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Lights! Camera! Action! Todd Spangler at Variety writes: Automattic’s ‘Code for the People’ Documentary Is a Rallying Cry for Users to Fight for the Open Internet, from the NYC premiere last week. I’m looking forward to the San Francisco premiere of the documentary, and then tomorrow everyone can stream it for free on codeforthepeople.com! Appearances … Continue reading Code for the People →

Tiny silica nanoparticles engineered to seek out prostate cancer caused tumor cells to self-destruct and supercharged the immune system in preclinical mouse studies. Combined with immunotherapy, the treatment produced complete remissions in multiple mice, raising hopes for a powerful new approach to prostate cancer.

App icons in MacOS are not mere buttons. You can drag them, move them, and drop things on them. You click them to select, and double-click to launch. They are richer objects that deserve a richer visual vocabulary.

The trail continues. Stay rooted. Stay wild. ✊

Agents are hardwired to be prolific writers and readers of code. As my work on Bram progressed I found that their code-first instinct wasn’t serving me well. So I began pushing them to be, also, prolific writers and readers of logs. Bram is a Tauri app, so it’s written in Rust. But it’s also a … Continue reading Don’t infer behavior from code, observe it in logs

Dutchess County Executive Sue Serino is calling all women, and those who support women, to join together on July 30th for this networking event. Continue reading…

Also in today’s Power Play: Congressional candidate Connie Chan notches a big endorsement.

Embattled Maine Democrat Graham Platner dropped out of the Senate race Wednesday, giving Democrats less than a month to find...

The final blow in progressive Graham Platner's scandal-plagued campaign came this week, after a former girlfriend said he raped her. He has denied the allegation. His spectacular rise and fall is hugely consequential for Democrats, who view the Maine Senate race as vital in their quest to win back control of the U.S. Senate.

Karthik Chikmagalur suggested that we chat with John Wiegley to find out about the interesting things he's been doing with Org Mode. It was a really cool look at a heavy-duty workflow that dealt with thousands of open items. Since John was sharing his actual Org files inste...

This is a fun and really well-done triple mashup of Outkast’s B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad), Hitchcock’s The Birds, and Sesame Street.

STRENGTHENING THE U.S. DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE: This week, at NATO’s 2026 Ankara Summit, President Donald J. Trump announced a surge in defense investment from Allies, increasing market access for American companies and supporting thousands of high-paying American manufacturing jobs.  PRIORITIZING AMERICA FIRST FOREIGN POLICY: President Trump’s leadership has produced a generational shift in NATO, ramping up allies’ stake in […]

The post Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Secures Historic Defense Investment from NATO Allies, Powering American Industry appeared first on The White House.

A new quantum theory bridges two rival models of how impurities behave inside many-particle systems, resolving a problem that has challenged physicists for decades. The findings could reshape experiments on ultracold atoms, semiconductors, and other exotic forms of quantum matter.

The animal escaped after apparently arriving inside a package at Meta's Bangkok office, injuring one employee before finally being caught.

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Darren Aronofsky’s AI production studio Primordial Soup was announced in May of 2025 during Google’s annual developer conference. The launch was meant to burnish the pioneering reputations of both entities simultaneously: Google released a new version of its text-to-video model Veo and an AI video tool called Flow, while Aronofsky, like a worrying number of…

Fixed some spacing issues in the Bookmarks section for Mac, iOS, and Android apps. Less cramped now with the “reader” links and summaries, for archived pages available in Micro.blog Premium.

NEW: Brig. Gen. Eric Widmar, senior legal adviser to the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he is retiring “for personal reasons.”

His is the latest high-profile departure among the military’s top leaders and lawyers in the Trump administration. https://www.propublica.org/article/eric-widmar-retiring-joint-chiefs-legal-adviser?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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Vanity pickup trucks: I fucking hate these things, and so you do. The second I see a Dodge Ram SuperUltraMegaSoldierDuty on the highway, I already know that it’ll have a Blue Lives Matter decal splashed across its rear windshield, a pristine flatbed untouched by manual labor equipment, and a driver who has no fucking idea…