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How Randall P. Girdner shares comics and maintains creative control
Randall uses Buttondown to share comics and connect with readers, all while maintaining creative control over his art.
How Robert Kingett uses Buttondown to fund his writing
Robert uses Buttondown to share his writings with readers and fund his writing endeavors through Buttondown's pay-per-email feature.
WIRED
• Reece Rogers
What JD Vance, Pam Bondi, and Sam Altman Can’t Stop Listening To, According to the ‘Panama Playlists’
A new website claims to know the Spotify listening habits of Trump officials, tech leaders—and even journalists. Attorney General Pam Bondi allegedly jams out to Nelly’s “Hot in Herre."
WIRED
• Zeyi Yang
Trump Ends Tariff Exemption For Small Packages
Starting in September, US buyers on sites like Etsy and eBay may face higher tariffs on goods from abroad.
Chris Coyier
• Chris Coyier
The $200 Yamaha
Dave Rupert: Talk to any guitarist you know who has been playing awhile and they’ll have a story about a $200 Yamaha and how good it sounds relative to the price. Boy do I. I own a $5,000 guitar (what I originally paid for straight-grain Brazilian Rosewood Martin replica by Dennis Overton) and I didn’t […]
Firebase Studio Has Me Second-Guessing My Opinion on Developing With AI

AI has its place. It’s important, however, to keep AI siloed within its place, otherwise it will get out of
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• Dave McKenna
Gilbert Arenas Arrested For Running Illegal And Depressing Poker Games
Gilbert Arenas has really gotta stay away from any card game that ain’t solitaire. The onetime Washington Wizards superstar, who tanked his basketball career in 2009 by bringing guns to a fistfight with a teammate over piddly gambling debts, has been arrested again, this time for his role in an allegedly off-the-books poker operation.
According to the Department of Justice, Arenas was one of several card players—including a man named Yevgeni Gershman, who the DOJ describes as a "suspected organized crime figure from Israel"—taken into custody in Los Angeles today for running a recurring high-stakes game of poker at a house he owned in Encino, Calif. Details in the DOJ's release give the impression that Arenas was essentially arrested for hosting grim men's evenings:
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Trump's Power & the Rule of Law
FRONTLINE goes inside the high-stakes showdown between President Donald Trump and the courts over presidential power. Trump allies, opponents and experts talk about how he is testing the extent of his power; the legal pushback; and the impact on the rule of law.
John Gruber blogging about the app Tea that is near the top of the App Store despite security problems:
I strongly suspect that, although Google hasn’t removed Tea from the Play Store, they’ve delisted it from discovery other than by searching for it by name or following a direct link to its listing. That both jibes with what I’m seeing on the Play Store top lists, and strikes me as a thoughtful balance between the responsibilities of an app store provider.
This is a great way to handle it if true. Developers (like users on social media) are not guaranteed amplification by an algorithm.
WIRED
• Molly Taft
Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work
A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.
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Has NASA Ceded Its Mission To Elon Musk?
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Why more immigrants are being tracked with ankle monitors – and who profits
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• Loraine Lawson
Tired of JavaScript Framework Complexity? Meet Still.js

Developer Nakassony Bernardo faced a problem common in enterprises, no matter what industry: modernizing a legacy web application. Many of
The post Tired of JavaScript Framework Complexity? Meet Still.js appeared first on The New Stack.
WIRED
• Megan Farokhmanesh
Gamers Are Furious About the Censorship of NSFW Games—and They’re Fighting Back
As industry groups decry censorship, players are flooding Visa and Mastercard with complaints and sharing the titles of delisted NSFW games to support developers.
WIRED
• Boone Ashworth
Google’s Newest AI Model Acts like a Satellite to Track Climate Change
Part of Google Earth Engine, AlphaEarth Foundations is a chip off Google’s DeepMind AI block—and it's here to help save the world.