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“Federal and state officials are investigating reports that nearly 1,000 ballots failed to reach voters in a northern Arizona county with a large indigenous population,” Bloomberg reports. “The ballot issue comes amid Tuesday’s primary elections in Arizona, a critical swing state that President Donald Trump won in 2024 after narrowly losing it in 2020.”

“The Trump administration plans to cut aluminum tariffs for companies investing in smelting plants as it pushes U.S. defense companies to reduce their reliance on foreign adversaries,” the Financial Times reports. “Companies committed to building, expanding or refurbishing American smelting facilities would qualify for incentives amounting to half of the current 50 per cent tariff […]

“Progressive groups are opening a vicious new front in the fight over crypto legislation, targeting Sen Kirsten Gillibrand as she tries to broker a compromise on the CLARITY Act, which has unresolved issues on its ethics provisions,” Axios reports. “The blistering — and deeply personal — attack from Indivisible, Demand Progress and the Revolving Door […]

This column is part of the Indianapolis Public Editor project, a pilot program designed to test whether the presence of a public editor who analyzes local coverage can elevate audience […]

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Compared to what? 98% of the time, the state champ loses at nationals. Every billionaire but one isn’t the richest person in the world. Only one of the 300 people who direct a feature film each year will win an Academy Award. And only one public company has the greatest share price growth. Competition is […]

Donald Trump lost his temper with a reporter on Tuesday after she pressed him on why Iran is continuing to fight. In barely-concealed anger, he ripped her organization as “fake” and insisted Iran “desperately” wants to make a deal. But of course, that only revealed ...

Within seconds, nearly a dozen teenage detainees pour out of their cells and converge on Kalief Browder. Surveillance footage from 2010 captures the relentless beating inside a Rikers Island housing unit. The attack was possible in part because the cell doors, like hundreds of others throughout the city’s jail system, had failed to lock. Browder, […]

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New York City added 40,000 jobs in the first half of the year, far more than expected, as a boom on Wall Street continues to support the economy. The strength of hiring in the financial sector has allowed the city to overcome the cost of tariffs that squeezed small firms, inflation that exceeded the national average […]

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John Singer Sargent, Javanese Dancer, 1889 #themet #metmuseum

Édouard Manet, Sketches from “The Gypsies,” “The Spanish Ballet,” and “Lola de Valence” for “L’Autographe au Salon de 1865”, 1865 #artinstituteofchicago #museumarchive

Sharing instructions on how to bypass court-ordered ISP blocks can be enough to freeze someone's personal savings in a piracy case, a French appeals court has ruled. The order is a mixed victory for Disney, which failed to prove the defendant was the de facto operator of the now-defunct Uptobox site. His DNS workaround posts were enough to keep roughly €197,000 frozen.

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It would just be a command in a menu. We have lots of room to grow there.

I’m looking for things to put there, user interface improvements are the most visible.

We tried out a lot of different ways of doing this, the switch between timeline and structure. 

I had a product in the early 80s called LBBS that had a neat way of doing this, but it was a scrolling display, where things like that worked. We tried it here, but yuck. Didn’t work.

Also in the UserLand discussion group we had a flip switch like that but you could see only one level at a time.

I’m willing to put an experimental feature in for you. I think the idea of expand-all is easy enough, would have to have a limit because there could be a lot under any node.

Well, I can do that easily but it's another thing that users have to know to do that. Timeline is dead simple in concept. Having to explain how things work feels like adding a lot for little in return because they are visible stains in the timeline context.

Anyway, I'll try implementing this idea to see how it actually feels as I'm no stranger to surprises.

Working on it. As usual, I got too many ongoing projects like a forgetful gopher.

I've spent most of my working life on websites. So the question I keep coming back to lately is an existential one for my whole field: what even is "the website" five years from now? Several things are true at once, and some of them pull in different directions.

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