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Apple Watch Series 11 Review: Finally, the Watch Lives Longer

Every year, I say you probably don’t need to upgrade if you already own a recent Apple Watch. This year is the exception.

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Human Design Is Blowing Up. Following It Might Make You Leave Your Spouse

The astrology-like system uses birthdates to break people into personality types and even find love and riches. From sleeping arrangements to diets, some are taking it very seriously.

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From Print Design to Podcasting, the Scenic Route to Creativity

In this episode, BobWP shares the launching his blog and podcast, Bob's Wild Pathways, filled with honest stories and insights from his creative adventures.

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One Vigilante, 22 Cell Towers, and a World of Conspiracies

Inside the mind of the most prolific anti-5G arsonist in the world—and the incoherent, very online political violence of our era.

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Matthew Prince Wants AI Companies to Pay for Their Sins

The Cloudflare CEO joined The Big Interview to talk about standing up to content scraping, the internet’s potential futures, and his company's relationship to Trump.

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Trapped in a ChatGPT Spiral

Warning: This episode discusses suicide. Since ChatGPT began in 2022, it has amassed 700 million users, making it the fastest-growing consumer app ever. Reporting has shown that the chatbots have a tendency to endorse conspiratorial and mystical belief systems. For some peop...

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Kash Patel Is Such a Fiasco for Trump that Even Fox Just Admitted It

In a surprise, Fox News is reporting that the knives are out for FBI director Kash Patel due to many recent missteps, including the botching of key facts about the hunt for Charlie Kirk’s assassin. That this is being featured by Fox News may be a sign of ...

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"The goal? It should be to WIN" with Congressman Tom Suozzi

Congressman Tom Suozzi joins Joe and Alex to discuss the path forward for Democrats. What four factors does he diagnose as contributing to division in America? From social media to cable television - why is the Democratic brand in trouble? How do Democrats define themselves - and do it in a way that breaks through with everyday people? And as we look ahead to the next round of elections - what should our common goal be? And in what may be a first for the show, what new policy does Congressman Suozzi think could bring us closer together as a nation?
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Purple Promo Codes and Deals: Up to 30% Off

On the hunt for the perfect mattress (and pillow)? Save on your soon-to-be favorite brand, Purple, with these coupons and deals.

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Retention

Andrew Chen has a great post on retention.

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Finished reading: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan. A short book, but it’s something special. 📚

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There might be a TikTok deal

There might be a TikTok deal

After three extralegal extensions, Trump closes in on gifting ByteDance's jewel to his allies

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Who Radicalized You: An Elite University or a Discord Server?

“The Utah man being held in the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk used the social media platform Discord to send messages about the rifle and engraved bullets.” — Deseret News “One of the [bullet casing] messages, ‘Notices bulges OwO what’s this?,’ is often used...

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WordLand, the timeline and checkboxes

I'm in the homestretch on the next release of WordLand. This version has approximately twice as many features as the last one. Because, like Radio UserLand from long ago, it does both reading and writing. But the UI is different. It's patterned after all the twitter-like pro...

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How AI Is Upending Politics, Tech, the Media, and More

At WIRED's AI Power Summit Monday, industry executives and officials discussed the impact artificial intelligence is having on every corner of society—and where it goes from here.

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Podcast: WordLand, the timeline and checkboxes.

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A heads-up for Micro.blog theme developers: I’m revamping our experimental Open Graph support with more advanced features. If your theme doesn’t have its own Open Graph image, I recommend adding the og:image tag based on the page’s .Params.opengraph.image, which we’ll fill in automatically.

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This Liberty Season Can Always Get Grimmer

This Liberty Season Can Always Get Grimmer
Sometimes you just have to tip your cap to the universe. Before Sunday afternoon, I did not think it metaphysically possible for the New York Liberty’s season to get more unpleasant than it has been for several injury-riddled months now. But a few minutes into overtime of Ne...

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Terence Crawford And Canelo Alvarez Set The Bar

Terence Crawford And Canelo Alvarez Set The Bar

If Terence “Bud” Crawford wants to make his case as the greatest non-heavyweight in the history of boxing, he gave himself a helluva Exhibit A late Saturday night in Vegas: Crawford took Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s soul while earning a unanimous decision win that gave him all of his title belts, too. Crawford remains undefeated and now holds the undisputed super middleweight championship, the only guy in the sport’s so-called “four belt era” to have ever so dominated three separate weight classes.

But after the hyper-anticipated showdown, fought before a packed stadium and a huge semi-non pay-per-view TV audience, comes a hangover for fight fans. Crawford, Canelo, and, hell, all of boxing face the same huge dilemma: What do we do now?