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Three days before the first race of the Formula 1 season, it is impossible to overstate just how badly the Aston Martin team, newly headed by racecar guru Adrian Newey, have managed to botch it. Any attempt to summarize from an outsider's perspective will mostly boil down to...

Before I went to Melbourne in January to cover the Australian Open for Defector and a couple other publications, I spent some time in New Zealand with my family. We lived there for five years when I was a child, and ever since we moved back to the United States, where I was ...

Nobody in the NBA has done nondescript quite like the Charlotte Hornets, and nobody has done it for as long. By long in this context we mean "forever." They have been the quintessential (and quit-essential, if truth be told) member of the league's ultra-forgettable Southeast...

Heidi Sabertooth, a NYC-based singer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, producer and co-founder of Synth Library NYC, talks about electronic music and the library which is dedicated to giving “equal access to the means of production,” giving access to a wide array of synthesizers and creating a diverse community around it. 

 

Photo: TR-808 Musical instrument Museum, Phoenix, AZ (Bryan Pocius from New York, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

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In January, after TikTok announced a deal to transfer its US operations, Apple began blocking people in the US from downloading or updating ByteDance apps designed for the Chinese market.

I’m continuing to tinker with OpenClaw to see how it could be useful to me. For the last week, I’ve had it wake up once an hour and pick a small change to make to a new, experimental project. It’ll track what it’s working on, fix something, then push the change to GitHub for me to review.

For this pledge drive, listeners try their hand at a quiz. Today's theme is landmarks.

 

Photo: Jones Beach Water Tower in New York in 2021 (Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

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Can it really be the case that the company can now make a laptop $200 cheaper than a watch?

Adam Rodman, MD, MPH, FACP, a general internis­­­t and medical educator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he directs AI Programs for the Carl J. Shapiro Center for Education and Research, and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, talks about his recent New York Times op-ed outlining best (and worst) practices for patients wanting to incorporate AI into office visits with their physicians.

→ Take It From a Doctor: It’s OK if Your Medical Advice Comes From A.I.

Photo: Stethoscope and Laptop Computer. Source: National Cancer Institute via Unsplash.

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Web game: list as many animals as you can in 1 minute (but you get more time with correct guesses).

In collective bargaining, "things tend to get done at the 11th hour," Adam Silver said in February, answering questions about the status of the WNBA’s ongoing CBA negotiations. "We are awfully close to the 11th now." The NBA commissioner wasn’t then ready to set a "drop...

"As part of our commitment to supporting ICE, we will be adding a ‘Support ICE’ donation button to the footer of every email sent through our platform."

In 2017, city planner Jeff Speck gave a talk on the four ways to make a city more walkable: In the typical American city, in which most people own cars and the temptation is to drive them all the time, if you’re going to get them to walk, then you have to offer a walk tha...

Nelio Content 4.3 introduces webhooks, Facebook Page video posting, plugin-aware placeholders, and new analytics hooks for developers

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WordPress ActivityPub 8.0.0 makes your blog more interactive in the Fediverse: visitors can Like/Boost posts directly on-site, with faster repeat interactions and clearer guidance. New Fediverse block patterns/templates speed setup, a pre-publish panel suggests post formats, community snippets land in-repo, and remote media caching is rebuilt for reliability. PHP 7.4+ required.

“Just peachy” Things are going well… not! “Very cherry” You’ve got a pit in your stomach. “Basically banana” Today feels like your day. You weren’t ready yesterday, tomorrow’s not guaranteed, but today? Your golden window of opportunity. You’re basically banana. “Som...

Legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth: “Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6.”

I’m a few days away from launching Jottit.org, a revival of the minimalist wiki tool Aaron Swartz and I built in 2007. If you have a few minutes, I’d love for you to kick the tires. Looking for bug reports and first impressions. Thanks! @manton @dave jottit.org

I’m a few days away from launching Jottit.org, a revival of the minimalist wiki tool Aaron Swartz and I built in 2007. If you have a few minutes, I’d love for you to kick the tires. Looking for bug reports and first impressions. Thanks! @manton @davewiner jottit.org

I came across a maxim many years ago in a blog post written by Chris Dixon, a startup guy who is now a partner with Andreessen Horowitz, the Silicon Valley VC outfit.