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What seems like a rescue could prove to be a retreat, as Chery leads its rivals into the heart of Europe’s car industry.

I posted the other day about basepage, the local-first tool I'm building that lets you point an agent at a folder of files and have it build and publish a site. Someone replied with a flat objection: AI is the opposite of the indieweb. His case was clean. The indieweb is abo...

As the cost of higher education has soared in recent decades, universities have attracted more scrutiny about the value of a four-year degree. Now, the Trump administration is taking those questions to the next level with a set of policies that scales back the federal govern...

New satellite imagery reveals how much terrain has shifted in the wake of the twin quakes.

The standards have changed a lot in the last few millennia: The big man said it. The book said it. The newspaper said it. I saw a photo. I saw it on TV. I read it on the internet. That’s what the AI said. There has always been room for doubt. But the last century […]

As Bangkok rises into the ranks of the world’s great culinary destination cities, its restaurant scene caters to ever more well-heeled travelers. There, you can now visit establishments with not just one, and not just two, but three Michelin stars. Even so, many a Bangkok habitué will surely tell you that the city’s best food […]

After the Supreme Court upheld the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship, Trump and MAGA lost it. Trump threatened to get Congress to end the guarantee, which he can’t do, and he lamely claimed it was a “WIN” for China: The sheer haplessness ...

After more than fourteen years of legal battles, Kim Dotcom has lost his latest attempt to avoid extradition to the United States. New Zealand's Court of Appeal dismissed the Megaupload founder's challenge to the Justice Minister's surrender order, concluding that a likely U.S. prison sentence of at least 30 years does not amount to shockingly severe punishment.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

After more than fourteen years of legal battles, Kim Dotcom has lost his latest attempt to avoid extradition to the United States. New Zealand's Court of Appeal dismissed the Megaupload founder's challenge to the Justice Minister's surrender order, concluding that a likely U.S. prison sentence of at least 30 years does not amount to shockingly severe punishment.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Rochester Institute of Technology, via Wikimedia Commons In 1980, scientist and writer Isaac Asimov argued in an essay that “there is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been.” That year, the Republican Party stood at the dawn of the Reagan Revolution, which initiated a decades-long conservative groundswell. Political strategist […]

Behavioral scientist Julia Minson joins Guy Kawasaki to unpack why most arguments fail and how we can disagree without destroying relationships. They explore the psychology behind conflict, the surprising limits of body language, and the communication habits that make people...

Discovered: Jul 2, 2026 01:19 (UTC) Amazing, thanks Les! ; lmorchard’s strudel.cc cover of the intro to Stripdown by Agent Side Grinder <- Music in the browser who could ask for anything more :-)

Discovered: Jul 1, 2026 16:17 (UTC) Andrea Pitzer:: ‘You can make a principled stand for what you believe while welcoming in alienated voters looking for hope and community’ ; You don’t have to swallow frogs

...this looks like: ...the 22 Fillmore bus is stopped at a proper MUNI stop (the one on Fillmore, just as it turns left on Broadway, the less steep incline down towards Cow Hollow) and I've somehow momentarily and quickly stuck myself or leaned against its left side (to st...

Could something as simple as vitamin C help support a healthier aging brain? In a study of more than 2,000 older adults in Japan, researchers found that people with lower vitamin C levels in their blood also tended to have less gray matter and weaker connections in a key brain network involved in memory, attention, and other cognitive functions.

Tuesday, June 30, 2026 Some things Claude is extremely tedious at. But then it blows you away how it can read thousands of lines of complicated code in a few seconds (in parallel) and find tiny little things that any good obsessive programmer would want to fix (like me). An...

Rivian’s new R2 has been spotted near Rivian HQ sporting a LiDAR sensor, which won’t be included with the earliest vehicles but will be added in a few months. And the implementation actually looks pretty good, compared to the large “taxi bumps” present on many other vehicles.

After the U.S. government lifted its export controls for Fable 5 on Tuesday, Anthropic announced that it would bring the

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In this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum discusses the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. David discusses how he hopes Americans can find a future where we rediscover how much there is to be proud of in ...

Scientists have solved a long-standing mystery by discovering the missing genetic ingredient that helps melanoma cells become effectively immortal. The breakthrough could open the door to new treatments aimed at disrupting one of cancer's most important survival strategies.