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The Automation Paradox and Why Security Teams Fear Their Own Tools

Security automation has prioritized speed over precision, turning response actions into sledgehammers that teams are afraid to deploy. DevOps solved

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Nowhere to Go: Inside the Texas Boarding Home System Where Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Are Widespread

Editor’s Note: This article was produced and published by In These Times. It is republished here with permission. Angelique Estes knew her stay would be rough as soon as she arrived at her new home in Arlington, Texas, in early December 2023. At 53 years old, Estes had learned to read her environment quickly. She’s […]

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A note to Doc. We have WordPress more or less doing what we do on Scripting News. Thanks to Scott Hanson for persevering on this project. He's using the Baseline theme. I don't think it's ready yet for Doc, but it's close. The idea is to support most of the features of WordLand in a WordPress rendering.

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Pluribus is not, at least so far, equal to Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul. Some parts are confusing, some are poorly edited. They try to have a shocker or cliff hanger at the end of episodes, but they aren't very shocking and the cliff turns out to be something so obvious ...

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Pagefind and Micro.blog actions

Today I added support for Pagefind to Micro.blog. Pagefind is a search library for static sites. Because Micro.blog uses Hugo underneath, Pagefind fits nicely into our architecture. You can see it in action on my own blog’s search page. Along the way to adding this, I realiz...

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Kubernetes Gets an AI Conformance Program — and VMware Is Already On Board

In an interview with The New Stack, Broadcom leaders Dilpreet Bindra and Himanshu Singh explained that the program applies lessons from Kubernetes’ early evolution, aiming to reduce the “muddiness” in AI tooling and improve cross-platform interoperability.

As organizations push AI workloads into production, they’re running into a familiar struggle: fragmentation. The newly launched Certified Kubernetes AI

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Homelessness In The New Gilded Age

In New York City, 100,000 people sleep in shelters every night. Patrick Markee has spent decades fighting for them with the Coalition for the Homeless. He’s written a new book that gives an on-the-ground view of what he’s learned. It’s called ‘Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age.’ He asks, what if homelessness isn't a personal failing, but the result of policy choices? 

Also, Maureen Corrigan shares her picks for the 10 best books of the year. You can see her list here. 

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The Truth About Who is Targeted by ICE

David Bier, director of immigration studies and the Selz Foundation chair in immigration policy at the Cato Institute, shares data from the Department of Homeland Security that shows almost three-quarters of people detained by ICE since October do not have any criminal convictions, despite claims from the Trump Administration that they are prioritizing detaining people with violent criminal histories.


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A Guide To Building Scalable AI Agents

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Things can unravel quickly when the right information doesn’t reach the right person at the right time. These moments turn

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WIRED
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For the First Time, Mutations in a Single Gene Have Been Linked to Mental Illness

Research links variations in the gene GRIN2A to a higher risk of developing schizophrenia and other forms of mental illness.

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The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking?

- - - INVICTA GAMES, LTD. Packaging Team — Official Minutes Project: Mastermind / New Cover Presentation MARTIN SMITH (Marketing Senior Vice President): Okay. Gary’s got a new cover comp. Gary, walk us through your vision. GARY LARKIN (Design Lead): Right. Here it is. Bla...

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Balancing Global Trade

Oren Cass, founder and chief economist of American Compass and editor of The New Conservatives: Restoring America’s Commitment to Family, Community, and Industry (Simon & Schuster, 2025), argues for a new approach to global trade, one based on balance.


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I like this blog post about not becoming a connoisseur by Joan Westenberg:

Simply: the aspiring coffee connoisseur who spends 200 hours learning to distinguish processing methods could have spent those 200 hours just drinking coffee and enjoying the hell out of it.

I love coffee shops. My blog currently has 150 posts with something about coffee. But maybe surprisingly, I’m not actually picky about coffee! I’m happy with any coffee beans put through any espresso machine with a splash of any kind of milk.

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The College Football Playoff Is Here And No One Is Happy

The College Football Playoff Is Here And No One Is Happy
It is once again time to get mad about a college football playoff bracket. Every year ESPN and its TV show, made by a committee that talks ball while on break from planning the human instrumentality project, design a 12-team playoff seemingly beholden to no rules, no standar...

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How Generative AI Exposes a Weak Product Value Proposition

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While this was definitely the year of Agentic AI, what is less clear is the effect LLM generation will have

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ICE Family Separation in NYC

Gwynne Hogan, senior reporter for The City, discusses her latest story on how ICE arrested and separated Chinese father from his 6-year-old son during a check-in in late November, plus other local immigration enforcement news.


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What about “Nothing about us without us?”

As I was drafting my last piece on Friday, “They have to be able to talk about us without us”, my thoughts of course went to one of the most famous slogans of the disability rights movement, “Nothing about us without us.” I wasn’t unaware that there were similarities in the ...

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Seth Harp Talks About The Rot At The Core Of America’s Empire

Seth Harp Talks About The Rot At The Core Of America’s Empire
Next year marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11 and the start of the War on Terror. The totalizing and disastrous effects of American intervention in the Middle East followed a familiar trajectory: righteous vengeance and prolonged victimhood; creeping guilt and doubt about the...

The Brian Lehrer Show
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Your Gift-Giving Strategy

Do you give only handmade or consumable gifts? Or do you follow the popular strategy of giving kids something they want, need, wear, read, and share? As the holiday season is now in full swing, listeners call in to share their gift-giving strategies.


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I like this ELECTRIC. It’s not something that most people would even see while walking by and it doesn’t really matter, but someone spent some time making it look cool anyway.

A black metal gate labeled ELECTRIC covers electrical equipment against a gray building exterior.