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The Crossword, July 6: We’re Halfway There

The Crossword, July 6: We’re Halfway There
Stay in line, and do our Monday crossword. This puzzle was constructed by Peggy Sue Marlin, and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Peggy Sue works in systems and data automation and enjoys golfing and DIY projects. She won her school spelling bee on the word "cheeseburger," then w...

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Text • Barry Petchesky

The Ducks Screwed Themselves

The Ducks Screwed Themselves
I think it's important we set some axioms for discussion of Anaheim's Leo Carlsson signing an offer sheet with Philadelphia, because it helps a superficially mindblowing contract feel something closer to logical—both in that the Flyers were wise to offer it, and in that the ...

The Texas Observer
Text • Ivan Armando Flores

Throwing the Book at Books in Prison

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 […]

The post Throwing the Book at Books in Prison appeared first on The Texas Observer.

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Memories Can’t Wait—or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying About the Web

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.

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Text • Jason Kottke

I love this short little video montage of actresses...

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
Audio • Guy Kawasaki

How to Speak So People Listen

What makes an apology actually work?

WIRED
Text • Jorge Garay

The Science Behind Why Soccer Players at the 2026 World Cup Are Cutting Their Socks

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
Text • Andy Baio

Double Fine is independent once again as Xbox lays off 3,200

aftermath.site/xbox-layoffs-july-2026/

the best outcome for the studio, I hope we get another documentary out of it

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linkylove 07-06-26

☙ Lavender & Black Roses ❧ ⇦ Aywren's Nook → shishka Cosmos Malick Fabio Manganiello 📌roger mvu.one 📌mikael

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Text • Jason Kottke

One of the great things about the World Cup and the US:...

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…”

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Text • Peter Johnson

BYD’s flagship electric sedan receives 65,000 locked-in orders

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.

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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.

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Text • Katerina Eva Matsa

A quiet shift in how Americans perceive local news

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...

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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 Valid
Text • Fred Lambert

Tesla driver caught asleep at 100 km/h — how monitoring failed

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.

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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.

rss.chat worknotes
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The editor now keeps your text as Markdown, permanently

github.com/scripting/rss.chat/blob/main/client/code/worknotes.md

Until now the editor had one writing surface that converted its contents in place every time you switched between the wizzy view and Markdown mode — and every conversion was a chance to lose something. Text inside angle brackets could vanish, adjacent lists could tangle toget...

rss.chat worknotes
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Replies can carry titles

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.

rss.chat worknotes
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Titles show bold while you write them

github.com/scripting/rss.chat/blob/main/client/code/worknotes.md

That's how titles look.

rss.chat worknotes
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Deleting a post takes you home

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.