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Defector
• Tom Ley

More Like Edlose Diaz

More Like Edlose Diaz
It is hard to keep track of the number of free-agent signings and trades made by the Dodgers that have allegedly broken baseball. When Tarik Skubal lands in the dugout at the trade deadline and starts the freakout all over again, it's easy to move on from the last set of acq...

Scott Loftesness
• Scott Loftesness

The Manufacture of Emergency

The appetite for manufactured stakes — built over decades in fraud detection, flying, and trading — doesn’t retire when the career does.

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Evan Paul

Tyler Hubbard Says This Jason Aldean Song is His Best Penned Song

Tyler Hubbard co-wrote a No. 1 hit for Jason Aldean and says hearing it on the radio still never gets old. Continue reading…

SCOTUSblog
• Amy Howe

Trump brings ballroom dispute to the Supreme Court

White House ballroom construction project in July 2026
White House ballroom construction project in July 2026

@art.feediverse.org - Great art on Bluesky

Noah and the Rainbow, 1963 #surrealism #chagall

Daring Fireball Valid
John Gruber

Google’s ‘Material 3’ Design Write-Up Is 93.3 Percent Embarrassing

design.google/library/expressive-material-design-google-research

This page from Google Design on their “Material 3” UI language came to my attention after my snarky post about the ungainly new to-do app they bizarrely bragged about on Twitter/X this week. I don’t think this “Material 3” page is new — I think it’s a few years old — but I’d...

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

John Voorhees has an initial look at ChatGPT’s Computer History feature. I enabled it this morning, but only for a few select apps like my web browser and text editors. It works well. I think I’ll keep it disabled for chat apps, since that’s a privacy can of worms that I’m not comfortable with yet.

The City Reporter
• Samantha Maldonado

NYC Targets Homeowners in Flood-Prone Areas of Queens for Potential Buyouts

The sun sets on homes in Kissena Park, Queens,

New York City is expanding outreach to homeowners in flood-prone areas of Queens to see whether they would consider selling their homes to the government as part of a climate adaptation program. The program, called Resilient Acquisitions, targets neighborhoods where flood mitigation measures are limited. The increased outreach started this summer in Hollis, which sits […]

The post NYC Targets Homeowners in Flood-Prone Areas of Queens for Potential Buyouts appeared first on The City Reporter.

@factpostnews.bsky.social - FactPost

Fox: America's cost to borrow is exploding. The U.S. is facing its highest 30-year borrowing costs in a quarter century as the national debt is climbing

Gift Articles

Is Activism Hurting Sociology? Sociologists Are Torn. (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

nytimes.com/2026/08/14/us/activist-sociology-independent.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5VA.DpkO.uzGxQKbuav6_&smid=nytcore-android-share

Defector
• Drew Magary

Why Your Team Sucks 2026: Detroit Lions

Some people are fans of the Detroit Lions. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Detroit Lions. This 2026 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.

Your team: Detroit Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

A photo posted by Jameson Williams showing a plate of hot cheetos covered in queso dip

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Evan Paul

Trisha Yearwood Admits Her Marriage to Garth Brooks Isn’t Perfect

Trisha Yearwood says she and Garth Brooks still annoy each other after nearly 21 years of marriage, and she seems totally fine with that. Continue reading…

Techdirt
• Mike Masnick

Fifth Circuit Cites A Ruling Calling Mail-In Ballots “Vital” To Falsely Claim They “Jeopardize Democracy Itself”

You may have seen news of the recent Fifth Circuit decision, with an opinion written by Judge Andrew Oldham, overturning a lower court ruling, and reinstating highly questionable ID requirements for mail-in ballots. We can debate how this decision blends two great MAGA obsessions, mail-in ballots and voter ID (both overhyped panics designed to suppress […]

Ars Technica
• Eric Berger

Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch

Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch

It turns out that the economics of rocket reuse are pretty, pretty good.

@factpostnews.bsky.social - FactPost

Guest: The war is lost already. Just make peace with Iran, just get out of there Theo Von: It feels bizarre. It feels pointless

@factpostnews.bsky.social - FactPost

Theo Von guest: America is an empire in decline. It really seems that America is on the brink of a civil war. And I think Trump may go for a 3rd term.

Ars Technica - All content
• Kyle Orland

Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?

Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?

The Stop Killing Games movement faces an uphill battle.

Ars Technica - All content
• Ryan Whitwam

Judge gives Google one week to fix "anticompetitive" app store download in Google Play

Judge gives Google one week to fix "anticompetitive" app store download in Google Play

Third-party app stores are about to become more visible in Google Play.

Ars Technica - All content
• Jennifer Ouellette

R-rated director's cut of X-Files film restores Chris Carter's original horror vision

R-rated director's cut of X-Files film restores Chris Carter's original horror vision

Chris Carter chats with Ars about the film he originally wanted to make—and why it's more relevant than ever.

Ars Technica - All content
• Beth Mole

Taylor Farms' connections to Trump admin spurs probe into Cyclospora response

Taylor Farms' connections to Trump admin spurs probe into Cyclospora response

Senator Warren questions whether Taylor Farms' influence swayed Trump admin.