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WBUR News
• WBUR

Brad Stevens says Jaylen Brown trade was about Celtics' salary cap and future flexibility

Celtics president Brad Stevens says trading Jaylen Brown to Philadelphia was necessary for financial flexibility in the changing NBA landscape. Stevens acknowledged the emotional impact and said he understands fans' reactions.

AI Secret Supports Webmention
• Magna

🛎️ Musk Sells To Musk

🛎️ Musk Sells To Musk

Plus: Agents Never Clock Out, SoftBank Joins The GPU Sale

Longreads
• Angelica Calabrese

My Almond Archive

A hand-drawn image of an almond tree is overlaid with a watercolor painting of an almond branch in blossom. To the right is a series of written observations on almonds, from the linguistic to the symbolic
In southeastern Italy, almond groves hold centuries of local history. A granddaughter returns to gather the bitter and the sweet.

Rest of World -
• Lin Zhang

China’s AI boom is creating a different kind of entrepreneur

China’s AI boom is creating a different kind of entrepreneur

Backed by the state, Chinese workers are using AI to deal with limited resources and drive innovation to compete with Silicon Valley.

The Daily Updates instantly via WebSub
• The New York Times

The Onion’s Latest Joke: Taking Over Infowars

Last Thursday, the satirical newspaper The Onion started its own version of Infowars, the infamous online hub of misinformation created by Alex Jones. The takeover has been years in the making. After Mr. Jones lost two defamation cases, his assets were put up for auction. Th...

Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily

New weight loss pill beats oral Ozempic in major trial

A new once-daily weight-loss pill called orforglipron delivered better weight loss and blood sugar improvements for people with type 2 diabetes than the leading oral semaglutide in a major clinical trial. The tablet could offer a more convenient alternative to injectable drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy because it doesn't require refrigeration or special timing with meals. It's also cheaper to manufacture, which could expand access globally.

EV Grieve
• Unknown

A new chapter on 13th Street

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy  An independent bookstore devoted entirely to cookbooks debuted in the spring at 332 E. 13th St., between First Avenue and Second Avenue.  Wild Sorrel Cookbooks is the new venture from Troy Chatterton, who spent the past 14 ye...

EV Grieve
• Unknown

A reminder for red-tailed hawk season in Tompkins Square Park

Top two photos by Daniel Root  The three red-tailed hawk fledglings continue to be active in Tompkins Square Park... even during the HEAT DOME, as Goggla noted ... Meanwhile, someone has posted a homemade sign near where the hawks have been at play... reminding visi...

Seth's Blog
• Seth Godin

The Builder’s Creed

A hundred and fifteen years ago, Christian Larson wrote one of the first popular self-help manifestos. The Optimist’s Creed argued that it was a choice, and a useful promise. Not to promise the world, or the boss, or the market. To promise ourselves. Optimism is not a mood. It’s a discipline. Last week, Reid Hoffman reminded […]

The City Reporter
• By Abigail Kramer 

The Long Battle to Keep the NYPD Out of Mental Health Emergencies

Steven holds his mother's home in their Flushing apartment where NYPD officers arrested him while he was having a schizophrenic episode.

This story was produced as part of a collaboration between The City Reporter and MindSite News, the nation’s only nonprofit news outlet focused on mental health. Sign up for the MindSite News Daily newsletter here. Genaro watched as four police officers crowded out of the elevator, their boots thudding through the narrow hallway of the […]

The post The Long Battle to Keep the NYPD Out of Mental Health Emergencies appeared first on The City Reporter.

Open Culture
• Colin Marshall

How Nashville Became Home to a Full-Scale Replica of the Parthenon

Asked to identify “the Athens of the South,” many Americans might well point to Athens, Georgia, especially if they happen to be fans of REM, the B‑52s, or Of Montreal. In fact, that title was claimed by Nashville, Tennessee as early as the eighteen-fifties, when the city put into action its ambitious plans for a […]

WBUR News
• WBUR

Celebrating a century of actor Harry Dean Stanton at the Brattle

"With his concave, craggly cheeks and haunted eyes, Harry Dean Stanton was nobody’s idea of a movie star," writes critic Sean Burns. Running July 12 through July 20, the series screens 13 of the most iconic titles from a filmography that spanned seven decades.

WBUR News
• WBUR

Q & A with Jason Prokowiew, author of "War Boys: A Father and Son Memoir"

Jason Prokowiew’s "War Boys" braids the story of his father, Walter, who survived as a young boy taken in by a Nazi soldier in 1940s Belarus, and young Jason, who must navigate a childhood of fear and abuse in 1970s Massachusetts. In conversation with Alysia Abbott, Prokowiew reflects on how his father’s history intersects with his own ongoing story.

The City Reporter
• Nancy Jiang

Black Unemployment in NYC Still Tops Nation Amid Competition, DEI Retreat

Workers attend a job far in Mott Haven

For the Netflix children’s animation “Team Hot Wheels,” Brandon V. Fletcher, 45, painstakingly drew the show’s four mischievous heroes’ antics frame by frame, often spending days sketching for a second of animation screentime. But when his company, Noggin, a children’s streaming service, was acquired by Paramount in 2024, Fletcher lost his senior animator job, alongside […]

The post Black Unemployment in NYC Still Tops Nation Amid Competition, DEI Retreat appeared first on The City Reporter.

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

Trump Wrecks His Own 250 Crowd Size Claims in Final, Epic Humiliation

Donald Trump ended the tortured saga around his gala for America’s 250th anniversary in typical fashion. Trump claimed 150,000 people attended his final speech, which was humiliatingly contradicted by videos of the event. Then Trump made it worse. During the speech ...

@art.feediverse.org - Great art on Bluesky

Marcel Duchamp, Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]), 1934 #museumarchive #marcelduchamp

TorrentFreak
• Ernesto Van der Sar

‘Tonga’ Suspends Popular Pirate Site Domains Following Indian Court Order

For years, Tonga's .to domain names have been a popular choice for pirate sites, but that may very well change. Following a restructuring of the domain name operation, the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga appears to have suspended several domains, including the popular German streaming portals S.to and BS.to. The action was taken in response to an Indian High Court order that was originally issued last December.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

TorrentFreak
• Ernesto Van der Sar

‘Tonga’ Suspends Popular Pirate Site Domains Following Indian Court Order

For years, Tonga's .to domain names have been a popular choice for pirate sites, but that may very well change. Following a restructuring of the domain name operation, the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga appears to have suspended several domains, including the popular German streaming portals S.to and BS.to. The action was taken in response to an Indian High Court order that was originally issued last December.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Open Culture
• OC

Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Albert Camus’ Touching Thank You Letter to His Elementary School Teacher

It’s never too late to thank the teacher who changed your life. Oprah Winfrey fell to pieces when she was reunited on air with Mrs. Duncan, her fourth grade teacher, her “first liberator” and “validator.” Patrick Stewart used his knighthood ceremony as an occasion to thank Cecil Dormand, the English teacher who told him that […]

@art.feediverse.org - Great art on Bluesky

The Little Windmill at Gennevilliers, 1875 #berthemorisot #impressionism