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Phyllis the GOAT and the Senior League Wii Bowling Champions

Senior living communities generally don’t go viral or gain media attention for positive reasons, so it’s nice to see this story about the University Village Retirement Community in Tulsa, Oklahoma and their champion Wii bowling team. On this recent Thursday in June, their h...

Paul Krugman
Audio • Paul Krugman

The Court Sides With Dictatorship — and Chaos

Today's ruling is even more disastrous than people realize

Sacha Chua
Text • Sacha Chua

2026-06-29 Emacs news

This week, lots of people were talking about FSF's policy of not accepting LLM contributions to Emacs core (see the last two items in the AI category). Comments seem generally supportive of FSF's caution. Help wanted: EmacsConf - 2026 - Call for Participation Monadic S...

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Text • Glenn Fleishman

My credit card number? Sure! It’s 4242 4242 4242 4242

Glenn Fleishman, art by Shafer Brown

We live in a modern, jet-set, hyper-fast world! When we want to buy something online, boom, zoom, we use our fingerprint or face to approve the transaction, so we can grab the next Segway outta here!…

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Text • Patrick Redford

The Tour de France Is For The Children

The Tour de France Is For The Children
With the start of the 2026 Tour de France mere days away, most of the world's attention will focus on Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard as they race for the yellow jersey. The sixth consecutive installation of the mega-rivalry is obviously of heavy interest, but I don't thi...

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Text • Lauren Theisen

The Sharks Just Got A Lot Better, And Larger

The Sharks Just Got A Lot Better, And Larger
The NHL draft was this weekend, and even though we had several weeks to get used to the image of Gavin McKenna in a Toronto Maple Leafs hat, the action in the rest of the top 10 was a good mix of unpredictable and intriguing. The Canucks, at No. 3, committed what has the pot...

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Text • Chris Thompson

Malik Beasley Charged With Bribery, Money Laundering, And Wire Fraud In Alleged Prop-Bet Scheme

Malik Beasley Charged With Bribery, Money Laundering, And Wire Fraud In Alleged Prop-Bet Scheme
Malik Beasley has been indicted by federal prosecutors, on charges related to suspicious gambling activity. According to earlier reporting, authorities began looking at Beasley last summer after at least one U.S. sports book noted unusual betting interest on Beasley's statis...

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Text • Barry Petchesky

The Yankees Had A Wretched Weekend In Boston

The Yankees Had A Wretched Weekend In Boston
The Dog Days of summer in the Northern Hemisphere don't officially begin until the rising of Sirius, the "dog star." This is usually mid-to-late July, and we can thank the Greeks for the canid construction. "On summer nights, star of stars, Orion's Dog they call it," Homer r...

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Text • Maitreyi Anantharaman

The Crossword, June 29: Cooler Heads (Themeless)

The Crossword, June 29: Cooler Heads (Themeless)
It's time to wrap up the month with a challenging themeless. Keep an eye out for tricky clues and fun wordplay. This puzzle was constructed by August Miller, and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. August is a vegetable and dairy farmer who recently relocated from Massachusett...

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Text • Billy Haisley

DR Congo Welcomes You To Africa’s World Cup

DR Congo Welcomes You To Africa’s World Cup
While it would be asking too much to expect soccer to deliver anything like justice, you can usually count on the sport's sense of humor. That's why we probably shouldn't be surprised that the 2026 World Cup, marred from the outside by the racist caprices of the Trump admini...

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Text • Mathew Ingram

This Texas ranch is for remote-controlled telescopes only

This Texas ranch is for remote-controlled telescopes only

Rockwood, Texas is home to a unique business called Starfront Observatories.

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Text • Leo Laporte

@dave right on! Love micro.blog and Manton!

Remarkable People
Audio • Guy Kawasaki

Why We Need Sorrow as Much as Joy

We spend so much time chasing happiness that we rarely stop to ask whether sadness, longing, and vulnerability might have something important to teach us.

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It's remarkable that some people fondly miss Googles RSS reader app, already gone for over a decade. Remarkable because they captured the market, wiped out all competition (they deserved it, the products were awful) and then shut their own product down, leaving a toxic karmic bomb crater in its place.

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Only steal from the best

As a writer I've stolen lots of ideas. All writers do it. How do you think we get our ideas.

Which is why it's so weird that they object to having their ideas stolen en masse.

We go through this regularly, basically you make a living doing something, and you aren't paid enough.

So every subject in every context arrives at the same place. Why aren't they paying me. I must be paid.

It is a permanent obsession with writers.

I try to be honest and admit that I steal from other writers, but I only steal from the best! :-)

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My focus is making Micro.blog a great blogging platform. But on the social side, I also love that it’s maybe the last social network that is ambivalent to metrics and engagement. Every other platform — even Mastodon — has algorithmic feeds or trends. That’s fine for them, but not what I want to do.

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I’m not much of a meme person, but this Frog and Toad + Claude is hilarious and true. “Cookies” is an all-time great story. 🍪

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Text • Neel Dhanesha

Capital Weather is dropping the “Gang” and going independent

If you have ever lived in the Washington, D.C. metro area, or had the misfortune of being stuck there during a snowstorm, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of the Capital Weather Gang. For eighteen years they were The Washington Post’s oracles of the atmosphere, covering local weather on the Post website and on social...

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Text • Tim O’Reilly

What You Bring to AI Determines the Result

What You Bring to AI Determines the Result

Harper Carroll came to AI education through a CS background at Stanford, machine learning engineering at Meta, and a brief stint at a small GPU compute startup in late 2023, where she noticed that almost no one understood how to fine-tune open source models. She started writing and teaching to help drive signups for the […]

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Text • Natalie Guevara

Inside the Advisory Database and what happens when vulnerability volume breaks records

The GitHub Advisory Database is processing more vulnerability reports than ever before. Here's what's driving the surge, how we're responding, and how the community can help.

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