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Let’s Get Upset, With Ken Pomeroy

Let’s Get Upset, With Ken Pomeroy
As my variously diseased sports-watching habits go, my fondness for college basketball feels like the most disreputable. The Mets are a family thing. West Coast MLB and NBA games, between teams I don't care about, are mostly about proving that I am allowed to stay up as late...

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Just released Inkwell for Mac 1.0.2, improving a few things and fixing bugs, especially a potential hang on launch. There’s also a help page with full release notes for each version.

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A Warehouse Is For Freight, Not Families

A Warehouse Is For Freight, Not Families

Yesterday I stood on the far west side of Salt Lake City, staring at a gigantic empty warehouse the Department of Homeland Security bought for $145 million, with plans to turn it into an ICE detention center. A warehouse. Near our airport. In our city. As though human beings are inventory. As though the right […]

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The Day Mark Simonson Discovered Type Design

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Mark Simonson:

Just by coincidence, I discovered a copy of U&lc magazine in the graphics classroom. U&lc was published by ITC, the International Typeface Corporation, a typeface publisher, and the designer and editor was the legendary Herb Lubalin. I’d never seen such beautiful typography and design. It was a motherlode for an aspiring typophile like me. [...]

I decided right then that someday, somehow, I wanted to design typefaces.

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Google’s New Sideloading Restrictions for Android Include a 24-Hour Waiting Period

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Adamya Sharma, reporting for Android Authority: When Google execs previously said sideloading would become a high-friction process on Android, they really weren’t kidding. The company is finally sharing what Android’s new sideloading flow will look like in practice, and ...

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Typos Have Plagued Us for Centuries . There’s the...

Typos Have Plagued Us for Centuries. There’s the 1631 Bible that says “thou shalt commit adultery” but James Joyce resisted some of his corrections: “These are not misprints but beauties of my style hitherto undreamt of.”

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RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted

RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted

Who could have possibly predicted this, besides everyone?

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Backend Development in 2026: What’s Changed, What Matters, and What to Learn Next

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Overview of Backend Development Backend development, often called server-side development, involves building and overseeing applications that run on computers controlled

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FCC Enforcement Chief Offered to Help Brendan Carr Target Disney, Records Show

Last year, as FCC chair Brendan Carr threatened ABC over a Jimmy Kimmel monologue, a civil servant overseeing West Coast stations privately pledged support, according to emails obtained by WIRED.

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Jill Scott is in her ‘auntie’ era

The Grammy-winning R&B star spoke with co-host Tonya Mosley about making her new album, ‘To Whom This May Concern,’ finding inspiration in the poetry of Nikki Giovanni, and growing up in a multigenerational household. 


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Paris now has a cycling network bigger than Amsterdam...

Paris now has a cycling network bigger than Amsterdam and “more daily trips in Paris are now made by bike than by car”.

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The Odds of Me Being Mauled by a Bear This Weekend Keep Going Up on Kalshi

I’m as surprised as you are. I have no idea how this happened, and I’m scared. My entire life has been flipped on its head, and I don’t see any way to stop what’s coming. Why, God, and why me? It started innocently enough. I became interested in playing the prediction market...

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Jellyfish AI development study: The real sting has yet to land

Developers are adopting and eschewing AI coding tools depending on their trust in the new automation mantra, the level of

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Google Shakes Up Its Browser Agent Team Amid OpenClaw Craze

As Silicon Valley obsesses over a new wave of AI coding agents, Google and other AI labs are shifting their bets.

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It’s Gambling

It’s Gambling
What's the difference between betting on sports and "trading on a prediction market?" For the gambler herself, very little. If you go on Kalshi, the suddenly ubiquitous "prediction market" platform that has enjoyed the backing of the Trump administration, one can click on th...

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Hacker News Discussion on Shubham Bose’s ‘The 49MB Web Page’

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One of the most controversial opinions I’ve long espoused, and believe today more than ever, is that it was a terrible mistake for web browsers to support JavaScript. Not that they should have picked a different language, but that they supported scripting at all. That decisi...

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Federal vs State Over Transgender Care for Youth

 Giulia Heyward, WNYC and Gothamist reporter, talks about the tug of war between the state and the federal government over transgender care for those 19 and younger. Then, Jack Turban MD, MHS, adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist and author of Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity (Atria Books, 2024), offers best practices for transgender care for those 19 and younger.

Photo: Dusk view of entrance to new Children's Hospital at NYU Langone, New York - stock photo. Credit: Barry Winiker, Getty Images.


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Why The Thunder Have Been Cast As The NBA’s Villains, With Tyler Parker

Why The Thunder Have Been Cast As The NBA’s Villains, With Tyler Parker

Nothing But Respect is a little late this week due to a small error that I explain here at the opening of the episode. We had Tyler Parker of the Ringer on this week, because he's an Oklahoma City Thunder fan and after several of our most recent guests have teed off on OKC, we thought it would be a good idea to get a Thunder partisan on the podcast to talk about what it's like to be the villain. Harry also conducted extensive research into the guys who were responsible for defending Wilt Chamberlain in his 100-point game.

It should be noted that this episode contains discussion of Charlie Brown Jr.

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The Original AirPods Max Are $100 Off

Save big on Apple's previous generation premium over-ear headset.

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Meta Will Keep Horizon Worlds Alive in VR ‘for the Foreseeable Future’

A day after saying it would shut down its metaverse, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth announced the service will remain available in VR—with limited support.