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South Korea’s KOSPI Soars 18% (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Aw, nuts! A salty celebration and ranking of Pearson’s Minnesota candy legacy (startribune.com)

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The backstory on Wemby’s viral kick is even more wild than the video of it (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Mayonnaise (Published 2015) (cooking.nytimes.com)

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The Book That Predicted Pete Hegseth’s Failures (foreignpolicy.com)

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Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Where will Victoria’s royal commission lead? (thesaturdaypaper.com.au)

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Unsigned at this time last year, Asante Samuel Jr. is the early standout at Steelers camp (nytimes.com)

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Nancy Guthrie Ransom Notes Released by Sheriff’s Department Searching for New Leads (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it.

Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda

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Growing Pains

 

Pretty Sick, an EVG fave, has a new video out for the single "City Kid" ... from the band's upcoming album Anarchy.

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6 posts from July

A mini month in review ... with a World Cup scene from Avenue A via Stacie Joy...  • RIP Carlos 'Chino' Garcia, co-founder of CHARAS and longtime Lower East Side activist (July 28)  • Petition to preserve Tompkins Square Park fitness area tops 2,000 signatures (July 27)  • At the last day of REI's flagship NYC store (July 24)  • After 31 years, White Trash is closing on 5th Street (July 21)  • The Aurea: Affordable housing planned for NYPD lot on 5th Street (July 14)  • Mee Noodle Shop will stay open after all (July 10)  Missed a post? Consider subscribing to the free weekly EVG newsletter via Substack...

Ars Technica
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Reddit keeps weird DMCA lawsuit against web scraper alive despite Google’s loss

Reddit keeps weird DMCA lawsuit against web scraper alive despite Google’s loss

Reddit advances lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with web scraper.

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To Facilitate Positive Adjustment to Competition from Imports of Quartz Surface Products

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION 1.  On May 18, 2026, the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) transmitted to the President a report (ITC Report) on its investigation under section 202 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (Trade Act) (19 U.S.C. 2252), with respect to imports of […]

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Schneier on Security
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Helps Discover New Marine Species

The Squid is a new scientific machine:

One of the technological breakthroughs was the onboard use of a spinning wheel confocal microscope, nicknamed the Squid, which uses lasers to scan microscopic details of how organisms are put together. “That opens up a whole new world of exploring. We could see cells interacting with each other, exchanging material and building skeletons. And we could do that live on the ship, when usually it takes a couple of weeks of staining and mounting to see anything,” Osborn said.

The expedition discovered thirty-one new marine species in two weeks. The article doesn’t say if any of them were new species of squid...

Political Wire
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Trump Says Anti-Weaponization Fund Is ‘Dead’

“President Donald Trump said Friday that the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund for so-called victims of government abuse is ‘dead’ – as much as he’d like it not to be,” Politico reports. Said Trump: “It’s dead, but you know, I wish it weren’t … I’d like to see them compensated.” Associated Press: Trump says settlement fund […]

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Harris Says Supreme Court Should Expand to 13 Justices

“Former Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday that the United States should consider expanding the Supreme Court to be made up of 13 justices, a popular idea among Democrats who have increasingly pushed for court reform,” CNN reports. Said Harris: “We need to revisit the point of expanding the court to 13 justices like we […]

Political Wire
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Warsh Considers Reducing Frequency of Fed Meetings

“Kevin Warsh is considering reducing the number of regularly scheduled meetings at which the Federal Reserve sets interest rates, a potentially seismic move that would mark the most significant change in how the central bank operates in years,” the New York Times reports. “The Federal Reserve’s 12-person policy committee meets eight times a year and […]

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The hardest thing for people to get about open systems is that if you move forward, not only do you benefit, but your competitors benefit equally. When one of them takes but doesn't give back, that's even worse. But you do it anyway because otherwise eventually, without interop, no one can move.