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Jonathan Lemire, co-host of "Morning Joe" on MSNBC, contributing writer at The Atlantic and author of the book, The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020 (Flatiron Books, 2022) talks about what he calls the "project 2025 shutdown" and more national political news.

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📺 Wondla — 10/10 kids show. I was way into it. Post-apoc situation with underground bunkers (apparently Apple loves that theme) where when the protagonist girl busts out of it, the world is quite different. The premise and payoff in Season 1 was better than the commentary vibe of Season 2, but I liked it […]

I’ve been very down the last few days, but I just spent some time skimming through random posts on Micro.blog, including from some blogs and people I hadn’t even seen yet. Warms my heart.

The open web has made progress in recent years, even if social media often feels in crisis. We’ll get there. ❤️

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive information online.

The open source project has been mirrored as a torrent file and represents one of the easiest ways to navigate a messy data dump.

The vast majority of mice that received the vaccine warded off repeated exposure to cancer cells, but the applications for humans are still not known.

Nancy Solomon, host of the “Ask Governor Murphy” monthly call-in show, recaps the final governor's debate between Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli. 

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The CDC no longer broadly recommends the Covid-19 vaccine, but US residents will still be able to get one if they want.

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

As usual, Ben Thompson’s framing is quite good:

…OpenAI’s wrenching transition from research lab to consumer tech company is now complete. The next goal from here is world domination, and we’re all, for better or worse, along for the ride.

AI is so big and so complicated at this point, that I’m confident there will be better and worse. There will be useful tools, like for coding and medical research, and there will be slop and negative outcomes. Our task is to minimize the harms without throwing away the positive breakthroughs.

AI is surely one of the most transformative technologies of the last 50 years, touching all aspects of the IT

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The Toronto Blue Jays needed a different script for Wednesday's Game 4 against the New York Yankees. They'd gotten their lead in the series by socking the ball all over the damn place—six extra-base hits in Game 1, eight in Game 2; 29 total hits and eight dingers—and by gett...

The release of the Sora slop-feed monstrosity has really done some shock and awe on the general public and on the press. People are wowed by the fidelity and the stability of the product, especially when compared to what previous iterations of Sora, and models like it, have been able to generate. This fidelity has also lead more people to ask questions than they were initially when it was mushy/sliding/morphing junk.

Note this is for the 0.8 release of WordLand coming soooon. Not in the current released product.

A friend asked for this feature a few months back, before we had a Markdown mode in WordLand.

As I'm reviewing the product for first beta I realized I could now implement the feature he asked for.

Here's how to.

1. Put a URL on the clipboard.
2. Go into Markdown mode by clicking the M icon. It turns green.
3. Select the text you want to be a link.
4. Paste the URL copied in step 2.

A video demo.

It creates the link for you, in Markdown syntax of course.

To see it in HTML, just flip the Markdown button off.

I call this feature Cute Paste. :-)

A friend asked for this feature a few months back, before we had a Markdown mode in WordLand. And as I'm reviewing the product for first beta I realized I could now implement the feature he asked for.

Here's how to.

1. Put a URL on the clipboard.
2. Go into Markdown mode by clicking the M icon. It turns green.
3. Select the text you want to be a link.
4. Paste the URL copied in step 2.

It creates the link for you, in Markdown syntax of course.

To see it in HTML, just flip the Markdown button off. It turns gray.

I call this feature Cute Paste. :-)

‘We don’t want democracy lol. We want caliphate.’ According to court records, an Oklahoma guardsman with a security clearance gave 3D printed firearms to an FBI agent posing as an Al Qaeda contact.

The struggling American chipmaker is betting that a new plant and fresh product line will help turn around its fortunes.

Jacket? Check. Wallet? Check. Keys? Well, obviously, you’re driving, you big gavone. Okay, Danny, this is gonna be your night. They’re gonna be shocked to see you. The guy every girl wanted and every guy wanted to be. The capital-C Cool Cat who flew into the clouds in a 1948...

A little tarn on Low Rigg.

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Art by Matt Smith - - - Now, evuhryone knows that the Vikings were some sehriously hahdco’ah fuckin’ fightahs. ‘Cept most’ah ‘em actually didn’t go a-viking as they just stayed there in their frigid fuckin’ homelands fahmin’ n’ fishin’ n’ shit. But those that did go a-vikin...