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The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

Russia and Feminism

Julia Ioffe, founding partner and Washington correspondent of Puck and the author of Motherland: A History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy (Ecco, 2025), talks about her new book that delves into the feminist history of Russia and why it offers context for the war in Ukraine.


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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Jinpeng Zhang

2 Fixes Vastly Cut TiKV Write Stalls From SST File Ingestion

Two robot repairmen

TiKV is an open source, distributed and transactional key-value database. Growing applications demand consistent performance, and unexpected write latency spikes,

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Defector
Text • Patrick Redford

Donald Trump’s Crypto Corruption Machine Is Whirring Along At A Stunning Pace

Donald Trump’s Crypto Corruption Machine Is Whirring Along At A Stunning Pace
On Thursday, Donald Trump announced a presidential pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Zhao, better known as CZ, pleaded guilty to money laundering charges in November 2023, then spent most of the summer of 2024 in a U.S. prison before his September 2024 release. Binan...

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid
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Automattic has filed counterclaims against WP Engine. I’ve read the first few pages of the PDF and I find it compelling, although I am biased to support Matt Mullenweg for everything he’s done for the open web. It’s just hard (but not impossible!) to earn back trust after you’ve lost the narrative.

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Text • Emanuel Maiberg

a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service

a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service

Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.

McSweeney’s
Text • Madeline Goetz and Alex Hirz

Donald Trump’s White House Ballroom Was Funded by Private Donors. Same Goes for the Crocodile Moat

Let us set the record straight: President Trump is not a king, and the White House is not a castle. To those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, a big, beautiful ballroom might reek of the worst of eighteenth-century Versailles; however, this particular gilded, jumbo-...

WIRED
Text • Brad Bourque

This Upgraded SteelSeries Gaming Headset Is $80 Off

Serious gamers take note, the Arctis Nova Pro is feature-packed and ready for anything.

Defector
Text • Giri Nathan

Shams Charania Tries Out Legal Commentary, With Perplexing Results

Shams Charania Tries Out Legal Commentary, With Perplexing Results
Thursday's federal arrests of Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier came with a large and surprising information dump. It took me several hours, some press conference footage, and the help of a few colleagues to convey the relevant f...

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Text • Chris Coyier

Tom Burkert on controlling what he reads, through RSS of course. If I’m in the mood for something lighter, I can just look into my “Fun” folder to check out new stuff from The Oatmeal or xkcd. If I feel like reading something more thoughtful, I’d dive into my “Reads” folder for The Marginalian or Sentiers. Feeling like catching up on […]

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Text • Samantha Cole

Behind the Blog: Making Things for Humans

This week, we discuss Pavlovian Chartbeat response, when to say "cum," and the wave of making things for humans, by humans.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

How TARmageddon Compromises Rust Security: A Developer’s Guide

, the security company focused on hardened container runtime security for Kubernetes and AI workloads, has uncovered a new, nasty

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The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

Early NYC Voting Preview

Samantha Maldonado, senior reporter for THE CITY, offers her takeaways on the mayoral debate and talks about other races on the ballot in NYC.


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The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

Pets in the City: Tell Us Why Your Pet is the Best

To wrap up a series on pets, listeners call in to shout out why their dog, cat, rabbit, bearded dragon, fish or any other type of pet is so special.


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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Ariel Russo

How To Build Resilient IT Operations in 4 Steps

Automation

If the past few months have taught us anything, it’s that managing digital incidents has become a part of IT’s

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Defector
Text • Lucy Bloom

How Not To Run A Bullpen

How Not To Run A Bullpen
“It just uhh … didn’t go our way.” That was how Mariners manager Dan Wilson responded to a reporter asking if he regretted not bringing in Andrés Muñoz during the seventh inning of Game 7 of the ALCS. That’s certainly an unsatisfying explanation for a decision that will live...

Fresh Air
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Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg

As longtime co-host of All Things Considered, Stamberg was the first woman to anchor a national news program in the U.S. People weren't used to hearing women's voices on the radio. "We were imitating men, so I was lowering my voice to sound as authoritative as I could," she said. Stamberg died Oct. 16. She spoke with Terry Gross in 1982, 1993, and 2021.

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The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

30 Issues in 30 Days: City-Owned Grocery Stores?

New York City would not be the first city in America to open a publicly-owned grocery store. Yasmin Tayag, staff writer at The Atlantic, talks about how other municipalities have fared in this experiment, Zohran Mamdani's grocery store proposal and the skepticism around it.


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Text • Joseph Cox

DHS Tries To Unmask Ice Spotting Instagram Account by Claiming It Imports Merchandise

DHS Tries To Unmask Ice Spotting Instagram Account by Claiming It Imports Merchandise

There is no evidence the Instagram and Facebook account, called Montcowatch, sells anything. Lawyers from the ACLU say the move is "wild outside the scope" of DHS' authority.

Defector
Text • Israel Daramola

It Is Once Again All About ‘Bama

It Is Once Again All About ‘Bama
Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the weekend’s college football games are worth giving a crap about. Ray: Does Alabama (9) still hate Kalen DeBoer? Has enough time passed since the opening weeke...

WIRED
Text • Steven Levy

Inside the Messy, Accidental Kryptos Reveal

After 35 years, the secretive CIA sculpture finally gave up its mystery, thanks to a novelist, a playwright, and some misplaced documents. But the chase to decode continues.