McSweeney's has a hilarious historical review of the NYT's tweeting habits dating well into the 19th Century. It's not that the NYT and its reporters and editors have failed to realize and thus call out that the Republican party has become a pack of radicalized hyenas lacking any coherent moral or political world view, it's that both-sides have always done it that way.

Chewbaquaman

I'm not really sure what to say about this.

Cyberpunk

An important reflection:

Julie Fucking Montecristo

Drew Magary is on fire today, literally (in the figurative sense of the word employed by my tween), taking white people to task for the terrible fucking names they choose for their children. Also, I may have just had a large iced coffee from a nearby coffee shop, so could easily turn this post into a 3000 word stream-of-conscious spew, so I had better put a period right here.

Star Wars narrated by Ron Howard

Make your own Star Trek II scene in West Papua

BBC Journalist has Earwax Cleaned Out by Hungry Jungle Grub

RP1 trivia

Good meeting last night. This might conceivably bear on the whole gatekeeping discussion, but mostly I just think it's a great, cool design: The Ready Player One logo is also a maze.

(Incidentally, I learned this in a random two-minute dive into Twitter, from this post. So there's that.)