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Ayelet Waldman on Quilting to Stay Sane
The New Yorker,
The writer explains how she took up quilting to help her cope with terrible news, and the science behind why it works.
The 49″ Odyssey G95C Monitor From Samsung Is at a Record Low Price, 40% Off on The Official Store
Gizmodo,
It's one of the most impressive screens you could have in front of you.
A Lakota Playwright’s Take on Thanksgiving
“The Thanksgiving Play” is a comedy on an awkward subject, and a sendup of liberal good intentions. The staff writer Vinson Cunningham speaks with the playwright Larissa FastHorse.
21 Best Mascaras for Volume and Length
The Cut,
From brands including Maybelline, L’Oréal, Too Faced, and Ilia.
Ketanji Brown Jackson on Ethics, Trust, and Keeping It Collegial at the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court Justice talks with David Remnick about the decline in public trust and questions about the Court’s ethics code, and how Justices get along in a very partisan era.
The App Store Era Must End
mjtsai,
Jason Snell (tweet, Macworld, podcast): To a kid growing up in the 1980s, the idea that the maker of your computer would actively stop you from using software it didn’t approve of would have seemed beyond the pale. It certainly would’ve been a deal-breaker. And yet so many of today’s computing devices are locked down—for […]
Apple Directly Selling Apple News Ads
Sara Fischer: Apple has started selling its own advertising inventory for Apple News, two sources familiar with the effort told Axios. It’s pitching new ad units that it hopes will maximize revenue for itself and its publishing partners.[…]Beginning next year, Apple will sell premium sponsorships of editorially curated content for relevant events, such as the […]
Unreal on Internet Archive
Timothy Geigner: But it just doesn’t have to be like this. Companies could be willing to give up their iron-fisted control over their IP for these older games they aren’t willing to support or preserve themselves and let others do it for them. And if you need a real world example of that, you need […]