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“Worst, Bondi,” they begin. “2.) Bondi. 3.) Bondi. 4.) Bondi. 5.) HegsethRFKTulsiNoem.”

It should be obvious here that I am trying to extend my life span, even as I know that the odds favor eclipse.

The post About Jay Rosen’s 1986 PhD dissertation, ‘The Impossible Press’ appeared first on PressThink.

Get a head-start on holiday shopping for your kids (or yourself) thanks to these discounted toys.

In this episode, Nathan Wrigley interviews Bud Kraus at WordCamp US 2025. Bud shares his experience living and working with macular degeneration, a condition affecting his central vision. He discusses the adaptations he makes to use computers and WordPress, his approach to teaching and content creation, and how his low vision has become a unique perspective in his work. Bud reflects on accessibility challenges, technology, and AI as a career extender, as well as the positives and practicalities of navigating both digital and physical worlds with low vision. Whether you’re a designer, developer, educator, or simply passionate about building a more inclusive web, this episode is for you.

Benoit Berthelot and Gaspard Sebag, reporting for Bloomberg: Apple Inc. faces an investigation in France over the use of voice recordings made with its assistant Siri. The probe has been referred to the Office for Combating Cybercrime, the Paris prosecutor’s office said ...

Fellow humans. If we're competing with AI, and to some extent it seems we are, consider that they have much better writing tools than we do. If we are to put up some kind of resistance to our cyber-domination, shouldn't we invest in better writing tools for bodied-intellects like us?

Big boys mashing taters: It's what we all want to see. That's why we're proud to bring you a special playoff edition of Big Boy Watch, highlighting the beefers, hulks, and galoots from around the league. Philadelphia's burly lads aren't bashing, and it's causing a civic crisis. Milwaukee-Chicago is a fairly boring series because of—as experts will tell you—a distinct dearth of large fellas. Cal Raleigh, he of the ass, went yard, and the Mariners are on the verge of the ALCS. Coincidence? The ass thinks not.

But two of the Biggest Boys were in the Bronx Tuesday night, with the Blue Jays looking to close out a three-game sweep of the Yankees. They both put on a big show, as New York would stave off elimination for a day thanks to one of the least likely home run swings you'll ever see.

At its annual DevDay event, OpenAI announced several initiatives for developers — who now number 4 million, according to the

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The Connected Calibre E5 runs bespoke OS, so it works with Android but, crucially, now gets that coveted Made-for-iPhone certification—and all for a cool $1,800.

MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass: I think that’s the real revelation here. It’s less about consumption and more about creation. I previously wrote about how I was an early investor in Vine in part because it felt like it could be analogous to Instagram. Thanks in large pa...

Katie Notopoulos, on Threads:

Me looking at Vibes feed: this is screensaver. So boring. Why would anyone want it?

Me looking at videos I made of my own face in Sora 2: heheh I love this it’s funny it’s ME.

My feelings exactly.

I even like staring at screensavers sometimes. But the screensavers I like watching are Apple’s aerial (and occasionally, underwater) screensavers on Apple TV. They’re slow, peaceful, and real. Vibes is chaotic, fast, and phony.

The Moto G Power 5G 2025 is a capable budget smartphone, and this deal is too good to pass up.

The ActivityPub world, which MicroPub is part of (I guess), could benefit from reading Joel Spolsky's piece about Architecture Astronauts.

The big deal with WordPress, as outlined in the Think Different piece is that the strong API makes WP into something quite different from what most people think it is. I think of it as an OS for writing on the web. Very analogous to what we use(d) PCs and Macs for before networks were everywhere. This came up in a thread on Bluesky about MicroPub which appears to be a redo of Metaweblog, with better identity system.

I try not to run away from controversy when conventional wisdom is in the way of progress.

We talk all about Sora 2, Apple and Google removing ICE-spotting apps, and a massive update to our Flock reporting.

Foot tapping (beats 2 and 4!). Head shaking (all beats, heavier on beats 2 and 4). Hand drumming on every surface—steering wheel, tables, grocery cart. Get excited when, in the noise of the mall, you hear the perfect high-hat rhythm. Only to find that it’s coming from a coff...

The New York Times: John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday in Sweden for showing that two properties of quantum mechanics, the physical laws that rule the subatomic realm, could be observed in a system large...

It's not the sort of career-capping achievement anyone had in mind, but Bill Belichick really has done something amazing at North Carolina. He has somehow managed to make his job, which was supposed to be coaching the school's football team but quickly revealed itself as som...

New leaked documents show how the FBI convinced a judge to let its partners collect a mass of encrypted messages from thousands of phones around the world.