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At the heart of the current U.S. war against Iran is an inconvenient truth: that the United States is, in many ways, responsible for creating the very regime it now seeks to topple. Today, Scott Anderson, a New York Times Magazine contributor, tells the story of America’s ou...

The rocket maker debuts on Nasdaq today under a wave of criticism about Musk’s near-absolute control. It’s how the company has worked from the start.

Donald Trump’s polling just crashed to new lows. He’s hit a net approval on inflation of negative 50 points in numerous surveys, something no other president has done—ever. Trump also is at 80 percent disapproval on gas prices. And this is the first time Democr...

A bit over four years ago, in 2022, I recorded an episode from San Diego. I was getting ready for an event, about to attend my first-ever Contributor Day (which, yes, felt a little absurd given how many WordCamps I’d been to by that point). To fill the time before things kicked off, I sat […]

Joe explains why the AI threat isn't going away. Plus - what the Iran war is really doing to a critical part of Trump's coalition. Why inflation's getting even worse - and no, Trump won't "love" it. No matter what Republicans may want on foreign policy or immigration, they've got a BIG problem headed into midterms. Read the Puck story Joe discusses here: https://puck.news/illonois-sb-315-why-ai-lobbyists-caved (yes, IL's spelled wrong...) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discovered: Jun 12, 2026 13:50 (UTC) Greg Wilson explains monads in a way I can understand: ‘a way to chain operations without explicitly passing extra arguments’ and more ; Greg Wilson:: Monads

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If you’re coming from Python, the cleanest way to think about it is that a monad is a way to chain operations without explicitly passing extra arguments. Monads aren’t just for input and output; they can also be used for:

• possible failure (None, exceptions)
• async execution (await)
• logging
• random number generation
• dependency injection
• parsing context

Thursday, June 11, 2026 This is a test page about Charles de Gaulle. It came from ChatGPT, via Claude Code. # As thrilling as the end was for this Knicks fan, as a friend (of a Spurs fan) I empathize -- because I had the feeling you have now for most of last night's game,...

The generative features in iOS 27’s new Photos app will add fake pixels to some of your shots, but Apple’s Jon McCormack says the company isn’t using AI “for the sake of AI.”

Highlights from Hard Fork Live, including Figma CEO Dylan Field on why design isn’t dead

We just published the first release candidate for the next version of Mastodon, and the final release isn’t far off. Version 4.6 brings a number of exciting new features, including the highly anticipated Collections. and a fresh, more consistent approach to profile pages (no...

Our public postmortem for the incident on June 10th, 2026.

We’re unearthing a model writer for an anxious America. Dwight Macdonald was his own eccentric voice through the Cold War politics and culture of the 1950s and 60s. He was a peacenik at heart, otherwise ...

The post America’s Orwell appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.

Today on Uncanny Valley, we take an early look at the SpaceX IPO and why you might find yourself among the investors without even realizing it.

Our hopes for fixes in the ’27 platform updates, what we’ll do with our Intel Macs now that they’ve reached end of the road, whether we’ll trust the new Siri AI, and how we feel about Apple’s child safety and age verification answers.…

Here’s a beautiful essay by Federico Viticci about covering WWDC for 10 years:

I look at the content creators who are possibly experiencing their first WWDC, and realize: how am I still here, and still taking notes on an iPad, while these younger folks are shooting videos that millions of people will watch?

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Amanda Silberling of TechCrunch joins Mikah Sargent this week! Anthropic launches Fable 5, its newest AI model. The FCC seeks to end the use of burner phones in the US. And everything Apple unveiled at WWDC 2026. Amanda talks about Anthropic's newest AI model, Fable 5, it...

I installed iOS 27 on my phone, but holding off on the Mac. I don’t want to interfere with my Xcode workflow and shipping apps. Still on the waitlist for Siri AI.

Apple Newsroom, in an Apple Newsroom post Monday: According to EU regulators, the DMA requires Apple to give any AI system nearly unlimited access to a user’s device, as well as the ability to act on that access autonomously without a user’s ongoing visibility and contro...

The range of colors that can be reproduced by an RGB-based video display is well-defined for standard definition, high definition, ultra-high definition, and high dynamic range content. The ultimate range is called BT.2020, which was developed by Kenichiro Masaoka. Scott Wilkinson dives deep into this topic with Jeff Yurek, VP of Marketing for Nanosys, the primary supplier of quantum dots to the display industry.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guest: Jeff Yurek

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