With the sunset of the iPod, here are the competitors that didn’t make it.

↩︎ Tedium

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Divers removed 25,000 pounds of trash from Lake Tahoe, 358.9 pounds of which were inner tubes.

↩︎ San Francisco Chronicle

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Either the creator will achieve such a level of success that they’ll no longer feel “relatable” to audiences and must reckon with their persona, the creator will be subject to some level of cancellation …

A timeline of the past two years of Covid deaths in the US, alongside how the tolls compare to other large numbers of people.

↩︎ Axios

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Just because robots can write poetry doesn’t mean it’s good, but then that depends on what “good” means to us, exactly.

↩︎ The New Criterion

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“The dozen biggest oil companies are on track to spend $103m a day the rest of the decade exploiting new fields of oil and gas.”

↩︎ The Guardian

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At least that’s what we thought when we read it.

“There Is Absolutely Nothing Lonelier,” by Matthew Rohrer, whose A Hummock in the Malookas was selected by Mary Oliver for the 1994 National Poetry Series.

There is absolutely nothing lonelier
than the little Mars rover
never shutting down, digging up
rocks, so far away from Bond street
in a light rain. I wonder
if he makes little beeps? If so
he is lonelier still. He fires a laser
into the dust. He coughs. A shiny
thing in the sand turns out to be his.

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The White House has a record collection—Funkadelic, The Sex Pistols—stored offsite. Jimmy Carter’s grandson digs in the crates.

↩︎ Washingtonian

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