When ProPublica first spoke with law professor Bennett Gershman he described the Alice Sebold rape case as “the most heinous kind of prosecutorial misconduct.” But as a paid expert for Syracuse he now asserts the city “did not engage in misconduct.”
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• Dave Winer
Substack is hosting podcasts.
That works with a lot of Buddhist teachings (from lojong, to tonglen to “feeding the demons’) and the psychotherapeutic modes in shadow work, gestalt, “changing chairs”). There is something very powerful about giving the “demons” what they want, or facing them and giving the younger version the adult presence. I always marvel how a small bit of technique can upgrade a mind so it’s hard to act in (never really be bothered again by) the old ways.
Ars Technica - All content
• John Timmer
The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science
New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving.
Ars Technica - All content
• Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica
FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals
FCC chair has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.
Ars Technica - All content
• Jim Resnick
2026 Lucid Gravity Touring review: A strong act 2
Quick, comfortable, roomy, and agile for a large electric SUV.
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• Eric Berger
Rocket Report: India's Vikram-1 nears debut flight; AST to become rocket company?
"We have done everything that could be done to test Vikram-1 on ground."
Thanks, always a pleasure to see the work. Looking forward to testing & musing.
Electrek
• Seth Weintraub
Segway Xaber review: The mall-cop company just built a better Sur Ron for less money

When you think of Segway, you might still think of the self-balancing personal transporters that mall cops and tour groups employ to get around. The company, however, since being acquired by Beijing-based Ninebot a decade ago, has morphed into E-bikes, e-scooters, go-karts, off-road UTVs — the company has been stacking up two- and four-wheeled hardware for a while now. But with the recent launch of the new Xaber, however, they are now into very serious 60+mph-capable electric off-road motorcycles.
We’ve spent the last month with the Xaber and, after dining on a bunch of bargain emotos, the Segway Ninebot Xaber almost seems to be in a class by itself…
WIRED
• Matt Kamen
Valve Steam Machine Review: A Compromised Console
Great for indie darlings, but Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo remain kings of TV gaming.
WIRED
• Matthew Korfhage
Panasonic Japanese Microwave Review (2026): True 1-Button Cooking
The Japanese Microwave measures food temperature directly, and stops cooking when food’s hot. It’s kinda terrific.
When we're talking about the rules for interop with rss.chat, is there a specific name we're using? Like, would it be an "rss.chat" WordPress plugin?
I read the interaction here: https://demo.rss.chat/?id=57 and the part where you said "treat comments as blog posts with their own permalinks" made me wonder, because this is not a rule from Textcasting.
For instance, I could in the main feed add `` and link to a comments feed (like https://test.geekity.com/2026/07/16/hoopla-world/feed/), but those comments don't have permalinks, just an anchor tag to the main post. So this wouldn't be compatible?
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Gavin Newsom Lawyers Up
“Gavin Newsom has retained prominent defense lawyer Abbe Lowell to represent him as federal investigators probe the California governor’s circle,” Politico reports.
Techdirt
• Karl Bode
Trump Just Made It Easier For Your ISP To Rip You Off With Bogus Fees
Here’s a short crash course in U.S. telecom policy. Giant and very unpopular companies like Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, and Charter created regional monopolies that work tirelessly to erode all meaningful competition and oversight, resulting in high prices, spotty service, slower speeds, and abysmal customer service. They also pay a bunch of dodgy pseudo-academic “free market” […]
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Sri Saran Balaji Vellore Rajakumar
From intent to enforcement: Lessons from operating Kubernetes controllers at scale

Kubernetes controllers are what make the platform’s declarative model real. They observe the state, reconcile toward the intent, and keep
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• Poornima Apte
Arm and Google offer a smarter option to run agentic AI workloads

As enterprise leaders start deploying agentic workflows, they must establish the infrastructure to build and run them, one capable of
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Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Democratic Socialists Preferred Over MAGA Candidates
A new CNBC poll finds “more voters would be more likely to support a democratic socialist candidate than a Make America Great Again supporter or a candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump.”
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Bolsonaro’s Ties to Trump Are a Gift to Lula
“Every political alliance comes with a price. Brazil’s Bolsonaro family may have just discovered theirs,” Bloomberg reports. “For more than a year, they turned to Donald Trump as former President Jair Bolsonaro fought to avoid conviction over his attempted coup and escalated his confrontation with Brazil’s institutions.” “Now, the U.S. decision to slap 25% tariffs […]