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Will Lewis, the stubbled bumbler brought in by Jeff Bezos to lay waste to the Washington Post, is gone. Lewis announced over the weekend that he was resigning as the newspaper’s CEO and publisher. But, mission accomplished! Not since King George III razed the White House has...

The history of professional football is long enough and strange enough to include a placekicker or two who had "a normal career." Theoretically. I have found scant evidence of that, but presumably there has been or could be a kicker that performed as a pro more or less in th...

To ski jump is to momentarily become a god. The track is narrow and slick, and the athletes plummet down the sloped hill at almost 60 mph. They leave the track and take up, up, up into the sky, where they bend themselves forward. Their chests are almost at their skis, which ...

Thinking more about an idea I’ve had for a while, to publish my private journal entries to my blog after 20-25 years have passed. They’d get a special post design or background color. It might feel similar to my letters from Europe page. Not quite confident enough to go for it.

Agents prioritize APIs and structured data over traditional interfaces. This shift in design impacts both code editing and website building.

Simon Willison blogging about how AI-assisted coding can actually make us feel even more over-worked:

I’ve had conversations with people recently who are losing sleep because they’re finding building yet another feature with “just one more prompt” irresistible.

Multitasking ramps up because it’s tempting to work on another feature while the AI agent is off working. Probably while waiting we should stretch or read a book instead.

Break the ice with our Monday crossword. This week's puzzle was constructed by Matthew Stock and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Matthew is a freelance puzzle maker and newly minted stay-at-home dad originally from Dallas. His puzzles have been published in the New York Times, USA Today, and the New Yorker, among other venues. When he’s not making puzzles, Matthew enjoys cooking, birdwatching and playing ultimate frisbee.

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.

"The future of media is AI!" That's what Devin The Mixed-Reality Dugong has been telling me every single day, ever since he stopped talking about the metaverse. I'm certainly in no position to argue with him. In Devin's role as Chief AI/Metaverse/Surveillance Officer for Def...

Annie McDonough, senior City Hall reporter at City & State New York, talks about Mayor Mamdani's plans for a Department of Community Safety to send social workers instead of police officers to respond to mental health crises.

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I would prefer if GitHub wasn’t down right now. 🙂 It has become such a critical part of everyday tasks like deploying bug fixes. Wishing good luck to the Microsoft folks who are probably scrambling to fix whatever happened.

Nadira Goffe, staff writer of culture at Slate, recaps Bad Bunny's joyful halftime show at the Super Bowl and talks about the political divide over the performance, the commercials and general vibes of the big game.
→ Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Performance Was Pure Joy

 

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The latest Epstein files to be released exposed more embarrassing revelations for more powerful men, including the president of Bard College, the (former) chairman of the law firm Paul Weiss, and one of the owners of the Giants. Vicky Ward, investigative journalist and author of Kushner, Inc. (St. Martin's Press, 2019) and, with James Patterson, The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy (Little, Brown and Company, 2025), and Steve Eder, investigative reporter for The New York Times, talk about what the new emails reveal about how wealthy and powerful people operate. 

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Steve Fulop, president and CEO of the Partnership for New York City, talks about what they want from the new mayoral administration, and the group's critiques of Mayor Mamdani so far. 

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Posted a video walkthrough on YouTube of the new full-screen editor in Micro.blog. It’s a big change and I expect there will be feedback. We’ll listen and adjust anything that we missed.

I can't speak for every neutral, but I think for a lot of us, the experience of watching the Super Bowl was sitting around willing Drake Maye to do something for the New England Patriots—not because we wanted the Pats to win, but because the game was extremely boring. By th...

Giannis Antetokounmpo has purchased some shares of the prediction market platform Kalshi. Kalshi, which would prefer to be described as a market-based "filter" on the otherwise unreliable flow of human knowledge but is in fact just a way for normies to lose money wagering on...

You could see what the Patriots were up to from the first drive of the game. They blitzed Sam Darnold without hesitation and instructed the defensive backs to undercut routes as much as possible. A wager was being made: If we make this guy as uncomfortable as possible, event...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116041069446538092

We’ve moved our internal communications from Discord to Zulip at Mastodon, and I think there are plans to do the same for our Patreon community. The harder part will be untangling my gaming communities from this…

Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: “Despite all the hype, AI just isn't ready to take on the role of the physician.”

I don’t get what everyone on all sides is so angry about. Isn’t this exactly what the country voted for? Do we not remember the affordability crisis from 2024 and the price of everything? With the cost of food, energy, and housing, it was no surprise that America reelected D...