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What Kids Told Us About How to Get Them Off Their Phones. “This generation of digital natives still longs for what most of their parents had: time with friends, in person, without adults.”

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At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery. “The math world was taken aback when Cairo announced her counterexample to the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture.”

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Philip Bump on the results of a recent poll. What Makes an American? Three in 10 Republicans Say: Being White.

In this video, Maurice Moves highlights a pair of flashlights that are extremely useful & well-designed but also shockingly affordable.

Most people never think about flashlights, but as someone who uses one daily for work, it’s always top of mind, and the tech, value, and products are proof that modern flashlights are absolutely insane and defy logic and manufacturing economics.

The two flashlights he featured are the WUBEN G5 Rechargeable EDC Flashlight ($20) and the Nitecore EDC37 8000 ($140) — the Wuben in particular would be affordable at twice the price given how nicely designed and engineered it is.

I feel like this about Apple’s M4 Macbook Airs; as I wrote last week, “$800 is an absurdly low price for so much computer”.

See also No One Knows How to Make a Pencil. (thx, dunstan)

Tags: economics · video

Jon Batiste & Randy Newman team up for a song called Lonely Avenue. This is lovely. (via craig mod)

Tags: Jon Batiste · music · Randy Newman · video

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it’s shutting down (due to a lack of continued federal funding). Just catching up from last week and this one fucking stings.

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Claude Opus 4.1 Surprise new model from Anthropic today - Claude Opus 4.1, which they describe as "a drop-in replacement for Opus 4". My favorite thing about this model is the version number - treating this as a .1 version increment looks like it's an accurate depiction of t...

I’d like to say that I’m a proud member of The Great I Haven’t Economy™ — “owning zero Labubus, consuming zero matchas, having zero dating profiles, eating zero Dubai Chocolates, owning zero Stanley Cups” — but more likely I’m just old.

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The Panama Playlists is a collection of the Spotify accounts of celebrities, politicians, and journalists (JD Vance, Pam Bondi, Marc Andreessen, etc). “The Panama Papers revealed hidden bank accounts. This reveals hidden tastes.”

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Jason Snell, at Six Colors: On Thursday, Apple reported its third-quarter 2025 fiscal results. Revenue was $94 billion (a fiscal third-quarter record), up 10% versus the year-ago quarter. Mac revenue was up 15%, iPhone revenue up 13%, and Services revenue up 13%. The Wea...

Cory Doctorow is coming out with a book on enshittification in the fall: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It.

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“If the behavior that this administration has exhibited in just its first six months continues and is amplified for its full four years, the America you know will be gone. And I don’t know how we will get it back.”

I teach HS Science in the south. I can only speak for my district, but a few teacher work days in the wave of enthusiasm I'm seeing for AI tools is overwhelming. We're getting district approved ads for AI tools by email, Admin and ICs are pushing it on us, and at least half...

I was exploring how ChatGPT agent works today. I learned some interesting things about how it exposes its identity through HTTP headers, then made a huge blunder in thinking it was leaking its URLs to Bingbot and Yandex... but it turned out that was a Cloudflare feature that...

A Friendly Introduction to SVG

This SVG tutorial by Josh Comeau is fantastic. It's filled with newt interactive illustrations - with a pleasing subtly "click" audio effect as you adjust their sliders - and provides a useful introduction to a bunch of well chosen SVG fundamentals.

I finally understand what all four numbers in the viewport="..." attribute are for!

Via Lobste.rs

Tags: svg, explorables, josh-comeau

We remember Bill Dilworth, who took care of 280,000 pounds of dirt in an NYC loft for 35 years.
 

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Dead or alive, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt revisit Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 sci-fi classic ‘RoboCop’—starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, and Kurtwood Smith.

Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Ronak Nair

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With WorkOS you can start selling to enterprises with just a few lines of code. It provides a complete User Management solution along with SSO, SCIM, and FGA. The APIs are modular and easy-to-use, allowing integrations to be completed in minutes instead of months. WorkOS simplifies MCP authorization with a single API built on five OAuth standards.

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ChatGPT agent is the recently released (and confusingly named) ChatGPT feature that provides browser automation combined with terminal access as a feature of ChatGPT - replacing their previous Operator research preview which is scheduled for deprecation on August 31st. In e...