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I’m sorry I couldn’t be there in person, but I was so excited to watch the Midjourney Medical launch from afar. This is a really big deal. David Holz, one of the most underrated pioneers in AI, has taken money from making cat pictures to build a full-body ultrasound scanner that can give you incredible … Continue reading Midjourney Medical →

Pope Leo XIV’s Creole family roots inspired New Orleanian journalist Susan Saulny to research her Creole great-uncle who moved to Chicago, identified himself as white and never returned. She describes her journey to reunite her family. Her piece in the New York Times is calle...

Watched: The Truman Show. So good. Haven’t seen it in years and it holds up perfectly. 🍿

Ben Chapman, reporting for The Independent in 2019: After 40 years of advertising its lager as “Probably the best beer in the world”, Danish brewer Carlsberg has confessed that the famous slogan may not be true. Reacting to falling sales and increasingly harsh comments f...

Early adoption of new technology is generally considered a young-person thing, but maybe Snap Specs will turn that notion on its head. Direct sales in retirement homes?

Lab Notes 029: explaining how Standard Site works, how it compares to RSS, and its utility for readers and publishers

Two standards for the agentic web shipped within a week, both with Google's fingerprints, neither referencing the other, one not even agreeing with itself about a field name. They turn out to connect almost perfectly: OKF packages a knowledge base, ARD makes it discoverable. I adopted both on specification.website and filed the gaps they left.

One elected official quietly controls a $300 billion fund and holds the power to move financial markets. Why is no one watching?

The only thing Trump cares about is Trump

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Finished reading: The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee. Fantastic. Great world-building, viewpoint switch, and just the right plot surprises. 📚

Love the detail of using these bricks instead of just white paint. The workers put a lot of extra time into cutting everything just right.

Quake in the browser without WebGL, it uses PolyCSS to render textured 3D meshes in the DOM with CSS

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Juneteenth reminds us that nothing about freedom can be taken for granted. As we commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, we are also called to reckon with the lasting impacts on Black Americans, and inequality in this country more broadly.

NBC News:

The Trump Mobile T1 phone, originally marketed as “Made in the USA,” is nearly identical to the two-year-old HTC U24 Pro, a phone made by the Taiwanese company HTC using Chinese parts, according to a technical analysis the repair-guide and parts company iFixit conducted in partnership with NBC News.

That report is paywalled, but NBC News’s five-minute video is on YouTube, and iFixit has a full teardown report of their own. The only thing that’s surprising is that the Trump T1 doesn’t cost much more than the HTC-branded one ($500 vs. $470).

The Wall Street Journal on Monday: Fox Corp. said it is acquiring Roku in a deal valued at around $25 billion, making a major bet on the future of ad-supported streaming. The deal — Fox’s largest to date — brings together a media company known for its live news and sport...

As I'm trying to put together more collections, I'm noticing that many accounts, even ones you'd expect to want to have wider reach, aren't opted in to being featured in discovery experiences (e.g. trending page, collections, follow recommendations). If this sounds like you, please, go to More -> Privacy & Reach and check your preferences.

As AI models now take over the core processes of writing code, the conversation has shifted to how effectively we

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President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance have secured a historic breakthrough by signing a Memorandum of Understanding with Iran. Forged through decisive American strength, this agreement ensures Iran will never obtain a nuclear weapon, reopens the Strait of Hormuz to free navigation, and puts America First — rejecting the failed policies of […]

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Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email It’s all Cleveland and Seattle news this week, except for the Minesweeper finisher. Next week’s newsletter is iffy. News Hello Cleveland: The Podcast I think we did […]