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Mamdani, Cuomo and Sliwa Mayoral Debate Recap

Jeff Coltin, Politico reporter and co-author of the New York Playbook, recaps the mayoral debate between Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa.


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WIRED
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Elon Musk Has Turned His Eye to the UK

Musk posted nonstop at the beginning of the year about British politics until his focus was consumed by DOGE. Now he's back.

WIRED
Text • Steven Levy

Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap?

Cory Doctorow’s theory of “enshittification” explains how tech platforms rot from within. As AI grows more profitable—and powerful—it risks the same fate.

McSweeney’s
Text • Wallace Shawn

Excerpts from The Believer: The Process: Richard Ayoade, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes, 2024

In which an artist discusses making a particular work. - - - I met Richard Ayoade, the brilliant British author of The Unfinished Harauld Hughes, which is out in paperback this September from Faber, because (possibly through some misunderstanding) he asked me to appear as a...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Ashok Singamaneni

Platform vs. Analytics Engineer: Why Your Team Needs Both

Leaders often assume one data engineer can do it all — from raw ingestion to polished dashboards. That assumption is

The post Platform vs. Analytics Engineer: Why Your Team Needs Both appeared first on The New Stack.

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WordCamp Canada

Howdy and bonjour! First, thank you so much, merci beaucoup,  for having me at your WordCamp. I love the spirit of local communities gathering and helping each other learn and grow together. I wasn’t planning to speak; I was just going to attend this WordCamp, but since the organizers have given me a bit of … Continue reading WordCamp Canada →

WordCamp Canada 2025
Text • Dave Winer

Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp Canada

I’m back at WordCamp in a big room Matt Mullenweg to answer questions for the people here. Yesterday’s presentation went really well, lots of smart people really interested, fantastic discussion after. A very nice web culture. I went with three slides to get started, and then talked, demo’d, answered questions, and listened to ideas. Told […]

Defector
Text • Ray Ratto

Night Of The Old Guy

Night Of The Old Guy
No matter where you reside along the generational divide, last night provided an object, and in some cases abject, lesson for you and all your youth culture nonsense. The National Football League and Major League Baseball both took their places on America’s viewing devices o...

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I'm back at WordCamp in a big room waiting for Matt Mullenweg to answer questions for the people here. Yesterday's presentation went really well, lots of smart people really interested, fantastic discussion after. A very nice web culture. I went with three slides to get started, and then talked, demo'd, answered questions, and listened to ideas. Told a few jokes. Got a few laughs. It got the job done, help feed the word of mouth on WordLand.

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Text • Matthew Gault

Creator of Infamous AI Painting Tells Court He's a Real Artist

Creator of Infamous AI Painting Tells Court He's a Real Artist

"What if I could create Théâtre D’opéra Spatial as if it were physically created by hand? Not actually, of course."

Defector
Text • Lauren Theisen

Movie Theater Popcorn In New York City, Ranked

Movie Theater Popcorn In New York City, Ranked

Tom Cruise and I have one thing in common: We both love eating popcorn at the movies. But I am a blogger, and Tom Cruise is not, so here we are.

Rarely do I go more than two weeks in New York City without seeing a movie, whether it's a new release or a screening of something old. Usually, the experience feels incomplete without a whole lot of popcorn, often all for myself. Over the years, as I've become a repeated customer at film spots around the city, I've built up some knowledge, and some taste, and some routines. Over the past year, I've kept notes on my experiences, trying to get a thing of popcorn at least once from every theater I go to.

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Matthew Belloni Interviews Eddy Cue on ‘The Town’

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Speaking of Eddy Cue, he was the guest on Matthew Belloni’s excellent podcast, The Town, this week. (Overcast link.) Just a great interview in general. Cue doesn’t do many interviews but he’s my favorite Apple executive to hear speak, because he’s the least rehearsed and mos...

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Text • John Gruber

Apple Is the Exclusive New Broadcast Partner for Formula 1 in the U.S.

apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-is-the-exclusive-new-broadcast-partner-for-formula-1-in-the-us/

Blockbuster sports streaming news from Apple Newsroom: Apple and Formula 1 today announced a five-year partnership that will bring all F1 races exclusively to Apple TV in the United States beginning next year. [...] Apple TV will deliver comprehensive coverage of Formul...

Defector
Text • Luis Paez-Pumar

Three Totally Normal Bloggers Are Being Totally Normal About ‘Hades II’

Three Totally Normal Bloggers Are Being Totally Normal About ‘Hades II’

Kathryn: Hello, hello, and thank you for voluntarily joining me for some Hades II discussion, absolutely zero peer pressure involved. The game has been out for nearly a month, and in that timespan we’ve all developed very different relationships to it, so shall we elaborate on our approaches first?

Barry: I am actively choosing not to check how many hours I’ve put into this game, out of a certainty that the answer would make me respect myself less as a person. Needless to say, my obsession burned brightly and quickly—this is that rare game that wormed itself so deeply into my brain that I think about it when I’m not playing it. Unsurprisingly, I’m the only one of the three of us who has rolled credits (if not exactly “beaten” it, because the definition of beating Hades is kind of loose; there is always more to unlock).

WIRED
Text • Jacob Roach

I Used Squarespace’s Blueprint AI to Design a Website

Blueprint combines AI and curated designs to get your website up and running in a few minutes.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Andrew Tunall

Observability Is Stuck in the Past. Your Users Aren’t

Statue of man with binoculars.

The category of software observability came of age during the peak of digital transformation, a time when backend services were

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WIRED
Text • Boutayna Chokrane

6 Best Tote Bags of 2025, Tested and Reviewed by WIRED

From beach days to board meetings, these top totes are designed to protect your valuables, and then some.

McSweeney’s
Text • Dennard Dayle and Eli Grober

Upcoming Supreme Court Decisions

“The Supreme Court is beginning a new term with a sharp focus on President Donald Trump’s robust assertion of executive power.” — ABC News - - - United States Military v. Citizens America’s armed forces, backed by their commander-in-chief, accuse Portland and Chicago residen...

WIRED
Text • Christopher Null

Jabra Enhance Select 700 Review: Still Great Hearing Aids

A couple of minor upgrades are the backbone for this new hearing aid from Jabra, which replaces its Enhance Select 500.

WIRED
Text • Jason Parham

The Blurred Truths of Sora

Many will assume that OpenAI’s Sora app represents a new era of social media. But that’s wrong—all it does is reanimate our current one.