The Windup: League drag rate gets more suspicious (nytimes.com)
nytimes.com/athletic/7428310/2026/07/07/mlb-drag-rate-suspicion-cy-young-race-the-windup/
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(S+) Künstliche Intelligenz: Killt KI den Kapitalismus? (spiegel.de)
Chuck Grassley Announces the Death of His Beloved Vacuum, Beth (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
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Scripting News: Saturday, August 8, 2026
Saturday, August 8, 2026
I want to connect RSS to AT Proto, both ways, inbound and out. Toward that end, today I helped Leaflet, a very nice editor for AT Proto, make their outbound RSS feed better. We should have all our best editors, everywhere, hooked up over popular web...
Portrait of woman, 1936 #surrealism #pablopicasso
Democratic voters who used to back Susan Collins aren’t so sure anymore (washingtonpost.com)
Overlooked No More: Alice Guy Blaché, the World’s First Female Filmmaker (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Sports Fans Stare Down $2,000 Streaming Bill to Follow Favorites (bloomberg.com)
(Published 2020) (nytimes.com)
When my political career ended, I took a Greyhound on the road to nowhere (afr.com)
The Prophet Jeremiah, 1512 #highrenaissance #michelangelo
★ Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection
My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and frustration that an astrology app was rejected for being an astrology app.
Trump’s first Patriot Games set for Sunday, with $250K in scholarship money at stake (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Portrait of woman, 1936 #surrealism #pablopicasso
Pentagon strips security clearance from former Air Force secretary (wapo.st)
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Saturday's parting shot
Photo by Stacie Joy
As seen on Fourth Street today...
When asked about her attire, she offered a perfectly reasonable explanation: "It's hot out!"
And tomorrow: sunny and hot, though thankfully less humid.