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Get a bunch of geeks to Las Vegas, have a former astronaut give a keynote about the connection between space

The post Why Modern IT Operations Are Becoming More Like Space Travel appeared first on The New Stack.

Anyone who knows me know that I love the esoteric, confusing and complicated aspects of pop music's greatest artists. When a Garth Brooks goes on a detour to become Chris Gaines? I'm there. So, for decades, I've been a bit obsessed with Mariah Carey's long-lost side project ...

If the New York Mets went out like chumps, then it can fairly be said that the Cincinnati Reds went in like chumps. These two outfits, plus maybe the Arizona Diamondbacks, entered into a revolving door and spun around for a while, dizzy and confused, and when the door spit t...

To call One Battle After Another the most ambitious film of director Paul Thomas Anderson's career would be a disservice to his filmography. All of his work is marked by ambition, both in the production and thematic elements. From looking at the porn industry in '70s Los Ang...

As fall has begun (not that you'd know it from the weather around here), listeners call in to share what their most and least favorite seasons are, and why.

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Jorge Loweree, managing director of programs and strategy at the American Immigration Council, talks about the changes the Trump Administration has instituted for the H-1B visa program, and what it might mean for foreign workers and the companies that hire them.

 

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In response to last spring’s student protests against Israel’s war on Gaza that roiled college campuses across the country, including in Texas, the state’s Republican Legislature passed a law this spring placing certain conditions on “expressive activities” on campus. University governing boards were given more power to restrict when and how protests could occur, including […]

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Katie Honan, senior reporter at The City and co-host of the podcast FAQ NYC, talks about Mayor Adams' withdrawal from the mayor's race and how that affects the contest.

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I watched Alien: Earth to the end, didn't like it, it was Noah Hawley, got great ratings. But I was wary going in. I don't like horror. I don't like seeing human bodies opened up, esp brains and guts. For those reasons I have never been a fan of the original Alien movie, I w...

The Lenovo Legion 7i Gen 10 laptop comes with a gorgeous HDR-ready OLED display, making it great for more than gaming.

From the “this would be a good blog post” department, Kevin Rose has thoughts about ChatGPT Pulse that he posted on Twitter / X:

It’s an agent that continuously researches on your behalf, building on topics from your recent conversations. I’m really having a hard time wrapping my head around this paradigm, because it’s truly unlike anything we’ve seen before.

It’s like having a knowledge partner that follows you around, deepening your understanding of whatever you’re curious about.

I blogged over the weekend about Pulse. I’m a few more days in now and it’s still good.

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet and Opus large language models have long been favorites among developers, and today, the company is launching

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Reading through this great 3-part blog post series from Stephanie Booth about rebooting the blogosphere:

from my “reading interface” (ie, the RSS reader), make it super easy to comment, share, react or link to a publication and start writing something new

A key point in Micro.blog from the beginning was to unify reading, blogging, and replying. A little-understood feature in Micro.blog is you can follow any blog, for example search “climbtothestars.org” to follow Stephanie’s blog. Need to keep improving that.

You can’t understand this story unless you understand Kelley Square, and you can’t understand Kelley Square until you have had the near-death experience of trying to drive through it. Technically, it is the intersection of state routes 290 and 122 in what is now called the ...

Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter.

On Saturday, the Baltimore Orioles, with a lineup featuring three players batting under .200 and no one with 20 home runs, lost 6–1 to the New York Yankees, their 86th loss this season. Also on Saturday, Politico reported that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries planned to join their Republican majority counterparts at the White House at the start of the week to try to negotiate an agreement that would prevent a government shutdown. Donald Trump, meanwhile, posted on social media that he would be sending "Troops to war ravaged Portland" and "authorizing Full Force, if necessary," to which Jeffries responded by posting "Here’s a thought. Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people."

I want to dedicate my blog post today to my dear friend and brother, Om Malik, whose birthday it is. Om is a multi-hyphenate, but at his core, he’s a writer, someone who looks at the world and parses it down for others, a seeker who appreciates the spark of creation before most others. Om … Continue reading Om 59 →

"It happened so slowly that we didn't notice but Twitter wiped out the idea of the web developer. The platforms we were trying to make work together were programmed so they couldn't work together." I didn't want to let that pass without notice. As the early blogosphere is co...

Please read Stephanie Booth's three-part report Rebooting the Blogosphere. She's doing great work organizing the ideas around what can we do better in the new blogosphere.

For a retired guy, Tom Brady has a lot of jobs. He has a five-percent ownership stake in the Las Vegas Raiders. He is also Fox’s lead football announcer. Earlier this month, Fox announced that Brady will be making an “epic return from retirement for the greatest flag footbal...

When a land forgets its legends,Sees but falsehoods in the past,When a nation views its siresIn the light of fools and liars—’Tis a sign of its decline,And its glories cannot last.Branches that but blight their rootsYield no sap for lasting fruit. During the spring of 2023, members of the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) gathered […]

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