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Is anyone left to defend trust and safety?

Is anyone left to defend trust and safety?

It’s under assault this year from users, politicians, and their own executives — but the industry has responded with silence

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Modernizing my sound system

I got tired of my old sound system, too many wires, a big receiver whose functions I never used, all designed long before the 4-year-old 65-inch OLED screen on top of it all, so I downscaled to a Sony soundbar, figured that was as simple as you could get, for $300, thinking ...

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Samsung Galaxy Watch8 and Watch8 Classic Review: The Squircle

Samsung introduces a ton of new health-tracking features, some of which are a little strange.

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The second #Plushtodon prototype has arrived. They should be ready before December this year. I hope you're looking forward!

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Why this matters

It’s Friday, the 25th of July. Another normal day in another normal week. However, in this tiny corner of the vast digital space we call the web, there’s something I want to spend time both celebrating and reflecting upon: the 100th interview of the People and Blogs series w...

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P&B: Marisabel Munoz

This is the 100th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Marisabel Munoz and her blog, marisabel.nl. Earlier today I wrote a blog post to both celebrate and reflect on this milestone. Go ...

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Anime Girl VTubers Are Selling Out Concerts, but Are They ‘Real?’ Depends on Who You Ask

Virtual anime streamers are selling out live venues, singing at pro sports games, and launching record labels, with fans showering them with presents and suspending disbelief in service of the bit.

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Copyright your faults

I’m a big fan of the podcast Hardcore History by Dan Carlin. Like, if you want six episodes on the fall of the Roman Republic, and each episodes is 5 hours long, Carlin has you covered. I went digging for anything about Carlin’s creative process, and this jumped out at me, f...

Autocracy in America
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The Dissident

What is a dissident? In an autocracy, standing against the rulers could mean harassment, prison, torture, even death. Dissidents stand up anyway.  Host Garry Kasparov is joined by Masih Alinejad, whose work for women’s rights against the Islamic Republic of Iran has le...

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100 Years of ‘The Great Gatsby’

This year, “The Great Gatsby” turns 100. A.O. Scott, a critic at large for The New York Times Book Review, tells the story of how an overlooked book by a 28-year-old author eventually became the great American novel, and explores why all of these decades later, we still see ...

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The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway

The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

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Trump Hit by Harsh Takedown on “The View,” Igniting White House Fury

A new Gallup poll finds that President Trump’s approval has dropped to 37 percent. But the White House has figured out how to get those numbers back up: By picking a huge fight with “The View.” This week, Joy Behar unleashed a striking takedown of Tr...

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"Trump's losing control"

Want proof that Trump's lost control of the Epstein situation? Just look at how they're trying to respond. A majority of Americans - including a majority of Republicans - think there's a coverup. And why Democrats need to stay on target. Take a lesson from the guy who's won two of the last three presidential elections (and is, you know, currently in the Epstein files). Repeat, repeat, repeat. Read Joe's letter here: https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/letter-to-a-long-lost-maga-friend
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Retraining Pandora's Chinese Box

Retraining Pandora's Chinese Box

You don't need to open it for the bad effects to come out

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The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived

Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens to chill speech and ultimately harm children and adults alike.

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How Rust-Based Zed Built World’s Fastest AI Code Editor

When Nathan Sobo set out to build the Zed code editor, he had a simple but ambitious goal: Make it

The post How Rust-Based Zed Built World’s Fastest AI Code Editor appeared first on The New Stack.

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The subtle art of email forensics

The subtle hints and hardcoded clues to trace the history of every email message

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Paramount Has a $1.5 Billion 'South Park' Problem

The White House says the show is “fourth-rate” after it showed Trump with “tiny” genitals. The controversy comes just as the FCC has greenlit Paramount’s merger with Skydance and promised to end DEI.

WIRED
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Steam and Itch.io Are Pulling ‘Porn’ Games. Critics Say It's a Slippery Slope to More Censorship

A conservative group is targeting payment processors as “a weapon” to get adult games deindexed in storefronts. Even games that have nothing to do with sex or abuse have been caught in the dragnet.

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Public Betas for Apple OSes 26

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The public betas are out for iOS/iPadOS/WatchOS/MacOS 26, and Dan Moren and Jason Snell cover them all at Six Colors. Here’s Moren on iOS 26: Apple’s new design language, dubbed Liquid Glass, applies across all their platforms, but unsurprisingly, it feels most at home o...