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As our centennial series continues, Marc Stein, the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker professor of history at San Francisco State University, director of the OutHistory website, author and editor of many books, including Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism (University of California Press, 2022) and The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History (NYU Press, 2019), takes us through the history of LGBTQ rights in the US, from the founding of the first, though short-lived, gay rights organization founded in 1924 in Chicago to today.

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Stephen Hackett reminiscing on the Aqua introduction from 2000 and what we’ve lost without live demos:

This all makes me miss live keynotes. I know Apple likes the control it has over pre-recorded introductions, but its announcements deserve live demos, off-the-cuff remarks, and the humanity that was once more prevalent at things like WWDC or iPhone introductions.

Working on some more iOS improvements, currently waiting for Apple to review the beta. 🙄 Automated builds via Xcode Cloud are still working well. I mentioned on the special episode of Core Int (🤯) that builds are slow-ish. To be specific, took 16 minutes today. It’s fine.

Listeners call in to share who they ranked in the mayoral primary election, and Brigid Bergin, WNYC's senior political correspondent, shares her most recent reporting on the election, including the various campaigns' "get out the vote" efforts. 

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Open source software developer Matteo Collina, a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, has a question for you: Why

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In July of 2022, Joyce Carol Oates tweeted that her literary agent friend told her editors are no longer interested in reading first novels by young white male writers, “no matter how good.” She was saying this in support of an article by former New York Times columnist Pame...

Look at that image above. Really look at it. Now. And do not avert your eyes. Satan went to a lot of work to make this happen, and that work must be honored with your attention.

Yes, that is Rob Manfred and John Fisher, shown commemorating the upcoming 70th anniversary of the creation of The Jetsons, in Las Vegas. These two came complete with ill-fitting hard hats jammed unconvincingly onto their hydrocephalic heads, just in case lightning finally, belatedly strikes them down. They are there to celebrate the production of a sign that says a baseball field will be built on a specific site, and they are smiling to celebrate their mutual refusal to consider the evil and greed and stupidity and general imperviousness to failure that they are honoring this day. They look happy, all told.

Black lung had largely been eradicated by the end of the last century. Now, the disease has reemerged in coal country, and federal cuts threaten at-risk miners. Kate Morgan, Pennsylvania-based freelance journalist,  talks about her reporting on black lung for the New York Times.
→ How Black Lung Came Roaring Back to Coal Country

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We know a few new things about the OpenAI / Jony Ive partnership, because of leaks and the iyO lawsuit. I’m skeptical of a screen-free device that is not a wearable. Maybe someone should break away from the rectangle form factor. Square screen, a few inches on each side, very good voice interface.

From iyO’s home page: The iyo one is a revolutionary new kind of computer without a screen. it can run apps just like your smartphone. The key difference is you talk to it through a natural language interface. Like I wrote yesterday, I’d never heard of iyO before. But ...

We’re testing the gadgets that keep showing up in our feeds. Here's what deserves the hype—and would make awesome presents.

Organizations are racing to add new service features and capabilities to stay ahead of the competition and deliver an elevated

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Blaming payment processor restrictions, Fansly—a platform creators flocked to after OnlyFans announced it'd ban sex—announced it's changing the rules for multiple types of content.

BULLETIN: SEASON 3 EPISODE 141. TRUMP'S PROFANE, INSANE RANT Donald Trump's limited tether to reality has snapped this morning and he must be removed from office, by his own party, first via the 25th Amendment and then by Impeachment. Even as individuals as far from being an...

Keep things smelling fresh with these handy home gadgets.

A free tool that allows anyone to upload a photo of an LAPD officer to get their name and badge number.

“Every AI agent needs a web browser,” said Paul Klein IV, CEO of headless browser vendor Browserbase, at this month’s

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There is a specific and lacerating shame that comes with talking about New York City politics in places where people who do not live in New York City can hear you. This is not just because the people involved are so often so embarrassing. The alpha goofiness of current Mayor...

Before I blew out all seventy-two candles on my birthday cake this year, I made a wish. I wished for something that had been gnawing at my soul ever since I first received my AARP card. It was finally time to launch my political career. But a sobering thought struck me. Am I...

Now you can feel your music in an entirely different way, but it might not hit the right notes.