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So happy with how well the new video hosting with Micro.blog Studio is going. I used to fumble around with video file sizes or just give up and use YouTube. Now I can post everything to my blog.
The Texas Observer
• Ben Sargent
Loon Star State: Trump’s Derangement Syndrome
To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section. Find Observer political reporting here.
The post Loon Star State: Trump’s Derangement Syndrome appeared first on The Texas Observer.
Defector
• Israel Daramola
Everybody Wants Lane Kiffin
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Hazel Weakly
Taking Your Observability Strategy to the Next Level

Observability strategy is a tricky concept. Everyone wants to talk about it, but nobody can agree on how they’re talking
The post Taking Your Observability Strategy to the Next Level appeared first on The New Stack.
Defector
• Sabrina Imbler
Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism, No Matter What The CDC Website Now Says
On Nov. 19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—a name that feels increasingly misleading, given Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s track record of sowing outbreaks of infectious diseases—quietly updated a webpage in order to suggest a link between vaccines and autism. To say it up top, this is patently false. Scientists have known for a long time that vaccines do not cause autism, there is no evidence to suggest that they do, and just in case you were wondering, there is also no new evidence to suggest that they do. If you would like to read more about this true fact, I recommend STAT News's explainer, "Here is how we know that vaccines do not cause autism."
Now that we are in agreement, let's move on. The CDC page, titled "Autism and Vaccines," now lists the following "Key Points":
Defector
• Tom Ley
The WNBA’s Million-Dollar Offer Is A Misdirection
Android app review submissions have been going through very quickly. Nice work by Google. Even when Apple’s reviews are 1-2 days, I wish they were hours.
WIRED
• Matthew Korfhage
Posha vs. Thermomix: Kitchen Robots Face Off on Thanksgiving Sides
The Posha and the Thermomix TM7 are the closest things to a home robot chef that mere mortals can afford. The catch is that you’re the prep cook.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Joab Jackson
CNCF Retires the Ingress Nginx Controller for Kubernetes

Running the Ingress Nginx controller for your Kubernetes clusters? You have until March to migrate to the Gateway API, or
The post CNCF Retires the Ingress Nginx Controller for Kubernetes appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Janakiram MSV
Tutorial: Implement a Nginx Gateway Fabric as an Alternative to Ingress

The Kubernetes ecosystem is undergoing a fundamental shift in how it manages external traffic. On Nov. 12, 2025, Kubernetes announced
The post Tutorial: Implement a Nginx Gateway Fabric as an Alternative to Ingress appeared first on The New Stack.
McSweeney’s
• Ellen Harrold
I, a Woman, Am Officially Done Saying “I’m Sorry”
McSweeney’s
• Nick Hornby
Excerpts from The Believer: Stuff I’ve Been Reading: Fall 2025
WIRED
• Molly Higgins
The Nama M1 Is the Best Nut Milk Maker We’ve Tested in 2025
These cow-replacing machines turn nuts, oats, and other plants into milk quickly, easily, and automatically.
WIRED
• Justin Pot
Apple’s Most Overlooked App Just Got a Lot Better
Apple Shortcuts, which lets users write custom automations, recently earned some new capabilities thanks to Apple Intelligence. Here,s how to make the most of this upgrade.
WIRED
• Jacob Roach
NordPass Review: An Almost Flawless Password Manager
NordPass is swift and packed with features, but the lack of support for TOTP code storage puts it slightly behind the competition.
WIRED
• Benj Edwards, Ars Technica
A Computer Science Professor Invented the Emoticon After a Joke Went Wrong
In 1982, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott Fahlman suggested using :-) for humorous comments after his colleagues took a joke about mercury seriously.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Alexandra Wolfe
WIRED
• Maxwell Zeff
A $100 Million AI Super PAC Targeted New York Democrat Alex Bores. He Thinks It Backfired
Leading the Future said it will spend millions to keep Alex Bores out of Congress. It might be helping him instead.
WIRED
• Adrienne So
Instead of Fitbit’s AI Health Coach, You Could Just Have Friends
I used the public preview of Fitbit’s new AI Health Coach and became both faster and noticeably weirder.