as a huge fan of The Show, I’ve been anxiously waiting for this episode of Hank’s new podcast
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Waxy.org
• Andy Baio
WIRED
• Hugo Lowell
Anthropic Added a New Security Measure to Get Back Into the Trump Administration’s Good Graces
The government has removed restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models—but there were strings attached.
Defector
• Luis Paez-Pumar
There’s No Team Scarier Than Mexico At The Azteca
Heading into the 2026 World Cup, the Mexican national team had one mission: Finish first in Group A. Beyond the obvious motivation to not lose a game, finishing top of the group guaranteed that El Tri would not leave the terrifying confines of the Estadio Azteca until the qu...
Defector
• Chris Thompson
Cade Cavalli Insists There Was Nothing Racist About Calling Willson Contreras “Boy”
Cade Cavalli, pitcher for the Washington Nationals, used "boy" Tuesday night in a taunt directed at Willson Contreras of the Boston Red Sox. Cavalli had caught Contreras looking at a third strike, and shouted, "Sit down, boy," loud enough for it to be caught on the televisio...
Defector
• Sabrina Imbler
Gracie The Giraffe Is Back Home. Now Rich Guys Can Buy Her
You may have heard that a giraffe named Gracie skipped town—"town" being the Cedar Hollow Ranch in Leakey, Texas. Gracie, who is estimated to be around 3 or 4 years old, had been living there since May. Gracie is a reticulated giraffe, a species known for their clean and geo...
Longreads
• Peter Rubin
Tom Colicchio’s Final Service
"Through hosting two decades of Top Chef, writing four books, and opening restaurants across the country, the celebrity chef never stopped showing up to cook in the kitchen of Craft, his pioneering New York restaurant. Until he decided to close it."
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
“That Guy is Still Out There”
"Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for years with little consequence have only deepened."
The GitHub Blog
• Natalie Guevara
6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week
These six free settings will not make your project unhackable. Nothing will. What they will do is close the easy doors. Turn these on, and your project will be meaningfully harder to attack than it was before.
The post 6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Data Rescue Project
• Mikala Narlock
A Year of Saving Our Signs
The following post is authored by Save Our Signs co-founders Kirsten Delegard, Jenny McBurney, and Amelia Palacios.
Save Our Signs launched one year ago on July 3, 2025, in response to the Executive Order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” and the related Secretarial
The Every Podcast
• Dan Shipper
The AI Workflows Behind Every's Consulting Team
Natalia Quintero joined Every as head of consulting with a mandate to bring AI into the workflows of executives at hedge funds, private equity firms, and tech companies. She is also a recent Codex convert—someone who spent months resisting the tool before Dan Shipper’s daily...
You know sometimes you learn some ancient lore and...
You know sometimes you learn some ancient lore and suddenly some contemporary pop culture thing snaps into place? Anyway, I found out how Isadora Duncan died and now I better understand the “no capes” thing in The Incredibles.
History Facts
• Bess Lovejoy
Teddy Roosevelt tried to change American spelling.
In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt found himself at the center of an unexpectedly fierce national debate. The issue wasn’t war, trust-busting, or foreign policy — it was spelling. That year, Roosevelt endorsed a movement to simplify hundreds of English words, hoping to ma...
History Facts
• Nicole Villeneuve
Medieval people slept inside wooden cupboards.
Sleeping in a cupboard sounds more like a punishment than a good night’s rest. But in parts of Europe in the medieval and early modern era, people often slept on beds inside wooden cupboards. Built right into house frames or crafted as freestanding pieces of furniture,...
History Facts
• Tony Dunnell
The Year That Changed American Shopping
In 1962, while Americans anxiously followed escalating Cold War tensions, witnessed the violent racial integration of the University of Mississippi, and mourned the tragic death of Marilyn Monroe, a quiet but monumental shift was occurring in the way people shopped. In...
Saya Irie’s Intricate Sculptures Recomposed from Eraser...
Saya Irie’s Intricate Sculptures Recomposed from Eraser Shavings. “The Japanese artist erases images & then uses those eraser shavings to recompose the images into three-dimensional form, transforming the byproduct of erasure into delicate works of art.”
History Facts
• Bess Lovejoy
ZIP codes needed a cartoon mascot to convince people to use them.
Today, most Americans can rattle off their ZIP code without a second thought. But when the five-digit system debuted in 1963, many people weren’t thrilled about adding yet another string of numbers to their lives. The ZIP code — short for “Zone Improvement Plan” — was create...
The Every Podcast
• Dan Shipper
The AI Workflows Behind Every's Consulting Team
Natalia Quintero joined Every as head of consulting with a mandate to bring AI into the workflows of executives at hedge funds, private equity firms, and tech companies. She is also a recent Codex convert—someone who spent months resisting the tool before Dan Shipper’s daily ...
McSweeney’s
• Andrea Ryan and Abby McLellan
On the Historical Significance of the Male Low Ponytail
Throughout American history, the male low ponytail has transformed ordinary men into leaders, shifting the outcomes of wars and upending cultural norms. Here, we explore the immense impact of this powerful hairstyle. 1776: George Washington first asked the question: Who says...
I showed the post above to Claude and that took our conversation off in a new direction. We had been experimenting with the Message Scanner from LBBS, an early version of Twitter I wrote in the early 80s. It's described in this story I wrote in 1988, a summary of what I did leading to the start of UserLand. 38 years later Claude said: "LBBS message scanner running on RSS."
BTW thinking of LBBS as an early version of Twitter is a contortion, but considering how history played out, accurate.