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This Pride Month, Your Bank Is Straight

From all of us here at Bank of Money, Happy Pride! Though if anyone asks, you didn’t hear that from us. We’re straight now. We know that may come as a surprise after the past ten years of emphasizing all the money we’ve donated to LGBTQIA+ orgs, taking up increasingly more s...

WIRED
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Cybercriminals Are Hiding Malicious Web Traffic in Plain Sight

In an effort to evade detection, cybercriminals are increasingly turning to “residential proxy” services that cover their tracks by making it look like everyday online activity.

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Congrats to Brent Simmons on his retirement! This is an impressive list of apps to have been a part of. I’ve actively used all of them over the years, and a few I still do:

Along the way I worked on, among other apps, Userland Frontier, NetNewsWire, MarsEdit, Glassboard, Vesper, OmniFocus, OmniOutliner, and Audible.

I did a little digging, looks like I first linked to Brent in 2002, not long after starting my blog. I met him later at WWDC, back when it felt like you could meet everyone, although which year escapes me.

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

The Secretive Tech Company Working With the Trump Administration

Caroline Haskins, business reporter at WIRED, where she covers Silicon Valley, surveillance, and labor, talks about President Trump's plan to employ the tech company Palantir to compile data on America citizens. 


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WIRED
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Elon Musk’s Fight With Trump Threatens $48 Billion in Government Contracts

The billionaire’s feud with the president over the nation’s debt is jeopardizing lucrative deals for SpaceX and other Musk companies.

WIRED
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'100% Stupid': MAGA World Is Cautiously Turning on Elon Musk

The right-wing media ecosystem seems to not know what to make of the Elon Musk-Donald Trump spat—but some of the president's loyalists have made their feelings known in plain terms.

The Texas Observer
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I Was an Undocumented Texas College Student. I’m Not Going Anywhere—and Neither Is Our Movement.

As a proud first-generation, undocumented graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, and a lifelong product of Texas public schools, I am outraged—but not surprised—by the latest cowardly attack on our immigrant community.  The most recent attempt to gut the “Noriega Bill”—also known as the Texas Dream Act—a law that has opened college doors […]

The post I Was an Undocumented Texas College Student. I’m Not Going Anywhere—and Neither Is Our Movement. appeared first on The Texas Observer.

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Text • Albert Burneko

Donald Trump And Elon Musk Throw Day-Long Tantrums At Each Other

Donald Trump And Elon Musk Throw Day-Long Tantrums At Each Other
Other than every interaction either of them has had with another living being in their entire lives, as well as every single thing that is true about either of their personalities, and everything that either of them believes about themselves and each other and all others and...

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An Experimental Staff Chat: Let’s Talk Tonys

An Experimental Staff Chat: Let’s Talk Tonys

The Tony Awards are on Sunday, and that's as good an excuse as any for me to chat with you all about Broadway. Ask any questions you want about theater, or live performance more generally. Alternatively, if you don't have a question from that field, some other folks might drop in to answer any queries related to people named Tony.

Please stay on topic in Tony Chat.

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While walking to Groundwork Coffee this morning in Los Angeles. A jacaranda tree, I think.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Ariel Assaraf

Why AI Demands a New Approach to Observability

AI is transforming industries in ways we couldn’t have imagined just a few short years ago, from automating customer service

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Maybe I’ve become a little bitter because a decade ago I was screaming about big centralized platforms and a return to indie microblogging, and now that everyone else is excited, my voice is still hoarse, and I have less to say. Onward.

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Elon Musk Claimed the Art This Man Painstakingly Created Was Generated by Grok

Elon Musk Claimed the Art This Man Painstakingly Created Was Generated by Grok

Charles Brooks knows that people will share and alter his work. He just wants credit for his photos when it happens.

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Behind the Blog: Activism and Evangelism

Behind the Blog: Activism and Evangelism

This week, we discuss the phrase "activist journalist," waiting in line for a Switch 2, and teledildonics.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Itiel Shwartz

Mastering Kubernetes Migrations From Planning to Execution

Preparing to migrate workloads to Kubernetes can be daunting from a technical and operational perspective. The transition isn’t just about

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The “Tooth Hurty” Joke Has Its Origins In Ancient, Armored Fish

The “Tooth Hurty” Joke Has Its Origins In Ancient, Armored Fish
Whenever Yara Haridy, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago, shows off the fossils she works with, people are often disappointed. Unlike the statuesque bones of dinosaurs or even the small spirals of ancient seashells, Haridy's fossils "kind of look like dust, or lik...

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Iga Swiatek Abdicates Her Clay Throne

Iga Swiatek Abdicates Her Clay Throne
The queen is dead. It took three straight titles and 26 consecutive match wins at Roland-Garros for Iga Swiatek to finally lose on the Parisian clay. Aryna Sabalenka deservedly got the scalp, outlasting Swiatek in a Thursday semifinal played at a level so blisteringly high i...

WIRED
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DOGE Is on a Recruiting Spree

While Elon Musk and Donald Trump post through their break-up, DOGE shows no signs of slowing down—and potential recruits are being told they can make up to $195,000 a year.

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

Photography, Everywhere

Laura Roumanos, executive director and co-founder of Photoville, talks about this month's Photoville Festival with 80 exhibitions across the boroughs June 7-22, and opening weekend events in Brooklyn Bridge Park.


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Fediforum report

This was an email I sent to one of the people I'm working with at Automattic, and realized I was actually writing a blog post. I was watching on the FediForum session yesterday, and heard all this stuff about Bluesky and Mastodon, but these are products that are poorly prep...