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Anthropic today announced that its Claude Sonnet 4 model, the company’s mainstream model that sits below its flagship Claude Opus

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Paul Boutin who I know from early Wired days offers some hope that it can be gotten to work, with a bit more guesswork, trial and error and head scratching. I probably will keep coming back to this until I break through. Or maybe hook up with another developer who can back into the websocket hose coming out of FeedLand. It's a natural thing to hook up to AI systems.

Elon Must complaining about Apple not featuring his apps. But as Stephen Hackett points out, if anything Apple should be demoting Grok even more:

Currently, the Grok app has a 12+ age rating. Given the sexual content that is so easily accessible through the chatbot, that sure seems low to me.

Myles Ehrlich, WNBA senior writer covering the New York Liberty for Winsidr.com and co-host of the podcast "Pull Up with Myles and Owen," talks about ongoing negotiations between WNBA players and owners, where owners say the league is not yet profitable, despite a boom in growth and popularity, and players say they deserve more of a share of the revenue.

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There’s a scene in the new Superman movie that illustrates the precarious nature of music compatibility and how touchy it can get. Lois Lane (you know her, played by Rachel Brosnahan) and Clark Kent (David Corenswet), a.k.a. Superman, have a heated argument about their diffe...

Adam Gopnik, staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery (Liveright, 2023), talks about some of the key people in the history of gambling in NYC.

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Really happy with this change we rolled out today for the Micro.blog Family subscription plan:

Micro.blog Family now allows you to transfer “ownership” of a blog to someone else in your family (or small team). So you can manage payment for up to 5 blogs, but another member can post to their own blog and control the blog’s settings.

Micro.blog News https://news.micro.blog/2025/08/12/microblog-family-now-allows-you.html

Under the “People” section, there’s a new “Make Owner” button for each member of the blog. This makes the Family plan more flexible for a variety of setups.

Startup Character.AI once promised superintelligence. Its new CEO says it's now an entertainment company with 20 million users.

Memes shared by the White House, DHS, and ICE have used catchy TikTok tunes to normalize mass deportation and Christian nationalist narratives. Experts say that's the point.

A DEA agent used a local cop's password "for federal investigations in late January 2025 without [the cop's] knowledge of said use."

Caroline Lewis, health care reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, and Joe Hong, investigative data reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, talk about the ongoing Legionnaires' outbreak in Central Harlem, why New York is a hot spot for the disease, and why city inspections of cooling towers were at a low point ahead of the outbreak.

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Claudia de Leon describes her son Diego’s kindergarten class at Houston’s Helms Elementary School as “magical.” His teacher taught the students to examine each feature of their faces and then sketch them one by one to create life-like self-portraits. Another teacher played songs on the guitar to aid the kids’ learning. Diego’s next two years […]

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When a major airline’s LLM-based chatbot hallucinated a discount policy and the airline had to honor it, the incident underscored

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Cards theme now updated with support for the new category intro text we introduced in Micro.blog this week.

There was a bit of backlash on Reddit regarding the video on using the Zettelkasten Method for Hindu Philosophy. The core point of criticism was about the lack of atomicity of the notes. Isn’t the Zettelkasten all about having atomic notes? I like to take the opportunity t...

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My Indiana prison allows some of us to raise kittens thanks to a partnership with a cat shelter.

Lady, a delicate and regal Persian-domestic mix, with short, feathery ebony furis my only friend in this dismal mansion of dejection known as prison.
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Members have espoused racist and antisemitic views and repeatedly praised Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. They've raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, and their movement is growing.

With home security cameras and smart doorbells, video storage is crucial. But do you go cloud or local? We compare the options.

It is easy enough to read about the climate crisis through the dozens of devastating stories that run each week, warning us of the people who will be displaced or otherwise harmed by the planet's rapidly rising temperatures. It is also easy to feel the climate crisis, throug...