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The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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The Pentagon just erased four American war dead

The Pentagon just erased four American war dead

A conversation with Jim Acosta

Micro.blog News Supports Webmention
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Fixed a new issue where profile photos would revert to a favicon from your external blog instead of Gravatar. Now only sets to an external favicon if Gravatar is blank and you haven’t uploaded a photo.

Ars Technica - All content
Text • Kyle Orland

Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech

Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech

"Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section..."

Ars Technica - All content
Text • Samuel Axon

Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap

Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap

Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.

Ars Technica - All content
Text • Scharon Harding

Roku raises streaming stick prices by up to 60 percent

Roku raises streaming stick prices by up to 60 percent

Roku blames RAM shortage after CEO called it "great" for business in May.

Press Watch
Text • Dan Froomkin

What you need to know (and didn’t read) about Trump’s new tariffs

Starting with how they’re based on a bald-faced lie

The post What you need to know (and didn’t read) about Trump’s new tariffs appeared first on Press Watch.

Ars Technica
Text • Kyle Orland

Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech

Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech

"Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section..."

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S.

“The United States has now recorded more cases of measles in 2026 than in any other year since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000, a grim sign that the country may be headed toward a new era in which the disease regularly sickens thousands every year,” the New York Times reports.

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Elon Musk Admits He ‘Got Carried Away’ with Politics

Elon Musk reflected on his brief venture into politics in a new interview, suggesting he “got carried away,” The Hill reports. Said Musk: “I think I got a little too involved in politics. I got carried away frankly.”

Daring Fireball Valid
Text • John Gruber

★ Regarding Ad Blockers and Daring Fireball

Ultimately, when you install a content blocker extension, you take responsibility for any overzealousness in what they block.

Racket
Text • Jay Boller

How the Minnesota Timberwolves Tried—and Failed—to Land LeBron James

How the Minnesota Timberwolves Tried—and Failed—to Land LeBron James

Plus climate change supercharging wildfires, neat Longfellow history, and an unfortunate Bari Weiss local angle in today's Flyover news roundup.

Ars Technica
Text • Samuel Axon

Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap

Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap

Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Gretchen Whitmer Endorses Haley Stevens for Senate

“Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer endorsed Rep. Haley Stevens in her state’s contentious Democratic Senate primary on Friday, wading into one of the highest-profile ideological battles within the Democratic Party,” Politico reports.

Political Wire
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Trump Switched to Old Air Force One After Iranian Threat

“President Trump abruptly switched aircraft when leaving Turkey this month after what officials judged to be a credible threat that Iranian proxy forces were targeting him and Air Force One,” the New York Times reports. “The threat emerged while Mr. Trump was attending the NATO summit. He had flown into Ankara on the new Qatari-donated […]

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Hanson’s women problem (thesaturdaypaper.com.au)

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Does Iran Have a Plan? (theatlantic.com)

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What Truly Imaginative Fiction Can Do (theatlantic.com)

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Aston Villa’s set-piece coach Austin MacPhee to leave role after five years (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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The Fear of Black Greeks (theatlantic.com)

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Kaczynski wirft Morawiecki aus der PiS: Das ist eine Chance für Polen (faz.net)

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