Are these local newsletters local <em>news</em>? (And does it matter?) Meet a few of the entrepreneurs and hobbyists building community — and sometimes, making real ad money — from newsletters aggregating local events.

This article does a great job of describing the weird and wonderful subniche I find myself in these days..

www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/are-...

@justinjackson.ca hey Justin, saw you’ll also be at pm2025, see you there! Thinking of migrating to transistor, would love to catch up at some point :)

I used to want one of those full-body checkups which a bunch of new startups seem to be offering now.

But a doctor friend warned me that over-testing can lead to false positives and stress (plenty of research to back this up too)..

Is it just medical FOMO?

Dreamworks
Looney Tunes
Samurai Jack
Peanuts (Charlie Brown)

Minecraft
Claymation
Archer
Wallace & Gromit

Ellen's Oscar selfie remixed using gpt-4o:

South Park
Studio Ghibli
Lego