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Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music and musical topics I’ve been fixated on recently. The first time I ever noticed that I was being sold to by the shadowy music industry in a way that didn't feel genuine to me was with the arrival of a l...

Jamelle Bouie, opinion columnist for The New York Times and guest judge for the Hillman Prize, talks about the Hillman Prize, plus some of his recent columns, which are about national politics with an eye toward history and Michelle Adams, professor of law at the University ...

There are 30 Major League Baseball teams, and every summer they play a combined 2,430 games. There is baseball on every day all the time. Someone is always hitting a ground ball into a 6-4-3 double play, or going on an eight-game losing streak, or smashing a home run deep in...

A couple of the members of Defector’s Philadelphia bureau received an invitation, approximately one year ago, to attend the official launch of the city's F1 Arcade (pretty much what it sounds like), with DJ Jazzy Jeff. None of us were able to attend. Ever since then, until t...

As of Wednesday, three teams in the Premier League have fired at least two managers this season. Two of the clubs are Nottingham Forest (who has fired a whopping three managers within one season) and Tottenham Hotspur, both mired in the relegation battle to varying degrees. ...

Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel has another life update for us. Here's what he had to say at his second press conference of the week, on Wednesday evening: As I said the other day, I promised my family, this organization and this team that I was going to give them the best...

This looks good. A new book from the Internet Archive called Vanishing Culture:

…brings together essays, research, and case studies that document a growing crisis: the erosion of access to the knowledge, media, and history that shape our collective memory.

Still annoyed that Twitter / X remains so popular with some groups, like AI developers and NBA fans. New teasing post “NS41” from the OpenAI devs account this morning is “5.5” base64-encoded. Presumably GPT-5.5 is almost ready.

Controversial Twitch streamer Hasan Piker has become a litmus test for Democrats after a campaign appearance with Michigan senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. Jonathan Cowan, co-founder and president of the centrist think tank Third Way, and Daniel Denvir, journalist, host of t...

If you want to surf elsewhere in the galaxy, it doesn’t actually look that promising. “Surfing on Titan would likely be a surreal, slow-motion, and tenebrous experience.” Or there’s also a planet with a sulfuric acid ocean?

A week is a long time in politics, but it’s even longer in AI developer power user circles. That’s the

The post AI shrinkflation: Why Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 may be less capable than the model it replaced appeared first on The New Stack.

Cool to see Inkwell featured in the Own Your Web newsletter, along with posts from great bloggers like Ana Rodrigues, Dave Rupert, Jeffrey Zeldman, and others.

Just had a surprisingly good rescheduling experience with a healthcare provider. Text to confirm appointment. Reply with 2 to reschedule. Then it texted with available dates and times, press 1-3 to pick one. Done. No phone calls, no hold music.

I've written about Firefox many times over the last 20 years or so.

On a recent mini-episode of the Becoming the People podcast, Prentis Hemphill talked about traitors to the patriarchy. Here’s a short excerpt:

I only want to spend time with men who are traitors to that project, the project of patriarchy and patriarchal violence. I want to hang out with traitors and snitches and betrayers of that system. If you do not actively identify as a traitors to that system, if you don’t actively have receipts, I don’t think that a lot of people should necessarily believe that they can invest time in in you.

Here’s the full episode (which you can also listen to on Apple Podcasts):

(via @rebeccawooolf)

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Grok and Gemini encouraged delusions and isolated users, while the newer ChatGPT model and Claude hit the emotional brakes. 

“CHATGPT, I need help now, three wolves circling tree.” Okay, Ethan. Got it. Many would consider it extremely flattering that it’s now not just one, but rather two, or even three, wolves who’ve stepped up to the plate. Wolves are busy, and if they’re circling you, it’s becau...

This isn't Berghain; they're not going to turn you away at the door; the more the merrier. Everybody who's anybody is in the penalty box in South Philly, from the generation's greatest skater to the lowliest goon. And by the time the lights were turned on and everyone scurri...

Before I even get started, I know that many of you have probably already tuned out.

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