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GitHub and UNDP team up to advance development priorities in Ghana with open source

GitHub joined the United Nations Development Programme in Ghana to explore how open source governance can support one of West Africa's most ambitious digital reform efforts.

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A little surprised that Fable is still held up. Maybe the administration’s slant toward vindictiveness means that we’ll see GPT-5.6 generally available first.

WIRED
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The Pentagon Is Looking Into the Dialog Data Exposure for Unmasking National Security Officials

Exposed records from the private group included the personal information of a senior White House intelligence official and an active-duty special operations officer.

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Text • Ray Ratto

The People Have Spoken: Ernie Clement Is The Best Player In The American League Now

The People Have Spoken: Ernie Clement Is The Best Player In The American League Now
The Ernie Clement Voting Scandal shoved all the rest of the news this week into the street—the World Cup, the NBA draft, the NHL draft, the NBA trades, the NHL trades, the Mets firing their manager for the sin of managing the Mets, the latest sports media meltdown around but...

Platformonomics
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Platformonomics TGIF #132: June 26, 2026

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 Short but not sweet today. News RIP Om I’ve known Om as a journalist, OG blogger, media entrepreneur, investor, and writer. He was always generous and always […]

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The Boeing 747 Begins Its Final Descent . The 747 is...

The Boeing 747 Begins Its Final Descent. The 747 is being phased out for newer and more efficient jets. Ian Bosost takes a look at how the massive plane, which took flight only 5 months before “Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon”, came to be.

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One of the things Claude needs is to be taught how to think. Now I realize how much my parents, esp my father, taught me about thinking. Claude when it has all the information available can figure out stuff a human mind would never be able hold in its mind at the same time, but it doesn't remember to get the information first. When you get to the level I'm at with this, it's hallucinating all the freaking time because it didn't load the part of the data set that had the answer. It was right htere, it was supposed to know, it just forgot to look. My job is to recognize when it has done that and tell it to go read handoff.md again.

The Brian Lehrer Show
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Friday Morning Politics: As Goes New York...?

Lisa Kashinsky, a national political reporter at POLITICO covering the 2026 midterms and the run-up to the 2028 presidential race, talks about the national implications of New York's Democratic primary results, and whether the wins by candidates endorsed by Mayor Mamdani wil...

BuzzMachine
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California’s squandered opportunity

California is about to hand out $20 million — half from Google, half from the state — to news organizations, and it is wasting a golden opportunity. Instead of building a new and more competitive landscape of news, instead of creating services to benefit the entire news ecosystem, instead of investing in innovation, instead of embracing new […]

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The Brian Lehrer Show
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Are Carriage Horses a Thing of the Past?

Liam Quigley, reporter covering parks & sanitation for Gothamist and WNYC, talks about the latest efforts to ban carriage horses in Central Park.

Photo: Horse and Carriages in Central Park, Manhattan, as cyclist ride around the parks driveway. New York, USA. 26th March 2013. Photo Tim Clayton (Photo by Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images)

 


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The Rent Guidelines Board Votes

David Brand, housing reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, talks about the outcome of a vote by the Rent Guidelines Board on whether or not to freeze the rent on one million rent-regulated apartments, which was one of Mayor Mamdani's key campaign promises.

Photo: Supporters hold signs reading Freeze The Rent and Childcare For All during a rally in support of Zohran Mamdani at Brooklyn Steel in Brooklyn New York on May 4 2025. (Photo by Madison Swart / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP) (Photo by MADISON SWART/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images)

 


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How Fruit Is Getting Sweeter

Ellen Cushing, staff writer at The Atlantic, talks about her reporting on how the American produce aisle is increasingly offering fruits that are sweeter than ever, including Sumo citrus and Cotton Candy grapes.

Photo: 11 March 2026, Hesse, Frankfurt/Main: A clementine lies on a table. Photo: Michael Brandt/dpa (Photo by Michael Brandt/picture alliance via Getty Images)


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The Atavist Magazine
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The Extremist in the Family

The Kerrs were devoted to one another and to their faith. But when one of their own rejected modern medicine in the name of God, they faced a dire question: What if her children ever needed a doctor to save their lives?

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What Does It Mean To “Stand Up For Buffalo”?

What Does It Mean To “Stand Up For Buffalo”?
Now that New York state and Erie County have spent $850 million in taxpayer dollars, the largest public contribution for any NFL facility in history, it's time for the next important step in the process of opening the Buffalo Bills' new stadium: kissing owner Terry Pegula's ...

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Left In The Dungeon

Left In The Dungeon

This post originally appeared on June 23 in the Oakland Review of Books, which is worth a subscription even if you don’t live in Oakland or read books.


Carl must slay the naga princess! If he doesn’t, his best friend—the talking cat-wizard Princess Donut—will die instead. But Carl and his team have a plan. They track the princess to the god Khepri’s sanctum in the Vanquisher Club and slay the club’s guards with a MacGyver-demonology contraption. Inside the sanctum, though, Carl is surprised: The beetle-headed attendant supervising the insect banquet within is Khepri himself, god of Rebirth and the Sunrise, summoned as a trap by the devious princess. As a level-250 god, Khepri will slay Carl easily—disaster looms!

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Tom Dundon Cares Not One Bit About The Portland Trail Blazers

Tom Dundon Cares Not One Bit About The Portland Trail Blazers
It takes a special kind of creep to stand out for sleaziness among NBA owners, objectively one of the worst demographics our species has ever established. Tom Dundon has been the official majority owner of the Portland Trail Blazers for less than three months, and already he...

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Marina Mabrey Got 53 The Fun Way

Marina Mabrey Got 53 The Fun Way
"I score in bunches, and then sometimes kinda just level out," Toronto Tempo guard Marina Mabrey said near the end of her press conference, after the Tempo's 125-97 win over the L.A. Sparks on Thursday. It was an accurate description of her own game, which is built on consta...

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Sad but inspired to read the many remembrances of Om Malik. I love this idea from Matt Mullenweg:

Om loved putting on a good conference, and I’d like to celebrate his life with an awesome event on September 29, 2026 (his 60th) in San Francisco, like an OmFest. I’ll find a space where every community from the many facets of Om can come together. In the spirit of Open Source and co-creation, we can have some booths, flash talks, a gallery of his photography, pen showcase, and whatever other fun ideas people want to contribute.

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Took a little time this morning to customize the CSS for the Micro.blog documentation pages to strip out all the Discourse-y things that aren’t needed. For example, the Inkwell page.

WIRED
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I Found the Best Prime Day Pixel Buds Deals: 2a, Pro (2026)

Google Pixel Buds are steeply on sale, presumably only through the end of the day.