Worth the Click + Books 📚

It’s time for another round of things on my recent radar that I think are worth sharing. Next week I should have the added “things worth watching” since I’m in the middle of a few series and after that I’ll most likely get around to making a list of “my favorite books of the year so far” (maybe also TV?). Of course I’m trying to cram in as much reading as possible for the official end of June cut off for the first half of the year.

Here’s Pink’s opening performance at the Tony Awards in case you missed it or want to watch it again

Mister Rogers is back, baby!

The USPS Mister Rogers stamp from 2018 has been reissued and you can buy the sheet of forever stamps. There’s also souvenir sheets and a portfolio for collectors.

Still makes me laugh

This is from a handful of years ago, but it’s still funny and maybe you missed it. Someone made a trailer for Jurassic Park where instead of dinosaurs being the terror it’s – wait for it… Pee-wee Herman. (Pee -wee Park - The Full Horror Trailer)

Sue them into oblivion

After Google’s AI wrongly claimed two publishing companies of scams and shady business a German court has “classified Google as a direct infringer because the ‘AI overview’ is its own content, not just a list of search results.” Full story at The Decoder: Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

Speaking of AI

Here’s a helpful resource regarding getting your business off Twitter and keeping ChatGPT out of your school. Anil Hash, Taking action against AI harms

Love horror?

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Alyssa Cole’s next thriller!

I was already a fan of Alyssa Cole’s romance novels and then she started writing social thrillers (When No One Is Watching) and cemented being an automatic buy for me. I am super excited that she has a thriller releasing in early 2027, It Takes A Village, which just had a cover reveal announcement.

It’s never too late

Ce Roser got her first gallery show at 101. Cultured: At 101, the Chinese American Artist Ce Roser Is Finally Getting Her Big Break

Here for it

A Different World is getting a sequel series on Netflix which will premier September 24th!

On the discourse

“Now, over a decade later, so many of the problems that felt like they were somehow close to being solved, or at least named, have become drastically worse. Body positivity, championed by Dunham and West so passionately, has fallen out of fashion. Bodily autonomy has been massively degraded. We are searching for ways to empower ourselves and each other in this regressive “grab them by the pussy” era in which we find ourselves, and it’s here where Dunham’s Famesick and West’s Adult Braces find them—and us—reckoning with the world as it is now.” Maris Kreizman at Harper's Bazaar, The Rise of Ragebait Lit: This spring, arguing about books in the group chat is back

When poor decisions make it an everybody problem

Nonfiction Book Publishers Aren’t Remotely Ready for AI: They don’t check facts. How will they check hallucinations? (New York Magazine)

PSA/The More You Know

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

And some recently acquired galleys I’m excited to read

J. K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic by Gina Gwenffrewi

Every Room a Hunger by Nino Cipri

Cages by Chantel Acevedo

Some People by Parini Shroff

Buried Feelings by Kit Rosewater

Our Knives Will Save Us by Nephi Craig