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How to describe what I heard from the orchestra? It happened one night at the Booth Theater during a preview performance of John Proctor Is the Villain. Raelynn Nix (Amalia Yoo), the preacher’s daughter, was delivering the final part of her monologue: “One day, maybe, the ne...

The Trump administration is aiming to take an equity stake in Intel, according to US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick. Experts say the unconventional deal could backfire.

Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from the Manning book “Logging Best Practices: A Practical Guide to Cloud Native

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If you got spammed by subscribe.scripting.com today, my apologies.

There's now another step in subscribing that should prevent spammy emails from being sent.

And as a result of the spamming we're now being rate-limited by our email service provider, which is totally legit.

Hopefully at some point they will let us resume sending emails, at least in time for tonight's email.

Katie Honan, senior reporter at The City and co-host of the podcast FAQ NYC, talks about her recent involvement in a story involving a wad of cash handed to her in an empty bag of potato chips by an ally of Mayor Adams. 

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As the Trump administration conducts a review of the content in the Smithsonian museums, the president wrote on social media earlier this week that the Smithsonian Institution was too focused on the horrors of slavery. Douglas Brinkley, professor of history at Rice University, a CNN Presidential Historian, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, talks about what could be lost if the administration is able to censor what is presented to museumgoers. 

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What is going on in DC? Do not ask TikTok

New York City-based non-profit news organization The City reported Wednesday that a longtime close associate of Mayor Eric Adams handed one of its reporters a wad of cash stuffed inside an opened bag of Herr’s Sour Cream & Onion ripple potato chips, immediately following...

Software developer Ibrahim Diallo has an idea: Do not download the app, use the website. He posted that comment, along

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The final-round to secure a highly lucrative casino license in New York City is underway, with a winner chosen by year's end. Arun Venugopal, senior reporter for WNYC's race & justice unit, explains the stakes and why some community members are pushing back on a casino within city limits.

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Let’s be honest, it’s time to rethink and reframe the approach to vulnerability management. For over a decade as a

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Energy-starved countries on the continent have reluctantly turned to coal and gas for decades. Cheap Chinese solar panels are now finally changing the calculus.

I often hear companies say they need to act faster — ideally in real time — with limited resources. They

The post How To Overcome Kafka Sprawl With Event Automation and Management appeared first on The New Stack.

This week, Left Of Dial published its Essential Listening Poll, a compilation of the 100 best podcasts of all time, according to industry creators, writers, and scholars (Disclosure: I was invited to contribute my selections to the poll, and Normal Gossip ranked on the list, though I was not allowed to nominate my own show). 

Lists of this sort, and really of any sort, are inherently imperfect metrics for measuring the impact of any given piece of work. They function more as a sort of popularity contest, one that reflects recency bias and the scale of marketing efforts much more clearly than anything as slippery and subjective as quality. 

SEPTA, the fifth-largest public transit system in the country, is days away from drastic service cuts that would decimate transportation in Philadelphia and its surrounding counties. Plagued by a $213 million budget deficit, and with no recurring source of funding, the agenc...

When we were contemplating a Nazi takeover of the US govt did any of us consider that they would use the money of the federal government as a lever to get conformance from local governments and NGOs like Columbia and Harvard universities? I sure didn't and I never heard any of the pundits say it.

Fascinating post by Mustafa Suleyman on the risks of achieving “seemingly conscious” AI, and how we must design systems to help real people, avoiding the illusion of consciousness:

A coherent and persistent memory, combined with a subjective experience, will give rise to a claim that an AI has a sense of itself. Going further, such a system could easily be trained to recognize itself in an image or video if it has a visual appearance. It will feel like it understands others through understanding itself. Say this is a system you have had for some time. How would it feel to delete it?

Jesús Escalona Mújicas, a 48-year-old Venezuelan asylum-seeker, says he was en route to work at a construction site on the morning of April 9 when a group of immigration agents and state and federal police officers stopped his car in a rural area near Bryan—an event that led to him being arrested, publicly accused of […]

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Dear parents, Get ready to drop a leg on summer, because it’s back-to-school season. And thanks to the Secretary of Education—and former WWE CEO—Linda McMahon, there are gonna be some big changes to the curriculum, including yours truly running the show. McMahon and the big-...

Podcast: Bird fight on the pond.