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No one's on the fence about solving our Monday crossword. This week's puzzle was constructed by Faren Roth, and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Faren Roth is a PhD student who lives in Lafayette, Ind. as of yesterday with her cat, Mr. Toast. She enjoys playing soccer ...

The notice from Don Nelson's family announcing his death on Sunday at the age of 86 said he "peacefully went to be with the Lord, surrounded by his loving family.” This immediately convinces us that the deity in question here likes uptempo basketball, beer, blunts, and cards...

The $423 million allotted for vanity projects at the White House and the National Mall is larger than the combined funding this year for: — Grand Canyon — Yellowstone — Yosemite — Joshua Tree — Grand Teton — Zion — Mammoth Cave — The Statue of Liberty complex — Golden Gate National Park

Harry Enten: These are the types of numbers that will make a lot of Republican members of Congress lose their jobs come November. Trump's net approval rating on jobs is now 22 points underwater. It is not just inflation that is hurting Trump, it is jobs as well.

Harry Enten: The majority of Americans say that the country is on the wrong track when it comes to jobs and employment. No wonder Trump's numbers are so poor.

This is turning out to be the year of immersive sports.

In January, Apple worked with Spectrum and the L.A. Lakers to debut a series of immersive NBA games.…

The Hudson Valley is mourning the loss of a veteran police detective who passed away at the age of 35. Continue reading…

New York State Police caught not one, but TWO drivers going more than twice the posted speed limit during Speed Week 2. Continue reading…

Sometimes I write a post which is about information that is not new or secret but new to me. This...

If the failure involved the YF-100 engine, there are broader concerns for China's space program.

fMRI scans show happiness, fear, anger, and sadness have distinct brain activity patterns in doggy brains.

The newest Outback sticks to the script; that's no bad thing if you like Outbacks.

President Donald Trump is clearly struggling to get past this Reflecting Pool ordeal after Jeanine Pirro all but spat in his face over it. In a new Truth Social meltdown over the weekend, Trump went full-blown crazy man in a wall of text that rivals War and Peace, claiming...

John Singer Sargent, Study for Belgium's Feet, verso: Study for Britain, for "Coming of the Americans," Widener Library, Harvard University, 1921-1922 #johnsingersargent

I reviewed some of my posts about AI from 6 months ago, thinking about what I got right and wrong. The theme is focus. When writing apps or essays requires no effort, everyone will drown in content. Figuring out what to build and how to pitch it in a human way is more important than lines of code.

Marco Arment posting on Mastodon about App Store review delays and uncertainty:

Apple would NEVER tolerate another gatekeeper preventing them from running their business the way they prevent every iOS developer from running ours.

Thanks @dave for the kind words:

It’s not my place to say what micro.blog is – but the other day I called it: “the swiss army knife of interop in the web of the 2020’s.” And in that it is unique and imho irreplaceable.

The way I think about RSS.chat is that it’s a bootstrap for getting lots of RSS feeds to play well together, for both posts and replies. Can the web be the social network? Yes. And Micro.blog should be part of anything working toward that goal.

Changing the AT Proto handle to a custom domain name while testing my PDS, and it automagically changed in Bluesky while the browser was open. Very cool.

The Trump administration has sent excavators to tear up Big Bend National Park for the construction of border barriers and roads through protected land.

Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed. “A whole lot of people under the age of 45 no longer believe that indicators such as wages, unemployment, or the number of college degrees that are handed out…have much to do with a healthy economy.”