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Seen/Read/Heard
Modeled after Steven Soderbergh's annual "Seen/Read" diaries, this is an attempt to catalogue the whole of my media consumption, day to day. Why? I dunno. Curiosity and record-keeping, I guess, plus accountability—a little space to keep myself honest about what I've been paying attention to. The only rule is nothing half-consumed, nothing skimmed—only that which I've sat with in full.
Key
Article
Book
Film
Podcast
Sports Event
TV Show
YouTube video
2025
January
1
Pride & Prejudice, 169–196
The Beekeeper
2
Love Lies Bleeding
Ferrari
3
What We Do in the Shadows, 6x06
What We Do in the Shadows, 6x07
Here
4
The Big Picture, The Robert Zemeckis Hall of Fame, and ‘Here’
Pride & Prejudice, 196–214
Hundreds of Beavers
5
Yellowstone, 1x04
The Order
6
Tell the Bees, The Year Losers Won
How Things Work, It’s Not Looking Great
Citation Needed, Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia
The Big Picture, ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ and the 21st Century Noir Movie Canon
Abigail
My Old Ass
Persona
8
Matt Pearce, Fires and the facts
After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News
Abbott Elementary, 4x09
The Big Picture, Top Five World War II Movies, and ‘Blitz’
9
Block Club Chicago, One Alderwoman’s Crusade To Ban Legal Weed Dispensaries In Her Southwest Side Ward
Brats
What We Do in the Shadows, 6x08
10
Programmable Mutter, We’re getting the social media crisis wrong
11
The Brutalist
The New Yorker, ‘The Brutalist’ ’s Epic Inversion of the American Dream
The Big Picture, The Triumph of ‘The Brutalist,’ With Adrien Brody and Brady Corbet
12
It’s What’s Inside
Pride & Prejudice, 214–240
13
New York Magazine, There Is No Safe Word
Folding Ideas, Mantracks: A True Story of Fake Fossils
Nickel Boys
The Good Shepherd
14
Wicked Tongue, It’s Rude to Read
Kyla’s Newsletter, The TikTok Ban Shows America Is At War With Itself
Garbage Day, TikTok doesn’t need America
The Equalizer 2
15
The Childhood of a Leader
The New Yorker, What Happened When an Extremely Offline Person Tried TikTok
New York Times, She Is in Love With ChatGPT
16
Sam Harris, The Trouble with Elon
The Atlantic, Beyond Doomscrolling
Feast on Your Life, The Pleasure of the Doing
Pride & Prejudice, 240–280
Mulholland Drive
17
Pride & Prejudice, 280–324 (finished)
Inland Empire
18
We Live in Time
Woodcutters, 3–24
19
Woodcutters, 25–30
21
Woodcutters, 33–35
Severance, 2x01
22
Australian Open, Women’s Singles Quarterfinal, Keys vs. Svitolina (live)
Australian Open, Men’s Singles Quarterfinal, Shelton vs. Sonego (live)
Australian Open, Men’s Singles Quarterfinal, Sinner vs. de Minaur (live)
Abortion, Every Day, Instagram Is Censoring Abortion Pill Info
23
Woodcutters, 35–39
24
Platformer, OpenAI launches its agent
Garbage Day, Full stack Trumpism
Kyla’s Newsletter, Trumpcoin and TikTok
Woodcutters, 39–45
25
Woodcutters, 45–47
Severance, 2x02
26
Woodcutters, 47–49
Systematic Hatreds, The Green Dawn Scenario
How Things Work, On Having a Maximum Wealth
In These Times, You Are Invited to the Predators’ Ball, as Food
Augment, Bridges & The Last Network Effect
31
Woodcutters, 55–81
Reuters, Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Severance, 2x03
2
Systematic Hatreds, The Shadow of Violence
Woodcutters, 81–101
The Ezra Klein Show, Don’t Believe Him
3
Inside/Outside, Why Write About the Illegality of What Trump and Musk are Doing?
The Handbasket, Did you hear about the Friday coup?
Garbage Day, Musk’s superteam of former iPad babies
Matt Pearce, I’ve got a new job
American Crisis, The split personality of Big Journalism in covering this nightmare
New York Times, Inside Musk’s Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal Government
Unclear and Present Danger, Contact (1997)
Abbott Elementary, 4x10
5
Tedium, The New DVD Bargain Bin
Tedium, When Movies Get Canned
404 Media, You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
How Things Work, The Business Community Is Extraordinarily Stupid
Systematic Hatreds, You Can Defend Foreign Aid, Democrats
Kyla’s Newsletter, FAFOnomics: How Chaos Became America’s Economic Strategy
Jason Pargin’s Newsletter, In Which I Declare War On Beloved Entertainer Bo Burnham
New York Times, Stop Worshiping the American Tech Giants
The Pitt, 1x01
The Pitt, 1x02
The Pitt, 1x03
The Pitt, 1x04
The Pitt, 1x05
6
The New Yorker, Do Democrats Have a Plan?
ER, 1x01
ER, 1x02
ER, 1x03
The Big Picture, The 10 Best Movies at Sundance, and the Astonishing ‘Nickel Boys’
The Pitt, 1x06
The New Yorker, Mourning David Lynch in a City on Fire
ER, 1x04
7
New York Times, As Trump Attacks D.E.I., Some on the Left Approve
ER, 1x05
ER, 1x06
ER, 1x07
ER, 1x08
Severance, 2x04
westenberg., The Cruelty Market
ER, 1x09
New York Times, There Is No Going Back
ER, 1x10
9
Super Bowl LIX
What We Do in the Shadows, 6x10
What We Do in the Shadows, 6x11
The New Yorker, The U.S. Military’s Recruiting Crisis
ER, 1x18
10
Washington Post, Sportsbooks say you can win big. Then they try to limit winners.
ER, 1x19
ER, 1x20
ER, 1x21
ER, 1x22
Woodcutters, 101–111
11
ER, 1x23
ER, 1x24
ER, 1x25
ER, 2x01
12
ER, 2x02
ER, 2x03
The New Atlantis, We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It
ER, 2x04
ER, 2x05
Woodcutters, 111–144
ER, 2x06
ER, 2x07
13
ER, 2x08
The Pitt, 1x07
ER, 2x09
Shrinking, 1x03
ER, 2x10
New York Times, Putin Scores a Big Victory, and Not on the Battlefield
14
ER, 2x11
Liberal Currents, How to Win a Rigged Game
ER, 2x12
ER, 2x13
Severance, 2x05
Shrinking, 1x04
Shrinking, 1x05
ER, 2x14
ER, 2x15
ER, 2x16
15
Kansas Reflector, With Trump and Musk driving U.S. policy, Kansas farmers have been played for suckers
Financial Times, Is corporate America already souring on Trump?
Shrinking, 1x06
Woodcutters, 144–181 (finished)
ER, 2x17
Untitled Thought Project, Please don’t watch stupid bullshit
16
ER, 2x18
ER, 2x19
The White Lotus, 3x01
The New Yorker, Mike White’s Mischievous Vision for ‘The White Lotus’
Biography of X, 1–15
17
ER, 2x20
Captain America: Brave New World
Yellowjackets, 3x01
Yellowjackets, 3x02
Biography of X, 15–19
18
Ethan Marcotte, Moving on from 18F.
The Ezra Klein Show, A Democrat Who Is Thinking Differently
Cuckoo
TechPolicy.press, DOGE Understands Something the US Policy Establishment Does Not: Technology is the Spinal Cord of Government
Biography of X, 19–25
19
Search Engine, Playboi Farti and his AI Homework Machine
Cooper Lund, The Incuriosity Engine
Shrinking, 1x07
September 5
Iowa Starting Line, State agencies block Auditor Sand during review of private school voucher program
Biography of X, 25–31
20
Aresluna.org, The hardest working font in Manhattan
American Murder: Gabby Petito, ep. 1
American Murder: Gabby Petito, ep. 2
American Murder: Gabby Petito, ep. 3
Shrinking, 1x08
21
Road & Track, Severance Resurrects a Bygone Generation of Cars
Talking Points Memo, INFLECTION: The Backlash Begins As Elon Goes Wild
The Gorge
Severance, 2x06
New York Times, Democrats Are Losing the War for Attention. Badly.
Road & Track, Some Cybertruck Owners Say Their Trucks Are Shedding Body Panels; One Thinks He Knows Why
Biography of X, 31–38
22
Saideman’s Semi-Spew, Why Civ-Mil People Are Freaking Out?
Biography of X, 38–63
The Pitt, 1x08
Print Run Podcast, The Subgenre is YOU
Reacher, 1x01
Shrinking, 1x09
Shrinking, 1x10
23
Reacher, 1x02
Reacher, 1x03
The White Lotus, 3x02
Last Week Tonight, 12x02
Biography of X, 63–70
24
Reacher, 1x04
The Monkey
26
Biography of X, 77–87
A Different Man
The Big Picture, A ‘Heretic’ Interview With Directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods
27
Washington Post, She hoped Trump’s victory would change her life, but not like this
The Apprentice
Yellowjackets, 3x03
Yellowjackets, 3x04
March
1
Falling in Love
Block Club Chicago, Harry Potter Shop Opening In April On Mag Mile
Biography of X, 109–146
Party Girl
Abbott Elementary, 4x11
2
The New Yorker, Trump’s Disgrace
Chilly Scenes of Winter
The 97th Academy Awards,
The White Lotus, 3x03
The Big Picture, The 2025 Oscars: ‘Anora’ Has the Greatest Day
3
Abbott Elementary, 4x12
Abbott Elementary, 4x13
4
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
5
Panic World, Is dating worse than ever? (With Magdalene Taylor)
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Matt Pearce, Notes on the next republic
Subject to Review
Biography of X, 146–153
6
The Present Age, Fine, Let’s Talk About Trans Athletes
Shrinking, 2x01
Shrinking, 2x02
Howtown, The truth about Hot Ones sauces
7
Severance, 2x08
The Pitt, 1x10
8
Search Engine, DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas
Panic World, You’re panicking wrong about AI (with Casey Newton)
London Has Fallen
Runaway Jury
9
The Ezra Klein Show, There Is a Liberal Answer to the Trump-Musk Wrecking Ball
The Hollywood Reporter, License to Shill: Inside Amazon’s 007 Takeover
Apartment Women, 1–25
The White Lotus, 3x04
Under Suspicion
11
Kyla’s Newsletter, Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress
New York Times, Democracy Dies in Dumbness
Shrinking, 2x03
Third Frontier
13
Rest of World, Elon Musk said he’d eliminate bots from X. Instead, election influence campaigns are running wild
Kyla’s Newsletter, The Parallel Economy and the New Rules of American Power
Severance, 2x09
15
The Ezra Klein Show, Why Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Work
99% Invisible, The Brutalists
Search Engine, The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber
Apartment Women, 70–94
The Card Counter
The Wrong Man
The New Yorker, The Flirt Behind “Chicken Shop Date”
16
The Ezra Klein Show, Is Trump ‘Detoxing’ the Economy or Poisoning It?
Apartment Women, 94–104
The New Yorker, The End of Children
Matt Pearce, How to make journalists disappear
Assassin’s Creed
The White Lotus, 3x05
westenberg., On Ideological Purity
Biography of X, 153–164
17
The Prestige TV Podcast, Breaking Down ‘Severance’ Episode 7 With Superfan Damon Lindelof
Novocaine
Owning Mahowny
20
March Madness 2025, Round of 64
The Overthinking It Podcast, Episode 592: We Have to Do the Thing that We Have to Do in the Movie
Severance, 2x10
21
March Madness 2025, Round of 64
Abbott Elementary, 4x15
The Running Man
22
March Madness 2025, Round of 32
The New Yorker, The Battle for the Bros
Shrinking, 2x04
The New Yorker, The Subversive Love Songs of Lucy Dacus
The Pitt, 1x12
23
March Madness 2025, Round of 32
Biography of X, 164–194
Reacher, 1x05
Reacher, 1x06
The White Lotus, 3x06
25
Reacher, 1x07
Reacher, 1x08
Shrinking, 2x05
Biography of X, 198–204
26
Reacher, 2x01
Reacher, 2x02
Abbott Elementary, 4x16
Biography of X, 204–216
27
March Madness 2025, Sweet 16
Panic World, Who turned Gen Z fascist? (With Felix Biederman)
Reacher, 2x03
Reacher, 2x04
Biography of X, 216–218
Reacher, 2x05
The Pitt, 1x13
28
March Madness 2025, Sweet 16
Mickey 17
The New Yorker, How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away
29
March Madness 2025, Elite 8
Biography of X, 218–230
30
March Madness 2025, Elite 8
Search Engine, Planet Money: The Memecoin Casino
Biography of X, 230–274
Reacher, 2x07
Reacher, 2x08
The White Lotus, 3x07
31
The Andromeda Strain
Abbott Elementary, 4x17
Biography of X, 274–285
westenberg., This is Peak Featurecide
April
1
How Things Work, Divergence From the Interests of Capital
The Big Picture, The Gen Z Movie Focus Group
The Boys from Brazil
Abbott Elementary, 4x18
The Final Countdown
Biography of X, 285–293
2
The Reveal, We live in the world of ‘Burn After Reading’
Schindler’s List
The Big Picture, The 1982 Movie Draft
4
Rejection, 1–30
5
Rejection, 31–130
6
Rejection, 130–194
The White Lotus, 3x08
7
Wired, Bluesky Can’t Take a Joke
March Madness 2025, Championship Game
Rejection, 194–258 (finished)
Biography of X, 293–304
8
Tedium, Where The Lede Gets Buried
Apartment Women, 104–106
The Mean Season
The Handmaid’s Tale, 4x10
Abbott Elementary, 4x19
9
Apartment Women, 106–148
The Believers
Abbott Elementary, 4x20
Cop
10
Apartment Women, 148–163
Draft Day
Hacks, 4x01
The Pitt, 1x15
11
99 Houses
Hacks, 4x02
Apartment Women, 163–194 (finished)
12
The Straight Story
rogerebert.com, The Straight Story
Biography of X, 304–320
The Electric State
Black Mirror, 7x06
Black Mirror, 7x01
13
Search Engine, What’s actually on teenagers’ phones?
The Big Picture, The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 25, ‘Michael Clayton’
Biography of X, 320–324
Black Mirror, 7x02
14
The Ezra Klein Show, Trump’s Tariffs, Market Panic and What Comes Next
Biography of X, 324–394 (finished)
Black Mirror, 7x03
Dying for Sex, 1x01
Black Mirror, 7x04
Black Mirror, 7x05
Black Mirror, 4x05
The Dinner Party, 1–31
15
Panic World, Has China already won the internet?
New York Times, The Vibe Shifts Against the Right
The Dinner Party, 31–51
A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read, ep. 1
Warfare
Abbott Elementary, 4x21
16
Panic World, Netflix’s “Adolescence” and the masculinity crisis
A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read, ep. 2
The Big Picture, The 1990 Movie Draft
17
The Dinner Party, 51–71
The Dark Money Game: Ohio Confidential
The Dark Money Game: Wealth of the Wicked
Abbott Elementary, 4x22
19
The Dinner Party, 71–76
Companion
Michael Clayton
20
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
The Dinner Party, 76–122
Y2K
Hacks, 4x03
The Big Picture, ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ and the Indy Movie Rankings
21
The Dinner Party, 122–147
The Last of Us, 2x02
22
The Dinner Party, 147–179
Dying for Sex, 1x02
Always
23
The Dinner Party, 179–226
The New Yorker, Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over
Andor, 2x01
Dying for Sex, 1x03
Andor, 2x02
Andor, 2x03
24
The Dinner Party, 226–243 (finished)
Dying for Sex, 1x04
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
A Thousand Acres, 1–9
25
The Big Picture, The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 22, ‘Children of Men’
A Thousand Acres, 9–19
The Studio, 1x01
Arbitrage