Kevin Roose blogged today about his history with The New York Times and the decision to end the Hard Fork podcast:
The Times has been a great home for Hard Fork — and a great home for me, for many years before that — but as Casey and I discussed the future of the show, we realized that what we really wanted was to start a company together, and build something we would own.
Looking forward to what they do next!
Waxy.org
• Andy Baio
an interactive essay demonstrating all the ways interfaces can interfere with our motor skills
via Marcin Wichary #Cloudy and breezy evening on the gulf.
Today in Chicago, Barack and Michelle Obama reminded Americans how we can be our best as a country, just as they did during their eight years in the White House.
We’re in a sort of watch party for a season when World Cup soccer, championship basketball, sports of every kind, all seem to run deeper, more believable, much better played than the rest of our ...
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Waxy.org
• Andy Baio
daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral district lines to rig results
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Six Colors
• Jason Snell
In an exclusive with the Wall Street Journal, Tim Cook announced that Apple will be raising the prices on its products1 as a result of high prices for memory and storage worldwide:
…“Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” he said.
Our public postmortem for the incident on June 14th–15th, 2026.
You either loved it, or were using it wrong.
Let’s review. Token costs are rising. In response, Meta and Amazon have shut down their internal “artificial intelligence” leaderboards; Microsoft has pushed its employees toward Copilot, and away from Claude Code’s rising costs. Uber has already capped its usage of LLMs internally, setting a monthly cap for every employee’s token spending. All of this is happening against the backdrop of the biggest “AI” platforms still borrowing money against hypothetical future returns, and markets are becoming increasingly skittish over America’s big, all-encompassing bet on LLMs. And according to reports from NOTUS and Reuters, major “AI” providers are already having discussions with the United States government, in which they’re laying the groundwork for “too big to fail”-style bailouts.
WIRED
• Matthew Korfhage
The Breville Barista Express and Ninja Luxe Cafe Pro are two of the best early Prime Day deals I've seen in 2026.
WIRED
• Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra, Yulia Almazova
Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays.
Lever Time - The Lever
• David Sirota
A California ballot initiative aims to fund schools and poverty programs by taxing billionaires. Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to kill it.
Thinking about the new Mastodon collections, it reminded me that we have blogrolls on Micro.blog that don’t get enough attention. Today I improved a few things with adding blog recommendations, including a search across other platforms if you don’t have the URL for someone handy.
The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought. “It is a well-known feature of civil society that nervous middle managers often act far more radically than top executives out of a sense of self-preservation.”
A rare selfie for the blog… Enjoying some time with family in Rosemary Beach, Florida. Found this Eadweard Muybridge shirt randomly last month at a Goodwill and had to get it.
Flowers growing through the fence.
Defector
• Samer Kalaf
WIRED
• Maxwell Zeff
Anthropic still can’t distribute Claude Mythos or Fable 5 after running afoul of the Trump administration. But no one can say exactly what the company did wrong.
WordPress Developer Blog
• Justin Tadlock
Stop duplicating WordPress block theme templates just to load different sidebar content. Learn how to use the render_block_data filter to dynamically swap template parts based on post category, page context, or any conditional logic — no extra templates required.
