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Texas Observer reader,  Thus, it ends as it began as it begins as it ended. Or something like that. The state, and to some extent the nation, waits to see who prevails between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton in the May 26 runoffs. Trump could still endorse (and may indeed do so in the gap […]

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Come on everyone, we’re going to Cursor Camp!

There is nothing about the Montreal Canadiens in their current iteration that causes a person to stop thinking about the team when it was the league's vibranium standard, which was nearly five decades ago. These Canadiens have always seemed somehow not it, whatever the "it" ...

Donald Trump has a hang-up about Pluto. As far back as 2019, his appointed NASA administrator was making noise about reclassifying it as a planet, a status it lost when in 2006 the International Astronomical Union created a new system of nomenclature for all those weird and ...

600 words from Hartley Charlton at MacRumors expounding upon a wacko post on Weibo suggesting that Apple is debating dropping MagSafe from all iPhones (which post, translated to English, is only 70-some words). Given that last year’s 16e didn’t have MagSafe and this year’s 17e does, you don’t need a pseudonymous Chinese weatherman to know which way the MagSafe wind is blowing in Cupertino.

On Bluesky: "I'm learning from all the faces of WordPress."

The Compiler takes a serious amount of time, skill, and luck to get to. Someone on eBay is selling an easy fix.

Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?

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Vibe coding was funky, then it was clunky. The ability to describe a software application’s intended form and function in

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A new developer program for LightOS allows anyone to create tools for the Light Phone, whether that’s a local public transit app for your city or a way to read ebooks.

Brilliant statue, hilarious intro video. The greatest artist of our age.

The product described on wordpress.com/social is not a real product, I am told by someone inside who I have worked with and trust. They say there will be a lot of these trial products coming out in the coming weeks because this is a project that Matt has given to all develop...

The novelist Walter Tevis described his 1963 sci-fi novel The Man Who Fell to Earth, obliquely inspired by his struggles with alcoholism, as “disguised autobiography.” It had been optioned at least three times before attracting the attention of director Nicolas Roeg, who saw...

In case you aren’t terminally online, as the kids say, there’s a popular meme that uses a photo of a balding man with a steely gaze and the caption “Heartbreaking: The worst person you know just made a great point” (apparently the man’s name is Josep Maria García, and he is from Spain; the picture was taken in 2014 during a trip to Barcelona,

In one layoff announcement after another, we hear that AI can now do the work of a great many people, which is why fewer people are needed to do the work.

Just because I am Pythia, Oracle of Delphi, all-knowing high priestess of the Temple of Apollo, blessed with divine insight into all that shall come to pass, doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be able to hop on a prediction-market platform and throw a couple hundred drachmae on the La...

AirKamuy is shipping flatpacked drones made of paper that cost around $2,000.

Goal Zero’s new Yeti 1500 power station charges faster and has more juice to keep you powered up, no matter where you are.

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