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Editor’s Note: Join us Wednesday evening for a joint event sponsored by Mother Jones, the Texas Observer, and Capital B. “The Lingering Storm” will revisit one of the nation’s deadliest storms and how to prepare for the future—in downtown Houston or online via motherjones.com/stream. Twenty years ago, when the nation’s most deadly modern hurricane approached […]

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Dave Winer posted notes from his recent recording about why blogging lost to social networks. I’m smiling at the Radio WordLand name. My blog started on Radio Userland! (Then Movable Type → WordPress → Micro.blog.)

Not your grandma’s blow-dryer.

"The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside."

The race is on. By now, virtually every software vendor offers some kind of AI co-pilot designed to assist users

The post Are Your AI Co-Pilots Trapping Data in Isolated Silos? appeared first on The New Stack.

iPhone announcement day. I do not need a new phone, but I am curious about the iPhone Air. Years ago, I switched to the iPhone 5C just for a change, and actually liked the color and plastic. But I can’t see giving up the best cameras now. 📱

An apocalypse is always both an ending and a beginning.

The Chicago Sky are a bad team with dim prospects and a lot of work to do to contend for WNBA championships again. Their biggest star, Angel Reese, implied as much in a recent interview with the Chicago Tribune where she reflected on the team’s second straight seas...

A funny thing is happening on the way to the AI future. We’re getting bogged down in the same old

The post AI Development Is Stuck in 1996. Here’s How to Get to the Future.  appeared first on The New Stack.

When I go out to brunch, I’m a divorcée. When I eat my second post-breakfast snack, I’m divorced. - - - The divorcée in me buys the houseplants. The divorced woman kills them all. - - - When I consider adopting a Persian cat, I’m a divorcée. When I clean my child’s lizard te...

WWND. What Would Navalny Do? Think about it.

K2 Think compares well with reasoning models from OpenAI and DeepSeek but is smaller and more efficient, say researchers based in Abu Dhabi.

The Dems are terrible at politics. They should be running ads on TV saying that no workers in the fields means food prices soaring as we'll have to import food because all the American crops are dead because there was no one to harvest them. It's true. Why didn't anyone see this coming, people would ask in disbelief. Well we did see it coming, but the Dems were too dumb to do anything about it. They're supposed to be the "woke" party, isn't it funny that they're so un-woke about something like keeping Americans fed!

Need to keep an eye (or ear) on your kids from another room? Our picks will help you do it.

I asked ChatGPT to provide bullet points for yesterday's podcast. I thought this time it did a really good job. It did misunderstand some things I said, I just deleted those, below. Blogging lost to Twitter because Twitter had one-click subscribe. Subscribing in feed reader...

From data-removal services to threat monitoring, the Public Service Alliance says its new marketplace will help public servants defend themselves in an era of data brokers and political violence.

The Twitch streamer could pivot from influencer to candidate. But he tells WIRED’s Big Interview podcast he’d rather use his platform to tell Dems “you can’t podcast your way out of this problem.”

Join us for live coverage of the launch of the iPhone 17, iPhone Air, and Apple Watch Series 11. We'll be reporting from Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California.

Here are some lessons learned in building a WordPress plugin business, emphasizing experimentation, market understanding, customer support, and community engagement for sustainable growth.

Over the weekend, Russia bombarded Ukraine with the largest drone assault in the war thus far. It’s the latest in a relentless Russian offensive that keeps escalating, despite President Trump’s efforts to negotiate peace. Anatoly Kurmanaev, who covers Russia for The Times, d...