Defector
• Maitreyi Anantharaman
The Crossword, July 6: We’re Halfway There
Defector
• Maitreyi Anantharaman
Defector
• Barry Petchesky
The Texas Observer
• Ivan Armando Flores
Every Thursday and Sunday evening, a dozen volunteers file into the back room of Vesper, a community space in East Austin. In the workroom-turned-library, there is a small kitchen, bright overhead lighting, and hundreds of books and magazines stacked every which way on floor-to-ceiling shelves that line the walls. Each person plucks a handwritten letter […]
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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents
• L. Jeffrey Zeldman
The web is still the best hope we have for a durable, shared memory. But it requires us to be gardeners, not merely tenants.
The post Memories Can’t Wait—or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying About the Web appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.
I love this short little video montage of actresses during Charlie Rose interviews. No dialogue, just quiet reactions. Musical accompaniment by Laurie Anderson (O Superman).
Remarkable People
• Guy Kawasaki
What makes an apology actually work?
WIRED
• Jorge Garay
Holes in socks have become a curious sight at this year’s World Cup. The reasons why are a weird mix of biomechanics, perception, and player habits.
Waxy.org
• Andy Baio
the best outcome for the studio, I hope we get another documentary out of it
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i.webthings hub
• joe jenett
☙ Lavender & Black Roses ❧ ⇦ Aywren's Nook → shishka Cosmos Malick Fabio Manganiello 📌roger mvu.one 📌mikael
One of the great things about the World Cup and the US: In the United States, Every World Cup Team Is a Home Team. “Soccer fans from all over the world, many now making their homes in America, have packed bars, restaurants, living rooms…”
Electrek
• Peter Johnson

The Seal 08 boasts “the power of a million-dollar vehicle,” but can be bought for under $30,000 in China. After it went on sale last week, locked-in orders for BYD’s new flagship electric sedan reached around 65,000 in its first 30 hours.
It was meant to make you think, and apparently it did that, but didn't help you see the reason.
It is explained in the next paragraph.
Nieman Lab
• Katerina Eva Matsa
Local news has long been an exception to a troubling trend. Even as trust in national news organizations eroded over the past decade and partisan divides over the media widened, local news largely held its ground — majorities of both Republicans and Democrats continued to rate their local news media favorably. Despite facing major financial...
You say:
> There isn't very much I'd have to do beyond adding two Atom elements to my feed, and an Atom namespace declaration in the top line of the file. So it's not an easy thing to do.
Did you mean to say "it's not an easy thing to do" or was that a typo? I'm hoping the changes were easy. :-)
Electrek
• Fred Lambert

A Tesla driver was filmed apparently fast asleep behind the wheel at about 100 km/h on British Columbia’s Trans-Canada Highway on Sunday, with two sleeping children in the car.
The obvious question is how Tesla’s driver monitoring — the very system meant to catch this — let it happen. The answer is that the driver was wearing large sunglasses, and that one detail exposes a real gap in how Tesla watches its drivers.
github.com/scripting/rss.chat/blob/main/client/code/worknotes.md
A big day for writers — the editor was rebuilt underneath, and a batch of everyday annoyances got fixed.
github.com/scripting/rss.chat/blob/main/client/code/worknotes.md
github.com/scripting/rss.chat/blob/main/client/code/worknotes.md
Adding a title to a reply used to look like it worked, but the title was silently dropped when you published. Now it goes through, same as on a regular post.
github.com/scripting/rss.chat/blob/main/client/code/worknotes.md
That's how titles look.
github.com/scripting/rss.chat/blob/main/client/code/worknotes.md
Deleting from a post's own page used to leave the dead post on your screen. Now you land back on the home timeline and it's gone.