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This is my new favorite vintage NYT headline (from today in 1895):

MacArthur Genius Grants are out today, even though they’ve requested no one call them Genius Grants, everyone is just putting quotes around “Genius” and calling it a day. Notable winners are Ta-Nehisi Coates, who is one of the best writers today and Lin-Manuel Miranda, writer/actor of Hamilton.

OH DID SOMEONE MENTION HAMILTON? Today in Hamilton: Rolling Stone did a great interview with Lin, and I love this piece in the Post about Hamilton succeeding because it’s just so damn passionate.

Book your trip to London right now, because the Warner Bros Studio Tour in London is hosting an adults-only Harry Potter dinner in the Great Hall set this Christmas (music and dancing to follow, naturally). In other attempts to replicate the wizarding world, a company is making frames where you can put a GIF inside and I want one terribly.

A few long and semi-long reads: Cue that phrase I still don’t have a word for (horrified / compelled) for Why Lime Crime Is the Most Hated Beauty Company on the Internet:

Here’s where it gets tricky, though. That letter is difficult to verify because that blogger, Grey, faked her death and was subsequently doxed from the internet once before — by the online knitting community.

Also worth a read is Pacific Standard on the inherent American-ness of the portable coffee cup. Fascinating look, though I can’t fathom choosing to not want to stay in a café in Paris to enjoy your café au lait. (but that’s just me)

A bit of background for the next link. A few years ago, a wildlife photographer left his camera out, and a macaque managed to take a selfie with it. The photographer tried to copyright the photo, but it was a bit up in the air because he hadn’t actually taken the photo. PETA, for some reason, is now taking up the macaque’s case, but now Vice is investigating whether or not they even named the right macaque in their lawsuit. The interview with PETA’s lawyer is hilarious—see below (Naruto is the name of the macaque, but it’s even better if you pretend they’re defending the anime character instead)

How does an animal have standing in federal court on a copyright issue? Well that’s what we’re arguing. It’s clear that the Copyright Act provides protection for authors of original works and it’s clear by Mr. Slater’s own admission that Naruto is the author of this work. And so we are representing Naruto as his Next Friend because he, like, other parties, can’t come to court on their own. But that is the issue that we believe Naruto should be given copyright protection in this photo in this case.

Etcetera: Full-length X Files Trailer! Netflix has figured out which episode of which television shows compel you to finish the whole season. San Francisco's housing crisis has reached a point that people are advertising space in bunk beds on Craigslist (WHAT). Edward Snowden has joined Twitter, and the punchline to every story is that he is only following the NSA. My reaction: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯