Robert Eggers continues his run of One Word Title Films Featuring Very Strange Men with Werwulf. I’m not a horror guy but I was pleasantly surprised by Nosferatu, which I quite liked.
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Ars Technica - All content
• Jon Brodkin
Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans
Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
‘They Celebrate Goals, We Count Martyrs’: Watching the World Cup in Gaza
"Palestinians are defying Israeli bombings and power outages to follow soccer’s biggest tournament. But many fear the world has abandoned them."
I put a lot of thought into reevaluating the X API from a blogging perspective. I also wrote a whole book about the problems with social media, and I updated it for Elon Musk. But it is stressful, and I’m in no hurry. For people who have asked for this to be re-enabled, let’s give it some more time.
Great analogy from JA Westenberg about SaaS and bread machines:
A company that decides to build its own version using AI coding tools is buying a bread machine. The ingredients are cheap, and the machine does most of the work, but they’re now the baker. They own the maintenance, edge cases, and security gaps that AI-generated code tends to introduce…
Most people just buy sliced bread ready to eat. Most people will still buy apps. Although the quality bar is higher now.
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Trump Shifts Into Dangerous New Phase in Iran War
“President Trump’s new plan to wrest control of the Strait of Hormuz by resuming strikes and reimposing the blockade is his third major shift in military strategy as he searches for a way to turn the tables on Iran in the nearly five-month-old war,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Trump has tried air and missile […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Aides Scrambled to Talk Trump Out of Hormuz Toll Idea
CNN: “The surprise directive sparked a 24-hour sprint within the administration and across the Middle East to decode the specifics of a proposal that Trump had seemingly come up with on the spot. And while he reversed his plans on Tuesday, the episode further underscored the freewheeling, transactional nature of Trump’s approach to foreign policy, […]
History suggests LGBTQ Republicans are making a mistake in Texas’ Senate race (share.inquirer.com)
10 Dangers Facing Ukraine (medium.com)
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ICE Suspends Traffic Stops After Two Shooting Deaths (wsj.com)
The death of the shopping mall, and the rot at the heart of our society (theglobeandmail.com)
Blanche to face skeptics in GOP after judge’s scathing criticism (wapo.st)
NYC poised to pay $700K in Queens principal sex abuse lawsuit, with more payouts looming (nydailynews.com)
Iran Is Attacking a Crucial Oil-Market Lifeline: Shuttle Runs (wsj.com)
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Marco Rubio’s Disappearing Signal Chat
The Atlantic: “The State Department told a court last year that the secretary didn’t use disappearing messages. By this spring, it had dropped that claim.”
The City Reporter
• Greg B. Smith and Haidee Chu
Hundreds of Manhattan Cooling Towers Haven’t Submitted Tests to Detect Legionella

More than 500 cooling towers across Manhattan are not in compliance with city regulations requiring monthly water sample tests to help combat the spread of the potentially deadly Legionella bacteria, records examined by The City Reporter show. All told there are 568 towers that records show haven’t submitted required tests to the Department of Health […]
The post Hundreds of Manhattan Cooling Towers Haven’t Submitted Tests to Detect Legionella appeared first on The City Reporter.
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Allison
Catch A Free Movie Under The Stars At An Ulster County Beach
There’s going to be a beach party during the day, followed by a free movie night at this Kingston Beach! Continue reading…
Nieman Lab
• Hanna Duggal
One name at a time: How Die Zeit built a searchable database of Nazi Party members
In the final days of World War II, as the German Reich collapsed, Nazi officials ordered millions of party membership cards to be destroyed. The vast card index that documented membership across Germany survived largely because a paper mill operator, Hanns Huber, chose to hand the records over to the advancing US forces rather than...
Exciting times! Looking forward to seeing what RSS can do in this space