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The Pioneering Coffee House Serving Since 1645. “In Oxford, ‘runners’ would go from coffee house to coffee house, picking up all the best news and delivering it back to customers, said Garner. You’re talking human wi-fi.” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly1y3mv40ro

Secret Oxfordshire: The coffee house serving since 1645

Radio Oxford visits the historic shop that has been serving the city since the Civil War.

kottke.org 1h ago

After two years off, Tom Scott is back with a new YouTube series: “I took a road trip through every county in England, and filmed something interesting in each of them.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz3lSKgz4q8

I left YouTube two years ago. Time to come back.

▶️ See Episode 1 now: https://nebula.tv/videos/tomscott-i-helped-break-a-142yearold-bell-and-thats-okay • or it's right here next week! ❓ LATERAL, free weekl...

YouTube

kottke.org 3h ago

All of Humanity's Problems Stem From Marc Andreessen's Inability to Sit Quietly in a Room Alone. "Zero introspection is not just a personal quirk or a supposed productivity hack. It’s a permission slip for zero accountability." https://kottke.org/26/04/andreessen-inability-sit-quietly

“All of Humanity’s Problems Stem From Marc Andreessen’s Inability to Sit Quietly in a Room Alone”

Tech investor and billionaire Marc Andreessen has many bad opinions (as evidenced by his investment portfolio). On a recent podcast, he shared a real boner: tha

kottke.org

kottke.org 16h ago

Nothing Works in Trump’s America — Except Racism. “Trump is objectively bad at running the government, but he’s objectively good at running a Klan rally, and his supporters value the latter so much that they forgive the former.” https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/newsletter-laguardia-tsa-baseball/

Nothing Works in Trump’s America—Except Racism

In this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent explores Trump’s stunning incompetence. Plus: Baseball is back—for now.

The Nation

kottke.org 18h ago

The 2026 issue of the HTML Review, “an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web”. https://thehtml.review/05/

the html review 05

the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web

kottke.org 20h ago

Mark Simonson reminisces about when he discovered type design. “The idea of coming up with an original alphabet design fired my imagination. And learning that it was possible to design type professionally was a revelation.” https://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/the-day-i-discovered-type-design/

The Day I Discovered Type Design

Mark Simonson

kottke.org 22h ago

“By focusing its narrative on the tech industry itself, Halt and Catch Fire’s staying power has only increased. The story it tells still has something to say about our present-day reality.” https://dirt.fyi/article/2026/02/dude-the-internet

“Dude, the Internet.”

Prestige Silicon Valley television.

The Dirtyverse | Dirt

kottke.org 23h ago

For the latest episode of Design Matters, Debbie Millman interviews Timothy Snyder about “how we misunderstand freedom, why truth and empathy are under threat, and what this political moment asks of us”. Millman is an *excellent* interviewer. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/timothy-snyder/id328074695

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Podcast · Updated Weekly · Design Matters with Debbie Millman is one of the world’s very first podcasts. Broadcasting independently for over 15 years, the show is about how incredibly creative people design the arc of their liv…

Apple Podcasts

kottke.org 1d ago

Endgame for the Open Web, brought on by LLM bots, content summarizing while driving no traffic, increasing paywalls for information of all kinds, locking down APIs (due to AI abuse), attacks on Wikipedia, disruption of open source communities, etc. https://www.anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/

Endgame for the Open Web

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Anil Dash

kottke.org 1d ago

NASA’s LRO found a new crater on the Moon…it’s 225 meters across and 43 meters deep. “According to predictions based on other lunar landmarks, a crater that big should form only once in 139 years.” https://www.sciencenews.org/article/moon-new-crater-nasa-orbiter

In a rare event, the moon got a massive new crater

A crater as wide as two American football fields formed in spring 2024, a size expected roughly once a century. A NASA orbiter got to watch.

Science News