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There is nothing I hate more than doing self-promotion. The idea of talking about something I’m doing, I’ve done, or I'm going to do makes my skin crawl. But the opposite, promoting things other people are doing—especially friends—fills me with so much joy that I’ll never mi...

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Today on Channel 4, in The Sh*t Show series, Bob Dunn and Nathan Wrigley tackle the fascinating topic of fame: what it means in our modern, hyper-connected world and how our perception of celebrity has evolved over time. From royal visits scheduled to the exact minute to unexpected close encounters with iconic figures like Willie […]

The following article originally appeared on LinkedIn and is being republished here with the author’s permission. We’re currently at the peak of the hype cycle. On June 7, Peter Steinberger posted that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore; you should be designing loops that prompt your agents. That same week, Boris Cherny of Anthropic […]

Startup Zanskar has created one of the most productive geothermal wells in the US at a power plant that had been in decline for years.

Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.

We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view of the planet.

The backup to Jim Comey's various motions to dismiss his seashell prosecution are compelling. They are also evidence of a deeply unwell nation.

The post Todd Blanche Colluded with Italian Mafiosos … and Also Rudy Guiliani … to Indict Jim Comey appeared first on emptywheel.

I was only able to catch the tail end, but Jose-Miguel Yamal, alongside Thomas Helton and Sam Knight, did an awesome tribute celebrating the 50th anniversary of Ryo Fukui’s Scenery at Echoes in Houston. Jose-Miguel is the pianist who played on my senior recital, and Ryo Fukui is the pianist I discovered from the visit … Continue reading Jose-Miguel x Ryo Fukui →

New York Times: “More than 1,100 pages long and dating from 2019 to 2022, Dr. Fauci’s diary reads like a black comedy of manners in which a 79-year-old social-climbing scientist becomes the face of the government’s response to a pandemic and then the toast of the town — the toast of this town. As the […]

New York Times: “One of the most surprising outcomes from a whiplash year of tariffs may be that China has emerged in a position of relative strength, with significantly lower tariffs than last year. The Trump administration last week imposed a new tariff rate on Chinese exports of 12.5 percent, similar to rates for dozens […]

“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pulled off a feat Tuesday that seemed impossible a year ago: convincing Washington that Kyiv can win the war,” Politico reports. ”Unlike Zelenskyy’s tortured Oval Office visit in February 2025, he left a meeting with President Donald Trump in high spirits. And he capped off the trip with another victory, watching […]

“It sounds like something that James Bond would use: a gadget that self-destructs if it falls into the wrong hands. But it’s actually an open-source operating system that can be downloaded onto Android phones,” the New York Times reports. “Federal prosecutors in Atlanta are bringing an obstruction charge against a U.S. citizen who gave customs […]

“The United States and Saudi Arabia said they had carried out joint strikes on Iranian-backed militias in Iraq early Wednesday local time, and the Iranian military said that it had fired missiles at American military targets in the Middle East,” the New York Times reports.