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Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

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

thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/14/nyc-flooding-queens-climate-resilience-buyouts-hollis-kissena-park/

The city is gauging interest among Hollis and Kissena Park residents, expanding outreach beyond the area known as the Hole.

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Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Bon Appétit: Year-Round Roadside Dining Set To Return to NYC Under Newly Passed Bills

thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/13/nyc-outdoor-dining-roadside-sheds-new-laws-restaraunts/

Year-round curbside dining had ceased after the Adams administration rolled out restrictions on al fresco setups.

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As Trump blocks Medicaid funds, one trans teen's mom asks: What's next?

npr.org/2026/08/16/nx-s1-5932491/transgender-health-care-medicaid-trump-oz

A longtime Republican living in California says the Trump administration's continuing actions to target transgender youth take a personal toll.

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Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Jason Arday's Death and the Age of Digital Racial Terror

karenattiah.substack.com/p/jason-ardays-death-and-the-age-of?r=2bz6j

What Jason Arday's death by media mob says about the old machinery of anti-Black terror in the algorithmic age.

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CBS News Chief Correspondent Matt Gutman Accused of Sexual Harassment by Former ABC Field Producer

variety.com/2026/tv/news/cbs-news-matt-gutman-lawsit-sexual-harassment-1236835096/

Matt Gutman, CBS News' chief correspondent, has been accused of sexual harassment in a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed by a former co-worker at ABC News.

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Florida’s Polling Picture Is Limited

“Ahead of the primaries in Florida on Tuesday, the only public poll of the Democratic primary for Senate between Angie Nixon, a progressive state representative, and Alexander S. Vindman, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, was retracted last month,” the New York Times reports. “It was not much better in the other statewide contests, where polls […]

WIRED
Text • Harry Rabinowitz

Garmin Watches Are Up to $250 Off Right Now On Amazon (2026)

Save $250 off the Garmin Fenix 8, plus discounts on other popular fitness trackers from the brand.

Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
Text • David Edwards

White House Goes After Reporter's Children In 'Inhumane' Attack Over Trump Relationship

The White House took aim at CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes's children, saying they would one day be "sickened" by her, after she asked President Donald Trump about his relationship with a close aide. Holmes posed the question Monday in the Oval Office, relaying remar...

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How to make a good Star Wars movie for once ....

How to make a good Star Wars movie for once. “Stop making stuff that’s so self referential and start focusing on projects that once again are bringing things from the outside and putting them in a Star Wars container.” Fan service is bad storytelling.

Ars Technica
Text • Stephen Clark

It's Christmastime at SpaceX as company salvages Starship from Indian Ocean

It's Christmastime at SpaceX as company salvages Starship from Indian Ocean

"A team of SpaceX engineers is on their way to conduct additional analysis on the vehicle."

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Organized Thieves Are Targeting AI Server Chips With Violent Highway Hijackings

wired.com/story/the-worst-ive-ever-seen-cargo-thieves-are-turning-violent-in-pursuit-of-ai-hardware/

Paresh Dave and Aarian Marshall, reporting for Wired (News+ link in case Wired hits you with their paywall): The incidents involved two different shipments of high-value technology traveling from Silicon Valley to Southern California, according to Pachuca, who says he le...

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/117117221397911074

After hearing feedback from people struggling with #Mastodon’s layout and navigation for a long time I’m really looking forward to these changes. And I’m really impressed with the work @imanijoy has put into researching user needs with surveys, interviews, and round tables. I feel like the community has never been so represented in the design process before. The screenshots are marked “in progress” for a reason though—it’s a process.

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
Text • Bobby Welber

Hudson Valley, New York Drivers: Major I-84 Construction Begins

Get ready for construction and traffic if you regularly travel in the Hudson Valley. Continue reading…

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Aht Amont Cliffs at Etretat, 1920 #postimpressionism #matisse

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5 flavors of Outshine Fruit Bars have been recalled nationwide over possible contamination with glass:

—Watermelon
—Strawberry
—Grape
—Tangerine
—Black cherry

blog - aows
Text • Adrian Vila

The tractor

Galicia, August 2026.

From the video Why I work on multiple photography projects at once.

News – The White House
Text • The White House

President Trump Delivers the Largest Drop in Violent Crime in American History

President Donald J. Trump and his Administration have delivered the most dramatic decline in violent crime in American history. According to the FBI’s newly released Uniform Crime Report for 2025, America is safer than it has been in generations. The Largest Annual Drop in Violent Crime Ever Recorded: These numbers — in line with the […]

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Amanda Caswell

A Claude Code skill was eating 200,000 tokens before answering a single question

Abstract digital artwork resembling a glitching computer interface, with fragmented windows and overlapping shapes in red, pink, yellow and blue.

A Claude Code skill designed to help developers work with Anthropic’s API was consuming more than 200,000 tokens to load.

The post A Claude Code skill was eating 200,000 tokens before answering a single question appeared first on The New Stack.

WordPress.com Blog
Text • Ronnie Burt

Give Your WordPress.com Site a Memory with Guidelines

Set your brand voice, visual style, and goals once with WordPress.com Guidelines, so WordPress Agent can work from the same context wherever you are.

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Text • Sabrina Imbler

Freaky Little Plant Pollinated By Freaky Little Freaks

In Okinawa's coastal forests, brown puffballs protrude from roots of trees like unwanted warts. Although they might appear to be mushrooms, the balls are plants. To be more specific, they are fruits. To be even more specific, they are clusters of up to a million fruits that ...