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“A most bewildering and frightening awareness of man’s position in a technological society he found he neither understood nor controlled… brought fears and a sudden exhilaration. In every man there is a corner of rebellion against the machine, and the blackout allowed us a brief period of freedom from its dominance. We were all delighted […]

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I've been doing this for all of this year, and the frustration finally led me to this rule, which I just asked Claude to play back for me. I offer it to you, a human, on how to get your Claude to work better for you, as it does for me. What follows is what Claude wrote as I ...

“NATO scrambled four jet fighters to shoot down a foreign drone that entered Latvian airspace early Friday, amid concerns that Russia’s war in Ukraine is increasingly breaching the military alliance’s eastern frontier,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

When New Jersey passed one of the country’s most restrictive e-bike laws earlier this year, plenty of riders, advocates, and bike shops warned that it would have consequences. Now, just a few weeks after the law officially took effect, those predictions appear to have come true.

Congrats to Marco Arment on releasing his new app, Unforgetful! I love this part of the intro blog post:

Despite constantly being told that I’d never get a good job, computers provided a lucrative career path filled with even worse academic performers who couldn’t care less about my grades. What a stroke of luck! I’d be mediocre to terrible at most jobs, but I turned out to be very good at using computers to turn coffee and Phish into money.

Even for developers who’ve had some success, releasing a new app is no small thing. The app was hung up in app review for a while too.

You can still type a symbol originally invented for Cicero nearly 21 centuries ago — at least if you configure your keyboard properly.  The character ⁊ appears in Unicode as U+204A, but is better known as the “Tironian et”: the “et” is Latin for “and,” and the “Tironian” comes from its creator, a man named […]

“The U.S. will soon announce unprecedented economic measures against Iran, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, intensifying the Trump administration’s effort to force Tehran’s capitulation after almost six months of war,” Bloomberg reports. Said Bessent: “Watch this space for more announcements coming next week because we are going to apply measures like have never been seen […]

How Trump’s Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters Fell Apart
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To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So far, the effort has produced meager results.
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Plus, a top Democrat is calling for Supreme Court reform.