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Texas Observer reader, Gall. We live in a state whose top leaders have entirely, vastly, monumentally too much goddamn gall.  Just five days after the deadliest Texas flood in 104 years, Governor Greg Abbott announced a special legislative session not narrowly focused on the disaster but rather covering a Christmas list of far-right pet political […]

The post Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our September/October 2025 Issue appeared first on The Texas Observer.

Just a few years ago, many enterprises were working toward consolidating log data into a single observability platform. By bringing

The post Going for Silver: Making the Most of Tiered Observability appeared first on The New Stack.

With Labor Day around the corner, the end of summer is near. Listeners share what they've checked off their summer bucket list and the last few activities they'll take part in this weekend.

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AI might eliminate some programmer jobs. It’s also going to create new programmers, people who don’t have a traditional CS background. I’m not convinced the sky is falling on work.

The greatest challenge is not to the economy but to a fractured society, with AI becoming as divisive as politics.

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

Your team: Dan Campbell and some other stuff.

Consider the average movie theater visit. Before taking your seats, you purchase popcorn. This being the average theater, they sell popcorn in tubs ranging from "large" to "literally the size of your torso," and you being the average theater-goer, you purchase the torso tub,...

I’m not a big fan of using AI as a shortcut. On the other hand, I’m perfectly OK using it

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Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.

Nick Miroff, staff writer for The Atlantic who covers immigration and the Department of Homeland Security, talks about the changes at the immigration enforcement agency and how the $75 billion budget bump will be spent.

=> "Fast Times at Immigration and Customs Enforcement" (The Atlantic, August 26, 2025)

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Allie Volpe, correspondent at Vox, talks about her attempt to discover if we really are getting ruder to each other or if something else is going on.

→ Are we in a crisis of rudeness?

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John Gruber blogging on RFK vs. the CDC:

We really needed the CDC five years ago. We’re in big trouble if we need them again before the US electorate ousts these wingnuts.

There are new vaccines approved by the FDA but the guidance is really confusing. Going to differ to my doctor rather than RFK.

Dave Winer: Think Different about WordPress:

WordPress has a deep and powerful API, well designed, documented, and they don’t break it. Developers who know me know that the last part is the most important. A platform must remain unchanging.

Dave’s work is similar and well aligned with Micro.blog.

In a his new book Breakneck, Dan Wang argues that if the US really wants to compete with China, it needs to focus more on engineering and less on litigating.

The Hoboken PATH station shut-down this weekend is just the latest challenge for PATH riders in what's been called its "Summer of Hell."  Larry Higgs, the transportation and commuting reporter at NJ.com and the Star-Ledger, shares options for the weekend and talks about the larger transit issues facing New Jersey commuters.

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Everyone has heard of WordPress, right? I'm going to be introducing a very weird idea about WordPress, one that's going to bend your mind a lot, especially if you're a member of the WordPress community, but also if you're a developer who has used WordPress in an application s...

Steve Jobs asked you to think differently about computers. I'm going to ask you to think differently about WordPress. I'm not going to make you wait to hear what it is. I want you to see WordPress as comparable to Bluesky or Mastodon. I've done this before -- asked people...

Here's the podcast recorded at our recent second anniversary party in New York!

It may seem like all organizations are in the AI business right now, but enterprises are just getting started, according

The post Is Your Data Strategy Ready for the Agentic AI Era? appeared first on The New Stack.

Shelby Talcott, reporting under the euphemistic headline “White House Fires CDC Director Over Vaccine Disagreements”: A showdown at the CDC culminated in the White House formally firing its director, Susan Monarez, on Wednesday night. Monarez was ousted earlier in the d...

As part our Defector Meets Its Future Plaintiffs series, a gaggle of subscribers, accomplices, and other ne'er-do-wells were treated in some form or other to the magicks of Cubs-Giants, mostly to buy their future financial acquiescence. And what they got was one of the last charming bits of baseball whimsy: the non-pitcher pitching. In this case, Cubs backup catcher Reese McGuire.

Indeed, the evening across baseball was a festival of position players used as pitchers, as McGuire was one of four to be used in the ceremonially sacrificial role. It is not known by your typist if this is the most profligate use of non-pitchers in pitching roles in the sport's history, and we'll be damned if we're going to ruin a perfectly good morning looking it up, but moments like this are good for the game—more specifically, for that game.