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How Jade Quek curates paper and book arts events across the US

Jade uses Buttondown to inform readers about fun exhibits and events revolving around the paper and book arts world across the US and beyond.

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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
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Ignorance Isn’t the Absence of Knowledge; It Is the Presence of Maximum Comfort

“We are going to have to live here with one another, believing what we believe, disagreeing in the ways we disagree… To recognize that does not mean we don’t disagree.” — New York Times columnist Ezra Klein, speaking on his podcast - - - The data are in: We have far too much...

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I had a great talk/podcast interview yesterday with Matthias Pfefferle about everything I'm interested in re WordPress and networking, and our interests overlap almost 100 percent. I was telling him about WordLand and explaining how I wanted to see a whole market of editors....

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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.

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Towards Leaflet for Scientists

Lab Notes 011: ideas for now we might make Leaflet better for scientists, researchers, and academic communities

Defector
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The WNBA Won Won Won With 1-1-1

The WNBA Won Won Won With 1-1-1
A good crowd can smudge the chalk. A fired-up team might erase it. There were only two games in Tuesday night’s WNBA first-round playoff slate, but a third winner emerged nonetheless. The league’s new playoff format is a lot of fun. With a new charter travel program and som...

WIRED
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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
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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
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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 […]

The post News Orgs Fight to Unseal Records in the Paxtons’ Divorce Case appeared first on The Texas Observer.

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This town, at the end of the Metro North line, looks like an ideal place to park yourself for easy access to the city, yet a fairly country experience.

Post Reports
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Kash Patel’s contentious leadership of the FBI

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FBI Director Kash Patel had a tough week.  He’d already been slated to appear before both the House and Senate judiciary committees – hearings at which he was sure to be peppered with questions about his leadership of the FBI, his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein saga, a...

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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.

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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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I've heard some reports of people having trouble using WordLand. I was just able to do a test post, and I can see from the logs that other people are successfully posting. It would be helpful if people with accounts could do a short test post. And if you have something to report, here's a good place to do it.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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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

The post 4 Reasons Agentic AI Is Failing appeared first on The New Stack.

WIRED
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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
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What the Hell? Facebook Just Labeled My Entire Life as “AI-Generated”

Hi, I was hoping someone at Facebook Support could potentially help me with this issue. Earlier this week, I uploaded a lovely set of wedding photos to my Facebook only to receive this message: “Your photos have been labeled as AI-generated and may be deprioritized in feeds....

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Unlike Our Stupid Human Arms, Octopus Arms Are All Equally Beautiful And Talented

Unlike Our Stupid Human Arms, Octopus Arms Are All Equally Beautiful And Talented
Anyone with a paltry two arms is probably familiar with handedness, our predisposition to use either the left or right hand for particular tasks. (No ambidexterity erasure intended; you are valid!) But if you have the privilege of owning eight arms, how do you decide which a...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Stop Chasing Low-Stakes Incidents: Let AI Do It

Robot handling business processes.

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

The post Stop Chasing Low-Stakes Incidents: Let AI Do It appeared first on The New Stack.