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Handwriting was always problematic for me. My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Cloud, placed a high value on well-formed cursive strokes that she flowed smoothly onto the blackboard. At my desk I struggled to copy her examples and failed miserably. In middle school, with no one judging my handwriting, I abandoned cursive in favor of printing my … Continue reading Talking to Claude Code and Codex

rss.chat is the start of a new social network built on existing web standards. Easy to deploy on Node.js and getting easier. New RSS features. Infinite possibilities for developers. Owned by no one.

“Vice President Vance is venturing into unfriendly media terrain to defend the White House against its critics — reviving the same playbook that endeared him to President Trump when he was picking his running mate,” Axios reports. “Vance is using the media blitz to showcase one of his biggest political assets — his talent for […]

“Sen. Thom Tillis said Thursday his vote to confirm attorney general nominee Todd Blanche is contingent on Blanche meeting with victims of the late convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein,” Politico reports. ”The North Carolina Republican’s new demand creates yet another hurdle for Blanche’s confirmation, which will fail to advance to the Senate floor if one […]

“The federal agency that regulates prediction markets is investigating President Donald Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator for potential insider trading,” CNN reports. “The sources said White House employee Gabriel Perez made trades on the prediction site Kalshi that were flagged for possible insider activity. The trades were on ‘mention markets,’ where users can bet on which […]

“The lining of the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool peeled away in at least seven places along seams that were created when the material was applied in large rectangular sections, indicating likely problems in how it was installed, according to an analysis of visuals and interviews with experts,” the Washington Post reports. ”President Donald Trump has […]

“Chevron intends to sign preliminary deals Friday to invest in two Iraqi oil fields and will join a consortium of investors exploring the construction of a pipeline to connect Iraq’s oil patch with the Syrian coast,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Iraq and other Middle East oil producers are scrambling for alternatives to the Strait […]

“When major disasters strike, Americans are routinely waiting weeks — or even months — to receive presidential approval for aid. And if they live in a state that didn’t support President Donald Trump, chances are greater that aid will be denied,” the AP reports. “Since taking office last year, Trump has approved about 65 requests […]

Florida Republicans’ bigoted little piece of speech policing — the former “Stop WOKE Act” — has already been terminated multiple times by federal courts. Two lawsuits with two sets of plaintiffs have generated the same results: a ruling declaring the law unconstitutional and an injunction blocking the state from enforcing it. The law aims to […]

Baseball is a game of centimeters, and every carefully placed hair on a pitcher’s head is the difference between a Cy Young season and an ERA higher than your jersey number. Take Toronto's Dylan Cease. At the All-Star Game, Cease explained that during spring training he bega...

Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR national correspondent covering immigration, talks about the latest on the fatal shootings by ICE agents and current policy directives for the department.

Photo: SCARBOROUGH, MAINE - JULY 14: People protest outside of a federal immigration office after a man was fatally shot by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, on July 14, 2026 in Scarborough, Maine. The victim has been identified as Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old man from Colombia. (Photo by Ryan Murphy/Getty Images)

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Katelyn Jetelina, founder and author of the newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist, shares what you need to know about cyclosporiasis, the stomach bug that’s sweeping through dozens of states, including New York and New Jersey. 

Photo: Cyclosporiasis outbreak as a foodborne parasitic illness caused by Cyclospora cayetanensis as an outbreak with contaminated food or water resulting in explosive diarrhea and digestive illness.

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Elizabeth Bruenig, staff writer at The Atlantic, discusses how the new data available on inherited maladies can save lives but can also complicate the decision people make about treatment.

Photo: Female doctor sharing electronic test results with patient at clinic. Medical expert and woman are examining reports. They are sitting in examination room.

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Benji Jones, senior correspondent at Vox, talks about his summer project hunting for a new insect species in New York City.

Photo: (GERMANY OUT) New York, Manhattan: Central Park. (Photo by Hohlfeld/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

 

 

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I needed a nice image for the OG Metadata, so I turned to Gemini. I know it reeks of AI, I hate that, but I need this right now.

Mr. Wolf reports: “The Rover did about 200 miles over two days – about 30 on the freeway, the rest on gorgeous twisty roads through the valley and up the coast on Highway 1, with plenty of dirt roads mixed … Continue reading →

OnePlus promises to continue supporting the phones it has already released.

I asked Gemini if it was familiar with rss.chat, and it wrote a one page description that’s better than anything I’ve written. Pulls it all together.

I asked Gemini if it was familiar with rss.chat, and it wrote a one page description that's better than anything I've written. Pulls it all together.