you’re not willing to fight for the things that you love...there’s an asshole ready to come in and take it away."

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“As far as artist signatures go, Jan van Kessel’s seventeenth-century painting in which he spells out his own name with caterpillars and snakes must be up there with the best of them.”

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Good news! As of June 1, a transmission line is delivering hydro-generated electricity into NYC: “1,250 megawatts of clean energy directly into New York City’s power grid”. That’s around 20% of the city’s total electric load, now clean.

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The Three Ways to Make a Living. “3) Tell the truth to those who want to be lied to, and you’ll go broke."

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TIL that Muji once sold a car. “The Muji Car 1000 was a debadged and stripped down 2-door version of the Nissan March, with the smallest engine, an automatic, steel wheels, and A/C, available in one color: white.”

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The 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time, including Inaccessible Island Rail, Macaroni Penguin, Morepork, Chocolate Boobook, Dickcissel, Carunculated Caracara, and Resplendent Quetzal.

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The Best Thing About The Satanic Panic. “There’s a phenomenon called the rhyme-as-reason effect that says people are more likely to believe something is true if it rhymes.”

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JS Crossword. “This crossword uses some lesser-known and cursed JS features, so I’d recommend it for people already somewhat familiar with JavaScript.” Diabolical.

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Daft Punk, Medieval-Style. Watch and listen to bardcore trio Courseval play Daft Punk's Veridis Quo, a track from Discovery. This is lovely. And a banger.

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Frozen To -22 Degrees, BYD’s New EV Just Charged To 97% In Only 12 Minutes. This is genuinely impressive — charging and driving an EV in subzero winter weather is just brutal (ask me how I know).

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They’re doing a film adaptation of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Daisy Edgar-Jones will play Sadie (perfect choice) and the director is Oscar-winner Siân Heder (Coda).

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Illustrator John Rooney has teamed up with the Middle East Children’s Alliance to produce and sell this Birds of Palestine print. (All profits go to helping families & children in Palestine.)

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TIL that Andreessen Horowitz owns/runs the NYC Tech Week event. Among other things, A16Z made Daniel Penny a partner in the firm despite no investing experience after he killed a homeless Black man on the NYC subway.