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• Jennifer Ouellette
Why did 1,000 Swiss citizens bury their underpants?
Study: Land use is the biggest factor in determining decomposition rates of organic cotton underpants.
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• Kyle Orland
Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them
"It just felt like the right thing to do"
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• Kiona N. Smith
Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago
"We built this city on good cacao" does have a nice ring to it.
Ars Technica - All content
• Dan Goodin
Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks
227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.
Ars Technica - All content
• Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine
How much of a problem is AI’s water use?
AI’s water footprint is growing, but location and cooling technology make a difference.
Ars Technica - All content
• Dan Goodin
How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face
Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.
Remarkable People
• Guy Kawasaki
Make Peace with Your Past and Move Forward
Josh Peck is best known as the star of Drake & Josh, but there’s much more to his story than his years as a child actor.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Russia Imposes Austerity as Budget Deficit Widens
“Russia imposed sharp spending restrictions after an April liquidity crisis exposed the mounting costs of its war in Ukraine,” Bloomberg reports. “A tight austerity regime was introduced after Finance Minister Anton Siluanov warned Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin that there wouldn’t be enough cash that month to make all the necessary payments on time, as the […]
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
The Tragedy and Ecstasy of AI Companions (with Bridget Todd)
In her new audiobook, Love at First Prompt: AI and the Future of Intimacy, Bridget Jones and Michael Amato unpack how real people are using chatbots to seek connection, in an era when tech companies are constantly trying to exploit our innermost worlds.
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
Cocomelon's Studio Tells Its Artists to Start Experimenting With AI
Moonbug Entertainment, which makes Cocomelon, Blippi, and other popular content for children, says it will begin using AI but will always have a 'human in the loop.'
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
Businesses Go Viral for Making Signs Without AI
In the wake of the ChatGPT flyer pandemic, some businesses are differentiating themselves by making signs the old school way.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute
The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.
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• John Amato
Todd Blanche Lets Truth Slip On Mail-in Ballots: 'It's What Trump' Wants
On Fox News, Trump's sycophantic AG Todd Blanche blurted out his true motivation to defend Trump's immoral and most likely illegal Executive Order 14399 by controlling how states use mail-ballots for federal elections.
Blanche admits his new office's main purpose is to fun...
Radar
• Tim O’Reilly
Writing with AI
A lot of professional writers say they never do it. And for writers who do, the consequences can be serious. Book contracts have been withdrawn. People have lost jobs. I have a contrarian view. I say AI is a medium, like painting, sculpture, photography, music, or language itself. If AI is a medium, it is […]
Q: Are there legitimate food safety concerns with increasing beef imports?
Rancher: Absolutely. These countries don't raise their beef to the same standard as we do. When the Olympics were held in Mexico and Brazil, athletes were warned not to eat local beef because they could fail the drug tests
Defector
• Albert Burneko
Let’s Remember When Tim Curry Played A Huge Scary Red Guy
The actor Tim Curry died on Tuesday. He was 80. He was as purely and consistently fun a screen presence as anyone else I can think of, a cartoon of a performer, with outrageous charisma and the ability to communicate it through a wild assortment of constraints: obscuring mak...
Defector
• Sabrina Imbler
Is My Red Light Mask Doing Anything Or Am I Delusional? An Investigation
As with some of my best decisions in life, I bought a red light mask because Kelsey McKinney uses one. I saw Kelsey posting Instagram stories with her face illuminated under the mask's sinister, Sith-like glow. I was newly 30, albeit not especially flirty or thriving, and I ...
Defector
• Israel Daramola
An Ode To Redman, The Hip-Hop Court Jester
Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music and musical topics I’ve been fixated on recently.
In the music video for "Time 4 Sum Aksion," the second single from Redman's debut album, you don't really get much of the zany personality that would go...
Defector
• Giri Nathan
I Played Pat McAfee’s Album For Another Frequently Red-Faced, Sleeveless Baby
If in the future my daughter develops some kind of Pavlovian response to the musical stylings of Pat McAfee, I'll blame the editors who "assigned" this review. But this outcome is unlikely. I almost wish it were a little more plausible. McAfee's debut album, though enticingl...