Now on Youtube, there is GROW Kingdom! Watch each short animation, then click to determine what to do next. See if you can predict what your actions will do. I bet you won't guess correctly! It's still fun, absurd, amazing, charming and wonderful. If you don't remember GROW, as it's been a few years, see inside....

Once upon a time on the internet there was Adobe Flash, which ushered in an era of light and fun games on the internet. And then Adobe killed it. Although you can still play Flash kind of using Ruffle. One of the things that Flash made possible is Eyezmaze's wonderful GROW series, which used to be common sights here. On, the maker of Eyezmaze, had some health issues, and a kid, but is still around. Previous Eyezmaze things that are still playable (Ruffle may be required for some): • The original GROW (a.k.a. GROW Planet, 2002) • GROW 2 (2006) • GROW SunBoy (2007) • GROW Tower (2009) • TRANSFORM (2009) • GROW Cannon (2011) • GROW Figure (2011) • GROW Maze (2013) • GROW Recovery (2015) • GROW Cube (2016) • GROW Comeback (2018) Several GROW games were made for mobile platforms, but because Apple and Google care nearly as little for software preservation as Adobe does they're unplayable now. Someday they'll be on history's trash heap too, and I hope the GROW games outlive them all!

Molly White, independent journalist, maintainer of the site Web 3 is Going Great and the newsletter and podcast Citation Needed (not the podcast about Wikipedia), has a new project called Follow the Crypto. In 2024, the cryptocurrency industry has raised hundreds of millions of dollars to influence races across the US, more than the health or energy sectors despite being a much smaller fraction of the economy. Follow the Crypto reveals what's been learned about their enormous pile of lucre and the ways it is being wielded to distort the United States' political processes, by organizations like FairShake, "Defend American Jobs," and "Protect Progress."

Woody Harrelson reads a letter on stage, from novelist John Cheever to a friend who had burdened him with a cat, who would then become... vivid (6 minutes). From Letters Live, which has many such missives.