A great evening right here in Traverse City with Jocelyn Benson! I've seen up close her unwavering integrity as a leader and her focus on making sure government delivers for every Michigander.
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A win! A federal judge in Washington has rejected an effort to dismiss the criminal case against Brian Cole Jr., who is accused of planting pipe bombs outside the headquarters of both the Republican and Democratic National Committees on January 5, 2021. The charges will move forward in court.
Silver Bulletin
• Nate Silver
Don't invest your political capital in sketchy people
Political parties don’t get to wait for courtroom certainty. Graham Platner has given Democrats far too many reasons to cut their losses.
links.daveverse.org
• Dave Winer
Claude consciousness.
Offside
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For
eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/hate-algorithm-rss-one-tools-youve-been-looking
Since at least the moment Facebook introduced (and apologized for) its News Feed, “the algorithm” has been shorthand for the ways the tech giants control what we see and when we see it. In the age of enshittification, there is a push to reclaim our feeds and networks. Good news: there’s a tool that’s been around for decades that can help wrangle many of your feeds into something manageable: Really Simple Syndication, more commonly known as RSS.
EV Grieve
• Unknown
A reunion of Downtown sounds at Parkside
★ Apple Should Eliminate the App Icon ‘Squircle Jail’
Shape was often the most iconic thing about an icon. Now it’s no part at all.
Berkeleyside
• James Twomey and Annie Sciacca
Berkeley slashes 2 safety net programs — a mental health crisis team and a homeless shelter

Racket
• Jay Boller
Analyzing the Downfall of MN-Launched Lizzo
Plus prosecutor quizzes, Souhan retires, and large nutcracker dazzles planet in today's Flyover news roundup.
escarpment
• lnebres
Black Point place•time-holder
Racket
• Keith Harris
Heads Up! It’s the First New Music Playlists in… Let’s Just Say ‘A While’
5 great local tracks, 5 great new tracks from everywhere else, and Lizzo.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
The Ultimate Keygen Music Archive (80s-90s Chiptune)
[ITALIANO] Un archivio completo e ragionato dedicato alla musica dei keygen, dei trainer e delle cracktro che hanno segnato l'era degli anni '80 e '90. Questa...
Nominating the guy with the Nazi tattoo, a downwardly mobile career, a record of shitposting on Reddit and public denunciations by women was not a great idea for the “vote for us because the other guys are incompetent Nazi misogynist failures who post too much crap on social media” party.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Guides
Step-by-step guides for common Microlink workflows. Learn how to query public search surfaces, capture screenshots, extract custom data, generate PDFs, extract metadata, and more with practical examples.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Amanda Caswell
A new study just debunked the biggest fear about AI and open source

There’s a common fear about what AI could do to open source. Coding agents take over the beginner-friendly issues that
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Six Colors
• Six Colors Podcasts
(Podcast) Upgrade 627: Do Not Use, Do Not Turn Off
Apple seeks RAM in all the wrong places, Jason has two tangents about FileMaker, and we deal with a large load of somewhat puzzling rumors and legal cases.…
Electrek
• Peter Johnson
BMW’s iX4 EV captured with a new look as its debut nears [Images]

The 2027 iX4 is set to join BMW’s electric vehicle lineup soon, bringing a new coupe SUV-like style to the family. Ahead of its debut, the 2027 BMW iX4 was spotted ripping around the Nürburgring, flaunting its new look.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
AI Data Centers Use Far More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report
wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-data-centers-water-use-901e2902?st=TJKFLy&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Water used at the power plants that supply electricity to data centers can be much greater than the water used in the data centers themselves.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
The data center boom in the desert
The AI race is transforming northwestern Nevada into one of the world's largest data-center markets—and sparking fears of water strains in the nation’s driest state.