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This post by Nathan Witkin on the case against social media is long but very good. I’m going to have to go through this again in detail.

Outside of the Utah hospital where Charlie Kirk was taken Wednesday, a crowd of families, college students, and Proud Boys gathered to mourn.

OpenAI and Microsoft have finally reached an agreement. OpenAI’s Bret Taylor also has a blog post on it, a $50 million grant for other nonprofits, and the OpenAI nonprofit + public benefit structure:

This structure reaffirms that our core mission remains ensuring AGI benefits all of humanity. Our PBC charter and governance will establish that safety decisions must always be guided by this mission.

Great article from New_ Public on indie blogs and websites:

The focus isn’t on personal branding, growth or monetization, or “content” creation, but on freedom from those things. Instead of polished, 10-second snippets optimized for mass-appeal, engagement, and profit, these are largely slow-cooked projects made just for fun.

A look at Buttondown's new onboarding process and how we help diverse customers get started.

We’re with the cultural historian Robin D.G. Kelley at UCLA, who has the nerve to ask: where have our thinkers gone in Trump time? Not the experts or the influencers, but the grander minds who ...

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I’ve never had a coherent answer when asked how big Micro.blog is, so I sometimes stumble and misspeak. The total number of users is inflated with inactive users and spam accounts. Active users are different for weekly, monthly, longer. I care most about paid subscriptions and whether we’re growing.

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed Wednesday at Utah Valley University. As officials seek details on the identity and motive of the shooter, Americans are beginning to process Kirk’s death and what this might mean for a new era of political violence and f...

Like far too many open source projects, we don’t give Kubernetes External Secrets Operator (ESO) enough attention. We just assume

The post How Maintainer Burnout Is Causing a Kubernetes Security Disaster appeared first on The New Stack.

The iPhone 17 Air complicates Apple's smartphone lineup. Our primer on the differences and similarities can help you shop.

What’s to come of open source software with the coming requirements that come with the Cyber Resiliency Act, now in

The post How the EU’s Cyber Act Burdens Lone Open Source Developers appeared first on The New Stack.

In that moment just after recording a podcast where I’m second guessing everything I said. I have a lot of respect for people who stop and form their thoughts before answering a question. I tend to just wing it, so sometimes words tumble out in the wrong order. 🙂

In his new memoir, This Is For Everyone, Sir Tim Berners-Lee makes it clear he thinks AI agents are the

The post The Agentic Web: How AI Agents Are Shaping the Web’s Future appeared first on The New Stack.

A series of corporate leaks show that Chinese technology companies function far more like their Western peers than one might imagine.

Twenty four is after the fall It was clear fairly immediately that the political goal of the attacks on September 11th was to undermine the American empire. Sitting here less than a quarter-century later under authoritarian rule, with the rule of law in America in tatters, t...

There were no real expectations when we launched Defector, five years and one day ago. Plenty of planning went into what we would do with the site and how it would work, and many hours of committee meetings have followed in that vein, but that it arrived on Sept. 10, 2020 was a reflection of the fact that we were ready to do it, and that—you may recall what September of 2020 was like—we were both eager to get to work and didn't really have that much else going on at the time. History has vindicated the decision to get on with it, but in recording this week's episode of The Distraction, the lack of foresight was jarring. Did we really not think, in all those hours of discussion, about how this anniversary falling right after Week 1 of the 2025 NFL season would impact our fifth-anniversary podcast?

Joining ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta, and many other powerful chatbot services, we are proud to announce the release of our new RI (real intelligence) service, ChatPerson. Unlike other chatbots, ChatPerson’s answers to your queries are provided by real humans. Specifically, it is s...

Veteran Air Force linguist Reality Winner was working at the NSA in 2017 when she leaked a classified document to the press about Russian election interference. Soon after, the FBI showed up at her door. She was sentenced to five years in prison and was released in 2021. Winner's new memoir is I Am Not Your Enemy. She spoke with Terry Gross.

Also, John Powers reviews the MUBI series Mussolini: Son of the Century about the ferocious rise of the Italian dictator. 

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Harsh lessons from 'Dark Souls' told me to turn my ass around when I got to the red flower jumping puzzle.