Jade uses Buttondown to inform readers about fun exhibits and events revolving around the paper and book arts world across the US and beyond.
Yorker
Jonathan and Luke discuss their nervousness going in to their recording with Matt Mullenweg. They share the preparation process, the questions they wrestled with, the approach they decided to take, and how the experience went.
McSweeney’s
• Jack Loftus
Ignorance Isn’t the Absence of Knowledge; It Is the Presence of Maximum Comfort
Listening to This Week in Startups interviewing Medium’s Tony Stubblebine. He makes the wild claim that ChatGPT’s obsession with the em dash is because it’s so commonly used in Medium posts! I’m having trouble accepting this theory, but it would be amazing if true.
Towards Leaflet for Scientists
Lab Notes 011: ideas for now we might make Leaflet better for scientists, researchers, and academic communities
Defector
• Maitreyi Anantharaman
The WNBA Won Won Won With 1-1-1
WIRED
• Brad Bourque
Big Deals on Big TCL TVs—Some Of Our Top Tested Models Are Nearly 50% Off
TCL is offering deep discounts across its mini LED range, but our favorites are at the top end.
WIRED
• Molly Taft
The DOGE Subcommittee Hearing on Weather Modification Was a Nest of Conspiracy Theorizing
A House Oversight Committee hearing produced a flood of bizarre claims about cloud seeding, chemtrails, and solar geoengineering. Proven, human-driven changes to the weather were dismissed.
The Texas Observer
• Lauren McGaughy
News Orgs Fight to Unseal Records in the Paxtons’ Divorce Case
This article was first co-published by The Texas Newsroom and ProPublica. A group of state and national media organizations, including The Texas Newsroom, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, are arguing in court that records in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s divorce case should be made available to the public. The organizations filed their plea to intervene with the Collin County district court […]
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Post Reports
• The Washington Post
Kash Patel’s contentious leadership of the FBI
Defector
• Albert Burneko
Nice Hat, Melania
President Donald Trump is in the United Kingdom, meeting with the British royal family. Here we see him with the King and Queen of the U.K., plus a British functionary of some sort, and also Kung Lao of Mortal Kombat fame, presumably representing the peoples of Earthrealm.

How Charlie Kirk Became A Voice Of Conservative Youth
In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination on Sept. 10, NYT reporter Robert Draper talks with Terry Gross about the conservative activist's rise and legacy. Draper profiled Kirk earlier this year and stayed in touch up to the day before his death. We also discuss right-wing extremist Nick Fuentes, a rival of Kirk’s with a large following.
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Derek Ashmore
4 Reasons Agentic AI Is Failing

There are plenty of reasons for businesses to adopt AI agents, which can boost productivity and reduce employee tedium. There
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WIRED
• Emily Mullin
Fired CDC Director Says RFK Jr. Pressured Her to Blindly Approve Vaccine Changes
Susan Monarez told a Senate committee that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. demanded she dismiss career officials without cause—and accept vaccine recommendations regardless of whether science backed them up.
McSweeney’s
• Patrick Coyne
What the Hell? Facebook Just Labeled My Entire Life as “AI-Generated”
Defector
• Sabrina Imbler
Unlike Our Stupid Human Arms, Octopus Arms Are All Equally Beautiful And Talented
Stop Chasing Low-Stakes Incidents: Let AI Do It

Incident management engineers are extremely busy people, and the “busy-ness” is only worsened when they are forced to spend their
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