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I’m still using ChatGPT Pulse. It is remarkable how good it is sometimes. Some folks will find this too creepy, but this morning it delivered a mashup of one of my favorite book series (Stormlight Archive) and principles of Micro.blog. Here’s the transcript. To be clear, I did not prompt this.

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We’ve been going through old photos this week. I always smile looking at this one of me and my mom, from around 1980. I look so funny.

Me and my mom pose in front of the ancient Parthenon temple on the Acropolis, with several other visitors in the background.

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Save $30 on This All-Clad Nonstick Frying Pan Set

Life is too short to use bad nonstick cookware. These All-Clad pans are the gold standard, and they're less expensive than usual.

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Honoring people who are alive

Wouldn't it be great if there was a holiday once a year where each of us had a virtual awards show for people we know who have special qualities that make them excellent people or friends. We put all our focus on a few personalities who have obvious defects. And we don't exp...

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Thanks everyone for the kind words on the blog post yesterday about my mom. Means a lot to me.

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An Open Letter to Donald Trump, from a Grateful Canadian Family He Has Unintentionally United

Dear President Trump, I wanted to take a moment, between shoveling snow and apologizing for existing, to thank you for something truly remarkable: You have united Canada. Not politically, not economically, not even spiritually—but in a deep, existential, Tim Hortons double-d...

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How To Build a Serverless API With Bun and Hono

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There was a time when Node.js was the go-to runtime for JavaScript. For better and sometimes for worse, if you

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Why Do Some Spiders Make Web Art?

Why Do Some Spiders Make Web Art?
Spiders are famous aesthetes. Many craft radially symmetric webs, first extruding long silken spokes and then spinning spiraling strands to snag prey. In the mornings, the intricately laid silk sparkles with dew drops. Your average, generic spiderweb spun by the most run-of-...

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What Good Software Supply Chain Security Looks Like 

Cargo container depot at a port.

Organizations running their business on open source software are faced with a more aggressive and complicated security and compliance landscape

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The Pixel Watch 3 Is $100 Off

Outfit your wrist with the previous generation of Pixel smartwatch for just $200.

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Filmmaker Nia DaCosta Defies Categorization

DaCosta directed the box office hit horror movie Candyman and The Marvels. Her latest, Hedda, is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 1891 play, Hedda Gabler. She reimagines the main character as a queer, mixed-race Black woman, played by Tessa Thompson. DaCosta spoke with Tonya Mosley about navigating white spaces in Hollywood, why she loves horror, and her time as a production assistant. 


Also, jazz critic Martin Johnson reviews bassist Linda May Han Oh’s album Strange Heavens.



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The Rise Of Jordon Hudson, Small Business Owner

The Rise Of Jordon Hudson, Small Business Owner
Before he was stumbling over interview questions on national TV, before he was the guy who made North Carolina football worse, before you could bet on when he might be fired, Bill Belichick was one of the most respected men in football. It may feel like a lifetime ago, but s...

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AI Agents Are Terrible Freelance Workers

A new benchmark measures how well AI agents can automate economically valuable chores. Human-level AI is still some ways off.

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Following Hurricane Melissa

Arlan Fuller, Project HOPE’s director of Emergency Preparedness and Response, talks about the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica and other countries, as listeners report what they're hearing from friends and family in the area.


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Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Is A Canadian Hero

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Is A Canadian Hero
A superstar slugger cannot be relied on like the take-over-a-game greats in other sports. You can't get him the ball again and again. You can't give him more minutes at the expense of the end of the bench. He needs other guys before and after him in the order to make his con...

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The Young Republicans' Group Chat

Calder McHugh, reporter at POLITICO Magazine, talks about the scandal surrounding leaked messages from the Young Republicans' group chat, and why he thinks they might be a "sign of where we could be headed."


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How Are OpenTelemetry and Fluent Bit Related?

A couple of swans.

Editor’s Note: The following article is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of The Manning Book: “Fluent Bit with Kubernetes,” a

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How to Keep Subways and Trains Cool in an Ever Hotter World

As temperatures increase, trains and subways are becoming unendurable. Potential solutions include everything from cooling tunnels with water to painting rolling stock—but there’s no magic fix.

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30 Issues in 30 Days: NYC's Overdose Prevention Centers

Ethan Geringer-Sameth, discusses the mayoral candidates' stances on overdose prevention centers in New York City, including Zohran Mamdani's reversal of his longstanding stance to increase the centers, Andrew Cuomo's stance to keep existing centers but not expand them and Curtis Sliwa's stance against the existing centers. Plus, Sam Rivera, executive director of OnPoint NYC, talks about the two overdose prevention centers that OnPoint runs, in East Harlem and Washington Heights.


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Ex-L3Harris Cyber Boss Pleads Guilty to Selling Trade Secrets to Russian Firm

Peter Williams, a former executive of Trenchant, L3Harris' cyber division, has pleaded guilty to two counts of stealing trade secrets and selling them to an unnamed Russian software broker.