The Dance of Hope

this just restored 5 years to my life

what better way to start a saturday morning.

Jim Lee says DC Comics will not support AI generated storytelling or artwork. Not now, not ever as long as he is in charge. "Because what we do and why we do it is rooted in our humanity. It's that fragile, beautiful connection between imagination and emotion that fuels our

New newsletter: EVERYTHING IS TELEVISION - Social media is now 5% following friends and 95% watching videos made by strangers - Every podcast is turning into a YouTube show - AI companies can't stop building TikTok clones on the way to building god derekthompson.org/p/why-everythi…

Something’s Gotta Give will always be one of my favorite romantic comedies ever made. My favorite actor ever, Jack Nicholson, had such pure chemistry with Diane Keaton. Keaton earned an Oscar nomination for a performance in a rom-com. Speaks to just how great she is here. RIP.

Link to study. nature.com/articles/s4146…

slow to share here but was cool to get to write about postage stamps and art for the NYT Magazine! with thanks to maestro Elena Saavedra Buckley & to Ismail Muhammad & the many eds & copy eds who helped shape this 💌 nytimes.com/2025/09/09/mag…

Phone bans in schools motivate kids to read. When a Kentucky district eliminated phones, students checked out 2.3x as many books from the library. At one school, twice as many students borrowed books in the first month as all of last year. Without smartphones, kids get smarter.

Listers is one of the best documentaries I've seen in a long time. But it's also the smartest exploration I've encountered of the way that seemingly every activity—running, knitting, fishing, reading, movies, birding—has been colonized by apps, which slowly become the real hobby.

Arthur Herbert Church, Colour. 1872. Plate: The Three Colour Sensations Illustrated. London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin. A 19th CE study visualizing red, yellow, and blue as perceptual primaries. Church’s model anticipated the later theories of additive & subtractive color.

Experience has taught me to repost every essay the good professor sends my way. You'll know why if you read this -- and then the others.

Btw if u can’t be bothered to read it the lessons of The Brothers Karamazov are: 1) you will feel better if you accept that you are responsible for everybody’s sins 2) you should love life 👍

One discovery on moving to the US is that however into Halloween you think Americans are, it's more than that.

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Live Laugh Love aesthetics are eternal

Huge news for US literature. A new Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10 literaryartsfund.org/about/

Tim Urban really ate with this one. If you only envision one green line on your path, your brain is cooked. Expand your mind.

“Handwriting isn’t an old-fashioned skill; it’s central to reading, writing and cognitive development.” The 74 the74million.org/article/the-po…

“Great things start in little rooms.” I love that so much. Shout out to everyone working on their dream in a little room right now