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Bridge Clearance

A lot of the highway department's budget goes to adjusting the sign whenever the moon passes directly overhead.

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2026 Will Be the Year of Agentic Workloads in Production on Amazon EKS

Mike Stefanik, AWS Product Management for EKS and ECR said users want Kubernetes without managing every component

When launched Elastic Kubernetes Service in 2018, the target audience was early adopters who wanted a managed control plane and

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This week's New Yorker Politics podcast is an interview with Jeopardy champion and host Ken Jennings. Great stuff if you, like me, are a longtime Jeopardy fan. We used to watch it in our Flushing kitchen in the 1960s when Art Fleming was host.

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Micro.blog’s CDN bill is up about 25% from last month, no surprise with the launch of better video hosting. I’m taking the opportunity to dig into CloudFront stats that I’ve never actually looked at. Seeing a few things that could be easy wins to optimize.

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7 Best All-Clad Black Friday Deals (2025)

All-Clad is the best, with a price tag to match. These Black Friday deals can help you save some cash.

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From Cloud Native To AI Native: Where Are We Going?

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Atlanta, the panel of experts - Kate Goldenring of Fermyon Technologies, Idit Levine of Solo.io, Shaun O'Meara of Mirantis, Sean O'Dell of Dynatrace and James Harmison of Red Hat -explored whether the cloud native era has evolved into an AI native era — and what that shift means for infrastructure, security and development practices.

Has the cloud native era now fully morphed into the AI-native era? If so, what does that mean for the

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Context plumbing

These past few weeks I’ve been deep in code and doing what I think about as context plumbing. I’ve been building an AI system and that’s what it feels like. Let me unpack. Intent Loosely AI interfaces are about intent and context. Intent is the user’s goal, big or small, ex...

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Best Vacuum Cleaner Black Friday Deals (2025): Dyson, Bissell, Eufy

From robot vacuums to Dyson stick vacs, don't miss these Black Friday deals happening on our favorite vacuums in every category.

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Manu Moreale:

…there is so much interesting content out there ready to be discovered. And discovering new content also means connecting with new people, getting exposed to new ideas, different cultures. That’s by far the best quality of the web if you ask me.

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The Best Black Friday Ninja Deals of 2025: Slushi, Crispi, more

Multiple viral devices from Ninja are on record sales for Black Friday, including the Slushi, the soft-serve Swirl, and Ninja's flagship espresso maker.

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ChatGPT aggregates people the same way polls aggregate voters. Ignore individuality, unable to hear new ideas, allowing journalists to write the same horse race stories every year. It would be better if they found a way to report originality, they can set an example for AIs.

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Black Friday Protein Powder Deals and Supplement Steals (2025)

From protein supplements and electrolytes to greens powders and energy drinks, these are the discounted picks worth snagging.

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The Best Black Friday Pod Coffee Maker Deals, According to a Daily User (2025)

Get good discounts on fast caffeine with markdowns on our favorite pod coffee machines from Bruvi, Ninja, Keurig, and more.

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Federico Viticci blogging about AI results, matching my recent thoughts about the products and design mattering:

…since the baseline is now good enough, the app experience and how LLMs are woven into a people’s daily lives and workflows will be the differentiators going forward.

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Grand Ole Opry At 100: Earl Scruggs & Loretta Lynn

We mark the 100th anniversary of The Grand Ole Opry, country music’s biggest stage, and feature interviews with two of its members. First up, bluegrass banjo player Earl Scruggs. He and guitarist Lester Flatt had a hit with “Foggy Mountain Breakdown.” Scruggs told Terry Gross how he developed his famous three-finger picking style while absent-mindedly playing the banjo one day. Also, we listen back to Terry’s interview with country music star, “Honky Tonk Girl” Loretta Lynn. 

Film critic Justin Chang reviews a new documentary about Russia's crackdown on independent journalists. It’s called ‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow.’

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Platform Engineering: Where Software-Defined Storage Fits

Platform engineering has evolved significantly from its early focus on manual on-premises systems management into a complex ecosystem of cloud

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How a former politics columnist is finding awe

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Feeling a sense of awe can make us feel less stressed, less lonely and more connected to each other. It’s good for our bodies and our minds. So how do we feel more of it? 

Today’s show was produced by Joshua Carroll, Rennie Svirnovskiy and Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Allison Klein and Ariel Plotnick and mixed by Sean Carter.

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An Illuminating Conversation With The Man Who Was Willem Dafoe’s Stunt Penis

An Illuminating Conversation With The Man Who Was Willem Dafoe’s Stunt Penis

For years, a rumor has floated around about the length of Willem Dafoe’s penis. Willem Dafoe’s penis is said to be extra-large. It is allegedly so big, in fact, that after filming nude scenes in the 2009 film Antichrist, Lars von Trier reported that he needed to re-shoot them using a different actor. “He has an enormous dick,” the director told The Boston Phoenix while promoting the film. “We had to take those scenes out of the film.” Here came the kicker: When Dafoe’s penis was on screen, said von Trier, “everybody got very confused when they saw it”.

What this means is that somewhere out there lives a humble man whose penis stood in for Willem Dafoe’s. Who is he?

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There are a bunch of useful demo apps in the reallysimple package, which also is itself fairly useful. I used all these tools in implementing FeedLand and WordLand, so I'm pretty sure they'd be useful to other users and developers. The feeder app, one of the demos, is used to generate the Links page on scripting.com, and provides utilities to the scripting language in Drummer.

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12 Best Black Friday Gaming Deals (2025): PS5 Pro, Viture Glasses, and More

Save on virtual display smart glasses, arcade machines, the PS5 Pro, and more. These Black Friday deals are for gamers.