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Tahoe’s Terrible Icons

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Paul Kafasis, writing at One Foot Tsunami: While Apple had previously urged developers to use squircle icons on our apps, they’ve now taken things much further to ensure compliance. It’s a shame. Apple updated their own app icons on Tahoe, for both the squircle shape as...

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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.

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Tyler Hayes Suggests Trying a Flip-Style Foldable If You Want a Smaller Phone

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Tyler Hayes, writing for This Week The Trend: The Razr+ 2024 model measures 3.46 inches tall, but still has a 4-inch diagonal screen size. For comparison, the smallest modern (2021) iPhone is the 13 mini, and that one is 5.18 inches tall. The Razr foldable is a legitimat...

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The ADL Is Having A Mamdani Meltdown

The ADL Is Having A Mamdani Meltdown
The focus of the Anti-Defamation League has become entirely warped. Support for Israel was always part of the organization's goals, but typically that was nested within a broader declaration to fight back against hate or discrimination. As seen from the recent removal of the...

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I Like My Presidents to Care When Someone Faints During a Press Event

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“Here you go, you’re OK. I’m right here.”

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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.

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Oedipus is about the act of figuring out what Oedipus is about

Ok spoilers ahead. But Oedipus Rex a.k.a. Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles is almost 2,500 years old at this point so it’s fair game imo. The Oedipus story in a nutshell: Oedipus, who was secretly adopted, receives a prophecy that he will kill his dad. So to thwart fate he leav...

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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.

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Issue 96 – Redefining solvency

Issue 96 – Redefining solvency

Sam Bankman-Fried makes his case for a retrial and aspiring crypto banks hit roadblocks

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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.

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Our School District Can Now Keep Track of Your Child with Just Three Terrible Apps

Other than lawsuits, losing track of a child is every school district’s worst nightmare. We haven’t lost anyone yet, but an EdTech company has painted a compelling picture of this as a possible future problem that can be pre-solved with EdTech. Therefore, we’re pleased to in...

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November Is When The Colorado Rockies Do Their Best Work

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.

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Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ Turns 50

50 years ago next week, Patti Smith released her debut album, ‘Horses,’ ushering in a new era of rock and roll. We’re listening back to portions of our interviews with Smith, from 1996 and 2010. She talks about her early days in New York City, when she was trying to find her...

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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.

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Build Terraform Modules That Your Team Will Actually Reuse

A collection of colorful building toys.

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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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 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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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.

 

 

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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.

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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.