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The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

What Makes Your Dog the Best?

With the Westminster Dog Show underway at MSG, listeners share what their dogs deserve a medal for and Elias Weiss Friedman, aka @TheDogist on Instagram, author of This Dog Will Change Your Life (Ballantine, 2025) and host of the YouTube talk show "Dogs with Elias Weiss Friedman", shares what makes the dogs he photographs special.


 


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The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

(Solar) Power to the People

Elizabeth Yeampierre, attorney and executive director of UPROSE, talks about Sunset Park Solar, a grassroots project seeking to bring green power to Sunset Park residents.


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Bram’s Thoughts
Text • Bram Cohen

A Legendary Poker Hand and A Big Poker Tell

A Legendary Poker Hand and A Big Poker Tell

A lesson which applies to life

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Why Kubernetes is retiring Ingress NGINX

We warned you! Today, Ingress NGINX is still being used by 50% of Kubernetes users to manage incoming traffic, but it’s

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The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

Eugene Robinson's 'Personal History of America'

Eugene Robinson, a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist, former columnist and associate editor of The Washington Post, political analyst and author of Freedom Lost, Freedom Won: A Personal History of America (Simon & Schuster, 2026), shares his own family's story as it intersects with America's ongoing struggle with structural racism -- what's been accomplished and what still needs to be done.


 


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This is what democracy looks like

The Trump administration claims the imprimatur of the people. The people disagree.

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Codex for Mac does more than I realized on first glance. It’s one of the most complete version 1.0 releases I’ve seen in a long time. And by 1.0, of course I mean version 260202.0859. 🤪

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

Children in Immigration Detention

Elora Mukherjee, professor at Columbia Law School and director of Columbia Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, talks about the many children detained by US immigration authorities and argues for alternatives to detention for families.
Liam Ramos Was Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.

 


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Who The Hell Was This?

It was a bonnie morning 410 million years ago in what are now the Rhynie chert fossil beds in Scotland. The mists had begun to lift and swirl over the landscape, where hot springs burbled, lichen papered over rocks, and worms slithered as only worms can. Here, almost all lif...

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Hackers and Trolls Target Wave of ICE Spotting Apps

Hackers have targeted a spread of apps or sites that aim to track ICE activity, in one case even sending push notifications to users in an attempt to intimidate them.

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SpaceX data centers

SpaceX acquires xAI. Elon Musk explains putting data centers in space in a fantastical, far-reaching update: By directly harnessing near-constant solar power with little operating or maintenance costs, these satellites will transform our ability to scale compute. It’s alway...

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1996: Nerd's Guide to Frontier.

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Offering Criticism in Open Source Projects

When is it fair to criticize an open source project? A recent podcast discussion about WordPress 6.9's Notes feature sparked my thinking about how and when contributors should speak up, even without complete context.

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Into The Research Triangle Of Sadness, With Jacob Rosenberg

Into The Research Triangle Of Sadness, With Jacob Rosenberg
Hopefully you have not already heard, but the Charlotte Hornets are one of the hottest teams in the NBA. LaMelo Ball is for once an aptonym, Brandon Miller is playing like Paul George (laudatory) instead of playing like Paul George (derogatory), and Kon Knueppel is going nut...

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Best Microsoft Surface Laptop (2026): Which Model to Buy or Avoid

Surface Pro or Surface Laptop? Here's how to decide which Microsoft device is right for you.

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Interesting post on Twitter by an OpenAI co-founder, Andrej Karpathy, about the value of RSS. I've it said elsewhere, that RSS and ChatGPT are particularly well-suited for each other. I don't understand the connection, other than RSS is always useful, as a way of formalizing...

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Screen shot of system.verbs.apps as it appeared in my frontier.root frozen sometime in the early 00s.

Leaflet Lab Notes
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New year Leaflet improvements roundup

Lab Notes 022: kicking off the year with new features like page width, small/large text, cover images, and editable post dates; and improving everything from mentions to block handling to our Bluesky thread viewer

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Wedding Photo Booth Company Exposes Customers’ Drunken Photos

‘Curator Live’, a popular photo booth company for weddings and other events, is exposing all sorts of unsuspecting people’s photos.

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A Westminster Dog Show Judge Tells Us What They’re Looking For

A Westminster Dog Show Judge Tells Us What They’re Looking For
NEW YORK — On day one of the Westminster Dog Show, the Westminster Kennel Club hosted a Judging Insider program, where longtime judge Michael Faulkner helpfully pulled back the curtain on what actually goes into judging dogs and bitches (a strict technical term in the dog sh...