The Daily
• The New York Times
Jimmy Kimmel and Free Speech in the United States
The Daily
• The New York Times
Open Channels FM Podcast Network
• Bob Dunn
In 2025, agentic AI revolutionizes WordPress, enabling context-aware automation and seamless integration across tools, enhancing workflows and empowering users without deep technical knowledge.
Texas State Rep and US Senate candidate James Talarico joins Joe and Alex to discuss a new path forward for Democrats - and how he talks about the issues differently. Why does he think love is the most important word in the English language - and how do we heal a divided country without folding on the issues we care about? How do we win on issues like immigration and crime? And, how do we crack the nut that is winning in Texas? Check out James's website at jamestalarico.com to learn more and support his campaign.
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Recorded a short screencast of the new Open Graph image preview interface in Micro.blog, especially for folks who want to tinker with their own design for a theme or plug-in.
Starting to doubt my low-tech video workflow of “just use QuickTime Player” for simple edits. I keep uploading video to YouTube where the audio becomes out of sync after upload. This is probably a reminder to make Micro.blog suitable for longer videos.
McSweeney’s
• Eli Grober
WIRED
• Emily Mullin
The vaccine advisory group ACIP, not all members of which seemed to know what the group does, recommended to the CDC that combined MMRV shots not be given before age 4.
Bluesky
• Bluesky
Public discourse on social media has grown toxic and divisive, but unlike other platforms, Bluesky is building a social web that empowers people instead of exploiting them.
Track when paid subscribers churn
It’s data about data all the way down.
WIRED
• Dell Cameron
More than a dozen elected officials were arrested in or around 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, where ICE detains people in what courts have ruled are unsanitary conditions.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Darryl K. Taft

Java has had a reputation for being somewhat daunting for new programmers, but with Java 25, released this week, has
The post Java 25: Oracle Makes Java Easier To Learn, Ready for AI Development appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Joanna Wyganowska

Picking the right day to deploy software is not as easy as one might think. There are many factors impacting
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I think it’s long past time I start discussing “artificial intelligence” (“AI”) as a failed technology. Specifically, that large language models (LLMs) have repeatedly and consistently failed to demonstrate value to anyone other than their investors and shareholders. The technology is a failure, and I’d like to invite you to join me in treating it as such.
Defector
• Maitreyi Anantharaman
WIRED
• Brad Bourque
This is one of the biggest, baddest screens you can game on, and it’s marked down to less than the smaller version.
WIRED
• Makena Kelly
Experts say the FCC commissioner's conduct—testing how far the agency can go to limit speech without ever quite formally censoring it—is flatly unconstitutional. That won't make it stop.
Defector
• Patrick Redford
"Um ... there we go ... uh-oh," said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on stage as he attempted to answer a video call through a combination of movements between a wristband and a pair of glasses. "Well, I ... let's see what happened there ... that's too bad," he continued, shortly before cutting short the live demo. The video call went unanswered.