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Polio Made Mitch McConnell MAHA’s Enemy
motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/mitch-mcconnell-polio-vaccine-rfk-trump-illness-senate-disability/
The senator defended vaccines and angered Trump. If only he'd done that more.
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The Goldilocks customizable select height
The 'ideal' sizing is more complicated than you think…
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Lindsey Graham Chose Evil
thenation.com/article/politics/lindsey-graham-obituary-trump/
Conspiracy theorists liked to say that Graham’s Trump sycophancy was a result of blackmail. But the truth is worse: He stuck with Trump to keep the US war machine going.
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An iron worker takes on one of Trump’s most loyal followers in Congress
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/18/brian-poindexter-ohio-congress-candidate
Brian Poindexter, a five-term local councilman and apprentice instructor at Ironworkers Local 17, is seeking the Democratic nomination for an Ohio House seat
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Slay The Spire 2 Is Choosing "Shit" Art Over Generative AI - GameSpot
gamespot.com/articles/slay-the-spire-2-is-choosing-shit-art-over-generative-ai/
Throughout the past decade, we’ve seen the gaming industry grow increasingly concerned with optimization and the fruitless endeavor of chasing perfection.
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Adding repository custom instructions for GitHub Copilot - GitHub Docs
Create repository custom instructions files that give Copilot additional context on how to understand your project and how to build, test and validate its changes.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end
garbageday.email/p/every-new-beginning-comes-from-some-other-beginning-s-end
Read to the end for a pizza crime
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America, 1926: An Absurdly Deep Dive on What the U.S. Was Like on Its 150th Birthday
Five thousand words—and many, many beautiful charts—on what was similar (fears of technological unemployment!) and different (relieving yourself in chamber pots!) exactly 100 years ago.
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Gates Heir’s Shopping App Took Credit for Sales It Didn’t Drive
Phia, an advertising startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates, daughter of billionaire Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, bills itself as a “personal shopping assistant” that helps users find the lowest prices on a broad range of clothes and fashion accessories.
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California sues Paramount to block $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros.
AG: Deal will bring "higher prices, lower quality, and less content for film and TV."
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CNIL Publishes Recommendation on Email Tracking Pixels
On April 14, 2026, the French data protection authority (“CNIL”) published a recommendation (adopted on March 12, 2026) on the use of “tracking pixels” in emails (the “Recommendation”).
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Falling in love with a machine is no longer science fiction: about one in five American adults says they have chatted with an AI built to act as a romantic partner, and among young men it is nearly one in three
spacedaily.com/m-falling-in-love-with-a-machine-is-no-longer-science-fiction/
About nineteen percent of American adults, in a survey of roughly 3,000 people released in February 2025 by the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young
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The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public
futurism.com/future-society/backlash-meta-pervert-glasses-afraid
Meta's camera-equipped "AI Glasses" are so divisive that some adopters are reportedly leaving their expensive smart glasses at home.
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Underground Medicine #1
daily.bandcamp.com/underground-medicine/underground-medicine-1
Our newest column will cover the endless conduit of underground music. This is for the scratchers.
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Awesome GitHub Copilot | Awesome GitHub Copilot
Community-contributed agents, instructions, and skills to enhance your GitHub Copilot experience
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The W3C Attribution API
Chapell's Q&A with Martin Thomson of Mozilla
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White Supremacists Love Armie Hammer’s New Movie
wired.com/story/a-bunch-of-white-supremacists-love-armie-hammers-new-movie/
Described as the “feel-good movie of white-boy summer” by one extremist, the movie ‘Citizen Vigilante’ has been hailed by the far-right as a way to convert moderates to their cause.
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Are we human?
An aramzs.xyz post
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The era of AI malaise
technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1135921/ai-malaise-artificial-intelligence-public-sentiment/
AI is everywhere, all at once. How does that make you feel?
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Sam Neill: An intelligent performer with a personal warmth that always shone through
The breadth of the Omagh native’s work was extraordinary. Any festival celebrating his work would last for weeks
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Essex businesses say Brexit damage continues
eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/essex-businesses-say-brexit-damage-continues/
Ten years after the Brexit referendum, Essex businesses say the economic consequences are still shaping their futures today
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Python Is So Slow. Can Julia Solve the Two-Language Problem?
wired.com/story/python-is-so-slow-can-julia-solve-the-two-language-problem/
By some benchmarks, Julia code can run 10X to 1,000X faster than Python—but there’s a reason it’s not a very popular programming language.
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Flea and the Honora Band: Tiny Desk Concert
After four decades as a founding member of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Flea goes solo with a stellar jazz band.
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We’re Living in a Tick Nightmare. It’s Time to Go to War.
On a late-summer afternoon in 2024, an airline pilot and father of three named Brian Waitzel ate a hamburger at a barbecue in suburban New Jersey, and four hours later he fell violently ill.
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Roborock Saros 20 Review: Jack of All Trades, Master of Most
gizmodo.com/roborock-saros-20-review-jack-of-all-trades-master-of-most-2000782913
Roborock’s current flagship has best-in-class smarts, robot vision, suction power, and edge-to-edge mopping, but don’t expect perfection.
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A Response to Matt Yglesias About ‘Fight’ in Democratic Candidates
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-response-to-matt-yglesias-about-fight-in-democratic-candidates
This morning on Bluesky Politico’s Josh Gerstein flagged to me and others...
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Taco Bells Pulls Ingredients From Menu Amid ‘Explosive Diarrhea’ Outbreak
Mexican restaurant chain recalls food for potential outbreak of illness.
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Explosive foodborne outbreak
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/explosive-foodborne-outbreak
It's a real shit show out there: What we know, don't know, and what it means for you.
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How to avoid dementia — what the science really says
Ambitious studies have been examining the protective effects of diet, exercise and socializing — with surprising results.