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After President Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from all over the globe, prompting the markets to implode, he took a question about it on Thursday. He ranted and rambled delusionally about how everything is just great, bizarrely likened the country t...

A big win for Democrats in Wisconsin - why Joe sees no sunshine for MAGA/Trump in these results. A refuse/resist movement is growing and it is growing everywhere. Looking ahead: How do we fight everywhere but stay efficient? Where should Democrats look to in 2026?
How long of a leash does Elon have left?
And yes, we have to talk about the economy. Where is the bottom with the economy? Trump's problems are growing by the minute.
Why Joe thinks right now is not the time for "I told you so's." Now is the time to reach out and start conversations - not admonishments. 
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When everyone's got a hammer, you can't be heard for the banging

So many great lines in this piece by Derek Thompson at The Atlantic:

By the numbers, the tariffs are less an expression of economic theory and more a Dadaist art piece about the meaninglessness of expertise.

Trump is holding out ByteDance's app as a bargaining chip. Will China take the bait?

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They're still sanewashing Trump. Example. Just listened to Brian Lehrer, a news interview and call-in show on WNYC, which I revere, for many reasons. Lehrer is smart, and doesn't dumb things down for his audience. He usually asks the question I'm dying to hear the answer to,...

We're doing some research into the origins of my family in Germany, learning a lot.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced the largest increase in tariffs in modern U.S. history, unveiling import taxes that he said would revive domestic manufacturing and amount to a national “Declaration of Economic Independence.”

Today on “Post Reports,” financial writer David Lynch joins host Colby Itkowitz to discuss the impact of these tariffs on the American economy, and on your wallet. 

Today’s show was produced by Sabby Robinson and Ariel Plotnick, with help from Rennie Svirnovskiy. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and mixed by Sean Carter. Thanks to Jen Liberto.  

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Who knew Bill Gates was such a good blogger? Love this story of Altair BASIC in a quirky, unique design with animating text.

My formative experiences of computing and the internet are now regarded as “history” haha Which is BRILLIANT because I get to experience them all again, only via people who are doing the work to actually document and interpret it. So, some links! Cybercultural is by Richard...

Apple stock getting destroyed today. I feel for small investors who are caught up in this. But also maybe a lesson for Tim Cook and his $1 million donation to the inauguration.

Trump is reckless. You might think you’ll benefit by supporting him, but really you’re just empowering him.

Yesterday we finally merged vector sets into Redis, here you can find the README that explains in detail what you get: https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/modules/vector-sets/README.md The goal of the new data structure is, in short, to create a new “Set alike” dat...

Experts anticipate deep cuts to federal food assistance programs by the Republican-led Congress in this year's budget negotiations set to take place in September. Karen Yi, WNYC and Gothamist reporter covering homelessness and poverty, explains how potential cuts will affect 1.8 million New Yorkers, including more than half a million children, who are reliant on SNAP.

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Today’s update to the Mac app addresses a few things related to managing uploads. It’s now easier to upload a new photo, or start a new post from an already-uploaded photo.

These screenshots highlight a couple of the new items:

There are also some bug fixes and little improvements that make using the app nicer.

The year is 2025 and the web is—or at least it appears to be—an awful place to spend time on. Negativity is everywhere, ads are omnipresent, influencers are permeating every single corner, everything is hyper-commercialised, and AI garbage is now unavoidable. To make things ...

Allie Volpe, senior reporter at Vox, talks about some of the common misunderstandings of boredom.
→ How to be less afraid of boredom | Vox

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Had a dream where one of my notebooks had special AI pages. I could write questions on them with ink and answers would appear. Too much ChatGPT on the brain. Also, the future will be just as much The Diamond Age as it will be Her.

Zach Mack, host of Alternate Realities, a series from NPR's Embedded, talks about his three-part podcast on how he spent a year trying to save his father from conspiracy theories.

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