Congrats to Kagi on 3 years! They also announce their upcoming email product in this post. I’m enjoying Kagi more and more, and loved talking to founder Vlad Prelovac on my podcast Timetable last week.
For a web browser that has been abandoned, Arc sure has a lot of new updates. 🤪 I think its demise is overstated.
McSweeney’s
• Emily Greenberg and Cliff Mayotte
Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
Test mode
Route all outbound emails to your account for safe integration testing.
The legendary email client power users wouldn't let die
Anyone who sells anything on the internet could take a page out of Steve Dorner's Eudora playbook.
Perspectives with Weston Ruter
Luke and Jonathan catch up with a long-time friend and former colleague Weston Ruter to reminisce about their agency days before talking through Weston’s ten-year tenure as a Core Committer and the legacy of his work on the Customizer. From there, they cover the early days of the WordPress Core Performance Team and Weston’s time at Google, culminating in his contributions to the Optimization Detective project. They also discuss AI—how could they not? Weston’s development practices come up too, along with their mostly shared optimism about the future of the Open Web.
Westenberg.
• Joan Westenberg
The Curse of the Spanish Armada: When Scale Becomes Self-Sabotage
In 1588, King Philip II of Spain launched a naval campaign that should have been the climax of Catholic Europe's struggle against Protestant England. The Spanish Armada, 130 ships strong and carrying more than 30,000 men, was to sail through the English Channel, rendezvous with Spanish ground
Defector
• Lucy Bloom
Can’t Sleep. Hopped Up On Bunts.
I am a bit sleep deprived on my first day of work. I certainly could have slept last night—my excitement for the dream of interning here was outweighed by Amtrak-induced exhaustion. But unfortunately for me, Oregon State was doing something to USC on a baseball field. It wasn't exactly baseball, not as you and I know it. What it was ... well ... maybe you can tell me.
It would have been OSU's two consecutive squeeze plays, which made three consecutive bunts of what would be four bunts in the second inning—that was when I knew that I would have no escape to unconsciousness.
What Is Output Formatting in Python and How Do You Do It?
Output formatting is all about controlling how data or information, generated by a program, is displayed or outputted. With well-thought-out
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Michael Moore
• Michael Moore
Here's the New Pledge of Allegiance I Think We All Should Take
What if we all took a new pledge?
Post Reports
• The Washington Post
How Ukraine pulled off ‘Operation Spiderweb’ deep inside Russia
On the eve of negotiations in Istanbul between Russia and Ukraine, the Ukrainian military struck targets hundreds of miles inside Russian territory. Small drones, smuggled into Russia over many months, carried out the attacks. This show of force – one of the biggest Ukrainian attacks since the war started three years ago – boosted morale within Ukraine. But the path to a ceasefire remains murky.
Host Elahe Izadi speaks with Ukraine bureau chief Siobhan O’Grady about whether these strikes could change the balance of power in the war in Ukraine. Plus, updates from a day of peace talks between the two powers. Today’s show was produced by Rennie Svirnovskiy. It was edited by Ariel Plotnick and mixed by Sean Carter.
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Defector
• Patrick Redford
Magnus Carlsen Melts Down, Pounds Table After Inexplicable Blunder
Spend enough time watching the best chess players in the world play, and even a chess amateur will pick up on something: Space is at such a premium in their games that any seemingly innocent, sensible move—sliding the A-pawn to the third rank to prevent the dark-square bishop from forcing check, burning a tempo to line your rook up with the opposing queen even though four pieces separate them—can be punished several moves down the line. The greats can project themselves forward in time and see weaknesses before they even begin to develop.
That is not what happened on Sunday when Magnus Carlsen lost to current world champion Gukesh Dommaraju. The former world champion played very relatable chess, by which I mean he committed an unspeakable blunder to lose from a winning position and then pounded the table in disgust.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Monday Morning Politics: Sen. Ernst on Medicaid; Democrats and 2028 & More
Jonathan Lemire, co-host of Morning Joe on MSNBC; writer for MSNBC and contributing writer to The Atlantic, talks about the latest national political news, including Sen. Joni Ernst's "we are all going to die" response to constituents' concerns over Medicaid cuts, what's brewing for Democrats regarding the 2028 election and more.
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McSweeney’s
• Susie Aquilina
Two Years Ago I Was Making My Own Bone Broth, and Now I Am a Supplicant to Asmodeus, Ruiner of All Things
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Tyler Rockwood
Why Streaming Is the Power Grid for AI-Native Data Platforms

AI is transforming every business, and every organization is trying to figure out how they can benefit from or enable
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Defector
• Drew Magary
Joni Ernst Is A Piece Of Shit
Here’s a story in two parts, both of which will be crushingly familiar to you. The main character of our tale is Iowa (uh oh) Senator Joni Ernst, who held a town hall in her home state this past Friday. Ernst’s constituents at that town hall were vocally angry about President Trump’s massive tax bill, which passed in the House a month ago and threatens to cut half a trillion dollars in funding to Medicaid. People will die if this bill passes in Ernst’s chamber. When one audience member informed the Senator of this fact, she responded, with supreme Midwestern condescension, “Well, we’re all going to die.”
That’s the first part of our story. The second part is Ernst’s formal response to the heckling, which she recorded on her phone while walking around a graveyard. Take it away, womanboss.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Countdown to the NJ Gubernatorial Election
Early voting in New Jersey's gubernatorial primary starts Tuesday. Nancy Solomon, WNYC reporter and host of the “Ask Governor Murphy” monthly call-in show, offers political analysis of the race and the leading Democratic and Republican candidates.
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Gennady Pekhimenko
Optimizing AI Infrastructure: 5 Takeaways from Jensen Huang’s GTC 2025 Keynote

Artificial intelligence development is accelerating. That was the resounding message from Jensen Huang’s GTC 2025 keynote, where NVIDIA’s CEO detailed
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Ghost compatibility notes
Defector
• Luis Paez-Pumar
Seattle Sounders Players Protest For Fair Share Of Lucrative Club World Cup Bonuses