WIRED
• Julian Chokkattu
Branch Sale of the Year: Deals on Office Chairs, Standing Desks, and Home Office Gear
Branch is offering up to 15 percent off sitewide now through December 3.
Tyler Hayes Suggests Trying a Flip-Style Foldable If You Want a Smaller Phone
Defector
• Samer Kalaf
The ADL Is Having A Mamdani Meltdown
I Like My Presidents to Care When Someone Faints During a Press Event
“Here you go, you’re OK. I’m right here.”
WIRED
• Brad Bourque
Fat Savings on the Super Skinny Razer Blade 14 Gaming Laptop
You could save hundreds on Razer's sleek gaming laptop with an OLED upgrade.
Oedipus is about the act of figuring out what Oedipus is about
WIRED
• Steven Levy
Welcome to Big Tech's ‘Age of Extraction’
In his new book, antitrust scholar and former White House adviser Tim Wu argues that tech giants are bleeding you dry—and lays out a plan to stop them.
Citation Needed
• Molly White
Issue 96 – Redefining solvency
Sam Bankman-Fried makes his case for a retrial and aspiring crypto banks hit roadblocks
WIRED
• Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger
Social Security Employees Grill Management During Tense Shutdown Meeting
WIRED obtained notes from a Social Security Administration management meeting, where employees pressed leadership on plans for the agency.
McSweeney’s
• Talia Argondezzi
Our School District Can Now Keep Track of Your Child with Just Three Terrible Apps
Defector
• Ray Ratto
November Is When The Colorado Rockies Do Their Best Work
The Los Angeles Dodgers had a parade Thursday to celebrate their second straight World Series victory. The Colorado Rockies, working the other end of the baseball alley, knew that they had to respond, if not in kind then in volume. And so they did.
Yes, the Rockies acknowledged the Dodgers' place at the cutting edge of the new baseball with a nod to a 14-year-old movie about a 23-year-old season that ended in a first-round playoff loss. It did not take the worst team in baseball a full week to trump the best team in baseball with an equally jaw-dropping and equally on-brand moment, but you avert your eyes from Rockyball at your own peril. You watch them at your own peril, too, which tells you the strength of their weakness.
Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ Turns 50
If you are on the TestFlight beta for Micro.blog iOS, you will have seen our experiments to enable Liquid Glass. I’m admitting defeat today, going to opt out of the new UI for the next version. There are too many little glitches.
Build Terraform Modules That Your Team Will Actually Reuse

Many organizations struggle with Terraform module adoption, experiencing challenges such as: Version fragmentation: Different projects/teams end up on different versions.
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Your Post-Election Refresh
Hannah Frishberg, New York City arts and culture reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, shares some non-politics related activities for the weekend as listeners share how they're shifting their attention away from the mayoral race and back to cultural activities or other forms of civic engagement.
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
The New NYC Comptroller(-Elect)
Mark Levine, Manhattan borough president and Comptroller-Elect, talks about his election victory, the transition from Manhattan borough president to citywide office, and more.
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Friday Morning Politics: The Continuing Government Shutdown
Toluse Olorunnipa, staff writer at The Atlantic, discusses the latest national political news as the government shutdown, already the longest in U.S. history, goes on.
Photo: The western front of the United States Capitol. The Capitol serves as the seat of government for the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government. (Noclip, Public domain, via )
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OpenAI continues to shoot for the moon. Based on a tweet by Sam Altman, they seem fairly clear-eyed about it. It’s a gamble that AI will be needed everywhere. OpenAI will either succeed or fail spectacularly.
I would bet on OpenAI long before the likes of Perplexity and startups riding only hype.
WIRED
• Zeyi Yang
TikTok Shop Is Now the Size of eBay
TikTok’s ecommerce arm has kept growing steadily, despite tariffs and never-ending debates over whether the platform should be banned.