Real Life Rom-Coms, a dorm with no windows, and the seedy world of competitive bridge
These are the best things I found on the internet this week!
Happy Tuesday newsletter fam!
Hope you had a great Halloween, and perhaps even dressed up as a character from an extremely niche movie? Nope, guess that was just me. The rest of y’all were Ted Lasso or a character from “Squid Game.”
I’m back in Los Angeles, living at the movie theater this week to catch up on many of my most anticipated movies of the year — but we’ll talk more about that on Friday.
For now, it’s another packed list of the most interesting, hilarious and mind-blowing content I found on the internet this past week. Enjoy!
What’s the coolest story or thing you found on the internet this week? Reply to this email and shoot me a link. Would love to hear from you.
A lot of things happened this week, but none of them captured the entirety of water cooler conversation quite like this trailer for Lightyear, which proved that any absolutely ridiculous premise can be transformed into the coolest thing in the world if you just synch it to a David Bowie song underneath.
It’s not only possible, it’s incredibly likely that we’re all underestimating the enormous impact the electric car revolution will have on our country. Bloomberg dove deep on the implications, everything from massive job loss and plummeting oil demand all the way down to corn farmers. It could be a defining moment in the country’s economic history.
Introducing a new recurring segment — Real Life Rom-Coms: He sat down next to her on a bus from Florida to Montana. Ten hours later, they were engaged.
If this week’s “Facebook Papers” leak got you thinking more about your privacy online (and it probably should!), PCMag put together this handy list of ways you can browse without gift-wrapping all your private info to the highest bidder.
Over the past few months, I’ve found myself in multiple conversations with people who don’t even identify as sports fans about…F1 racing, mostly because of the super popular (and, I’ve heard, very addicting) behind-the-scenes Netflix docuseries. Sportico’s Jacob Feldman dug a little deeper and found the highly effective habits that have totally revitalized F1, once considered a dying sport.
Real Life Rom-Coms: Japan's Princess Mako, the emperor’s niece, gives up her royal title to marry her college sweetheart.
I love very few things as much as a well-told niche sports story. And this deep dive on the world of competitive bridge — ya know, that game most played in nursing homes? Apparently, there’s a lot of drama going on right now, because the nagging presence of cheating reached an entirely untenable level during pandemic-era virtual tournaments.
Can you imagine going to UC Santa Barbara, easily one of the most beautiful college campuses in the world, and living in a dorm with no windows? A billionaire donor gave $200 million to build a dormitory ONLY if it fit his very specific blueprints. Which in most rooms replace windows with digital projections. Unbelievable.
The longform read of the week: The Bones in the Basement. In a remarkable Vanity Fair narrative, the FBI stumbled across the largest private collection of artifacts in the world in an elderly Indiana man’s basement. Is he a real life…Indiana Jones (ba-dum, dsh), or the most egregious illegal grave digger of all time?
Thanks for reading and sharing! We’ve got a packed movie edition coming Friday, so brace yourselves.