“Observe the moth in its monumental fight for life, and do likewise. We gain life’s powers by knowing that eventually they will be taken away. There is beauty in this struggle. Murmurations of starlings occur only in the evening.”
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AI and I
• Dan Shipper
We Automated Everything With AI and Tripled Our Headcount
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Democratic Primary Forum: Dan Goldman and Brad Lander
Dan Goldman, US Representative (D, NY-10), and Brad Lander, former NYC comptroller and former mayoral candidate, discuss key issues as they campaign in the June primary election to be the Democratic nominee for Congress for New York's 10th congressional district.
Photo: On August 7, 2025, NYC Comptroller Brad Lander and Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) speak outside the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on August 07, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Mayor Mamdani's 'Housing Plan for A New Era'
On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled his plan to build 200,000 affordable units and preserve another 200,000 over the next decade. David Brand, housing reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, relays the standout details of the Mamdani administration's "Block by Block: The Housing Plan for a New Era."
Photo: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks to the media as he stands with some of the people he has appointed to help with his transition to City Hall on November 24, 2025 in New York City (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Diversity's Long History
David B. Oppenheimer, clinical professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, co-director of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law and the author of The Diversity Principle: The Story of a Transformative Idea (Yale University Press), argues that the idea that there is value in diversity in education and politics has a long history, and that attacks on the concept today are misguided.
Cover art courtesy of Yale University Press
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
All of It's 2026 Summer Reading Challenge
Jordan Lauf, producer for All Of It and its book club, Get Lit with All Of It, introduces this summer reading contest from All Of It and Get Lit, six books across six categories.
Photo by Luke Green/WNYC
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404 Media
• Jason Koebler
‘Lobotomized’: Character.AI Is Showing What AI Enshittification Looks Like
Ads everywhere. Usage limits. Frustrating guardrails. Less model choice. Users of the Character.AI chatbot app are revolting after a series of changes they say have made the app worse.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Janakiram MSV
With Google’s debut, the most important AI agent feature is now the most boring one

When Google announced last week at its I/O conference that it was repositioning Antigravity as a platform for developing and
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Going Focaccia Crazy
Now that we have Inkwell 1.0 through app review, Apple doesn’t seem quite as picky. Hopefully. 🤞 They’ve approved 1.0.1 with some fixes and restoring the ability to save highlights in text. The plan is to roll out a couple more minor releases that bring the app forward to what we expected for 1.0.
WIRED
• Jeremy White
I Like Ferrari's Luce EV. But This Is Why It's Heartbreaking
Designed by Jony Ive and a host of ex-Cupertino colleagues, the Luce shows us what might have been had Apple made good on its $10 billion bet.
The Texas Observer
• Gus Bova
Christian Menefee’s Win Foreshadows Fights to Come Across the South
It’s only fitting that the last campaign video Congressman Al Green posted to Facebook—far and away the most-used social media platform among senior citizens—featured “Let’s Stay Together,” the greatest hit by the other Al Green, the last of the great soul singers, about a smooth talker imploring his lover to stay by his side, “whether […]
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Defector
• Giri Nathan
What Is This Alien Feeling Of Watching The Knicks Without Pain?
Defector
• Chris Thompson
The Thunder Have Numbers
Defector
• Tom Ley
Josh Jacobs Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges
Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs was arrested on Tuesday in relation to an alleged domestic violence incident that occurred on May 23. He has been charged with battery, criminal damage to property, disorderly conduct, strangulation and suffocation, and intimidation of a victim.
The news of Jacobs's arrest was announced by the Hobart-Lawrence Police Department in Hobart, Wis. The department put out a press release on Tuesday announcing that officers had been dispatched to a disturbance involving Jacobs at 8:37 a.m. on May 23. The subsequent investigation led to Jacobs's arrest on Tuesday. The department's press release also stated that it will be releasing no further information.
Attorneys representing Jacobs have released a statement denying the allegations against their client. From ESPN:
WIRED
• Hugo Lowell
Drone Ports and Funding Mayhem: Trump's Ballroom Has Turned Toxic
“Republicans are just going to have to suck it up and get it done,” says one Trump aide about the funding melee. The votes, though, may simply not be there.
OG was playing so well one night he was invited on Inside the NBA, which is a big moment in an upcoming NBA player's career. He sounded kind of irritated, in the OG way. At the end Charles Barkley asked what OG stood for, kind of a smirky question (probably to see if he could get him to smile), but his irritation level went wayyy up, and then Chuck didn't pronounce it right and OG told him. Didn't smile. But that's who he is and it makes the great photo of him ecstatic with happiness that much more of a big deal. Loook everyone even OG is impressed! :-)
McSweeney’s
• David Shih
For Sale: Digital Art Collection and Miscellaneous Items Priced to Move
Chris Coyier
• Chris Coyier
Did your editor font go default serif on WordPress 7.0?
Mine did. Like this: I guess WordPress 7.0 assumes you are using a theme.json file these days. I’m not doing that yet on any of the sites I work on. If you want to embrace that future, you could add a theme.json file to the root of your theme, and put some typography basics only […]
Sarah Kendzior’s Newsletter
• Sarah Kendzior
Overriding the Oligarchy
Your questions answered on war and technofascist plots. Plus: did The Wire expose the Trump crime syndicate?