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Giulia Heyward, WNYC and Gothamist reporter, talks about how New York officials are dealing with the Trump administration's attempts to roll back legal protections for the LGBTQ community.

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The Israeli navy intercepted 41 vessels carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza and detained over 450 people on Thursday. The first boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla set sail across the Mediterranean toward Gaza last month, along the way picking up dozens more from Greece, Italy,...

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.

Israel: Well, just when you think you have a handle on which teams are good and which are bad, you get a weekend like the last one. Starting off with my squad at Florida State, a team I mistakenly started to believe in. Tommy Castellanos was looking like 2010 Cam Newton and we were right at the goal line for a perfect rivalry game between undefeated Miami and undefeated FSU—and then what do ya know, a Mike Norvell football team forgot how to play the sport for a night. But hey, maybe Virginia actually is the best team in the ACC! I definitely don’t secretly suspect they’re going to totally dog it against Louisville Saturday, no sir.

Larry Higgs, commuting and transport reporter at NJ Advance Media, talks about the state of NJ Transit and where the candidates stand on tolls, construction of new transit projects, congestion pricing and more.

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On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we introduce you to DoorDash's new delivery robot, and discuss what the growing robot population means for humans.

OpenAI's CEO explains that its large language model has been misunderstood—and that he's changed his attitude to AGI.

With all respect to the tech industry -- why is the traffic in the Bay Area so awful. Why haven't they done anything about it. Wouldn't that be a good test run before running the whole world? As programmer myself, I wouldn't trust the algorithm without a lot of QA. Seriousl...

At Bombay Beach, a half-ruined former vacation town on the edge of the Salton Sea, absurdist philosophers, artists, and everyday townsfolk have undertaken a postapocalyptic experiment in radical living. - - - It is easy to miss California’s biggest environmental disaster. D...

Here is the challenge before you: Name a famous person who is 28 years old. Go ahead. No cheating, no looking it up. Off the dome. Pure, uncut 28-year-old naming. I bet you can’t do it. 

Zendaya? 29. Gracie Abrams? 26. Paul Mescal? 29. Hannah Einbinder? 30. You’re lower than dirt. You couldn’t name a 28-year-old if you tried. Look at yourself, scrabbling around in the dustiest corners of your mind for a well-known person who looks as if they contain the potent 28-year-old concoction of belief that they are never going to die with the creeping suspicion that they absolutely will die. Julia Garner, of Weapons fame? 31. Austin Abrams, of Weapons fame? 29. Josh Brolin, of Weapons fame? 57. Come on now, you’re embarrassing yourself.

Russell Berman, a staff writer at The Atlantic, talks about the New Jersey governor's race and its national bellwether status, plus the latest shutdown news.

"The Blue State That’s Now a Bellwether" (The Atlantic, Sept 29, 2025)

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With the advent of AI code development tools, maybe we should embark on a project to merge all programming languages into one syntax. To undo all the chaos and make humans more competitive with machines. The fact that there are so many development bubbles is a huge waste of resources. Makes us all net-net more stupid.

Paul Kafasis with a single-sentence blog post that says everything about Apple removing ICEBlock from the App Store:

Gosh, it’s almost like Apple serving as the exclusive gatekeeper for what software can be installed on the iPhone (and iPad, and Apple TV, and Apple Watch, and Vision Pro) is a bad thing that creates a single point of failure which can be abused by increasingly authoritarian governments.

The last time I talked to You.com CEO Richard Socher was July 2022, several months before the launch of ChatGPT

The post How You.com Survived ChatGPT With a Pivot to Enterprise AI appeared first on The New Stack.

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Really liking The Life of a Showgirl so far. Not through the whole album yet, but it starts great. 🎶

Yesterday I wrote about preserving freedom by using replaceable parts to form a social web out of the web itself. Outside the silos. I'm getting comments on it. Nice to see other people thinking likewise. That's what we need to get a bootstrap going. People. And I think a good slogan -- "let the web be the web."

I was thinking I might have coined "let the web be the web" as an obvious ripoff of The West Wing slogan for the new President Bartlet. But a search reveals that it was used, but all in very good ways, so that's cool. However a Google Trends search shows up nothing. I'm going to look at this in a year or two and see if that has changed. 😀

It's such a sexy idea, I had to get ChatGPT to generate it. Something it's very good at.

Another slogan -- the social web is the web. It's just that simple.

People are surprised that I'm trying to build the for-real social web as opposed to the aspirational social web. It does require a lot of chutzpah. I feel that. Sometimes I put off doing things because while the coding is simple and straightforward, the immensity of it overwhelms me a bit. I don't remember feeling that way the first time around, possibly because we were doing it all step by step over approx ten years. Now it's all compressed into weeks. I know how to do it, and I've got or built the pieces I needed. But it just doesn't somehow feel right that the idea is actually becoming a thing. "This can't be happening." But we live in that kind of time. Who knows what monsters lie within. We may find out. Heh. Maybe that's where the goosebumps come from.

Carleigh Beriont is running for Congress as an “anti-social Democrat” and she thinks the party needs to abandon social media nationally also.

You'd be forgiven if you'd never heard of Cam Schlittler before Thursday night. A lot of Yankees fans had not heard of Schlittler before he made his major-league debut in July. Not considered one of the organization's top prospects, and until surprisingly recently just anoth...