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This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Alice, whose blog can be found at thewallflowerdigest.co.uk. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Neil Gorman and ...

The software-driven approach pioneered by a new Kentucky distillery runs counter to the low-tech methods of whiskey's old guard. Its mix of data and automation might help pave a way forward.

ByteDance is paying for ads and partnering with influencers to promote its AI chatbot app Cici in countries like the UK, Mexico, and Indonesia.

Under normal circumstances, the profound pain of a government shutdown compels both parties to negotiate a quick resolution on behalf of the American people. But, so far, nothing about this shutdown is normal. Times journalists Michael Barbaro, Tyler Pager, Catie Edmondson a...

This long-duration comet will make its closest approach to Earth this fall, before disappearing into the outer solar system for another 1,000 years.

The other day, President Trump announced that he has bombed yet another boat allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean sea. He has now struck six boats, with 27 people dead, and the bombings have been widely denounced as illegal. Now, in a strange tu...

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Yeah, we've heard all the noise about how Democrats don't have a plan. But Joe and Alex have the numbers - why is the shutdown working right now? When you hear how many Americans don't want Democrats to compromise on health care - and how many want Trump to cave - you might be surprised. And what gigantic number shows just how in trouble MAGA is on the economy? Turns out, keeping Congress home to duck the Epstein list is already starting to bite Trump and MAGA... and don't forget, go protest this weekend.

Go check out http://nokings.org/ to find a protest in your neighborhood. This is our chance.
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TL;DR: I have rebooted my From the Summit newsletter. It’s gonna be all about life outdoors, and there’s gonna be a lot of pretty pictures. If this sounds appealing, go sign up for it. If you were previously a subscriber, you’ll have to sign up again since I deleted the whol...

There are a few writers who I follow religiously, and one is Matt Levine of Bloomberg’s Money Stuff. For business and finance it’s one of the smartest and funniest things you can read. Yesterday, I think for the first time, he mentioned WordPress! In the context of his quote on this great X thread about … Continue reading On Money Stuff →

Some really good thoughts in this post by Paul Frazee about Bluesky’s approach to open protocols and platform bias:

On the one level, we created a neutral protocol to solve the systemic absence of neutrality and choice. On another level, we created a platform to drive an opinionated take on social. They go hand in hand: the killer app of a neutral protocol is an opinionated but interchangeable platform.

I should update my chapter on open gardens to quote this.

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials, including nearly 700 from DHS.

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

Dear Troops, First off, welcome! We’ve been anticipating your arrival in our city, where the wind blows like our reported crime rate, so hold on to your MAGA hats and ski masks. The weather changes hourly; prepare for simultaneous sunburn and frostbite. Our humidity smells ...

AI-generated media is generating millions of views. But some companies are beginning to rein it in

Our public postmortem for Incident #0021.

Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary will probably be that I was the founding editor of Gawker.com, the flagship site of Gawker Media, a sprawling blog network that was put out of business by Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan in 2016. Nick Denton and I started Gawker in 2002 and I left in late 2003 to go to New York Magazine, so I missed some of Gawker’s greatest hits and biggest misses, but the early ‘00s were what I now think of as the heyday of blogging. (Talking Points Memo was s

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Greg Abbott intends to run for reelection to a fourth term as Texas governor in 2026, which if served to completion would secure his spot in the history books as the longest-serving top executive in the Lone Star State. He’s at the height of his powers and is arguably in as strong a position as […]

The post ‘Failures and Grift’: Gina Hinojosa Wants to Stop Greg Abbott from Making History appeared first on The Texas Observer.

Networking software company F5 disclosed a long-term breach of its systems this week. The fallout could be severe.