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Amanda Anisimova Defeats Wang Xinyu, Narrowly Escapes Amanda Anisimova

Amanda Anisimova Defeats Wang Xinyu, Narrowly Escapes Amanda Anisimova
Because tennis is thinly disguised psychological torture, it is not a surprise when a tennis player looks like they are having a bad time. Even by those standards, Amanda Anisimova, while on court, wears her emotions on her sleeve; she can also look like she is wrangling wit...

McSweeney’s
Text • Emily Flake

I’m a Bodega Cat, and I Guess I’m in Charge Now?

Dear Customers: Some humans (I think? Hard to tell) in masks and vests showed up this morning and took Manny and Kumal away. As you may have noticed, those two were the only staff—despite this place being open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., truly lazy, shiftless drains on society, ...

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‘TextEdit and the Relief of Simple Software’

newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/textedit-and-the-relief-of-simple-software

Perhaps at the opposite end of the complexity and novelty spectrum from Federico Viticci’s intro to Clawdbot is this piece by Kyle Chayka, writing at The New Yorker, from October: Amid the accelerating automation of our computers — and the proliferation of assistants and...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Fahmid Kabir

AI DevOps vs. SRE agents: Compare AI incident response tools

Illustration of a person having to make a decision.

If you’ve seen a new crop of data about ops lately, you may have noticed this new category coming up:

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Text • Anshul Gupta

Async Rust: Pinning demystified

A rusty car

This is the second of a four-part series. Read Part 1: How Rust does Async differently (and why it matters)

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WIRED
Text • Louryn Strampe

The 10 Best Sleep Masks We’ve Tested While Snoozing (2026)

Get some solid shut-eye with the help of these sleep masks. Our top pick is from Blissy.

Fresh Air
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The Rebirth Of White Rage

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Heather Ann Thompson talks about the 1984 New York City subway shooting, when Bernhard Goetz, a white man, shot four Black teenagers. "We are watching someone tell us exactly who they are, exactly what they did, and it will not matter. Up will become down, down will become up. And that also felt very, very familiar to where we are today," she tells Tonya Mosley. Thompson argues reactions to the Goetz case helped fuel a politics of racial resentment that reshaped criminal justice, national policy and media narratives. Her book is 'Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage.'


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NYC Comptroller's Report

NYC Comptroller Mark Levine talks about the budget gap and what it means for NYC's finances, plus, how the city is managing the storm.

 


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“Disgusted” Breanna Stewart Holds Up “Abolish ICE” Sign Before Unrivaled Game

“Disgusted” Breanna Stewart Holds Up “Abolish ICE” Sign Before Unrivaled Game
Two-time WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up a sign that read "Abolish ICE" during player introductions at an Unrivaled game Sunday, just a day after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. After the game, a 76-71 victory for Stewart's Mist over the Vinyl, S...

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Text • Patrick Redford

Clippers Win, Sentencing Blogger To Eat Words

On Dec. 20, with the Los Angeles Clippers sitting at 6-21 and one half-game out of last place in the Western Conference, Clippers blogger Robert Flom unwittingly turned his favorite team's season around through the power of posting. He will soon have to make like a beaver and eat some paper to pay for his alterations to the cosmic weft.

Specifically, Flom responded to a tweet from ESPN's Dave McMenamin, in which the Lakers propagandist quoted Clippers coach Ty Lue projecting a plus-15 win differential for his team over the course of the rest of the season. Upon some cajoling from another Clippers fan, who joked about the team going 15-3 upon trading for the decrepit bones of DeMar DeRozan, Flom made his fateful proclamation:

The Brian Lehrer Show
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School Snow Report

Listeners call in to talk about whether their schools got a snow day or had to do remote instruction, and how it's going either way


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WIRED
Text • Brad Bourque

This Wireless Mic Kit Is $70 Off

Save on a full DJI Mic 3 bundle, or pick and choose to build your own portable recording setup.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Frederic Lardinois

Anthropic extends MCP with a UI framework

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the company's Code with Claude conference in 2025.

With the MCP protocol, Anthropic created the de facto standard for AI models and agents to talk to third-party applications.

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Federico Viticci on Clawdbot

macstories.net/stories/clawdbot-showed-me-what-the-future-of-personal-ai-assistants-looks-like/

Federico Viticci, writing at MacStories: If this intro just gave you whiplash, imagine my reaction when I first started playing around with Clawdbot, the incredible open-source project by Peter Steinberger (a name that should be familiar to longtime MacStories readers) t...

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Text • Lauren Theisen

Jarrett Stidham Dropped The Ball

Jarrett Stidham Dropped The Ball
Those who believed, or perhaps just hoped, that Jarrett Stidham might be able to quarterback the Broncos to the Super Bowl had to wait a long time for the Patriots to officially prove them wrong. After the Pats' go-ahead field goal to start the second half, Stidham and the D...

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Text • Maitreyi Anantharaman

The Crossword, Jan. 26: Nailbiter (Themeless)

The Crossword, Jan. 26: Nailbiter (Themeless)

It's time to wrap up the month with a challenging themeless. Keep an eye out for tricky clues and fun wordplay. This week's puzzle was constructed by Rafael Musa, and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Rafa lives in San Francisco with his cat Georgia.

Defector crosswords, launched in partnership with our friends at AVCX, run every Monday. If you’re interested in submitting a puzzle to us, you can read our guidelines HERE

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Where is our Churchill?

I'm interested in the movie Darkest Hour. Specifically the scene where Churchill is surprised by a visit from the king, who we learned earlier is pissed off, while Churchill is morose and undecided on what to do. The King wants Churchill to know that he wants to fight, and t...

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Text • Emanuel Maiberg

Two Heads, Three Boobs: The AI Babe Meta Is Getting Surreal

Two Heads, Three Boobs: The AI Babe Meta Is Getting Surreal

The algorithm is driving AI-generated influencers to increasingly weird niches.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Joab Jackson

Cisco is using eBPF to rethink firewalls, vulnerability mitigation

Networking giant Cisco purchased Isovalent in 2024 to get in on the cloud native action. In our cloud native community,

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B I J A N
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A little web app

I built a little web app to scratch a personal itch. An easy way to format photos the way I prefer them onInstagram. Drop in photos, get them back with a clean white border inside a square.Plus a toggle to add a film rebate look. Your photos never leave your browser. Nothing is uploaded or […]