Who knew that you could tour Alcatraz on Google Maps Streetview. Not I.
I Have That On Vinyl is "a place for people to share their passion for vinyl records, music, and have discussions about both." Pretty self explanatory.
Caught my eye because of Poetry, Lyricism, and David Berman: a Mourner's Chronicle.
Does what it says on the tin: Italy is the only country with lifeguard dogs.
I somehow missed that Hania Rani did a Tiny Desk Concert in 2024.
I've posted about Rani previously.
This Longform story, Eat What You Kill, is astonishing and well worth your time. At the heart of it is a doctor growing rich by misdiagnosing patients, including one who died after receiving chemo for 11 years for stage 4 cancer despite never having cancer:
Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did the trail of patient harm and suspicious deaths.
You can read the full investigation on ProPublica: Eat What You Kill by J. David McSwane.
I'll point out that ProPublica is the best place for thorough journalism that I'm aware of. When I cancelled my subscriptions to The Guardian (due to anti-Trans bias) and The Atlantic (too expensive), I funnelled that money into a monthly donation to PP.
Another banger piece they published just this week was The Militia And the Mole by Joshua Kaplan:
A wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover, climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell his family or friends.
He only told Joshua Kaplan at ProPublica.
Speaking of Longreads (see the post below), Longreads.com has released their best of 2024, which is broken into numerous categories. They always compile the best best-of list of the year:
Best of 2024 - Longreads
Since 2011, Longreads editors and contributors have compiled the most notable reads of the year in our annual Best of Longreads collections. We’re continuing this tradition for 2024, with a few new changes that we hope you’ll enjoy. Bookmark this page, where we’ll share all of our Best of 2024 lists through December. Thank you, […]
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I hate linking to Bloomberg, but I do appreciate their annual Jealousy list, wherein their reporters list the articles published at other outlets that they themselves wish they'd written.
Here's the 2024 Jealousy List. Previous years have archive links on the page.
This is an extraordinary page about The Moon. Anything and everything you ever wanted to know about the moon in one place.
The page has been making the rounds for a few weeks and I'd played with it a bit but only did the deep dive today and therefore, I'm now ready to share. I give you The Moon.
Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. At the end of a trying 2024, here’s what they had to say.
Nieman Lab’s Predictions for Journalism 2025
Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and digital media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. Here’s what they had to say.
Joshua Benton
Glance Back offers a unique take "journaling":
With this Chrome extension, once a day at random when you open a new tab, Glance Back will quickly snap a photo of you and inquire: “What are you thinking about?”. Once you type your answer and press enter, the photo and thought will be collectively saved to your history of glances, cumulatively creating an archive of moments you share with your screen.
In My Machine and Me, Greta Rainbow chronicles a year of using Glance Back for the Los Angeles Review of Books:
My time-lapse is documentation of a working woman slowly aging. An accumulation in lockstep with decay, and my screen is a grave marker. I’m getting better at writing, here. I’m deepening my frown lines, here.
