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'The Interview': ‘Baby Reindeer’ Exploded Richard Gadd's Life. It Also Set Him Free.

The writer and actor found unexpected success by sharing his trauma. Now he’s exploring male pain in a new way.

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Scripting News: Friday, March 20, 2026

Friday, March 20, 2026 Quick note on Bluesky's disclosures. Yesterday they disclosed $100 million investment in April last year. It's good that they cleared it up, but bad that they were hiding it for so long. Everything about what they do is based on trust. New management ...

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Best Of: Harrison Ford / Novelist Francis Spufford

Harrison Ford spoke with Terry Gross about his role in the Apple TV series ‘Shrinking,’ as a therapist who has Parkinson's Disease. He also talks about how he landed the role of Han Solo in ‘Star Wars.’

Also, we’ll hear from British novelist Francis Spufford. His new book, ‘Nonesuch,’ follows a young woman in WWII London trying to survive the Blitz, navigate romance, and fight time-traveling fascists. He spoke with Executive Producer Sam Briger.

Critic David Bianculli reviews the new film ‘Peaky Blinders,’ which is a follow up to the hit British TV series starring Cillian Murphy. 


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Bay Lights are Back!

Tonight, a project very near and dear to my heart, the Bay Lights in San Francisco, are officially re-lighting after a three-year hiatus. It’s been an incredible journey getting here. I literally mortgaged my apartment in 2013 to help fund them the first time around, and it’s such an honor to see them relit now … Continue reading Bay Lights are Back!

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Meta's new support bot probably can't get you your account back

Meta's new support bot probably can't get you your account back

The company's new support chatbot is better than what came before — but still missing the one feature that millions are clamoring for

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Anthropic Denies It Could Sabotage AI Tools During War

The Department of Defense alleges the AI developer could manipulate models in the middle of war. Company executives argue that’s impossible.

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Do you need a CMS?

For twenty years, wanting a website meant needing a CMS. That's no longer true. The real question people ask now is simpler: how do I get my content on the web?

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There Aren't a Lot of Reasons to Get Excited About a New Amazon Smartphone

The company is reportedly building a new AI-powered mobile device. If Amazon follows through on the plan, experts warn it would be next to impossible to break into a crowded market.

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The human.json Protocol via Beto Dealmeida

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human.json is a lightweight protocol for humans to assert authorship of their site content and vouch for the humanity of others. It uses URL ownership as identity, and trust propagates through a crawlable web of vouches between sites.

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Google Search Is Now Using AI to Rewrite Headlines

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Sean Hollister, The Verge (gift link): After doing something similar in its Google Discover news feed, it’s starting to mess with headlines in the traditional “10 blue links,” too. We’ve found multiple examples where Google replaced headlines we wrote with ones we did no...

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A cartographer posits that our maps should be messier ....

A cartographer posits that our maps should be messier. “The idea that we must have a crisp line dividing one country from another is often inaccurate when it comes to what states are actually claiming.”

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Introducing Me.sh

Very excited to share that the Clay.earth team that joined Automattic last year is re-launching under a new, very cool name and brand: Mesh. Imagine something that joins you (me) to everyone you’re connected to. It’s going to be a very important layer of the distributed identity and social work we’re doing. It’s an amazing … Continue reading Introducing Me.sh

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‘A Rigged and Dangerous Product’: The Wildest Week for Prediction Markets Yet

As the prediction market boom continues, backlash is growing too, with Arizona filing criminal charges against Kalshi and public outcry after Polymarket traders threatened a journalist.

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This is a diabolical phishing attack . “That...

This is a diabolical phishing attack. “That generated a real case ID, and triggered real Apple emails to my inbox, properly signed, from Apple’s actual servers.”

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Theater of War on the Radio: Cash and Carry

Actors Jesse Eisenberg, Rosie Perez, and David Patrick Kelly performed a reading of “Cash and Carry,” a personal essay written by David Sedaris for The New Yorker, to kick off a conversation with listeners about the challenges and joys of being neighbors, our duty to strange...

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A Top Democrat Is Urging Colleagues to Support Trump’s Spy Machine

Congressman Jim Himes claims a sweeping surveillance authority should stay intact because he hasn't seen abuses by Kash Patel's FBI, according to internal messaging obtained by WIRED.

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Perhaps Bluesky’s Revelation of an 11-Month Ago $100 Million Investment Was, in Fact, an Act of Transparency

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Regarding my earlier post expressing confusion/discomfort with Bluesky announcing a $100 million funding round almost an entire year after it closed, I had an interesting back-and-forth with Adam Vartanian on Bluesky (natch), where he wrote: If you see press reports that...

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AI can write your infrastructure code. There’s a reason most teams won’t let it.

In this episode of The New Stack Agents, Marcin Wyszynski, co-founder of Spacelift and OpenTofu, explains how AI is transforming infrastructure as code (IaC).

For this episode of The New Stack Agents, I sat down with Marcin Wyszynski, the technical co-founder of Spacelift and

The post AI can write your infrastructure code. There’s a reason most teams won’t let it. appeared first on The New Stack.

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Star Formation

It's ok, I still have some nice, cool gas clouds that aren't collapsing. As long as nothing ionizes them, I can continue to enjoy their ... HEY! NO!!!

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Nash Burns Saves the Day

What happened was, soon after New Year’s, friends and colleagues in the UK and Germany started letting us know that their emails to us were bouncing. Our “textuality.com” family domain is a Google Workspace (or whatever they call it this year) for email and docs and so on. Its Web presence, including DNS, has for many years been handled by a local outfit I’ll call “CWH” for some absurdly low monthly price, and has been trouble-free