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How to Advocate for Trans Rights in Your Community

Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.

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Text • Kristin Canning

Best Treadmill for Home (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Putting a treadmill in your home can help you stick to your workout plan. We ran for miles and miles on the most popular models to help your choose the best one for you.

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Text • Matthew Korfhage

15 Best Gifts for Men, Manly Men, and Menly Man Men (2025)

When you need something that's as mannishly masculinized as you can get for the Man™ in your life, we have you covered.

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Still Connecting: New Steve Jobs Tales Keep Surfacing

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs once said that “One of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the

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Text • Michael Venutolo-Mantovani

How to Buy a Bike Helmet (2025)

What is rotational impact? When do you have to replace your helmet? Here’s what to look for when shopping for a bike helmet.

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Text • David Nield

The Best Read-It-Later Apps for Curating Your Longreads

With the popular app Pocket going away, you'll need a new way to catch up on those articles you've been meaning to read. Here are the best options.

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Text • Philip Ball

A New Law of Nature Attempts to Explain the Complexity of the Universe

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.

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Text • Luke Larsen

Dell 14 Plus Review: A Fresh Start or Same Old?

Dell's rebranding efforts officially kick off with the Dell 14 Plus. Is it more than just a fresh coat of paint?

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‘Modern Love’: Gen X? More Like Gen Sex.

Mireille Silcoff recently wrote an article for The New York Times Magazine titled “Why Gen X Women Are Having the Best Sex.” At a time of life when many women describe feeling less visible and less desirable, Silcoff said, her life instead “exploded in a detonation of sex co...

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Expanding the Open Web Conversations Show

The episode introduces the show Open Web Conversatioins during the Open Channel FM's rebranding series, featuring insights from builders and innovators on digital identity, emerging technologies, and online creativity, inviting listeners to engage.

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Experimental June: week one

It’s Sunday 8th and as promised in my Experimental June post here’s my weekly update on how things are progressing. As a result of turning the input dial all the way down, screen time on my phone has also gone down significantly. The screen time page on my iPhone is reportin...

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This was unexpected. Walking back to my hotel tonight, I noticed that some of the traffic lights were out. Turns out the power is out at the hotel too, and they gave everyone little glow sticks to help navigate the stairs and rooms.

A glowing green light stick is held by a hand near a staircase.

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Finished reading: The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future by Keach Hagey. Listened to the last part as I was wandering around Lake Merritt in Oakland today. Some great details in this book, and perfect leading up to WWDC. 📚

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AI for Data Science with San Diego Data

I asked some popular AI chatbots to analyze the open source data that San Diego provides. I started off analyzing the data for parking meters, since that's a hot button issue for the city, recently. Two separate chatbots gave me similar answers when I asked what's...

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Text • Jason Cohen

Bootstrapped CPC rule of thumb: ARPU/25

Bootstrapped CPC rule of thumb: ARPU/25
Bootstrapped CPC rule of thumb: ARPU/25

Bootstrapped and unsure about CPC? Use the rule of ARPU/25.

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Text • Steven Levy

Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74

Atkinson’s gleeful brilliance helped people draw on computer screens and access information via links.

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‘We want to put them in trauma’

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When President Donald Trump took office in January, 2.4 million people worked for the federal government. It was America’s largest employer.  Four months later, Trump — and Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service — have hacked off chunks of government in the name of efficiency, w...

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Days before WWDC, where Apple us rumored to open up their models to developers, I must be the only one hitting my head against the wall trying to get image analysis to work with an embedded Gemma 3 model inside my Mac app. I started down this path a month ago, keep chipping away at it, keep failing.

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I ended up having to completely skip FediForum. With travel and coding, just too much going on. I’ve also retreated from the fediverse for a bit, so I can focus on my blog and the Micro.blog community. Hope there will be some blog post write-ups of the conference sessions I can read later.

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Really enjoying everyone’s photos for this month’s Micro.blog photoblogging challenge. Thanks for sharing! I’ll post the next week of prompts later today. Any word suggestions?