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Lettuce Grow Indoor Farmstand Review: Grow Your Own

This flashy indoor hydroponic garden is a great way to grow your own greens. Just watch out for bugs.

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What’s Happening With Entry-Level Development Jobs?

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For decades, the safest first rung on a software career ladder was the junior or graduate developer role. In 2025,

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Excited for Portland fans. Not enough players get to spend their whole career with the same team, or at least retire with it. From @cheesemaker:

There are so many terrible things going on in the world but for this one moment I am mainlining the pure joy knowing that Damian Lillard is once again a Portland Trail Blazer. 🏀

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Our Racist Chatbot Is Now In Charge of All the Weapons

“The Pentagon has signed a multi-million dollar deal to begin using Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, as part of a wider rollout of AI tools for government use, the Department of Defense confirmed… it comes just days after Grok sparked backlash for spouting ...

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Excerpts from The Believer: The Last Mastodan

The Short and Disastrous Life of the World’s Biggest Newspaper - - - I hesitate a moment at Stanford University’s Special Collections desk. “I got in touch about seeing the Constellation? The newspaper from 1859?” I ask Tim Noakes, the library’s head of public services. “Oh...

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Two-way vs one-way links

TBL's links are one-way. This was actually a major innovation, at the time people understood there was something called hypertext, it had been written about in Ted Nelson's almost biblical book of the pre-web, Computer Lib/Dream Machines. Previous attempts at hypertext assumed links had to be two-way. By limiting the links to one direction, the technical problem became trivial. You could do two-way links today because relational databases are mature and inexpensive to operate, perform very well on today's hardware, and the internet of 2025 is much faster than the internet of 1990. But the one-way limit was necessary for the web to achieve its simplicity, and the non-existence of a platform vendor, which may have been its most important feature. It could still be done, but it would require a lot of cooperation and backfilling.

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What is the web?

This is what the term "the web" means to me. First, I defer to Tim Berners-Lee who originally coined the term to mean the data structure that connects the documents displayed by the software he introduced in 1993. He called it World Wide Web, which was eventually shortene...

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What Are The Epstein Files, And How Much Should You Care About Them?

What Are The Epstein Files, And How Much Should You Care About Them?

You may have once again noticed that a lot of people on TV, the internet, and in your real life are talking about files. The Epstein files. They want them released! They want Donald Trump in jail! They want to know what the hell is going on! Seriously, though, what the hell is going on?

As Defector's chief file-explainer, I am here to once again tell you all you need to know about the latest files.

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Roborock Saros Z70 Review: OmniGrip Doesn’t Quite Work

I tested the robot vacuum with the retractable arm, which got a lot of attention at CES. It still has a long way to go.

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This Turbo Escooter Wants to Set a Guinness World Record

With Formula One expertise, Bo plans to break 100 miles per hour on its nearly $30,000 Turbo scooter.

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Back from Shenzhen, China, where I’m manufacturing Poem/1

I’ve been in Shenzhen the last few days visiting factories and suppliers for my Poem/1 AI clock. Remember that clock? It tells the time with a new rhyming couplet every minute. A half million poems per year which I believe is the highest poem velocity of any consumer gadget....

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Italian YouTuber Faces Jail Time for Showing Android Handhelds With Emulated Games

The games on the devices shown by the content creator may not be entirely legal. That was enough for Italian law enforcement to ding him for “promotion of pirated copyrighted materials.”

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P&B: Alex Sirac

This is the 99th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Alex Sirac and their blog, alexsirac.com To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox...

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Einstein Showed That Time Is Relative. But … Why Is It?

The mind-bending concept of time dilation results from a seemingly harmless assumption—that the speed of light is the same for all observers.

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'Eddington' Director Ari Aster Couldn’t Stand ‘Living in the Internet.’ So He Made a Movie About It

Ari Aster tells WIRED he wrote Eddington during the height of the pandemic and BLM protests. The Western depicts the explosive consequences of his characters’ conspiracy-fueled social media diets.

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7 Best Coffee Concentrates for Instant Caffeine (2025)

Whether you’re into cold brew, a frothy confection, or classic hot coffee, we’ve got a concentrated pick for every sipping style.

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The Pollster

Have Americans grown complacent, thinking nothing can shake the United States’ democracy? Host Garry Kasparov is joined by Frank Luntz, someone well versed in taking the temperature of the American public.  Luntz is perhaps best known as a behind-the-scenes operative i...

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Congress Just Gave Away Its Power to Trump

Last night, President Trump achieved a major victory: persuading both chambers of Congress to cancel billions of dollars in spending that they had already approved. In the process, the Republican-led Congress is giving President Trump the power that it, and it alone, is supp...

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Trump Press Sec Snaps at Media as Queries about His Mental State Grow

President Trump is in more trouble than usual. The Jeffrey Epstein files are killing him with the base. New polls show him cratering on many issues. And questions are mounting about his mental state due to a bizarre story he invented about his uncle and the Un...

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Lelo Ora 3 Review: A Tongue Stimulator

Lelo’s Ora 3 is an oral sex stimulator that doesn’t rely on suction air technology.