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Target’s now-pulled children’s Halloween costume is so...

Target’s now-pulled children’s Halloween costume is so unbelievably racist that it had to, on some level, be purposely done by someone in the decision chain and everyone else was like, “seems ok to me”.

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Black and Blue in Cleveland

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Both of Wilbert L. Cooper's parents were cops. In this excerpt from his memoir, Cooper recounts how his mother got into the force—and what the department did to try to keep her out.

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24.08.2026

Our family of three with a mountain in the background.
In the mountains.

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‘Apollo 13’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Rob Mahoney

If they could get a washing machine to fly, Bill, Amanda, and Rob could record a pod about it. We head to Houston to rewatch Ron Howard’s ‘Apollo 13,’ starring Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, and Kevin Bacon.

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LIONSGATE’S MUTINY, STARRING JASON STATHAM, ONLY IN THEATERS AUGUST 21

Put ChatGPT to work on your most ambitious ideas and projects. Get started at https://ChatGPT.com by selecting Work mode. Available on Plus and Pro plans
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Sailing Stones

For decades, the sailing stones of Death Valley were a mystery. They'd show up in lists of the world's unexplained phenomena, alongside the Bermuda Triangle and ball lightning. But then, two cousins came along and decided to ruin everything by solving this mystery once and for all.


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Highway Signs

Highway engineers like Planck units because, like the speed of light, the energy capacity of a typical car's gas tank is 1.

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[Sponsor] Finalist 4: Inspired by Paper Day Planners

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Finalist 4 is the biggest update yet to the paper-inspired day planner for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and now Apple Watch. The headline is Notes, in the app or as a folder of Markdown files that round-trips with Obsidian. Tasks in those files land on the right day, next to your reminders and events, even inside the macOS menu bar app.

The rebuilt Timeline lets you pencil tasks into your day, and Apple Pencil gets special powers to sketch the plan in seconds.

There’s tons more, brewed over four months with 1,000 beta testers. Try it free on the App Store.

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Apple Rethinks Plan to Merge ‘Hide My Email’ Domain Name With ‘Sign In With Apple’

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Apple Developer News: Starting later this year, new Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on privaterelay.appleid.com, will be issued on private.icloud.com. Existing addresses on privaterelay.appleid.com will continue to work and forward mail to users without i...

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★ What Is the Point of the DMA?

Wesley Hilliard, reporting for AppleInsider last week: A report from Irish Independent detailed the European Commission’s response to Apple’s new business terms for the EU. They share that they welcome the changes and will monitor Apple’s implementation of the terms. He...

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“If you build it…” #baseball

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At Joy Machine, Emmy Star Brown and Danym Kwon Revel in Memory and Childlike Wonder

At Joy Machine, Emmy Star Brown and Danym Kwon Revel in Memory and Childlike Wonder'The Peace of Wild Things' is a harmonic dialogue about the ways experiences linger long after a moment has passed.

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The Truth About the Bezelless Concept Phone

This TECNO 0mm "borderless" concept phone actually has some interesting quirks

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llm-anthropic 0.27

Release: llm-anthropic 0.27

This release mainly provides compatibility with the recently released anthropic v1.0.0 Python library, which switches from httpx to httpx2. OpenAI made the same change in their v3.0.0 release two weeks ago.

Anthropic provide this migration guide for upgrading to 1.0, so I prompted Fable 5 in Claude Code with:

Upgrade to anthropic>=1 - read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python/refs/heads/main/MIGRATION.md and get the tests passing

Here's the resulting PR.

Tags: python, httpx, llm, anthropic, claude

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Melon’s Odyssey On The Black Market For Life-Saving Cat Medicine

"While Melon lay dying under my bed, I contacted the Facebook group."

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Billy Joel Talks About "And So It Goes" #billyjoel #songwriting #shorts

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Homing pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field...

Homing pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field using superparamagnetic macrophages in their livers. So metal! 🤘

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Everything I Thought I Knew About The Black Crowes Was WRONG

In this interview, The Black Crowes founding members Chris Robinson (lead vocals) and Rich Robinson (Guitar) stop by the studio. We discuss the band's origins in the Atlanta music scene, how they developed their unique sound, and their breakthrough record "Shake Your Money M...

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Europe’s Carousels Eternally Whirl in Luca Battaglia’s Nostalgic Photos

Europe’s Carousels Eternally Whirl in Luca Battaglia’s Nostalgic Photos'Ticket non remboursable' takes a spin down memory lane.

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BitCam: The 1-Bit Camera App Turns 2.0

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10 years ago I wrote about BitCam 1.0: Gorgeous, unbelievably faithful one-bit camera app for iPhone done in the style of the original Mac. A lovely tribute to Bill Atkinson’s remarkable dithering algorithm. “Catnip for old-school Mac users,” says John Siracusa. Check ou...

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(comic) Tie initiatives to P&L