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BYD opens Denza Z9S pre-orders, claiming the ‘world’s longest’ EV range at 1,100 km

BYD opened pre-orders for the new Denza Z9S in China, touting what it calls “the world’s longest pure electric range” of 1,100 km (683 mi), with prices starting under $50,000.

@art.feediverse.org - Great art on Bluesky
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Street Scene, 1937 #markrothko #expressionism

kottke.org Valid
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How Podcasts Ruined America . This is an odd claim and...

How Podcasts Ruined America. This is an odd claim and article. No mention of the clear precursors to right-wing podcasts (talk radio, blogs, Twitter) and the general shift towards less accountability for public speech, esp. by conservatives. 🤔

Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
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Missouri Is Taking The Scenic Route To Killing Old And Poor People

Tomorrow, Missourians are slated to cast their votes on Amendment 5, a proposition that seeks to increase taxes on seniors and middle-class citizens in an effort to fund massive tax cuts for the highest earners in the state. The Amendment would effectively dissolve the sta...

Racket
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A Farm Stop, a Candy Shop, a Bakery, and a Brewery All Opened in July

A Farm Stop, a Candy Shop, a Bakery, and a Brewery All Opened in July

Plus lots of announcements for what's coming soon in the Racket Restaurant Roundup.

Gift Articles
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Meet the Bee Vet, Now Making Hive Calls (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

nytimes.com/2026/08/03/science/honeybees-veterinary-medicine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2lA.LszP.75XbnuhUdFd6&smid=bs-share

News – The White House
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Establishing the President’s Military Spouse Commission

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and Policy.  Military spouses are intrinsically linked to the good order, readiness, and retention of our military.  Their support and contributions to our Armed Forces are crucial to […]

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News – The White House
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Establishes the President’s Military Spouse Commission

STRENGTHENING MILITARY READINESS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order establishing the Military Spouse Commission to strengthen military readiness by improving the quality of life for military spouses and families.   PRIORITIZING MILITARY EXCELLENCE: President Trump recognizes that military spouses are essential to the strength, readiness, and retention of our military.   DELIVERING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES: President Trump has rebuilt […]

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Political Wire
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Trump Hits Exxon, Chevron for Making Too Much Money

“President Donald Trump scolded ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. and Chevron Corp. for their soaring profits, as oil prices surged amid the war in Iran he launched in February alongside Israel,” Bloomberg reports. “Trump on Monday said the biggest U.S. oil companies are ‘making too much money,’ urging them to ‘give some of that back to the […]

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Enhancing FreshRSS with rssCloud Support

I’ve been using FreshRSS for a while as a backend for NetNewsWire and decided to finally create an extension to add rssCloud support. This not only does what you’d expect: subscribe to feeds that support rssCloud <cloud> elements. But it also supports subscribing via HTTPS when port 443 or the protocol “https-post” are specified. It […]

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Andrew wrote a post about the fantastic FreshRSS.

https://andrewshell.org/2026/08/enhancing-freshrss-with-rsscloud-support/

Claude, must read.

Nieman Lab
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U.S. news jobs are more than 3× more likely to be based in Manhattan than they were 25 years ago

Ten years ago, I wrote a piece on how the internet was sucking journalistic resources out of the middle of the country and concentrating it on the coasts — primarily New York City. While digital publishing theoretically could have distributed reporters away from high-cost cities, in reality, it reduced the financial returns on local reporting...

Nieman Lab
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A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year

A translation of a mass shooter’s cryptic journal in the days after an attack. A public records review that revealed failures to install flood warning systems in Central Texas. An exposé of American technology companies’ complicity in building the Chinese surveillance state. An audit of the SEC’s crypto lawsuits that showed weakening enforcement under the...

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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10 Artists Who Canceled Multiple Shows Or Tours in 2026

Health — especially mental health — is the most-cited reason for why artists are taking time off the road in 2026. Continue reading…

@scripting.com - Dave Winer
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Trump doesn’t want to pay taxes, ever.

blog - aows
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Umbrella and Lighthouse

Galicia, July 2026.

From the video Photography on the Galician Coast.

Ars Technica
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LEGO deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model

LEGO deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model

The orbiting observatory in minifigure scale.

@factpostnews.bsky.social - FactPost
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GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards gifted personalized pink and blue handguns to 2 young female staffers

The San Francisco Standard
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Castro Theatre contractor sued for alleged ‘badly botched’ renovations

Another Planet Entertainment alleges that Alarcon Bohn overcharged for faulty work on the historic venue yet promoted its work as a success.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Alibaba’s AI coded for 16 days straight and every commit is on GitHub

Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, a multimodal model with 2.4 trillion parameters and built for complicated tasks that may take several

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