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Sidney Crosby Is A Miracle

Sidney Crosby Is A Miracle
The cheek, to even attempt a deflection from there. It's hard enough to tip in a puck right from the goalie's doorstep. That sucker is small, hard, and moving well above the speed limit, and it's a genuine feat of hand-eye coordination to not just get a blade on it, but to g...

Nelio Software
Text • Antonio Villegas

Nelio Content 4.2 — Faster onboarding and smarter links (with your favorite shorteners)

Nelio Content 4.2 introduces a three-step guided setup for faster onboarding and flexible link shortening with popular services, plus a tidy deactivation cleanup.

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Playing the Percentages

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Dr. Drang:

For weeks — maybe months, time has been hard to judge this past year — Trump has been telling us that he’s worked out deals with pharmaceutical companies to lower their prices by several hundred percent. Commentators and comedians have pointed out that you can’t reduce prices more than 100% and pretty much left it at that, suggesting that Trump’s impossible numbers are due to ignorance.

Don’t get me wrong. Trump’s ignorance is nearly limitless — but only nearly. I’ve always thought that he knew the right way to calculate a price drop; he did it the wrong way so he could quote a bigger number. And that came out in yesterday’s speech.

Trump sophistry + math pedantry = Daring Fireball catnip.

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Rainy, misty morning in Austin. This weekend is going to be cold, with ice and maybe snow. Hopefully we’re ready for it. I’ve been mostly worried about the new tree we planted. Added new mulch to protect the roots. Going with sheets and plastic over it. 🌳

The Texas Observer
Text • Dylan Baddour

Trump’s Plan for Venezuelan Oil Raises Prospects of Paramilitary Violence

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Editor’s Note: This story illuminates potential push factors that could influence future immigration at the Texas border. There is a sense of deja vu in the jungles of South America to […]

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Text • Abigail Segel

Manchester City Lost A Battle But Is Winning The War For English Women’s Soccer Supremacy

Manchester City Lost A Battle But Is Winning The War For English Women’s Soccer Supremacy
Have you heard the old wives’ tale that if two football teams face each other in four consecutive matches, their fates swap the next season, Freaky Friday style? That seems to be what has happened to Manchester City and Chelsea, whose domestic seasons a year ago were define...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Greg Foster

Context is AI coding’s real bottleneck in 2026

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Walk into any engineering leadership meeting today, and someone will question whether AI-generated code is secure or whether agents can

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We Live In The Bone Temple Now

We Live In The Bone Temple Now
David Roth: I feel like when we have these sorts of conversation blogs on the site, the subject is generally something that everyone kind of likes, but not in a way that they’d fully feel comfortable putting their name on a blog about—your Reachers, or your Wildwood Boardwal...

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Text • Sabrina Imbler

Let The Record Show That Ötzi Fucked

Let The Record Show That Ötzi Fucked
Ötzi, the 5,000-something-year-old man found frozen in the Alps, did not have an easy go of it. He was probably murdered, shot from behind with an arrow that missed his vital organs and led to heavy bleeding and a prolonged and painful death. Days before his death, he fought...

WIRED
Text • Scott Gilbertson

The Best Paper Notebooks and Journals, Tested and Reviewed (2026): Leuchttherm, Midori, Field Notes

Celebrate National Handwriting Day (I did not make that up) with new notebooks, a journal, or sketchbooks.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Bob Stevens

The year of AI: 3 critical shifts coming to regulated industries

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Enterprises in highly regulated industries spent 2025 rigorously evaluating AI capabilities, conducting proofs of concepts, and distinguishing genuine value from

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The Texas Observer
Text • Courtney Thomas

In Dallas, Spanish-Inflected Shakespeare Adaptations Experiment with Language

In September, two new Shakespeare adaptations used the Bard’s canonical plays as jumping-off points to bring stories infused with Hispanic culture to Dallas audiences.  Echo Theatre’s world-premiere production of El Rey del Pollo by Anna Skidis Vargas, an adaptation of King Lear, and Shakespeare Dallas’ The Taming of the Shrew used the Spanish language to […]

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Jack Wallen

Docker logs got you down? Give this tool a try

One of the more challenging aspects of using Docker containers is troubleshooting. Unless you are a master of the art,

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McSweeney’s
Text • Brent Cunningnam

Twenty Solutions to Common Story Problems

1. Problem: The story you are writing has plot holes. Solution: Unreliable narrator. - - - 2. Problem: The story you are writing has severe, glaring plot holes. Solution: Unreliable narrator with amnesia. - - - 3. Problem: Even an unreliable narrator with amnesia can’t expla...

WIRED
Text • Luke Larsen

Lenovo LOQ 15 Review: The Best Gaming Laptop Under $1,000

It's rare to find a gaming laptop under $1,000 without any major compromises, but the Lenovo LOQ 15 surprises.

Open Channels FM Podcast Network
Text • Bob Dunn

It’s Okay to Let Go

Being a creator also means there are many times where it's tough to let go of ideas or even businesses. You need to figure out that sweet spot for yourself.

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Ryan

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Ryan, whose blog can be found at laze.net. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Piet Terheyden and the other 122 m...

WIRED
Text • Adrienne So

Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow Review: The Most Beautiful, Best Robot Vacuum

Roborock hasn’t updated its popular, affordable Qrevo Curv line of robovacs for years. Finally, it’s happening!

WIRED
Text • Reece Rogers

No, the Freecash App Won’t Pay You to Scroll TikTok

Freecash will actually pay money out to users but not for watching videos. This misleading marketing coincides with the app’s rising popularity.

WIRED
Text • Simon Cohen

We Are Rewind GB-001 Cassette Boombox: Old-School Stylish

We Are Rewind’s speaker/cassette player combo is an imperfect but satisfying reissue of a bygone audio era.