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It’s America’s Birthday. What Are We Celebrating? Some good thoughts in here from Tressie McMillan Cottom, Jamelle Bouie, M. Gessen, and Lydia Polgreen.

Markdown QuickLook (macOS) (github) A tiny macOS Quick Look extension. Select a .md file in Finder, press space, and read it rendered the way it was meant to look — headings, code, tables and task lists included. No app window, just a menu-bar helper that stays out of the way. [ 📌codiak ]

A Bob Ross painting of a mountain summit is being auctioned off soon. “Sale proceeds will benefit Ball State University. Ball State University owns WIPB, the PBS station where Bob Ross filmed thirty seasons of The Joy of Painting.” $50-70K esitmate.

Productive week for software releases:

• Micro.blog 4.0.3 for Mac
• Inkwell 1.5 for Mac
• Inkwell 1.1 for Android
• Epilogue 2.3.1 for iOS
• Epilogue 2.3.1 for Android

Not sure we’ve ever had this many updates at once. Still waiting on Apple to approve Inkwell 1.1 for iOS.

It's a stretch to think that the continent can build a top-tier model, but it has an advantage: Donald Trump.

It was a short work week. I took Thursday off because we had some registration related work in Denkanikottai. The morning drive was easy and fun, but then, like any government work, it didn’t get done on time. So we entered the city during the peak evening traffic, with some rain. It was...

“Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other.” Cool feature where people visiting this website can chat in a virtual Town Square: “a small strip populated by stick figures…at the bottom of every page”. See you there?

Released Inkwell 1.1 for Android, adding a reply option for posts on Micro.blog and improving other things.

A scuffle between stan account Club Chalamet and another Heated Rivalry die-hard shines a light on how parasocial fans are a publicist’s greatest asset—and liability.

I was on Slack chatting with a friend from WordCamp Canada last year, and by accident (I guess) Slack sent me the first message they sent after coming home about all the things we'd do. It reminded me of how possible things seemed then, and for a moment I got lost in plannin...

Over the past few months, four AI giants quietly rebuilt the same thing at once: AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic

The post AWS, Microsoft and Google agree the session is the new unit. They disagree on how to isolate it. appeared first on The New Stack.

AI coding tools don’t just help engineers write code faster. They help engineers make the same mistake faster, at scale,

The post Your engineering org needs an AI slop registry appeared first on The New Stack.

Retailers are rushing to make their product listings discoverable by AI shopping agents, but AI assistants often struggle to determine

The post Shopify taught AI to spot duplicate products. Here’s why retailers are scrambling. appeared first on The New Stack.

Many agentic projects can sail through development just fine. Then they hit security review — and that’s where things can

The post The AI agent identity problem nobody’s talking about appeared first on The New Stack.

Late in the morning of June 13, as most New York City sports fans were mapping out their plans for watching Game 5 of the NBA Finals, I was on the A train headed away from the Brooklyn neighborhood I've called home for 17 years. I was on my way to Aqueduct Racetrack, post ti...

“We Tested 100 Quill Pens to Find the Best One for Writing the Declaration of Independence” “The British Cut Off Our Salt Supply. Here are Five Dupes to Use Instead” “Here’s the Unfussy Telescope We Used to Monitor Hessian Mercenaries During the Battle of Trenton” “Why We Lo...

Movies about history aren’t always known for their historical accuracy, which isn’t really a problem unless you’re basing all your knowledge of Napoleon on Napoleon. Some are especially egregious in their departures from the historical record, however, and the tension betwee...

In the 17th century, the population of the American colonies was largely British, and English — while certainly not the only tongue spoken — became the predominant language throughout what is now the eastern U.S.  It raises the question: Did early Americans speak with a...

More than 160 years after vanishing beneath the waves of the Atlantic, the wreck of French steamship Le Lyonnais was discovered off the coast of Massachusetts. The ship’s demise in November 1856 was a bit out of the ordinary. Le Lyonnais didn’t topple in a storm or suffer an...

There’s a reason we typically receive X-rays only in a medical setting: Without the proper precautions, radiation is extremely dangerous. But for several decades following the discovery of X-rays in 1895, most people didn’t think twice about sticking their feet inside unregu...