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The Brian Lehrer Show
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10-Question Quiz: Where Am I?

Listeners hear a description of a place in the tri-state area and try to guess where it is.


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The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

30 Issues in 30 Days: Abortion in New Jersey

New Jersey is generally viewed as a state with some of the strongest abortion protections, but Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli has some plans that could change that. Terrence McDonald, editor at the New Jersey Monitor, talks about the parts of both candidates' platforms that could change or strengthen abortion protections in the state.


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Text • Albert Burneko

Uh-Oh, Somebody Notified Vladimir Guerrero Jr. That The ALCS Was Happening

Uh-Oh, Somebody Notified Vladimir Guerrero Jr. That The ALCS Was Happening

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. went 0-for-7 across the first two games of the ALCS, as his Blue Jays fell into an 0-2 hole at home against the Seattle Mariners. He reached base only once in those two games, an eighth-inning walk in Game 2 with Toronto already down by seven runs; he ended the inning on third. That is not going to do it.

Vladito was the hottest bat of the divisional round, bashing the Yankees to the tune of a 1.609 OPS and three homers in four games. Toronto may not need quite that level of cartoonish production from him to stay afloat against the Mariners, but the job is certainly easier if the team's best hitter is, well, hitting. To wit: The beefy lad seems to have awakened on the cross-continental flight before Wednesday night's Game 3, and now the Blue Jays have a pulse.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Richard MacManus

Vite+ Aims To End JavaScript’s Fragmented Tooling Nightmare

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This week VoidZero announced Vite+, which it calls “a unified toolchain for JavaScript.” The company’s founding CEO Evan You, who

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Waiting On D’Angelo

Waiting On D’Angelo
"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me." This is from Psalms 23:4, a classic prayer about God's blessed navigating a world full of sin and evil at every turn. Growing u...

WIRED
Text • Nena Farrell

The Best Gifts for Book Lovers (2025): From E-Readers to Boxed Sets

These gift ideas will make your favorite bookworm very happy, from e-readers to cozy accessories.

Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed Valid
Text • Manuel Moreale

On concrete examples

I had some great conversations via email over the past couple of weeks with a bunch of different people, discussing all sorts of things that I’ll for sure end up writing about. Today I wanted to briefly touch on the topic of examples, which was part of the lovely conversatio...

WIRED
Text • Kieran Alger

How to Use Satellite Communications on the Garmin Fenix 8 Pro

Using satellite communications off-grid isn’t as easy as you might think. Here’s everything you need to know about Garmin’s new safety tools.

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The Robe Runner

The Robe Runner
"She's a runner, you a stone." That's a weird thing to say to Leonardo DiCaprio's character, Pat Calhoun, in One Battle After Another, given that the first time we see him in the film, he is in motion, chasing after his fellow members of the left-wing revolutionary group Fre...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Dustin Kirkland

Developers Want to Build, Not Battle Friction

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The developer experience has become a boardroom conversation in forward-looking organizations. How engineers work directly shapes how businesses compete, and

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The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

Sen. Kim on Gateway Defunding

Andy Kim, U.S. Senator (D NJ), weighs in on the Trump announcement that the Gateway tunnel project is "terminated."


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Text • Samantha Cole

GirlsDoPorn Victims Sue Major Payment Processors, Claiming They Enabled Sex Trafficking

GirlsDoPorn Victims Sue Major Payment Processors, Claiming They Enabled Sex Trafficking

The plaintiffs claim that without the payment processors, which include CCBill, Epoch, and several others that process "high-risk" merchant payments, GirlsDoPorn would not have been a commercial enterprise to begin with.

WIRED
Text • Chris Haslam

Should You Hike in Boots or Trail Runners?

Lightweight trail shoes now dominate the trails, so do you still need boots? Here’s how to choose the right footwear for your outdoor adventures.

WIRED
Text • Kim Zetter

One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure

Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.

McSweeney’s
Text • Patrick Coyne and Louie Aronowitz

What Your Favorite Author Says About You (Behind Your Back)

Agatha Christie: “I bet I could murder them and get away with it.” Ernest Hemingway: “For sale. Two testicles. Never used.” George R. R. Martin: “Hold on, I’ll tell you later…” Cormac McCarthy: “The man stands. Jaw slacked and mouth opened black and round like a charred spid...

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Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles

Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles

Videos demoing one of the sites have repeatedly gone viral on TikTok and other platforms recently. 404 Media verified they can locate specific peoples' Tinder profiles using their photo, and found that the viral videos are produced by paid creators.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Alexander T. Williams

AI-First Web Development: Model-First Design and Remix v3

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The web has always been about patchwork: Glue this framework to that runtime, stitch in a library, and hope it

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Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal: ‘A Cartoonist’s Review of AI Art’

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Good and thoughtful graphic essay by Matthew Inman, expressing why he dislikes AI-generated art. It’s been widely linked to, largely approvingly. I fundamentally disagree with the premise. Near the start, Inman writes: When I consume AI art, it also evokes a feeling. Goo...

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Podcasts Are Not Television

Podcasts Are Not Television

In the latest move to consolidate the entirety of human expression onto a single screen, Netflix and Spotify have announced a partnership that will bring 16 of The Ringer’s video podcasts to the platform, barring them from publishing to YouTube. 

Netflix has been sweating YouTube’s increasing share of television screentime, and clearly sees poaching 16 popular video podcasts and prohibiting them from streaming to YouTube as a way to encroach on its rival’s core business. But this bizarre deal fundamentally misunderstands why people use these platforms, because rewatching a sitcom is not the same as playing an ambient music video, Netflix is not YouTube, and podcasts are not television. 

The Every Podcast
Audio • Dan Shipper

We Taught AI to Play Games—Now It’s a $3.6 Million Company

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This episode is a little different from our usual fare: It’s a conversation with our head of AI training Alex Duffy about Good Start Labs, a company he incubated inside Every. Today, Good Start Labs is spinning out of Every as a separate company with $3.6 million in funding ...