The Daily
• The New York Times
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• Dave Winer
90,000 told to evacuate as wildfire approaches Reno, Nevada.
Seth's Blog
• Seth Godin
That’s pretty new. Letters sent by Thomas Jefferson from France often took months to get a response. No points for shaving a day off a 90-day correspondence lag. The 800 toll-free number shifted the dynamic we expected from marketers. If we call you, we expect you to answer. Now, not later. FEDEX did the same […]
WIRED
• Jay Bennett
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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to discover as many as 200,000 new planets and reveal details about the elusive nature of dark matter and dark energy.
Leda, 1510 #leonardodavinci #davinci
The City Reporter
• Greg B. Smith
The ragged gravel parking lot in Elmhurst, Queens, looked like so many others scattered across the city — a squalid plot of open space cluttered with dozens of busted-up, broken-down cars and trucks. Some had been deposited there as part of the NYPD’s efforts to remove abandoned vehicles from city streets. But just below the […]
The post They Paved a Historic Black Burial Ground. Now It’s a Lot for Abandoned Cars. appeared first on The City Reporter.
The City Reporter
• Katie Honan
Mayor Zohran Mamdani officially kicked off a new initiative to make emergency repairs at parks, playgrounds, and rec centers across the city, in three weeks or less. The “Renew Crew” will bring 24 painters, electricians, plumbers and other workers to make fast improvements to Parks Department sites. The repairs aren’t major capital projects. Instead, the […]
The post Mamdani Touts Speedy Parks Repair Crews appeared first on The City Reporter.
The City Reporter
• Kennedy Sessions
Debra Ack beamed with pride as she looked at the two-story brown brick warehouse on Jamaica Avenue in East New York. To anyone passing by, the vacant 9,500-square-foot building looks like any other lot in a neighborhood known for its mix of industrial sites and residential homes. The building itself has been home to an […]
The post East New York Residents Try Buying Back Their Neighborhood, One Lot At a Time appeared first on The City Reporter.
Open Culture
• Colin Marshall
Marcus Aurelius did not have a smartphone. In fact, he didn’t have a phone of any kind, owing to the fact that he lived in the second century, though we can be reasonably certain that he commanded more than enough messengers to keep himself informed around the clock. That’s because he was the Roman emperor […]
Marc Chagall, The Blue Circus, 1950 #museumarchive #marcchagall
Open Culture
• OC
Take a look at photos of Bush Tetras — a three-girl-one-guy No Wave/Post-Punk band from the early 1980s downtown Manhattan scene. Now, look at the photograph above, “Marcel Breuer and His Harem,” by Bauhaus photographer Erich Consemüller, taken sometime around 1927. Except for the fact that Breuer looks more like Ron Mael of Sparks sans […]
A Woman Picking Up a Stick in Front of Trees, 1890 #vangogh #postimpressionism
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Donny Meacham
Rising country singer Wade Forster recalled being bullied at boarding school in Australia because of his love of country music and Brooks & Dunn. Continue reading…
Restored working Libby sync. When setting it up in Libby, you’ll need to click on other apps (such as Sonos) to get a code. To get started in Micro.blog, on the web click Bookshelves → “…” → Import.
AI coding can be so thorough that it creates a mountain of code to review and maintain, even for simple features. I’m still trying to find the right way to balance this superpower with my pre-AI instinct to write the least code possible. It’s about deciding which edge cases matter.
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Donny Meacham
Bunnie Xo is opening up about what life has really been like since her divorce from Jelly Roll — and she's got plenty keeping her busy. Continue reading…
It hit 96 degrees today here. I am grateful for air conditioning and that I hardly had to go outside after about 10:30 am.
escarpment
• lnebres
