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Moments of social mobilization enliven and expand our political imagination. Among the things that sorely need reimagining is our technology.

No one yet knows what a body can do.

We hope you will hold on to what we have made.

Tomorrow is the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States of America, and Donald Trump has made it about himself.

Small-r republican liberalism is having a day.

This week, LeverMind is testing your knowledge on the 2026 midterms. Have you been keeping up?

My Apple TV has started yelling at me. Or at the very least, the Disney+ app on the Apple TV is now clamoring for my attention.…

Here’s a fun screenshot from Mastodon. Micro.blog posts that are federated to Mastodon look better than posts actually created from Mastodon. Markdown → your blog → everywhere.

Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music and musical topics I’ve been fixated on recently. It can be hard to remember amidst the downfall of everything, but 250 years of America is a major milestone. America, more of a grand experiment than a ...

Perhaps it is too fucking hot where you are to do anything outside this weekend. Perhaps you prefer to be locked inside watching World Cup matches while eating popsicles. While you do that, feel free to hang out here and chat in the open thread.

There's a bit of symmetry in the new Netflix documentary The Final Set, a chronicle of the epic, tumultuous rivalry and friendship between Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert. Long removed from their legendary careers, both women were diagnosed with cancer in recent years: o...

Deep in a motion to suppress the search of Don Lemon's phone, Abbe Lowell attempts to explain to Harmeet Dhillon how the First Amendment works: "It is not a crime to engage in 'organized protest activity.'"

The post Schrödinger’s Lemon: Harmeet Dhillon’s Team Treats “Organized Protest Activity” as a Crime appeared first on emptywheel.

It’s now July, which means schools from around the world are making final preparations for the Electrek American Solar Challenge 2026, and this year is going to be an especially notable one! A record 42 teams from colleges in the US, Canada, Belgium, and the Netherlands are registered to compete in the Formula Sun Grand Prix pre-qualifier track event in less than two weeks.

This is a big deal for teams. Apart from FSGP being a competition in its own right, it’s the opportunity for students to prove their hand-built solar car has what it takes to hit the open road and trek 1,500+ miles across the United States for the renowned American Solar Challenge.

Here’s everything you need to know about both competitions, the teams, and the schedule.

"Turf wars. Food and fire hazards. $15 ice-cream cones. How an organized network of unlicensed food trucks took over America's Front Lawn."

Hot weather of the kind sweeping the eastern U.S. drives up electricity demand for data centers, adding to their strain on power grids and worsening air quality for surrounding areas.

Christmas came early this year for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. The nonprofit received a $1 million donation Thursday from Taylor Swift and her fiance Travis Kelce.

British battery-electric vehicle registrations jumped 38% in June to 64,440 units, pushing EVs to nearly 30% of the new car market — their strongest monthly performance outside seasonal peaks, according to New AutoMotive data released Friday.

The overall market grew 15% year-over-year to 215,921 units, but EVs did the heavy lifting, and Tesla posted a 42% rebound that signals it may finally be climbing off the floor in Europe.

When I was running WordPress courses, someone once copied my website almost word for word. They copied the headlines, the structure, the sales copy, the lot. They were so lazy they even copied my phone number. So I started getting calls from people trying to book courses through their website, which was both annoying and […]

Hitting the road today, and may be away from rectangles all weekend. So I’ll let this image speak to our condition on departure:

I’m expanding Micro.blog’s support for Standard.site to include the content field too. It looks like this now:

"content": {
  "$type": "blog.micro.content",
  "markdown": "Hello _world_...",
  "html": "Hello <i>world</i>..."
}

Simple. I’ll publish an official lexicon later.