As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, incarcerated Americans were asked: What does America's big birthday mean to them? https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2026/06/25/incarcerated-americans-on-the-250th-birthday-of-the-united-states-in-their-own-voices/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=PJP-Bluesky
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Six Colors
• Jason Snell
Realizing the user automation dream

Since the very beginning, it’s been clear that computers provide incredible power to those who know how to use them to get work done.…
Epilogue for Android has been updated to 2.3.1, fixing scrolling for longer text in the new post screen and improving accessibility.
WIRED
• Nena Farrell
Kobo Libra Colour Sale (2026): The E-Reader Deal Worth Jumping on This Prime Day
The color e-reader that’s most worth your money this Prime Day isn't from Amazon.
Apple Just Raised Prices. But Deals Are Still Available.

Apple raised their prices on their laptops, iMacs, and iPads today due to the high cost of memory (driven by AI demand). The Macbook Neo’s price went up $100 with most other machines getting a $200-500 bump.
But those prices have yet to take effect at Amazon, where Apple computers are still cheaper than the old prices. Macbook Neo for $590, MacBook Air M5 for $1150, and the M4 iMac for $1150. You can check other models (MacBook Pros, etc.) and their pricing here. Not sure when RAM costs are going to come down…these might be the lowest prices you see on Apple machines for quite awhile.
The Torment Nexus
• Mathew Ingram
Banning teens from social media is bad and also doesn't work
The UK recently passed a new law that effectively bans children under the age of 16 from using most social-media platforms, a move that the UK government notes was based explicitly on Australia’s similar law, which was passed in 2024 (Britain’s law comes into effect next year).
Prison Journalism Project
• PJP Contributors
Incarcerated Americans on the 250th Birthday of the United States — In Their Own Voices

Next week, the United States of America will mark its 250th birthday. No matter what you think about the state of the country, 250 years is a long time for the “land of the free” to exist. But that term, “land of the free,” underscores one of our nation’s most enduring and painful paradoxes: The […]
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Siri AI and the EU
McSweeney’s
• Dan McCoy
My Manic Pixie Dream Femme Fatale
Nieman Lab
• Craig Robertson
The demand for news video is growing (and that’s a good thing for publishers)
News video is as popular as ever. Publishers who remember the “pivot to video” from a decade ago might wince at the thought, remembering how misleading metrics led many publishers to invest in video content. But evidence from our newly published Digital News Report suggests the demand for news video is growing. A decade on,...
WIRED
• Luke Larsen
I Found the Best iPad Deal for Amazon Prime Day This Year (2026)
With four iPads to choose from, there’s a clear winner in terms of discounts for Amazon Prime Day.
Claude is a brain, very different from ours and when we work together we humans have access to capabilities that work really well with building large software products. And that's a huge understatement. Most remarkable thing. I am a programmer with 50+ years experience. Most of the discussion between people who use the AI tools and those that condemn them are not productive because the opponents of AI don't have understand how these things actually work, or if they do that understanding is not reflected in their arguments. I recommend starting an academic dialog, among people who don't have conflicts of interest, to accurately record this discussion based on facts, for the record, so when people ask how we did this transition, there will actually be some footprints to follow.
Nieman Lab
• Steve Nowottny
Full Fact is battling AI-generated elections content with AI tools of its own
As campaign videos go, it was a classic. To the sound of a soulful pop ballad, a smiling politician meets voters in the street, chats to school children and visits a hospital. The only problem? The scenes shown in the video weren’t real. They were AI-generated, and shared and labeled as “illustrative” by an independent...
2000-Year-Old Roman Amphitheatre Hosts World Cup Watch Party

Fulfilling the purpose for which it was built almost 2000 years ago, football fans packed the Roman Theatre of Amman to watch the Jordan v Algeria World Cup match. I don’t know whether Roman rulers, builders, and architects envisioned their works would remain standing & useful millennia after their construction, but longevity is certainly not a priority these days.
Here’s a video of Jordan fans watching their opener vs Austria in the amphitheater:
Tags: Jordan · soccer · sports · video · World Cup 2026
Defector
• Kathryn Xu
What On Earth Is “Match Momentum”?
The Rift
Twenty years after she disappears without a trace, Selena’s sister Julie rings her up.
The Texas Observer
• Gus Bova
Worker’s Death at SpaceX Factory Followed Hundreds of Injuries in Recent Years
Around 4 a.m. on May 15, in the 1-year-old South Texas town of Starbase, Jose Luis Bautista, a 25-year-old man from nearby Donna, rode a scissor lift around 50 feet up toward the ceiling of the “Starfactory,” where Elon Musk’s SpaceX makes parts for its Starship rockets. Bautista and other workers with Delta Fabrication and […]
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PRINT Magazine
• PRINTcast
The Design Of Getting Unstuck With Sarah Kissko Hersh
In this episode Sarah Kissko Hersh draws on decades of communications leadership to show that clarity, empathy, and honest self-reflection are the foundations of authentic influence, resilient leadership, and high-performing teams.
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