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Donald Trump claimed victory on a deal that would put TikTok in the hands of his allies after a call with Xi Jinping. But details on the agreement—and Beijing's buy-in—remain murky.

Bluesky is spinning out the PLC directory:

After considering several jurisdictions, legal structures, and potential parent organizations, the new entity will form as a Swiss Association. In a period of international uncertainty around Internet governance, Switzerland provides a credibly neutral and stable global home.

I like this. They’ve always acknowledged that PLC wasn’t intended to be permanent. Now there’s progress that’s better without waiting for it to be perfect.

1. “And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God… unless of course that rich man makes over $10 million a year, in which case his wealth will create jobs in the Kingdom of Heaven.” ...

Smart move by Mastodon to get into the hosting business:

This could be a fully operated server under the organisation’s own domain run by our team (with moderation included, on request); or, we can work with an organisation’s in-house operations team, via a support contract.

I’ve noticed whenever I catch Mastodon’s financial reports that individual donations have dropped. It’s hard to make donations work unless you have frequent NPR-style fundraising. Hosting will be mostly for larger institutions, not trying to compete with all the many smaller indie servers.

Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and the co-author (with Eliezer Yudkowsky) of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All (Little, Brown and Company, 2025), talks about why he worries that AI "superintelligence" will lead to catastrophic outcomes, and what safeguards he recommends to prevent this.

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This week, we discuss San Diego and Costa Rica reporting trips.

My beloved veterinarian’s office apparently moved to a new office location without informing customers. They also changed phone systems. The new phone system doesn’t work, and they didn’t leave a forwarding message on the old phone system. You call, leave a message, never hear back, and never learn what’s become of the business. Our oldest […]

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Over the last two years, organizations have been using fewer tools for observability of their data and systems, according to

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1. With less human noise to compete with, the birds are able to have ‘deeper conversations,’ says biologist (2020): Researchers studying birdsong in the San Francisco Bay found the sparrows’ mating calls became quieter, more complex, and just generally “sexier” now that the...

Hello dear readers. Daring Fireball has been silent for the last week. I realize how unusual it is for the site to go un-updated any week of the year, let alone this particular week of the year. I’m so sorry...

A new Siena poll shows a (slight) majority of New Yorkers said the state is on the right track, while 59% of respondents thought the U.S. is heading in the wrong direction. New Yorkers call in to share what they think is going well in the state compared to the rest of the country.

 

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Brooklyn Borough president Antonio Reynoso talks about why he's now supporting the plan to redevelop Brooklyn's Marine Terminal ahead of a pivotal vote on the project.

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The legendary actor died Tuesday at age 89. He spoke with Terry Gross about his movies, creating the Sundance Film Festival and Institute, and why he couldn't wait to leave school and Southern California. "I wasn't learning the way I was supposed to learn. I realized that my education was going to happen when I got out in the world." Interviews are from 1998 and 2013. 


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Two weeks ago, in partnership with our pals over at Immaculate Grid by Sports Reference, we announced Some Guys I Remember From The 21st Century. Between then and now, we remembered not just some but a whole lot of Guys. Many of you did the same: As of last week, 24,455 distinct athletes had been remembered across more than 36,000 submitted grids. That is quite a bit of remembering, even if you strip out David Roth’s [number redacted] entries.

Across all sports, the most-frequently remembered players comprise a nonet of MLB legends:

We grilled, smoked, seared, cleaned, and repeated to find the best option for every home.

You can barely turn around these days without learning that some company has created a new MCP server. MCP is

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On its 20th anniversary, YouTube is venturing into an era of AI-generated video, and may never be the same.

The penalty for ABC and Disney should be we stop watching their stuff.

The challenge we face in the open social web is seducing people off the silos with fun toys to play with that from the start don't rely on a bigco to run it, the back-end is a server you could run for $20 a month on digital ocean for example. But the logical network isn't tied to the physical server, we use urls or dns to find other nodes. They can be hosted anywhere. The reason to run lots of servers is to demonstrate that it's only as centralized as the web itself, from day 1.

Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the weekend’s college football games are worth giving a crap about. Ray: Brent Pry was technically the second coach to be fired this year (UCLA's canning of DeSh...