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Good morning sports fans!

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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
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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.

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Everybody Wants Lane Kiffin

Everybody Wants Lane Kiffin
Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the weekend’s college football games are worth giving a crap about. Ray: Not to keep both of you in suspense, but Oberlin finished its season 0-10, losing t...

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Taking Your Observability Strategy to the Next Level

Person on a cliff looking out over clouds below.

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
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Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism, No Matter What The CDC Website Now Says

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":

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The WNBA’s Million-Dollar Offer Is A Misdirection

The WNBA’s Million-Dollar Offer Is A Misdirection
There's no way to know exactly what goes on during a CBA negotiation between a sports league and it's players' union. All we have to rely on is information that gets strategically shared to plugged-in reporters, and our own ability to read meaning into what kind of informati...

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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
Text • 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
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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.

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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.

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Text • Ellen Harrold

I, a Woman, Am Officially Done Saying “I’m Sorry”

Dear colleagues, I just wanted to reach out and let you know that I’m officially done saying sorry. As a woman, I feel the flippant use and misuse of this word gives away my power, if that makes any sense. If you have any free time this week or next, or even in the next coup...

McSweeney’s
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Excerpts from The Believer: Stuff I’ve Been Reading: Fall 2025

A quarterly column, steady as ever. - - - Books read: Love’s Labour: How We Break and Make the Bonds of Love—Stephen Grosz Affairs: True Stories of Love, Lies, Hope and Desire—Juliet Rosenfeld The Light Years—Elizabeth Jane Howard Books bought: Working the Room: Essays and ...

WIRED
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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
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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
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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
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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.

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Alexandra Wolfe

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Alexandra Wolfe, whose blog can be found at wrywriter.ca. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Nikita Galaiko and ...

WIRED
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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
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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.