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Not convinced about the new menu item icons in macOS Tahoe. It seems very unlikely that there will be suitable icons for every menu item in an app, so you’re left with a disjointed UI. I think it’s going to be more distracting than helpful.

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Best Organic Mattresses (2025): Certified Nontoxic, Natural Sleep

These natural, organic mattresses are eco-friendly alternatives to conventional models and just as comfortable.

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Companies Warn SEC That Mass Deportations Pose Serious Business Risk

Since Trump took office, ICE arrests have more than doubled. Business throughout the US economy are sounding the alarm on the potential impact.

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‘Psyop’: How Far-Right Conspiracy Theories About the Minnesota Shooting Evolved to Protect MAGA

Influencers like Alex Jones and Elon Musk have spent the weekend blaming the murder of Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman on leftists and the deep state.

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9 Urgent Questions About Trump Mobile and the Gold T1 Smartphone

We don’t know much about the new Trump Mobile phone or the company’s data plan, but we sure do have a lot of questions.

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Python ThreadPool vs. Multiprocessing​

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Before we dive into multithreading and multiprocessing, let’s first cover some background info on concurrency, parallelism and asynchronous tasks. These

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A Good Marriage Plot Needs Real Stakes

A Good Marriage Plot Needs Real Stakes
A romantic comedy often opens with a scene where the protagonist demonstrates that she's not like other girls. In Legally Blonde, that's Reese Witherspoon slipping her freshly painted toenails into wedge heels with a heart on them, before she heads out to the date that will ...

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Weenie Centrist Legislator Faceplants Hard At Weekend Protest Event

Weenie Centrist Legislator Faceplants Hard At Weekend Protest Event
April McClain Delaney, House representative for Maryland's 6th congressional district, did not get off to a hot start in her address to Frederick, Md.'s modest-sized but otherwise energetic and very positive "No Kings" protest on Saturday. As soon as she took the microphone,...

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Dodgers Innovate Watchable June Bullpen Game

Dodgers Innovate Watchable June Bullpen Game

Shohei Ohtani has not pitched in a game since 2023, when in addition to leading the league in all the cool batting stats he also struck out 11.4 per nine with a 1.061 WHIP in 23 starts. I was a witness to one of them.

On April 3, 2023, my now-ex and I had tickets to see Shohei. The Angels were bringing him to Seattle for a three-game series, and we weren't going to miss him. He did not disappoint.

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The video calls section in cafes is the new smoking section

People are really leaning into doing work video calls in otherwise-quiet cafes hey. At this point cafes have given in. Even without calls, sitting next to someone who is at their laptop and in the zone is a whole thing. Like standing at a train platform when the non-stopper ...

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Signs the Frog Has Been Boiled

A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it. Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was “BOIL THAT FROG.” He has already made at least one run on the stove. A man stirs the pot with a large stick. “It’s a metaphor,” he says. The...

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The Modern Observability Roundtable: AI, Rising Costs and OpenTelemetry

Is the term “observability” still productive? When it first entered common parlance around 2017, it was instructive in differentiating itself

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Exoplanet System

Sure, this exoplanet we discovered may seem hostile to life, but our calculations suggest it's actually in the accretion disc's habitable zone.

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7 Best Electric Toothbrushes, Tested For Two Weeks Each (2025)

These rechargeable and battery-powered toothbrushes take the guesswork out of oral hygiene.

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Work Is Water: Beat Developer Infinity by Paying Attention to Flow

This article is for everyone drowning in work. If your to-do list seems infinite and you’re starting to feel burned

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Monday Morning Primary Campaign Politics

Errol Louis, political anchor of Spectrum NY1 News, host of Inside City Hall and The Big Deal with Errol Louis, New York Magazine columnist and host of the podcast You Decide, offers analysis of the mayoral primary debate, and talks about the latest news from the campaign trail as early voting is underway.


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Lando Norris Fails To Find One Gap, Widens Another

Lando Norris Fails To Find One Gap, Widens Another
Ladies and gentlemen, your two unfortunates of the past weekend: Lando Norris and local wildlife. The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, host site of the Canadian Grand Prix, encircles an island in Montreal. It is a gorgeous circuit, featuring the close-hewn walls of a street race, ...

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The Rights of Rivers

Robert Macfarlane, a fellow at the University of Cambridge and the author of several books, including Underland and his new one, Is a River Alive? (W. W. Norton & Company, 2025), talks about the new book that questions how we treat rivers through the stories of rivers in Ecuador, India and Canada.


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RNC Sued Over WinRed's Constant 'ALL HELL JUST BROKE LOOSE!' Fundraising Texts

RNC Sued Over WinRed's Constant 'ALL HELL JUST BROKE LOOSE!' Fundraising Texts

The RNC and other Republican groups are violating Utah telecommunications law by continuing to text people incessantly after they've asked them to stop, a new complaint alleges.

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I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount

I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount

I got a confirmation email saying I'll get another confirmation when it's shipped. But I haven't provided a shipping address.