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Happy Pride Month. 🌈

Pride has always been about more than celebration. It is about courage, community, and the ongoing fight to ensure every person can live openly, safely, and with dignity.

At a time when LGBTQIA+ rights are constantly under attack, I want to be clear: I stand with you.

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Joao Fonseca Has Created More Chaos At The French Open

Joao Fonseca Has Created More Chaos At The French Open
Three drop shots, three aces—that's a sequence that I'll never forget. Nineteen-year-old Joao Fonseca wrapped up his upset of Novak Djokovic in scandalous style. Friday's third-round match at Roland-Garros had the gravity of a classic final: the shot-making, the comeback fro...

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Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated

Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated

Employees admitted to 404 Media they had cheated to climb the leaderboard's ranks.

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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

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We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything

We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything

Paragon's software is capable of remotely breaking into phones and accessing messages from encrypted messaging apps. Our lawsuit aims to pry records about it from ICE.

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AI Grifters Are Making Anti-Data Center Slop With AI

AI Grifters Are Making Anti-Data Center Slop With AI

There are hundreds of anti-data center Facebook pages churning out AI-generated slopaganda.

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Star Wars Influences: Dam Busters

The original Star Wars movie was a mashup. George Lucas and his collaborators pulled from everywhere: westerns, samurai movies, Flash Gordon, and a 1955 war film called The Dam Busters. This video shows just how closely the attack on the Death Star mirrors a scene from The...

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If you work at Automattic as a developer, if there's another Radical Speed Month for devs, if you want, let's work on a project together even though I don't work for the company. I'm most interested in making products work together where the result gets people thinking about the web in a new way. A8C has a big enough product set, and FeedLand and WordLand are by design well-equipped to talk with other products. I love APIs and we have some good ones to work with, and some very underexplored (imho because we got too fixated on the silos for so long). Very much open to ideas, and I love working with good developers. Maybe I'll post some ideas here. I'm esp interested now in hooking other projects up with FeedLand.

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Maybe the best way to deal with the AIs is to quarantine the data centers on the moon or Mars, and if you want to hook up to the network, you have to move there, and quite possibly not be allowed to return, depending on how things go. It would make it possible for us to change our mind after we see a preview of the consequences. Now the big question, would you volunteer??

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Bee Champion

Spelling bees have gotten a lot more intense. How many of these do you know? torrone, enthymeme, iguape, Denebola, fais-dodo, cywyddau, pohutukawa, monadnock, émeute, nannofossil, tongkang, Natchitoches, flaith, semele, rusell, sawder, campernelle, Nicol, Zamenis, Tharparkar, tlachtli, madoqua, retiarius, balintawak, tessaraconter, taurokathapsia, rapakivi, uayeb, paroemia, melengket, teraglin, homelyn, chikungunya, bromocriptine (cashaw) Check out the first 90 … Continue reading Bee Champion →

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Boring Dunce Nick Bilton Hounded Out Of First Meeting With ’60 Minutes’ Staffers

Boring Dunce Nick Bilton Hounded Out Of First Meeting With ’60 Minutes’ Staffers
Nick Bilton, the dumb, dull, and severely underqualified former tech journalist who is now running 60 Minutes at the behest of Bari Weiss had his first meeting with his new colleagues today. It ended with him more or less being chased out of the room. You can tell a lot abo...

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RIP To ‘Euphoria,’ HBO’s Dumbest Show

RIP To ‘Euphoria,’ HBO’s Dumbest Show
Going into the third season of Euphoria, the much-delayed, much-discussed, maybe final season of the hit HBO series, a friend roped me into catching up on the show's first two seasons. I had avoided the show during its initial run and the peak of its hype machine, mainly bec...

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“Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support...

“Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account.” And the bot just went ahead and did it.

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In Post-War Japan, the US Used Quiz Culture to Help...

In Post-War Japan, the US Used Quiz Culture to Help Democratize the Country. TV quiz shows “normalized participation, merit-based competition, and equal opportunity — values that contrasted sharply with the hierarchical structures [of] prewar Japan”.

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Your Body Is Now Considered Vintage

Dear Human, We are pleased to inform you that after several decades of constant (if often subpar) operation, you have finally crossed the threshold from “garage sale junk” to “retro memorabilia.” Your body is no longer considered a worn-out, high-mileage clunker, but a herit...

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‘Try Hard’ Is Back, Now In Video Form

‘Try Hard’ Is Back, Now In Video Form
In my early twenties, a huge part of my job was to convince older journalists in my newsroom to use social media. This is the kind of job that only a young person could have, not just because of my total facility with the social media apps I was proselytizing, but also becau...

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Richard Pryor’s daughter Elizabeth is a scholar of the N-word

Historian Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor has spent her career tracing the racial slur, the N-word, through slavery, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, and hip hop. But what she didn't tell most of her students, even some of her colleagues, was that her father was the comedian who put the word at the center of American comedy – Richard Pryor. "I was a scholar of the N-word — and so was he,” she tells Tonya Mosley. Her new book, ‘Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me,’ is part memoir, part history of a word her father, late in his career, decided to never use again. 


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R&D is two jobs, and research doesn't run on autopilot

Research figures out what good looks like. Development executes against a known good. The trap is the work in between.

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Claude Code vs. Cursor vs. Codex vs. Antigravity — six months in

Thermal imaging visualization with a neon color palette showing various everyday objects like tools and containers arranged in rows, rendered in bright cyan, magenta, yellow, and white tones with a glitchy, pixelated effect.

Six months ago, the agentic coding tool was still an argument about form. By the start of June 2026, the

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A year ago I experimented with running local AI models inside Micro.blog for Mac. I did a bunch of work on this and then threw all of the code out. It wasn’t good enough.

I’ve now come back to it. With data center backlash, I think people want options that reduce our dependence on cloud models.