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Luke and Jonathan talk through the WordPress 6.9 update and their highlights. Jonathan attempts to make a point about comparing WordPress updates to other ecosystems and Luke isn’t having it.

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‘The Scourge of Arial’

marksimonson.com/notebook/view/the-scourge-of-arial/

Typographer Mark Simonson, all the way back in 2001: Arial is everywhere. If you don’t know what it is, you don’t use a modern personal computer. Arial is a font that is familiar to anyone who uses Microsoft products, whether on a PC or a Mac. It has spread like a virus ...

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We just posted a new Core Intuition! Wha…?! Episode 26.2.

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Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life

Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life

The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger. 

We're hungry for more, but we have more than we need. 

We're hungry for less, while more accumulates and multiplies.

We're hungry and we don't have words to articulate why.

Post Reports
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The making of Trump’s presidential library

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Historically, presidential libraries have been used as research hubs to house documents and artifacts from a president’s time in the White House. They’re also a living monument to a president’s legacy. 

Less than a year into President Donald Trump’s second term, planning for his presidential library is underway, with $50 million already raised from undisclosed donors.

Co-host Colby Itkowitz speaks with national political investigative reporter Michael Kranish about how presidential libraries and museums are usually created and why Trump’s private fundraising foundation could allow history to be misrepresented at his future library.

Today’s show was produced by Thomas Lu and mixed by Sean Carter. It was edited by Ariel Plotnick. Thanks to Dan Eggen.

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Making the Cyber Resilience Act Work for Open Source

Flags of the European Union outside the European Parliament Building.

As the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) moves closer to the implementation deadline, software manufacturers across multiple verticals are beginning

The post Making the Cyber Resilience Act Work for Open Source appeared first on The New Stack.

WIRED
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Ford Kills the All-Electric F-150 as It Rethinks Its EV Ambitions

The move comes as a response to the Trump administration's waning support for electrification and a weakening consumer market.

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LeBron James And The Lakers Benefit From The Duality Of Dillon Brooks

LeBron James And The Lakers Benefit From The Duality Of Dillon Brooks
The present-day Lakers-Suns rivalry seems to spring from profound mutual disgust. This is best glimpsed in microcosm, via the "rivalry" between LeBron James and Dillon Brooks, two hammy fellows who love to pout and push each other around. Over the course of Sunday's Lakers v...

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Disney, Immediately After Partnering With OpenAI for Sora, Sends Google a Cease-and-Desist Letter Accusing Them of Copyright Infringement on ‘Massive Scale’

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Todd Spangler, reporting last week for Variety: As Disney has gone into business with OpenAI, the Mouse House is accusing Google of copyright infringement on a “massive scale” using AI models and services to “commercially exploit and distribute” infringing images and vid...

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One more thing, people are posting Trump's vicious eulogy for Reiner and his wife. Why are they helping him piss on the fresh memory of the life of these people who gave us so much. Stop and think before you express your outrage at Trump, and realize you're giving him exactly what he wants, and you tarnish the memory of good-hearted and generous people. Just don't do it.

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For some reason, I'm hit especially hard by the death of Rob Reiner. And it's coming at a time when I understand a lot more about how movie directors work, having watched the fantastic Mr Scorsese 5-part documentary series on Apple TV. The movie director can be as involved i...

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The Cleveland Cavaliers Situation Is Alarming

The Cleveland Cavaliers Situation Is Alarming

Here's a one-play summary of the Cleveland Cavaliers season: On Sunday, Halfway through the second quarter, with his team trailing the piece-of-shit Charlotte Hornets, Darius Garland navigated not so much around but rather into a Jarrett Allen screen, smacked into his teammate, fell over, and gave up a pick-six layup.

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Law Enforcement Teams Up With Washington Post To Make A Mess Of Investigation Into Brown University Shooting

Law Enforcement Teams Up With Washington Post To Make A Mess Of Investigation Into Brown University Shooting
Saturday afternoon a man barged into a lecture hall on the campus of Brown University, in Providence, and fired an assault weapon at the 60 or so students assembled there. Eleven people were shot, and two died. The attacker left the hall and is presently at large. Rhode Isla...

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My Name Is Gregor Samsa, and This Time I Woke Up as a Grad Student at Cal State San Bernardino

You’ve probably heard about the first time this happened to me. You know: guy goes to sleep, wakes up as a giant bug, freaks out his family, worries about losing his job, and his dad throws an apple at him. It’s a tale as old as time. And, I’m not going to lie, it was a huge...

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Zadie Smith Asks, What Makes Us Feel Alive?

Zadie Smith returns to talk with Terry Gross about her new collection of essays, 'Dead and Alive.' She reflects on the "nonsense" of generational discourse, being raised by TV, and her obsession with time.

Also, Martin Johnson has an appreciation of drummer and composer Jack deJohnette, who died in October.

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How to Think Clearly in an Age of Misinformation with Mike Caulfield

How do you know what to believe online? In this re-run episode of Remarkable People, Guy Kawasaki talks with Mike Caulfield, research scientist at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, about the SIFT method—a practical framework for evaluating online ...

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Roomba Maker iRobot Declares Bankruptcy, Falls Into Chinese Hands

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John Keilman, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): The company that makes Roomba robotic vacuums declared bankruptcy Sunday but said its devices will continue to function normally while the company restructures. Massachusetts-based iRobot has struggled fin...

WIRED
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Cozy Earth Is Offering 40 Percent off Pajamas Right Now

Rarely are deals better than what you see on Black Friday, but Cozy Earth's upping the ante for this pajama sale.

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Nick Heer on locked Apple accounts:

Given this tight control, the bar for locking a user out of their Apple Account and, to some extent, out of their devices should be unbelievably high.

As an aside, I use iCloud but also (less frequently) copy my photos to Dropbox and Google Photos. Too important to only have one synced copy.

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The Bengals Left It To Their Fans To Clean Up The Snow

The Bengals Left It To Their Fans To Clean Up The Snow
The Cincinnati Bengals are cheap. There is a good chance you already know this, as it is a longstanding issue. When Takeo Spikes joined the team in 1998, the team gave players used jockstraps. As of a few years back the organization had just six full-time scouts. “There’s a ...