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A stunning fossil discovery shows that ancient bees used the empty tooth sockets of mammal bones as tiny nests after owls scattered the bones across a cave floor 20,000 years ago. It's the first known evidence of bees nesting inside animal bones, revealing an astonishingly creative survival strategy.

He stood by his oath, despite the consequences! A true patriot!

TL;DR: This week saw Minnaloushe's 'cat jail' reintroduction process, deep dives into live-coding music with strudel.cc (including a cover!), and a major overhaul of the starnet project's audio engine and core mechanics. Plus, reflections on the web's evolution, LLMs, and other miscellanea.

Dear World: Now is a good time to get off social media that’s going downhill. Where by “downhill” I mean any combination of less useful, less safe, or less fun. It’s time for something better, and by “something better” I mean Mastodon. Which, I’m here to say, offers a better social-media experience than the alternatives. Furthermore, the alternatives are fatally flawed

Replacing complacent Democrats with populist Democrats in blue districts can scare every other incumbent into action – or face the threat of being fired.

Happy Day After Independence Day! It’s on a Sunday, which means you have time to recuperate! Well, it’s over now: Happy to say this weekend’s event was one that brought an entire nation together, and, for a moment, healed its wounds as we celebrated the potential and promise of the future, and all the good […]

thanks to Manu for asking me to be the second-to-last blogger in his interview series

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seems like the company failed precisely because the protocol was so successful in achieving its goals

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Expectation is everything. Considering the public transit price-gouging SNAFUs in New York New Jersey and Foxboro that dogged World Cup transit public relations prior to the event, some heat was taken off cities historically hostile to the concept of "public" and "transit," ...

Claude Code et al change how software is developed forever. We're never going back.

Why Adam Sandler officiated Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding, and the surprising friendship behind their close bond.

Trace the fascinating journey of Mexican food in Britain - from curiosity to mainstream obsession - charting the key moments, pioneers, restaurants and cultural shifts that shaped the revolution.

On July 2, Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft’s commercial business, announced the formation of the Microsoft Frontier Company. The new

The post Microsoft, AWS and Anthropic are spending billions — and not on better models appeared first on The New Stack.

Taylor Swift once penned “It’s a love story, baby just say ‘Yes.'” And now, her art has become reality. The massive pop star got married on July 4 to NFL player Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden. Unsurprisingly, it seems like every celebrity and their grandmother and their dog was there. Details of the event…

Vint Cerf, a father of the internet, retires from Google next week and warns that AI agents will need precise, standardized protocols.

The satirical site is fighting to officially take over “Infowars.” In the meantime, CEO Ben Collins says the new show will mock “how fucking stupid” conspiratorial brainrot has become.

A visual refresh with a background that changes colour according to the time of day, using the new Temporal API along with CSS custom properties that blend into each other.

There's now a worknotes.md file at the top level of both repos.

Larry is my spirit animal. “I’m obnoxious and disliked, you know that sir.” Please enjoy this song from the 1972 movie musical “1776.” youtu.be/09A6oY5cb…

Tim Sweeney, fighting for openness in the App Store and protecting forests in North Carolina:

Sweeney strives to protect large swaths of land with high conservation value before developers get possession. In 2016, he donated 7,000 acres of forest east of Asheville to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In 2021, he gifted 7,500 acres near the Avery-Mitchell county border to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. That year, he also teamed with conservation groups to preserve a two-mile coastal barrier south of Topsail Island.