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Public postmortem: app downtime

Our public postmortem for the incident on June 11th.

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How The Heck Do Solar Panels Work? “Every hour,...

How The Heck Do Solar Panels Work? “Every hour, the Earth receives enough sunlight to power all of human civilization for a year. It arrives silently, from all directions, at no cost.”

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Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’

In an internal memo seen by WIRED, Bosworth promised employees more stability, better communication, and the return of workplace perks as the company seeks to improve morale.

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News sites are the new newspapers: People are abandoning them for social media

News sites are rapidly becoming the newspapers of the digital age. And you know what happened to newspapers. Worldwide, people in all age groups are ditching news sites and publishers’ apps in favor of social media and video networks. In fact, 18- to 34-year-olds are abandoning content on publishers’ platforms even more quickly than they’re...

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KFC’s Latest Refresh From JKR Celebrates Its Most Iconic Asset

The bucket is back at the center of KFC's brand story. In a new refresh from JKR, bold typography, refined illustrations, and a renewed focus on the chain's most recognizable asset bring fresh energy to one of the world's most iconic fast-food brands.

The post KFC’s Latest Refresh From JKR Celebrates Its Most Iconic Asset appeared first on PRINT Magazine.

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Mad Max creator George Miller wants to make one more Mad...

Mad Max creator George Miller wants to make one more Mad Max movie and a TV series before calling it quits.

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UFC’s White House Fight Night May Have Been An Unforgivable Folly, But At Least It Was Violent And Offensive

UFC’s White House Fight Night May Have Been An Unforgivable Folly, But At Least It Was Violent And Offensive
Donald Trump’s 80th birthday weekend didn’t all go well for him, at home or abroad. His name finally got pulled off the Kennedy Center early Saturday, after lots of effort to halt and obscure the removal. And word got out that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool that the pr...

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TCL A65K Soundbar Review: Small Size, Big Sound

Don’t be fooled by the compact size of this soundbar. It’s a solid option for smaller TVs or spaces without having to sacrifice sound quality.

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Randomly thought of Brendan Dassey today. He’s...

Randomly thought of Brendan Dassey today. He’s still serving out his life sentence for, IMO, having absolutely nothing to do with the murder at the center of Netflix’s Making a Murderer.

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Cape Verde Defeats Spain, 0-0

Cape Verde Defeats Spain, 0-0
This was the moment when Gianni Infantino, the grubby little cash slag who runs FIFA, could have made himself a noble and even admirable human being in the eyes of a world that absolutely knows he would lick an alley clean for 10 bucks. And of course, he passed on it because...

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Strongmen, Oligarchs, & Fascists: Thinking Live with Ruth Ben-Ghiat

A recording from Timothy Snyder's live video with Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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Brent Simmons blogs about what he’s been up to with NetNewsWire over the last year. I also created a PR for Inkwell sync in NNW, but the work stalled because I wasn’t confident enough in the codebase to definitely say it’s ready to ship. Need to dust that off and try to get it into an update.

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There’s No Place Like New York City

There’s No Place Like New York City
It's hard to explain what it's been like walking around New York City over the past two weeks. Even if the Knicks don't specifically come up, the spirits are high. Knicks gear and colors are everywhere, the people are smiling, the mayor is Muslim, the bagels are Jewish, etc....

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If Claude were human it would learn from you even if they didn't record what it learned in a notebook, two or three times and they would remember.

Not so with Claude. If it isn't written down it will not remember it. Its mind doesn't have memory. It remembers things by writing them in a markdown file.

It's like the movie Memento, where the main character tattoos the info he needs on his body. And then proceeds to misunderstand it. Claude is just like that. :-)

https://library.scripting.com/2026/06/15/memento.md

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The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By...

The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster. “He’s endlessly mythologized by a shitty corporate press, eager to ignore his virulent racism & financial fraud bc he’s accumulated obscene amounts of money.”

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If Claude were human it would learn from you even if they didn't record what it learned in a notebook, two or three times and they would remember. Not so with Claude. If it isn't written down it will not remember it. Its mind doesn't have memory. It remembers things by writing them in a markdown file. It's like the movie Memento, where the main character tatoos the info he needs on his body. And then proceeds to misunderstand it. Claude is just like that.

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What We’ve Been Doing This Past Year

On his blog, Brent writes about the past year of NetNewsWire development.

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Scholar Eddie Glaude Jr. reflects on America at 250

Glaude's book, 'America, U.S.A.,' looks at the country through the lens of its previous anniversaries and centennials. Today, as in the past, he tells Tonya Mosley, "the divided soul of the nation is in full view." As the 250th anniversary approaches, he says it's time for the U.S. to acknowledge the ways it has failed to deliver on its founding principles. "America has to grow up. It can no longer hide in its adolescence," he says.
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Not Good on Any Front: Fox Buys Roku

This is not good on any front. It further centralizes our onramp to media, it creates fewer digital TV solutions on the market, and puts so much human data into Rupert’s hands.

“**Fox to buy streaming pioneer Roku in a $22 billion deal…**The deal will give Fox access to more than 100 million global households, along with the Roku channel and its first-party data. Fox oversees a massive sports, news and entertainment network, as well as Tubi, which it acquired in 2020.”

https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/news/business/fox-roku-tubi-streaming-824089dbe16631fade634becdb164c94

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Telescope Ranchers

Rockwood, Texas is home to a unique business, Starfront Observatories. Owner/operator Bray Falls hosts hundreds of other people’s telescopes in perfect conditions — ultra-dark skies (Class 1 on the Bortle scale), clear weather, and fast internet — so astrophotographers fro...