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Ja’Marr Chase Thought He Got Away With Spitting On Jalen Ramsey

Ja’Marr Chase Thought He Got Away With Spitting On Jalen Ramsey
Ja'Marr Chase of the Cincinnati Bengals spit on Jalen Ramsey of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Not because he'd taken a swig of water to flush his mouth and then turned to the side and, oops, oh Gosh, sorry, some of that got on the other guy, yikes. Also not because he was talking...

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

Monday Morning Politics: Shutdown Ends; Epstein Files

Eleanor Mueller, congress reporter at Semafor, talks about the latest national political news from Congress, including the shutdown winners and losers, the upcoming vote in the House on the Epstein files and more.


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I'm chasing down what appears to be a bug in feedlanddatabase. Items that haven't updated are being reported as having updated. Fairly sure there is a problem here. Next up, will add debugging code so I can see if my theory is correct.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Frederic Lardinois

Keeping GPUs Ticking Like Clockwork

Clockwork's CEO Suresh Vasudevan explains that AI workloads are among the most demanding distributed applications ever, and Clockwork provides building blocks that improve visibility, performance and fault tolerance.

For this week’s episode of The New Stack Agents, I sat down with Suresh Vasudevan, the CEO of Clockwork. I’ve

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Text • Lauren Theisen

The Grey Cup Was Decided On A Goal Line Fumble

The Grey Cup Was Decided On A Goal Line Fumble
The CFL team in Saskatchewan is called the Roughriders, and today that name refers to the rough hangover that they're going to have to ride out after Sunday night's victory celebrations. In a Grey Cup game that looked like it was going to be a comfortable win, then became ve...

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

The Future of Academia

Ilya Marritz, journalist working with The Boston Globe, talks about his new series, The Harvard Plan, in conjunction with The Boston Globe and On the Media, that looks at how the Trump administration has interfered with Harvard, and how it will affect academia and scientific research going forward.


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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Vikram Murali

Agentic AI in Observability: Building Resilient, Accountable IT Systems

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As enterprise IT systems grow more complex, maintaining visibility, performance and resilience across distributed architectures has never been more critical.

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Text • Maitreyi Anantharaman

The Crossword, Nov. 17: The Struggle Is Real

The Crossword, Nov. 17: The Struggle Is Real
This week's puzzle was constructed by Mat Holmes and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Mat is a teacher in Maine and a crossword constructor who is thrilled to be back in Defector. This puzzle was inspired by his longtime love and co-solver Hazel, but probably not ...

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Text • Drew Magary

J.J. McCarthy Sucks

J.J. McCarthy Sucks
I’ve seen enough of J.J. McCarthy. On a weekend where draftmates Bo Nix and Drake Maye assumed full command of the AFC, there was the Vikings quarterback playing football as if he had acute lead poisoning. I’m gonna try to describe McCarthy’s performance in the space below, ...

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Text • Ray Ratto

Dan Campbell Kept Asking The Same Question, And The Eagles Kept Saying No

Dan Campbell Kept Asking The Same Question, And The Eagles Kept Saying No
As a tactician, Dan Campbell is best-known and best-loved for leading with his face. No hill too high, no risk too great, no goofy idea gone untried—that's in considerable part how he made the Detroit Lions one of the best and indisputably the most charming team in the NFL. ...

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Sometimes I drive the long way around, through old neighborhoods, imagining the people and buildings that used to be there. Time erases so much.

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Great video on YouTube (via Matt Haughey) of old Pacific Electric Railway stations in Los Angeles. I would’ve loved to see some of these when they were active. 🚂

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Text • Emanuel Maiberg

The Video Game Industry’s Existential Crisis (with Jason Schreier)

The Video Game Industry’s Existential Crisis (with Jason Schreier)

Video games are more popular than ever, but many of the biggest companies in the business seem like they are struggling to adapt and convert that popularity into stability and sustainability.

WIRED
Text • Simon Hill

25 Best Tech Books to Gift (2025): Biographies, Startup Histories, Exposés

Give the techie in your life access to the inner workings of the companies and characters shaping Big Tech.

WIRED
Text • Stephen Clark, Ars Technica

A Collision with Space Debris Leaves 3 Chinese Astronauts Stranded in Orbit

The only craft docked at Tiangong space station has been damaged and “does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return.”

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Our new community manager

I’m excited to welcome Bonnie Rue to the Micro.blog team! She will be helping with new community-focused projects, leading curation of the Discover section, and working with me to respond to community issues.

We’ll keep improving our community guidelines and adapting to what the community needs. The social web is evolving quickly with new platforms. Micro.blog has always had a unique philosophy: content ownership through blogs, and a safe place to interact with others. As the social web becomes more connected, Micro.blog will stick to its mission while trying to balance the right set of tools to connect with people on other platforms.

I also want to thank the folks who were interested in this role at Micro.blog. I wish we could hire several people! Maybe one day we’ll be able to.

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Text • Joseph Cox

This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country

This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country

Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.

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I Like to Almost Kill People by Driving Past Them at 125 mph in My Modified Honda Accord

Everyone’s got their thing. For some, it’s baking. Others, gardening. Me? I like to take a modified Honda Accord, drive over 100 mph, and swerve between cars, almost killing entire families, babies, men, women, whoever. That’s my thing. Gets my balls rolling. Sometimes I’ll ...

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The Lever podcast does have an RSS feed. A good way to find the feed when the usual hacks don't work is to post it here, where it's a matter of pride for the braintrust to dig it up. Thanks as always. 😄

WIRED
Text • Julia Forbes

Don't Donate Torn, Stained Clothes and Sheets—Send Them to Trashie

Recycling isn’t just for glass and paper anymore. This mail-order clothes recycling program lets you earn points for old textiles and e-waste.