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At first it was dismissed as a crazy joke. Making the Enhanced Games a reality needed a Peter Thiel posse, a couple of retired swimmers, some MAGA money, and a whole lot of drugs.

In the growing conflict between Israel and Iran, one questions now looms over Washington: How far will President Trump go to entangle the United States in a new war? Jonathan Swan, who covers the White House, discusses Mr. Trump’s shifting stance on U.S. involvement, and the...

President Trump appears dead set on joining Israel’s war with Iran. After a period of negotiations, Trump has now tweeted that he wants Iran’s “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” The New York Times has a deep dive into his deliberations, and the findings are ...

On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum urges an end to wishful thinking about Iran, and a focus instead on the regime’s threatening words and murderous actions. Then David is joined by the Carnegie Endowment scholar Karim Sadjadpour for an urgent ...

Trying out the new fediverse improvements in Threads. Haven’t launched the app in a while, so I’m happy to discover that following Micro.blog accounts from Threads appears to be working. Interesting choice for Meta to sort of relegate fediverse posts to their own timeline in the UI.

Decentralized media is off to an agonizingly slow start — but there are glimmers of progress

I remember thinking in Trump’s first term that he was a war president without a war, so he goes after political adversaries and immigrants with the same “we must destroy them” attitude usually reserved for an actual conflict. And now… Iran. Trump is unpredictable. Worst person to be in power. 🇺🇸

“Cuomo holds his lead one week before primary day, as voters express unease with city’s direction.” — The Manhattan Institute - - - In case you haven’t heard: I’m running for mayor. I have a vision for our city that focuses on improving the lives of working people. However, ...

This week is UN Open Source Week, and we’re happy to share that today, Mastodon was added to the Digital Public Goods Alliance’s DPG Registry. A goal of the DPGA is to promote digital public goods in order to create a more equitable world. Being recognised as a DPG increases...

The “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

Kusari, a software supply chain security startup, has launched Kusari Inspector, an AI-powered tool that delivers security insights and go/no-go

The post Startup Embeds AI Security Analysis in Dev Workflow appeared first on The New Stack.

I recorded a quick video on YouTube of a new way to have photo accessibility descriptions generated for you. There are a lot of different ways to manage photos in Micro.blog, but this flow is working well for me on the Mac side. Of course if you have AI disabled, it’ll skip this.

Reflecting today on some kind words that were shared with me last week in San Jose. There’s nothing like talking face to face. When we’re only typing at each other online, we’re more quick to jump to the wrong conclusions, more likely even to dehumanize other people.

Underdogs, Doctor Who, and Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Disney+ this month.

Israel launched attacks on Iran last week. Iran quickly retaliated. The fighting has left many feeling both fearful and hopeful. Now, it is unclear whether this escalation in a long-simmering conflict could turn into a wider war. 

Elahe Izadi speaks with Post reporter Yeganeh Torbati about why Israel chose this moment to launch strikes against Iran, whether Iran’s government could fall, and whether the U.S. and President Donald Trump will get involved.

Today’s show was produced by Peter Bresnan. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and mixed by Sam Bair. 

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Seeing this link today on Daring Fireball about self-driving reminded me of something I’ve wanted to blog about. Tesla is supposedly set to start their robotaxi service in Austin this weekend. I’m slightly worried about it. Now that I’ve been in a Waymo — and experienced how...

Neat new plug-in for Micro.blog-hosted blogs from @jim:

I threw together a really simple Micro.blog plugin to automatically open external links in a new browser tab or window by adding a “_blank” target link attribute via Javascript.

This works because plug-ins can insert bits of JS into a page.

Simon Willison, regarding the various rebuttals to “The Illusion of Thinking” research paper (which I linked to here) from Apple’s machine learning team: I thought this paper got way more attention than it warranted — the title “The Illusion of Thinking” captured the att...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The Night The Lights Went Out, while you’re at it. Today, we're talking about AI, coin flips, talk shows, weed, and more.

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Developers of the WordPress ActivityPub talks about how they plan to make WordPress websites a full member of the fediverse, videos of FediForum available, and bridging to Bluesky op a per-server basis.