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We had the world conned into taking our “dollars” and giving us cars, food, nice vacations, drugs, a huge military, all kinds of manufactured stuff for nothing, and we thought they were ripping us off! So we blew it up. The would-be “Art Of The Con” mastermind undid the biggest con in history.

Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

Jon Campbell, Albany reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, talks about a deal that will allow the MTA to install speed cameras on bridges and tunnels in the city, plus more on how the new budget might affect Gov. Hochul's reelection campaign next year.

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With Mother's Day coming up on Sunday, listeners call in to share the best and unique gifts they've received for Mother's Day and suggest gift ideas for last-minute shoppers.

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While testing something this morning, I made a careless blunder with one of our servers, causing some sporadic downtime. I’m very sorry. A couple things are slow right now but will be returning to normal shortly.

I don’t think I realized that you didn’t need to be in the EU to distribute apps via AltStore PAL. If Apple relaxes their notarization review in the future, I might use this to ship early iOS builds to the EU.

The great thing about sports is that a lowly software developer can be richer than a fantastically rich team owner, if the developer's team is the Knicks.

I have to say the latest Baseline theme looks great! Here's a blog post I just wrote, in the WordLand editor, and the writing experience was excellent. It took a long time and a lot of work to get it there, but it is there now. But as the post says, it's not just a blog pos...

In president Trump's first administration, he stated that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are "not money". Now, he heads his own crypto company. David Yaffe-Bellany, technology reporter for The New York Times, covering the crypto industry, shares his reporting on the ways the Trump family has financially benefitted from embracing the industry in these first few months of his second presidency.

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Catholics around the world are getting to know the new pontiff, Leo XIV, the first pope from the United States. David Gibson, director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University, and Mollie Wilson O'Reilly, editor-at-large and columnist at Commonweal, talk about the direction the former Robert Francis Prevost, a Chicago-area native, might take the church.

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There are many challenges for the web and web publishers as AI upends search, but the only way to believe that the open web itself will be destroyed is to no longer believe in web browsers. As big as AI is, it’s not as big as the web. We’ll navigate through this.

“What we make stands testament to who we are.” — Jony Ive, in an interview at Stripe Sessions

…Unless you want to fail all the WCAGs, create litigation risk, close off opportunities in Europe, engage in reputational harm, and oh yeah, throw up barriers to your customers and users.

This is the 89th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Anh and her blog, anhvn.com To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox every Friday...

Does anyone know what this is? Update: I think it’s an olive press. That makes sense considering where I am. Thanks for the answers everyone!

The world’s 1.4 billion Catholics have a new pope, and for the first time, he is from America. Jason Horowitz, the Rome bureau chief of The New York Times, introduces us to Pope Leo XIV. Guest: Jason Horowitz, the Rome bureau chief of The New York Times Background reading:&n...

Right after the news broke that Robert Francis Prevost was elected as the new Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, the internet produced lots of evidence that he has promoted articles critical of JD Vance and Donald Trump, and even expressed sympathy for George F...

With another week of Trump chaos, Joe's just about had enough. Stop hoping for someone else to do the work we need to do. Stop hoping an election is going to change things or wishing national Democrats will magically fix everything and unite. The responsibility is on our shoulders. Joe explains how we, the people, can get it done.
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The French military spent a decade - and three billion francs - building the perfect defense against another German invasion. The Maginot Line stretched hundreds of kilometers along the Franco-German border, a marvel of engineering with underground railways, air-conditioned barracks, and heavy artillery that could pivot to strike attackers from

Clayton Ramsey grades student assignments and gets papers that are just obviously ChatGPT output. I think any of us can spot it by now: awkward repetitive prose, heavy on bullet points with bold intro words, wordy, etc. There is nothing to be done about it. As an instructor, I am always saddened to read this. […]