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Jimmy Kimmel and Free Speech in the United States

The aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel are creating concerns and conversations about the state of free speech in the United States. Rachel Abrams, Jim Rutenberg, Jeremy W. Peters and Adam Liptak, all journalists for T...

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent
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Trump’s Crazed New Rants Make Jimmy Kimmel Mess Look Even More Corrupt

This week, ABC suspended comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s show under pressure from the Trump administration. The ostensible reason: Kimmel supposedly spread disinformation about Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin. But then President Trump ranted to reporters on ...

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Text • Bob Dunn

Agentic AI: The Next Evolution for WordPress Websites?

In 2025, agentic AI revolutionizes WordPress, enabling context-aware automation and seamless integration across tools, enhancing workflows and empowering users without deep technical knowledge.

That Trippi Show
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"Time to start flipping tables" with James Talarico

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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Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid
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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.

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid
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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.

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I Like Free Speech So Much That I’ve Decided It’s Just Mine Now

“President Trump said networks giving him negative coverage may deserve to have their licenses revoked, ramping up threats administration officials have made in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing.” — Axios - - - I really like free speech. I love it, some might say. I love ho...

WIRED
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Vaccine Panel Stacked by RFK Jr. Recommends Delaying MMRV Immunization

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.

Mastodon Blog
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Service offerings from Mastodon

In a recent post, we shared that one of our priorities for 2025 is to establish a more sustainable financial base for the Mastodon organisation. In 2024, Mastodon gGmbH took over hosting of the European Commission’s Mastodon service. We also signed a support contract with th...

Bluesky
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Building Healthier Social Media: Updated Guidelines and New Features

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.

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Paid churn tracking

Track when paid subscribers churn

Buttondown's blog
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How to personalize your newsletter onboarding with metadata

It’s data about data all the way down.

WIRED
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These Are the 15 New York Officials ICE and NYPD Arrested in Manhattan

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
Text • Darryl K. Taft

Java 25: Oracle Makes Java Easier To Learn, Ready for AI Development

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
Text • Joanna Wyganowska

Friday vs. Midweek: When’s the Best Day to Deploy?

Picking the right day to deploy software is not as easy as one might think. There are many factors impacting

The post Friday vs. Midweek: When’s the Best Day to Deploy? appeared first on The New Stack.

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Against the protection of stocking frames. via Ethan Marcotte

ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/against-stocking-frames/

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
Text • Maitreyi Anantharaman

Ballhalla Is A Mindset

Ballhalla Is A Mindset
The team didn’t win, but everyone stayed. It wasn’t even their building. And still, most of the Golden State Valkyries fans who’d schlepped to an alternate arena in San Jose for the team’s first-ever home playoff game stuck around to cheer when the season was over. The WNBA’...

WIRED
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You Can Save $200 on Samsung’s Elite Gaming Monitor Today

This is one of the biggest, baddest screens you can game on, and it’s marked down to less than the smaller version.

WIRED
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Brendan Carr Isn't Going to Stop Until Someone Makes Him

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.

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Mark Zuckerberg Demonstrates That His AI Smart Glasses Suck And Don’t Work

Mark Zuckerberg Demonstrates That His AI Smart Glasses Suck And Don’t Work

"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.

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