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Microsoft EVP: Embrace AI Agents to Rewire Business Processes Now

In September, Rajesh Jha the executive VP overseeing Microsoft’s AI-powered assistant Copilot appeared on Microsoft’s “Worklab” podcast, to discuss the

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Pitted Against Waste

Editor’s Note: This story is a collaboration between the Texas Observer and Inside Climate News. For 15 years, Debrah Linn and her children have raised chickens, miniature donkeys, pet geese, and, more recently, longhorn cattle on what she’d considered an idyllic and peaceful farmette near the village of Elysian Fields.  Her kids ride horses on […]

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An old quote falsely attributed to Gandhi. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

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Over the weekend I flipped the switch on a new app that makes my blog available on WordPress. It seems to work really well. The WordPress site is Daveverse. And because it's on WordPress it is also available on ActivityPub, at @scripting@daveverse.org, which means you can re...

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Best Organic Mattresses (2025): Birch, Avocado, Naturepedic, More

These natural, organic mattresses are eco-friendly alternatives to conventional models and just as comfortable.

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Young People Are Tripping on Benadryl—and It’s Always a Bad Time

Deliriants like Benadryl can bring on terrifying hallucinations in high doses. Some Gen Z-ers are taking at least a dozen pills at a time—and challenging others to do the same.

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11 Best Dry Shampoos for All Types of Hair (2025)

I spent months testing 30 dry shampoos on day-two hair and beyond—these are the most effective formulas you can buy.

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OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It

As OpenAI expands in every direction, the new CEO of Applications is on a mission to make ChatGPT indispensable and lucrative.

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Unpacking Trump’s 50-Year Mortgage Proposal

When President Trump proposed the introduction of a 50-year mortgage, he challenged a bedrock of the American housing market and financial system. He also revealed how desperate the administration is to lower prices for consumers. Conor Dougherty, who covers housing and deve...

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12 Best Tech Gifts That They'd Actually Want (2025)

Don't buy something for a loved one you wouldn't want for yourself. These are the hot tech products of 2025 that everyone will yearn for this holiday season.

WIRED
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Inside a Wild Bitcoin Heist: Five-Star Hotels, Cash-Stuffed Envelopes, and Vanishing Funds

Sophisticated crypto scams are on the rise. But few of them go to the lengths one bitcoin mining executive experienced earlier this year.

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Trump Explodes in Angriest Epstein Tirade Yet as Allies Visibly Panic

Anxiety is rising among President Trump’s staunchest allies that he’s politically lost his way. The New York Times reports that his advisers fear he’s alienating key voters in his own coalition. And CNN reports that some Republicans are openly wa...

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Rothko Chapel Garden

It’s been hard for me to write about Friday because it was so overwhelming, to see so many friends and loved ones and teachers and mentors there, including friends of my late Father’s I hadn’t seen in years, and to be with all of the people who have been driving the mission of the Rothko … Continue reading Rothko Chapel Garden →

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WILL TRUMP DESTROY THE EPSTEIN FILES? - 11.17.25

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SEASON 4 EPISODE 34: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: So, will he? I mean you don't think he's serious about WANTING them released, do you? He's just trying to avoid a 100-vote defeat. Note he hasn't asked the Senate to pass a bill. And he's alr...

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Watched: Being Eddie. Really enjoyed this. 🍿

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Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation via B. 'Toastie' Oaster

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I’m interviewing fellow Indigenous metalheads at a heavy music festival on the Blackfeet Nation, with Russel Daniels (Diné and Ho-Chunk descent), a photographer who’s not into metal.

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Open Source Power via Muni Blog

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I've been trying to write this piece for years, really ever since I finished the first version of Open Source Explained (a v2 will drop early next year). Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.

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The fate of "small" open source via Nolan Lawson

nolanlawson.com/2025/11/16/the-fate-of-small-open-source/

By far the most popular npm package I’ve ever written is blob-util, which is ~10 years old and still gets 5+ million weekly downloads.

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Alchemy via Josh Collinsworth

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Alchemists in medieval times apparently believed it was possible to transmute matter into gold—or, at least, were attempting to find out if it was possible to do so through an early, rudimentary version of what would eventually become chemistry.

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WorkOS

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My thanks to WorkOS for their continuing support of DF with another sponsorship week. With WorkOS you can start selling to enterprises with just a few lines of code. WorkOS provides a complete user management solution along with SSO, SCIM, and RBAC. The APIs are modular and ...