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Whether you’re shopping for a couple or updating your own registry, these are our favorite tried-and-tested gifts that’ll be enjoyed for years to come.

Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Ray Ratto and Israel Daramola will tell you which of the weekend’s college football games are worth giving a crap about. Ray: Week 2 usually blows because of all the 62-7 and 77-3 scores that dot Mismatch Alley (di...

For rail fans in the London area, Museum Open Depot days:

Discover rare road and rail vehicles spanning over 100 years, signs, ceramic tiles, original posters, ephemera, ticket machines, and more.

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Matt Mullenweg blogging on the recently-announced RSL spec for describing how content is licensed for AI:

I have a lot of scars from the web standards wars, so I’m hesitant to dive back in, but this is from a lot of the early Web 2.0 people, as TechCrunch writes about.

Find out whether a single Wi-Fi router or a mesh system makes the most sense for your home network.

Why did the banana split? It found out it was going to be a father. - - - Why do dads love mowing the lawn? They see lawn care as maintaining their property and protecting their substantial investment. It’s also the one time they can be alone with their thoughts. - - - Why c...

i. death descends, in spite of help, in spite of the one who would help who is rendered instead—on the sweaty bed, on the cold bathroom tiles—witness. but what is there to see. they—we—used to say the soul would slip like smoke between parted lips & rise to hover above i...

On a late-April weekend, I went down to Eagle Pass to look at Operation Lone Star (OLS), Governor Greg Abbott’s multibillion-dollar piece of political theater that has targeted immigrants at the Texas-Mexico border. I went with a group that I’m a member of called Never Again Action, a national Jewish organization opposing the deportation machine. […]

The post ‘Never Again’ at the Texas Border appeared first on The Texas Observer.

A couch should be able to adapt as the needs of your living space evolve. That’s exactly what a modular couch can do.

A new FTC inquiry into chatbots and children shows that some within the Trump Administration may be reconsidering their anti-regulation approach

Do not let anyone take your regret from you!

“Heartbreak is the heart of all revolutionary consciousness.”

Age-verification laws are on the rise around the world, and VPNs promise to get around them. But do they actually work?

This is the 107th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Jack Baty and his blog, baty.net To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox every ...

It’s always fun to see someone pushing the limits of the web experience, as I reminisced about Flash and Dreamweaver the other day. The new website for Posthog is a delightful rabbit hole to explore, akin to a Meow Wolf, with meticulous care and craft applied to every corner of the product in a way … Continue reading PostHog →

When I studied economics, one of the concepts that struck me the most was the concept of externalities. This International Monetary Fund post explains it well. In short, externalities are costs or benefits of an economic activity that affect third parties who did not choose to incur them, leading to a divergence between private and … Continue reading Account for Externalities →

It’s been a busy (and tragic) week but one of the more interesting things to launch was the Really Simple Licensing standard. I have a lot of scars from the web standards wars, so I’m hesitant to dive back in, but this is from a lot of the early Web 2.0 people, as TechCrunch writes … Continue reading Really Simple Licensing →

In the fight to save democracies from the grips of autocrats, defenders of democratic values must partner with people who would otherwise be their political opponents. In this episode, host Garry Kasparov seeks to demonstrate this lesson by welcoming former National Securit...

We look at the hunt for the killer of the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk and at the political fallout of his assassination. Nicholas Bogel-Borroughs, an investigative reporter at The New York Times, discusses why the police are struggling to answer basic questions about th...

Questions are mounting about President Trump’s decision to bomb a small boat in the Caribbean Sea, killing all 11 people on board. The administration says these were drug cartel members who posed a threat to the United States, but many legal experts have concl...