What's new/around the web: Thursday 4/2/26

I caught Cock Sparrer on Sunday night at the Brooklyn Paramount in what was apparently their last NYC show ever. They rocked it. There's video floating around all over Youtube.

I watched with amazement the Artemis 2 launch yesterday.

I made it to the No Kings protest in Times Square on Saturday afternoon. I didn't march but I did hang around and it was nice to be around kindred spirits with all this ugliness going on in the world. I'm skeptical these days about how effective marches and protests are but I'll take it. “All this ugliness”... Like where would I begin? “This should have been recognized by anyone for the fascism that it is and stopped in it's tracks right then and there.” can be said of so many things I wouldn't know where to begin, or when to stop.

McSweeney's Lest We Forget part 1 McSweeney's Lest We Forget part 2


On a lighter note, here's a couple of things I enjoyed reading this week:

Ping! The WhatsApps that should have been an email by Tom Harford.

The Industry is Fucked Up by John Gruber (Daring Fireball). Hard to believe it's been so many years of this nonsense.

-Ira