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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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• Jason Snell

Realizing the user automation dream

Shortcut: Find recent reminders, tomorrow's personal/family events, and display combined events. Input: 'Describe a change'.
A result from the Describe a Shortcut feature in macOS 27.

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.…

Micro.blog News Supports Webmention

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.

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Jason Kottke

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.

Tags: Amazon · Apple

The Torment Nexus
• Mathew Ingram

Banning teens from social media is bad and also doesn't work

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 […]

The post Incarcerated Americans on the 250th Birthday of the United States — In Their Own Voices appeared first on Prison Journalism Project.

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Siri AI and the EU

I prefer more open systems, so of course I lean toward supporting the EU’s DMA. Third-party marketplaces on iOS represent real progress that wouldn’t have happened without regulation. But what about Siri AI? It is not coming to the EU because Apple doesn’t trust other develo...

McSweeney’s
• Dan McCoy

My Manic Pixie Dream Femme Fatale

Her legs went all the way up to the fringe of her babydoll dress. Presumably further than that, but that’s where the bright polka dots distracted me from theorizing. They clashed with her fuchsia parasol, still open indoors, and her bottle-tangerine hair, which cascaded from...

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.

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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...

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Jason Kottke

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

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• Kathryn Xu

What On Earth Is “Match Momentum”?

It is easy to miss the Match Momentum graphic the Fox network stamps onto its World Cup broadcasts. The graph pops up only on rare occasion, wedged into the bottom-left corner, less than a third of the height and width of the screen. Often it appears only so briefly that the...

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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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Good morning sports fans!

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The Bear season 5, the show's last season, premieres on Hulu at 9PM EST today.

PRINT Magazine
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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.

The post The Design Of Getting Unstuck With Sarah Kissko Hersh appeared first on PRINT Magazine.