The Interview: Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness [David Marchese / The New York Times] “Rodeo Drive and Skid Row are in the same city, probably eight, 10 miles apart. In a lot of ways, America’s like that: very rich, very poor. We live in a world where either yo...

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Jamelle Bouie: I cannot emphasize enough that the president has pudding for brains. youtube.com/watch

404 Media: A man convicted of manslaughter in Arizona will be resentenced because an AI-generated video of his victim speaking from beyond the grave was ruled to have carried “undue emotional weight” as an impact statement. An appellate court in Arizona ruled that the mansl...

He Was The Times’s Moscow Chief. My Grandmother Was His Censor. When I was a kid in Moscow, my grandmother told me that New York was the greatest city in the world, The New York Times was the greatest newspaper in the world, and Harrison Salisbury was its greatest journalis...

The internet isn’t made of meat anymore — Bots have passed humans as the internet’s main source of traffic. Telcos need autonomous, AI-defended, sovereign networks to keep up. My latest on Fierce Network.

“White supremacy welcomed his rage, and that made it irresistible.” In prison, white supremacist literature is required reading: ⁠ To survive the box, you learn to fish. People on the outside call it solitary confinement, but it isn’t really, not even at a place like Upstat...

‘How it works’ The Computer - A Ladybird Book by David Carey, 1971 www.tumblr.com/thevaulto… Barbara Eden (left) and Elizabeth Montgomery, 1967 www.tumblr.com/retropopc… chaka khan 1975 www.tumblr.com/mudwerks/…

AI is a power tool, and like any power tool it’s dangerous if you’re careless with it. You can be the guy who warned everyone that a table saw can cut your fingers off and still lose a finger one day.…

— Don’t Write With AI, Say People Who Write With AI [Will Oremus / The Atlantic]

Gerbil — Journalist Allen Salkin’s multipart investigative podcast about that rumor about Richard Gere.

“A deep dive into Hollywood’s most infamous rumor — and what it reveals about celebrity, gossip, power, the internet and our own brains.”

I’m not sure about this podcast but I enjoyed the first episode and Salkin’s interview on Dan Savage’s podcast so I’ll stick with it for at least one more episode and see where it goes.

A Reckoning in Springfield [Stephanie McCrummen / The Atlantic]

Trucker Jack Buhring wrestles with trauma after he accidentally struck and killed 20-year-old Haitian legal immigrant Pierre Damas Bel on the highway outside Springfield, Ohio.

Bel, who had never violated any law and who had a solid job, was among the Haitians in Springfield ordered to check in to ICE field offices and wear ankle monitors.

Following the accident Bel’s father put out a statement saying “after my son was outfitted with this ankle monitor, he felt like he was treated like an animal.”

In 2024, the despicable J.D. Vance spoke the hateful lie that Haitians in Springfield were eating cats and dogs. When Vance was called out on the lie, he admitted it and said he was right to do it.

The People of Utah vs. Kevin O’Leary [Josh Dzieza / The Verge] Mr. Wonderful wanted to build the world’s largest data center. The neighbors had other ideas.

A friend uses “Gladys Kravitz” to describe a certain type of busybody, and that is much better than calling these people “Karens.” I have known many Karens — actual women named Karen — and I can’t recall ever having a problem with any of them.

Indeed, if you’re starting a new job and being introduced to your teammates and one of them is named Karen, remember that person. She is a good egg and will be your friend. She will show you how things work, give you credit for your work, cover for you when you screw up, and occasionally bring delicious banana bread.

How do you solve a problem like a paywall? The current state of paywalls means everybody loses, writes journalist CT Jones. Readers find it difficult to gain access to articles. News organizations, who are desperate for readers, are pushing those readers away. AI and SEO slo...

For a business event, I stayed for one night at the Tree House Inn in Sunnyvale, Calif., a delightful and playful boutique hotel with a rustic theme, like an upscale Catskills resort with a sense of humor. Every room has a crate of old records in it. Though I was at the hotel for only 13 hours, I took some time to photograph every album in the crate in my room.

When I was checking out, the desk clerk told me that guests could request a record player and play the records.

Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed and donated a floating children’s library.

In a letter to the children, Ando writes: “I hope they will travel around the world aboard a ship of hope, equipped with the knowledge and imagination to do so. I hope that, by reading many books aboard the Children’s Library: Hon no Mori-go, children will discover a special book of their own, cultivate the ‘strength to live,’ and joyfully spread their wings from the Seto Inland Sea toward the great ocean of the wider world.”

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I took Minnie back to the vet to check on the progress of her ulcerated eye and find out if we can stop giving her eyedrops and take the cone off her. The vet tech took her in back and I sat in the waiting room until they were done. Two women came in with a chihuahua-terrier...

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HPE lands first AMD Helios order in $1.2B Vultr deal. HPE’s first AMD Helios order, from Vultr, flexes the merged HPE-Juniper’s capabilities as a full-stack provider. My latest on Fierce Network.

Attack of the Night People [Cautionary Tales/Tim Hartford]: ‘If you tuned in to late-night WOR radio in 1950s New York, you’d enter the secret world of Jean Shepherd. Shepherd’s nonconformist style, off-beat humour and love of pranks gathered a small but loyal following. These “Night People” loved being in on the joke, while the oblivious “Day People” were often the butt of it. Shepherd’s show is long gone, but his spirit lives on in corners of the internet. Today, though, Night People go by a different name.”

“Starship Stormtroopers:” Writer Michael Moorcock writes about the prevalence of fascist themes in science fiction and fantasy. This 1977 essay is extremely relevant today. libcom.org/article/s…

Finding a dead bug floating around in your water glass is bad, but not finding the bug is worse.

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