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Emmanuel Clase Placed On Leave While MLB Conducts Gambling Investigation

Emmanuel Clase Placed On Leave While MLB Conducts Gambling Investigation
On Monday, ESPN's Jeff Passan reported, and the Cleveland Guardians confirmed with an official statement, that Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase has been placed on "non-disciplinary paid leave as part of MLB's sports-betting investigation" until Aug. 31. This leave comes as pa...

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The New Era Of Gaelic Football Suits David Clifford And Kerry Just Fine

The New Era Of Gaelic Football Suits David Clifford And Kerry Just Fine
A Gaelic football season of massive upheaval ended just like so many others had: With Kerry winning another All-Ireland championship. The recognized all-time kings of the game, now led by David Clifford, who at 26 years old is already hailed as history’s greatest Gael footba...

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The new socialism owes a lot to Trump's discrediting of trade and markets. Latest in @theAtlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/capitalism-defense-trump-corruption/683679/

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The Tornado Cash case: When politics sabotage a prosecution

The Tornado Cash case: When politics sabotage a prosecution

The Trump administration’s regulatory whiplash has left prosecutors scrambling with misattributed chat messages and questionable victim testimony

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Mariska Hargitay On Freeing Herself From Generational Trauma

The Law & Order: SVU actor was just 3 years old in 1967 when her movie star mom, Jayne Mansfield, died in a car crash. Hargitay's new documentary highlights the intelligent woman behind her mom's crafted persona. Hargitay has a new HBO documentary about her "archeological dig" on her family, called My Mom Jayne. She also talks about learning the identity of her biological father, her love of comedy, and working with survivors of sexual assault.

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Linode outage recap

I’ll start with this quote from Mike Rockwell’s blog: I’ve been a happy Linode customer for years, but they experienced an outage Sunday morning that took my Cloudron server offline, impacting my Mastodon and Pixelfed instances. As of this writing they’re still offline and ...

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Bryce Harper Opens Negotiations On MLB’s Salary Cap Proposal By Telling Rob Manfred To “Get The Fuck Out”

Bryce Harper Opens Negotiations On MLB’s Salary Cap Proposal By Telling Rob Manfred To “Get The Fuck Out”
In the current my-truth era everyone is not just permitted but encouraged to pretend they're right whether or not they actually are. The deranged and deranging downsides of this are obvious and everywhere, but one of the smaller of those is that heroes are by now pretty much...

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The Twilight Zoning Board

You’re traveling through another neighborhood, a neighborhood built from a maze of zoning-board restrictions. A journey into a redlined land whose boundaries are the imagination of cranky homeowners and bored busybodies. That’s the signpost up ahead. Your next stop: the Twil...

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Why Your Team Sucks 2025: Jacksonville Jaguars

Why Your Team Sucks 2025: Jacksonville Jaguars

Some people are fans of the Jacksonville Jaguars. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Jacksonville Jaguars. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.

Your team: Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Is Silicon Valley Losing Its Influence on DC?

This episode of Uncanny Valley covers black holes, woke AI, and the relationship between Silicon Valley billionaires and the Trump Administration.

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European Tariff Deal, Car Prices & The Economy

General Motors' CFO says they won't raise prices despite the tariffs and Pres. Trump announced a new tariff deal with the European Union.  Alexandra Svokos, the digital managing editor of Kiplinger, talks about what some economic indicators say about the effects of the new tariffs.


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A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating

A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating

The more than one million messages obtained by 404 Media are as recent as last week, discuss incredibly sensitive topics, and make it trivial to unmask some anonymous Tea users.

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Mattie Goes To A Yoga Class

Mattie Goes To A Yoga Class

The first time I did yoga was in a beachside studio in Ewa Beach, Hawaii in 2010. I was visiting my family there for the summer and my mom had recently become a regular at the studio. I remember the smell of incense in the stifling room and the shapes of other womens' bodies prone on their multicolored mats, completely locked into whatever physio-spiritual ritual I had stumbled into.

I felt uncomfortable with the amount of chanting we did, but I liked the movement in the class enough to come back the next week. In the 15 years since I took that class, I've introduced several friends and romantic partners to yoga and I recognize the look of intimidation in their eyes when they first enter a studio with low light and lofi beats playing.

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How Runtime Hardening Enforces AI, Cloud Native Security

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In computing, the runtime is the environment where code is actively executed. It includes everything between the application and the

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Adam Aaronson Drank Every Cocktail

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Adam Aaronson: The International Bartenders Association, or IBA, maintains a list of official cocktails, ones they deem to be “the most requested recipes” at bars all around the world. It’s the closest thing the bartending industry has to a canonical list of cocktails, a...

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Plans for NYC Schools Cellphone Ban

Jessica Gould, education reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, talks about the latest steps in, and funding for, implementing a cellphone ban for NYC public schools.


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No One’s Ever Been Better Than CC Sabathia On The Brewers

No One’s Ever Been Better Than CC Sabathia On The Brewers
CC Sabathia became a star in Cleveland, and became a champion in New York, and this weekend became a Hall of Famer in Cooperstown—but I will always think of Milwaukee. Possibly the greatest midseason rental of all time, Sabathia's 17 starts that carried the 2008 Brewers to t...

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Released a minor update to Micro.blog for Mac today. Little tweaks mostly for the new macOS beta. For better or worse, I’m doing all my work and testing on Tahoe now, and I expect it to be widely adopted in the fall.

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Bringing Vacation Joy Back Home

Elaine Godfrey, staff writer at The Atlantic, talks about her article on ways to extend the small joys of vacation into daily life, and listeners share their ideas.


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How To Build and Deploy a Basic Site Using Astro and Netlify

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In this post, we’ll show you how to quickly build and deploy a basic site using Astro and Netlify. This

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