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I’ve enjoyed this season of House of the Dragon but the finale was mostly setup for next season. It all feels dragged out, and there is essentially only one character worth rooting for. Glad they are officially wrapping the show after season 4.

Every major U.S. stock market plunged on Monday, wiping out billions of dollars in value. Jeanna Smialek, who covers the U.S. economy for The Times, discusses what was behind the dizzying sell-off — and what it can tell us about whether America is headed for a recession. Gue...

SERIES 3 EPISODE 3: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: The selection of Kamala Harris's Vice President is a big story and I'm really interested and it could be Joe Biden and I'd go "Whatever You Want, Queen." The lead story t...

Europe never found a remedy that increased search competition. Will the United States fare any better?

We’re thrilled to announce that Mike Masnick has joined Bluesky’s Board of Directors.

Mike Monteiro uses Buttondown to answer questions

Software engineer Peter Giacomo Lombardo uses Buttondown to grow an audience for his open-source project, Password Pusher.

It has been one week since Venezuela’s presidential election. Both sides have claimed victory – but a review of the tallies collected by the opposition paints a different picture. In the hours and days after the election, independent observers and world leaders called on Pre...

When reporting massacres, imho we should cite the number of people who were shot. It measures of how much violence there was, and how excessive the gun tech used. Many who were injured but not killed have their lives ruined. Their suffering can go for decades.

If you want to keep up on political news, esp at a time when so much is happening so quickly, the best resource I have at this time is the politics tab on news.scripting.com. Here's a screen shot.

Governor Hochul's pause on congestion pricing has left transit improvement projects in the lurch. Ana Ley, transportation reporter for the New York Times, discusses how officials are coping with the upheaval that's come with the loss of projected revenue.

 

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AI hallucinations just reinforce that humans should always be involved. Today, AI switched to Python syntax in the middle of JavaScript. Oops! A human would never make that mistake, right? Except that I have definitely typed the wrong language when my brain hadn’t completely switched contexts yet.

For our ninth thing in our centennial series, Ian MacAllen, Italian-American food expert and author of Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), covers the history and development of a beloved New York City food: pizza.

 

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I hit a brick wall with some tricky JavaScript and contenteditable HTML. Decided to start over and lean on ChatGPT more. My new workflow: describe the overall problem to AI to get started, test the results, tweak the JS manually to fix problems, then tell AI about my tweaks and continue to iterate.

As Joe Biden knows, stepping away from a high-powered job can be a difficult decision to make. Charley Locke, freelance writer, discusses her reporting on why some people put retirement off, and listeners weigh in.

→ Retirement Gets Harder the Longer You Wait

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Did some boring but necessary sys admin work over the weekend. Plugging more holes so dumb problems don’t trip up the servers.

With Vice President Kamala Harris about to name her V.P. pick, Nancy Cook, senior national political correspondent at Bloomberg News, talks about the top contenders to be Vice President Harris' running mate, plus what the latest polls show about the changes in the presidential race.
 

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Senator JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, and Sofia Nelson, his transgender classmate at Yale Law School, forged a bond that lasted a decade. In 2021, Mr. Vance’s support for an Arkansas ban on gender-affirming care for minors led to their falling out.Sof...

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