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It's just dawning on me how thoroughly the AI apps are building on Markdown. People love Markdown because it's simple and its virtually impossible to screw it up, unlike HTML which got a lot of crazy-ass features in the 90s when Micosoft was trying to run the world, and then...

A cartoon by Dan Morgan that illustrates the role Markdown plays in AI. Text is central to how AI works, and the text we use in AI is Markdown all the way.

It's very nice to not be working on CSS. I hate CSS. I now have a slave that does the CSS for me.

I didn't invent RSS, I adopted it.

A new bill introduced by Senators Adam Schiff and Mike Rounds would award grants to the National Science Foundation—which has endured massive funding cuts under the Trump Administration for science research—to put “AI literacy” in schools.

Presenters say that Weber State University’s legal team adopted a narrow construction of a state law designed to withhold funding from public institutions suspected of practicing DEI.

T-shirt, unisex cut, continued.

XL (59.5cm, 77cm)
XXL (63.5cm, 79cm)
3XL (67.5cm, 81cm)

Next, t-shirt, unisex cut. The measurements in parantheses are the half chest width and the total length, in that order. There will be a second poll for sizes XL-3XL in response to this one.

XS (47.5cm, 65cm)
S (49.5cm, 69cm)
M (53.5cm, 73cm)
L (56.5cm, 75cm)

T-shirt, women's cut, continued.

XL (57cm, 65.5cm)
XXL (61cm, 67.5cm)

First, t-shirt, women's cut. The measurements in parantheses are the half chest width and the total length, in that order. There will be a second poll for sizes XL-XXL in response to this one.

XS (45cm, 56.5cm)
S (48cm, 59.5cm)
M (51cm, 61.5cm)
L (54cm, 63.5cm)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116460783363908188

I want to get the sizes right this time, so I'm going to post a few polls in response to this post. Please respond if you've bought or are planning to buy from our merch shop (see context in the quote).

#Merchtodon

“They Would Never Use the Death Star on Us”: Alderaan Residents Reflect on Their Support for the Empire as a Large Imperial Installation Enters the System. “The Senate was ineffective, and the liberal Jedi were out of touch…”

Two months ago, revisiting Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s year-prior prediction that AI would soon be writing 90+ percent of all programming code, I wrote: But where I think Amodei’s remarks, quoted above, are facile is that it hasn’t played out as simply that lines of cod...

Press release last week:

SightMD, a leading ophthalmology practice in the greater New England area, today announced a historic milestone in surgical innovation. Dr. Eric Rosenberg, DO, MSE, has become the first surgeon in the world to successfully perform cataract surgery using the Apple Vision Pro, powered by ScopeXR, a groundbreaking mixed reality surgical platform co-developed by Dr. Rosenberg.

The initial procedure was successfully completed in October 2025, and since that time, Dr. Rosenberg and his team have performed hundreds of additional cases using the platform, demonstrating both its scalability and real-world clinical impact.

Not being ready for mass-market popularity is such a different thing from not being ready for niche practical use cases. Would be a weird thing indeed if Apple “gave up” on this platform.

Bryan Hoch, reporting for MLB.com:

A colorful personality who engaged and entertained fans with a distinct conversational style, Sterling called 5,426 regular-season Yankees games and 225 more in the postseason from 1989 until his retirement in 2024. After initially stepping away from the microphone in April of that year, Sterling returned to call selected games late in the ’24 season, including each contest of the World Series.

At the time of his initial retirement, Sterling said that he considered himself to be “a very blessed human being,” noting that he had lived out a childhood dream of broadcasting on the radio for more than 64 years.

“It’s your medium. You do what you want,” Sterling once said. “You have to paint the picture, which I love doing.”

That’s baseball, Suzyn.

Don’t be shy! Solve our Monday crossword. This week’s puzzle was constructed by Rebecca Goldstein and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Rebecca is a research scientist and crossword constructor in the Bay Area. She is also a co-director of Westwords, a crossword tournament taking place in Berkeley, Calif., and online on Sunday, June 14.

Defector crosswords, launched in partnership with our friends at AVCX, run every Monday. If you’re interested in submitting a puzzle to us, you can read our guidelines HERE. 

In a hypothetical where one person could be an entire group of guys, and in this hypothetical I were the collective and entire Tampa Bay Lightning, after that Game 7 I would order the team bus to be driven to the Sunshine Skyway Bridge—there are closer bridges to the arena i...

It has been noted that the Montreal Canadiens won Game 7 of their series with the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday night with a Stanley Cup Playoff record-low nine shots on goal. This is clearly not true. It was eight. It can only be nine if we are defining "on" as "behind...

Nota del editor: Esta es la segunda parte de una serie de dos partes respaldada por el Pulitzer Center y la Beca de Periodismo de Investigación de la Ida B. Wells Society. Vea la primera parte aquí. (Read in English here). En una tarde templada y nublada de finales de marzo de 2025, una multitud […]

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Editor’s Note: This is part two of a two-part series supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Ida B. Wells Society Investigative Reporting Fellowship. See part one here. (Leer en español aquí.) On a balmy, overcast afternoon in late March 2025, a crowd gathered outside Texas Southmost College’s auditorium in downtown Brownsville. With them came […]

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