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Starting to get tempted by the iPhone Air, but still committed to keeping my old phone for a while. I listened to two shows this week that were really good: MKBHD’s review and today’s Dithering.

Building great software products isn’t only about clean code. It’s about how fast you can ship, how often you deploy

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Since the website's inception, one of Defector's core beats has been the warped dynamics of stadium construction. Perhaps no other genre of story collects and unites so many distinct strains of malfeasance, among them civic corruption, billionaire excess, and the ongoing pri...

I did a podcast interview with Matthias Pfefferle last week. I wanted to introduce my ideas to the Fediverse world. I haven't listened to it yet, but I remember it being a very good discussion on basically all the things I am working on and with these days. It's all a continu...

Why textcasting? When Twitter came out in 2006 they left out most of the writing features of the web. Their competitors have copied the limits. Textcasting says writers don't want the limits. Add these features to your twitter-like social network and we are happy and will sing your praise. That's it. It's no more complicated than that. People ask questions about what it means. This is what it means.

Every day that classes are held at the University of Texas at Austin, a procession of students enter Homer Rainey Hall, which houses the Department of French and Italian. How many of them know who Rainey was? He is certainly not a saint in the pantheon of Texas history—a diverse bunch that includes, depending on […]

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ABC is putting Kimmel’s show back on tonight, which is great. But I think it’s essential to watch the joke that triggered his suspension. I’m linking here to a CNN post with the full clip. CNN headlined their post “What Kimmel Said About Charlie Kirk That Yanked His Show Off Air”, and that’s basically how most news outlets have phrased it.

But the joke wasn’t about Charlie Kirk. It wasn’t about Charlie Kirk’s assassin. It was about Donald Trump being a sociopathic ghoul. Trump was asked how he’s holding up after the death of “his friend Charlie Kirk”. You really have to watch it — a transcript of Trump’s answer does no justice to how sociopathic it was. And Kimmel called him out on it with mockery.

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Florida's attorney general claims Nutaku, Spicevids, and Segpay are in violation of the state's age verification law.

What if there was an AI coding tool that had algorithms as sophisticated as TikTok’s? That thought experiment is now

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In a sense, writing applications for quantum computing is very much a case of going back to the future. Much

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There's good news in Bruce Pearl's retirement as head basketball coach at Auburn, which is that he says he will not run for public office. The bad news is that Bruce Pearl says a lot of things, and does not have a history of trustworthiness. The good news is he didn't have t...

Scammers stole the crypto from a Latvian streamer battling cancer and the wider security community rallied to make him whole.

The drone flight log data, which stretches from March 2024 to March 2025, shows CBP flying its drones to support ICE and other agencies. CBP maintains multiple Predator drones and flew them over the recent anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles.

“CDC panel recommends multiple shots for measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox instead of a single vaccine… Experts react with concern that increasing the number of vaccinations required will threaten children’s health.” — The Guardian - - - At long last, our government is...

Podcasters face limitations with closed platforms. But there are those who do advocate for tools to boost data ownership and customization in the industry.

Travel Mode not only hides your most sensitive data—it acts as if that data never existed in the first place.

Critics say looksmaxxing—the trend of men boosting their physical attractiveness—often uses eugenic beauty standards. Some Black influencers are struggling to fit in, while others are fighting back.

The Signal Foundation president recalls where she was when she heard Trump cabinet officials had added a journalist to a highly sensitive group chat.

Kat Abughazaleh, 26, made her name swatting down right-wing talking points on social media. Now she’s hoping internet fame can propel her to Congress.