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Artist Sam Lavigne created ‘Slow LLM’ to make people question their dependence on tools like Claude and ChatGPT. Or at least, make them super annoying to use.

Why ridicule works to keep big tech’s claims in check, and what makes us hopeful for the future.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order last week to establish an Office of Community Safety. Ben Feuerherd, WNYC and Gothamist reporter covering public safety and policing, talks about this new office and other public safety news, including Commissioner Jessica Tisch's move to change the way the NYPD publicly reports hate crimes.

Photo: Deputy Mayor for Community Safety Renita Francois appears with Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Credit: Michael Appleton/Office of the Mayor.

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Nate Swanson, former director for Iran at the National Security Council between 2022 and 2025, current director of the Iran strategy project for the Atlantic Council and writer for Foreign Affairs, offers analysis of the war with Iran, and why he thinks Tehran may dictate the terms of the end of the war.

Photo: The aftermath of a March 3, 2026 airstrike on Tehran. (Photo: محمدعلی برنو / Avash Media via Wikimedia Commons/CC 4.0)

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I wanted to subscribe to the GiftArticles feed from Mastodon. It makes it possible to read news on paywalled sites. I found the feed by going to the site the feed comes from and tacking a .rss at the end. You can read the feed in a browser, and my feeder test app can read it as well. But for some reason FeedLand won't subscribe to it. Have to dig into that soon. I'm looking forward to doing some long-overdue work on FeedLand before doing the next push.

Life is beautiful due its unpredictability. For example, until this weekend I never would have been able to imagine a scenario in which global pop superstar Chappell Roan and 2021 third-place Ballon d'Or finisher Jorginho were engaged in a feud because a security guard may o...

St. John's was blowing it. After building a 56-42 lead against Kansas with eight minutes left to play, they suddenly started getting outworked and outplayed by a Jayhawks team that had spent the previous 32 minutes looking totally uninterested in advancing to the Sweet 16. K...

As many of you know, something really important is happening, and it’s critical that we all stay informed. There’s a reality star/influencer whose name includes the words Paul, Taylor, and Frankie in an order that is both confusing and ultimately irrelevant. What’s important...

Marty Tibbitts made billions as a Detroit telecommunications executive. But he wanted more.

The perfect vacation for me still includes some work. Coffee in the morning, working for a few hours, then having free time in the afternoon and evening for whatever. Maybe it would be healthier to unplug, but I’m always pulled back to all the things left to do.

Recorded a quick 1-minute demo video on YouTube showing the just released today Inkwell 1.1 for Mac. The major change in this version is recognizing podcast feeds, so you can listen to episodes in the app.

Everyone is excited for the promise of “Digital coworkers” in this agentic era. Model Context Protocol (MCP) is all anyone

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Ran into a funny issue while traveling that I had never experienced before. Because my time zone and system clock weren’t in sync, App Store Connect uploads would mysteriously fail, as well as 2-factor auth for some systems.

I've been reviewing laptops for over a decade, and this is my sincere advice on how to find the right laptop for you

Between pickup artists and juvenile pranksters, the wearable device is becoming associated with pests of all kinds.

Americans increasingly fantasize about a divorce between red and blue states—but they dread the thought of civil war. You can’t have one without the other.

In a place denied access to basic forensic technology—and where people disappear into Israeli detention—the fate of thousands remains unknown. One of them is an autistic teenager.

In its early days, the AI initiative known as Project Maven had its fair share of skeptics at the Pentagon. Today, many of them are true believers.

For families of the missing, systemic obstacles to identifying remains and locating people in Israeli detention has created a kind of social and legal purgatory.

We first released this episode with Dolly Chugh more than a year ago, but it feels even more relevant today. Dolly is a social psychologist at NYU who studies how well-intentioned people deal with bias, identity, and the stories we tell ourselves about the world. Her work ch...