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Saying Goodbye

On Friday afternoon, a longtime local friend of 25 years, Ron, told me that he would be ending his life on Sunday through "assisted suicide" (End of Life Option Act). I had known for months that this was his plan due to his terminal cancer, but we didn’t know when it would happen; it all depended on how quickly the disease progressed.


Last night, Ron’s widow told me that he passed away very peacefully yesterday morning. This is the first time that someone I've known personally has opted for assisted suicide.

RIP Ron.


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Better drilldown into opens and clicks

Email analytics drilldowns now nest right in the page — no more slow modals.

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Claude consciousness

Anthropic published research on what patterns inside Claude — patterns they’re calling the J-space — reveal about how it might be thinking while it processes a prompt: If you’ve heard of language models having a “scratchpad” or “chain of thought”—text they write to themselv...

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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.

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Don't invest your political capital in sketchy people

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.

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manton.org/2026/07/06/claude-consciousness.html

Claude consciousness.

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Offside

The arbiter gave my knight a red card for capturing with cleats up :(

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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.

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A reunion of Downtown sounds at Parkside

Several veterans of the downtown music scene will share the bill Thursday night at the Parkside Lounge.  The lineup features Disturbed Furniture and Rome 56, two bands with roots in the late-1970s and early-'80s downtown clubs, including Club 57, Danceteria, Mudd Club...

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Analyzing the Downfall of MN-Launched Lizzo

Analyzing the Downfall of MN-Launched Lizzo

Plus prosecutor quizzes, Souhan retires, and large nutcracker dazzles planet in today's Flyover news roundup.

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Black Point place•time-holder

Just these silvergray-Bay•atmosphere images for now... from my late afternoon constitutional yesterday, past my favorite escarpment (well, after this one ::chuckle::).

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Heads Up! It’s the First New Music Playlists in… Let’s Just Say ‘A While’

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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The Ultimate Keygen Music Archive (80s-90s Chiptune)

http://archive.org/details/Keygen-Music-Archive

[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...

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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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Guides

microlink.io/docs/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.

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A new study just debunked the biggest fear about AI and open source

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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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(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.…

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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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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.