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Michael Lange, New York City based writer, researcher, strategist, and political organizer, digs into the demographics of who voted for the DSA candidates in New York City's June primary, both for Congress and for state legislative offices, and what it tells us about politic...

As the number of adults who report reading books has declined, Rose Horowitch, staff writer for The Atlantic, argues that we're living in a "post-literate world" and talks about what that means for society.

Photo: 28 April 2023, Saxony, Leipzig: Visitors to the Leipzig Book Fair get an overview of the book offerings at the Penguin Random House publishing group's booth. At the spring meeting of the book industry, some 2,000 exhibitors from 40 countries present their new book products. Austria will be the book fair's guest country. Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa (Photo by Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

 

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📄 Automating Sending Webmention Requests from a Static Site How I automatically send Webmention requests from a GitLab build pipeline for my static sites. [IndieNews] Webmentions with batteries included A zero-cost library to integrate Webmentions in your website [ 📌roger ]

Julia Moskin, food correspondent for The New York Times, breaks down her deep dive into how global production of berries has tripled since 2000, becoming the fastest-growing category in American produce, and how that consumer demand is being met by farmers and distributors.

Photo: 06 July 2026, Brandenburg, Beelitz: Blueberries are available for pick-your-own at the Jakobs-Hof in Beelitz during an event announcing the start of the 2026 blueberry season in Brandenburg. Photo: Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa (Photo by Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images)

 

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The suit, filed against Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube, alleges negligence by the social media giants and seeks removal of "addictive features and (to) compensate the city for the mental health support our students need," according to the mayor's office.

The Women's Professional Baseball League on Wednesday unveiled the nicknames and logos of its four teams ahead of its inaugural season, with each team name inspired by pioneering women. The Boston Hunters are inspired by Harriot K. Hunt, a pioneering Boston physician and women’s rights activist.

A federal judge has blocked Trump's DOJ from collecting personal data of 2020 election workers in Georgia.

The Stable Genius was on a roll today, with his mental decline on full display while in Ankara, Turkey, for the NATO summit. We're way past the "imagine if Biden said this" point and straight into wondering how this man functions in society without a drooling bib. Presiden...

"When an alligator kills someone in America, it can make international headlines. What happens to the thousands of gators that people deem 'nuisances' does not."

Go from an empty repository to a live custom domain with HTTPS in about 14 minutes, without manually editing a single DNS record.

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David Epstein, author of the recent Inside the Box (a book about the value of constraints), did a fascinating video on “anticipatory skill” and “chunking” and how players like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo (who can accurately head the ball even in the dark) use them t...

Added a page to document some of how Micro.blog works with Bluesky, including Standard.site compatibility. I’ll add more to this as I think of implementation details that are useful to know.

A Chrome-specific bookmarklet that extracts SVG nodes and accompanying styles from an HTML document and downloads them as an SVG file—A file which you could open and edit in Adobe Illustrator, for instance.

The robotaxi stopped, called 911, and waited for the San Mateo Police to show up.

The 85-year-old played at least one song even normies recognized, let his guitarists cook, and even kinda acknowledged us at one point.

If I learned one thing in 25 years of running design and education companies, it’s that idealism isn’t a business strategy. If you wonder why my partners and I had to shut down organizations we and lots of you loved, refer to the previous sentence.

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All the world's a feed,
And all the men and women are merely items 
(Shakespeare, if he had known about RSS)

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. In his first six months in office, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has issued a steady stream of announcements and policy initiatives in the three areas that powered his affordability-focused campaign: childcare for kids 5 and younger, transportation, and housing. But when it […]

The post As Mamdani Focuses on Childcare, Some Experts Question His K-12 Priorities appeared first on The City Reporter.

Ashley Cooke made her acting debut on Marshals — and apparently walked off set with a little souvenir the wardrobe department probably wasn't thrilled about. Continue reading…

Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI. “This book presents the rediscovered original source code of ELIZA alongside previously unseen scripts…, revealing a far more sophisticated system than previously documented.”