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With global orders for the new iX3 near 100,000, BMW dealers in China are reportedly overwhelmed by demand, with tens of thousands of pre-orders coming in in less than a week after it went on sale.

Join me August 30th for a live chat in my first-ever book club Q&A

The Trump administration’s Department of Education has now deleted its post that compared Donald Trump to Hitler.

The tariffs were largely a waste of time and money, but still nice to see this part of it resolving well: Panic is refunding tariff fees for Playdate purchases, via Lex Friedman’s new blog.

Study: Land use is the biggest factor in determining decomposition rates of organic cotton underpants.

The Trump administration has moved to allow construction and logging on public land, potentially speeding up the extinction of over 400 threatened and endangered species.

NEW: These local jails in Florida were supposed to detain immigrants for only up to 72 hours, per DHS.

One woman was rebooked 10 times, spending a cumulative 26 days in jail.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigrants-rebooking-ice-jails-florida?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Florida #DHS #ICE #Immigration #Law #Immigrant

“With control of the Senate hanging in the balance, President Trump is heading to Houston on Friday to raise money to help a Republican ally who has been struggling,” the New York Times reports. “The Republican National Committee is holding a fund-raiser for Ken Paxton, the scandal-plagued Texas attorney general who is running for Senate. […]

“The Trump administration plans to step up deportation flights to Haiti as soon as this week, a move intended to more quickly expel thousands of Haitians whose legal status expired this summer with the end of a humanitarian program,” the New York Times reports.

April 7, 2026: Trump sells up to $1 million in ExxonMobil stock

April 7, 2026: Trump declares a ceasefire with Iran

April 8, 2026: ExxonMobil stock opens down 6.5%

The Cold Civil War The ICE agent indicted for a shooting during Operation Metro Surge has reportedly been released from...

When it was published in the United States in 1998, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The jokes about the American reading public’s apparent allergy to the very word philosopher write themselves, but the change was also unfortunate for more substantial reasons. A “sorcerer’s stone” had no cultural resonance […]

A number of futurists, philosophers, and technophiles believe we are approaching what they call the “singularity”: a point in time when smart machines become much smarter, stronger, and faster than their creators, and then become self-conscious. Whatever the chance of this occurring, it’s worthwhile to ponder the consequences. But we do already, all the time—in […]

We’ve featured Egyptologist Ilona Regulski here on Open Culture a few times before. Once, she explained how to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs; another time, she told us what the Rosetta Stone actually says. It was, perhaps, inevitable that she would cross paths with Rob Watts, creator of the YouTube channel RobWords, whose videos we often post. […]

Note: We were sad to see the news that Dolly Parton passed away. Today we are bringing back one of our favorite Dolly Parton posts. She will be missed. The Walrus is… Dolly Parton? Not every record yields gold when played backwards or spun more slowly than recommended, but a 45 of Parton’s 1973 hit […]

It doesn’t quite ring true to call David Bowie a rock star. Ziggy Stardust, the neon synthetic-clad alien alter ego he both created and retired in the early seventies, was, of course, rock stardom outlandishly personified. But then, that was the concept of what turned out to be just one of many personae he deliberately […]

The story of humans creating monstrous beings in their image may have perennial relevance, even if it seems specific to our contemporary cultural moment. What, after all, is Oscar Isaac’s AI inventor in Ex Machina but a 21st-century update of Victor Frankenstein? (Before Isaac went on to portray Victor himself in Guillermo del Toro’s 2025 film […]

"It just felt like the right thing to do"

Heatmaps show where visitors interact, session recordings reveal how individual users navigate, and A/B testing measures whether a change improves results. Learn how to combine all three methods in a practical conversion optimization workflow.

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Micro.blog book readers who like libraries: Libby integration seems to be working pretty well again. You’ll need to reconnect it on the web, Bookshelves → “…” → Import. 📚