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Good news! As of June 1, a transmission line is delivering hydro-generated electricity into NYC: “1,250 megawatts of clean energy directly into New York City’s power grid”. That’s around 20% of the city’s total electric load, now clean.

Avif files are the new hotness, and to be honest they are pretty good. Basically a replacement for both jpeg and png with better compression and (finally!) support for alpha...

his Stream Spigot tool now supports Mastodon, Bluesky, and X/Twitter using Nitter’s reverse-engineered private endpoints

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“One of the few openly Christian politicians in the United States who acts like a Christian.”  That’s how conservative New York Times columnist David French recently characterized James Talarico and the Texas Democrat’s “faith-forward” campaign for the U.S. Senate. It should come as no surprise that Talarico walks the Christian walk: He’s currently on leave […]

The post ‘Fake’ Christian? Or Faithful? appeared first on The Texas Observer.

After shelving the original executive order last month, Donald Trump finally got on board Monday night.

The "SaaSpocalypse"—the panic that AI will make software-as-a-service obsolete—hasn't rattled Figma’s Matt Colyer. As the company’s director of product management for developers, he's been building his own agents for two years and is buying more software services than ever. I...

Labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards isn't worried AI will create a new class of permanently idle Americans — but argues it's still time for the government to fix the social safety net

Well, this is kinda depressing, courtesy of Jason Zweig’s father:

There are three ways to make a living:

1) Lie to people who want to be lied to, and you’ll get rich.

2) Tell the truth to those who want the truth, and you’ll make a living.

3) Tell the truth to those who want to be lied to, and you’ll go broke.

I aim for #2. But maybe society needs more of #3 and, it goes without saying, a whole lot less of #1. (via df)

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Forgive me, Padre, for I have binged. Kissed brimstone. Huffed hellfire. Made a $5.99 deal with El Diablo for a five-pack of chicken nuggets. In the back booth of a Taco Bell Cantina, I plop down my tray like I’m late to the Last Supper. Spread before me: an unholy communion...

The man who headed Trump's invasions of US cities joined the US and European far-right in Portugal to preach "remigration"—a plan to expel all minorities and immigrants.

This interview with Sarah Friar is really good. OpenAI is juggling so many things, I get the impression that it would all fall apart if she wasn’t CFO. She says the new device will be announced later this year:

What Jony and team are really good at is bringing humanity to devices. And I don’t really know how to explain that well, but when you see it, you feel it. […] It feels very natural. But it feels very lovable.

Satya Nadella in the closing to Build:

There are really two stories people can tell about this moment. One is that technology concentrates power, reduces human agency, and leaves to society to absorb the consequences. The other is that we use this next wave to unlock opportunity for developers, scientists, enterprises, and every community. And our job is to make the second story true.

Always interesting when people in power talk about not further concentrating power. I believe he’s sincere, though. I worry more when those with total control over a platform (see: Apple) don’t acknowledge it.

The "SaaSpocalypse"—the panic that AI will make software-as-a-service obsolete—hasn't rattled Figma’s Matt Colyer. As the company’s director of product management for developers, he's been building his own agents for two years and is buying more software services than ever.I...

Unremarkable dweeb Nick Bilton has been the executive producer of 60 Minutes for less than a week, and he has already written his name into the history books as one of the media industry's most pathetic bosses. Bilton's week started with him getting colossally owned during ...

I call them my dummies, the people who I watch on my big screen in the evenings as a way to calm my nervous system. It's not necessarily that my dummies are stupid, but anyone who agrees to go on a reality television show has to have enough optimism in their body to drown ou...

Are you ready to receive a powerful piece of information? OK, here it comes: Politicians can increase their chances of getting elected to office if they are seen as down-to-earth and relatable by their constituents. This novel observation, unearthed for the first time this ...

You can say a lot of complimentary things about these Carolina Hurricanes. And I will! They are relentless, squeezing the life out of their Eastern Conference opponents by outskating them to every puck and outworking them on every battle. They are rested, having gone 12-1 on...

TIL that Muji once sold a car. “The Muji Car 1000 was a debadged and stripped down 2-door version of the Nissan March, with the smallest engine, an automatic, steel wheels, and A/C, available in one color: white.”

Useful concept, MacWrite was the coral reef for writing on the Mac.

Why lateral moves are often strategic, not setbacks.