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The San Francisco Standard
Text • Emily Dreyfuss

Dolly Parton’s boobs got me through puberty

I felt my body was turning me into a bimbo — I wanted to be an intellectual. Then, when I needed her, Dolly proved we could have boobs and brains.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Kevin V. Nguyen

Boom meets backlash: How data center politics in Silicon Valley have changed 

States are passing bans. Republicans and Democrats are campaigning on the issue for the midterms. The birthplace of AI has its own set of realities.

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Improved the web timeline for photo galleries to include them in a horizontal scrolling pane like the apps.

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Trump’s Helicopter Can’t Reach Air Traffic Control

“President Trump’s helicopter had trouble communicating with air traffic controllers on Thursday, for the second time this month,” CBS News reports. “As Marine One was about to take off in Washington, D.C. on Thursday afternoon, its calls to controllers went unheard, and another pilot had to intervene.”

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Trump Wants to Let Farmers Process Their Own Food

“President Donald Trump said he plans to authorize farmers and ranchers to process their own food in the administration’s latest bid to lower the price of beef ahead of the U.S. midterm elections in November,” Bloomberg reports. “It is unclear if Trump has the authority to make such changes, and the practical effect of any […]

Defector
Text • Amy Schneider

13 Short Blogs About The Cincinnati Reds

13 Short Blogs About The Cincinnati Reds
The origin story of the Reds goes like this: In 1869, just after local boy and war hero Ulysses S. Grant was inaugurated as president, the Cincinnati Red Stockings became the very first entirely professional baseball team. They were later a charter member of the National Lea...

Open Channels FM Podcast Network
Text • Bob Dunn

A Look at WordCamp US Including Events, Sessions, and Community Highlights

An informal look at WordCamp US featuring hackathon day, community feedback, networking, and thoughts on the new event structure.

Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
Text • Chris capper Liebenthal

America's Two-Tiered Justice System Strikes Again

In 2025, Elon Musk committed election bribery by offering two people $1 million to vote in the state supreme court race. The Wisconsin Election Commission voted 5-1 that it was likely that he committed a crime and referred the matter to a couple of district attorneys for t...

Racket
Text • Em Cassel

The Best, Worst, and Most Middling New Foods of the 2026 Minnesota State Fair

The Best, Worst, and Most Middling New Foods of the 2026 Minnesota State Fair

The return of our peerless, pitiless Scarf!, Shrug, Skip system.

Rest of World -
Text • Gordon Saft

I went to China to see a different AI future. It looked familiar

I went to China to see a different AI future. It looked familiar

My trip to China revealed an AI race that looks less like a clash of competing visions, and more like two countries racing toward a similar future.

Electrek
Text • Micah Toll

Wheel-E Podcast: Powerful Bafangs, cops on Sur-Rons, Qronge, more

This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time, that includes new e-bikes from Flit and SONDORS (yep, that one), testing a battery charging cabinet and the Qronge e-moto, London cops riding Sur-Rons, and more.

Electrek
Text • Seth Weintraub

Qronge X1 Spark L Review: Does a $1,299 Sur-Ron Light Bee alternative cut the right corners?

If you are late to the pre-teen suburban e-moto scene, we’ve been wading through the exploding market of low-cost Sur-Ron competitors over the past months. While we can all debate the safety and legality issues these bikes bring, the reality is that they are incredibly popular and useful for those who can get around their neighborhoods and back roads and are comfortable hitting speeds up to and above 40mph. Enter the low cost $1299 Qronge X1 Spark L.

The Warning with Steve Schmidt
Text • Steve Schmidt

The dream they couldn’t kill

The dream they couldn’t kill

On August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi.

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Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

How an Atlanta Suburb Ended Up Sharing Flock Data With More Than 2,000 Organizations

wired.com/story/how-an-atlanta-suburb-ended-up-sharing-flock-data-with-more-than-2000-organizations/

Alpharetta, Georgia, cops share data with thousands of Flock users, ranging from federal agencies to a fish and wildlife commission. The reasons why show how vast—and invasive—the network has become.

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Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Everything You've Ever Typed at Work Just Became an Asset

reworked.co/collaboration-productivity/everything-youve-ever-typed-at-work-just-became-an-asset/

We spent 10 years pushing people to work out loud. Spirit's data sale is teaching everyone a good reason to stop.

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Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

reuters.com/investigations/ai-enters-operating-room-reports-arise-botched-surgeries-misidentified-body-2026-02-09/

Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient injuries.

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Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Opinion: Student protests are what created the university as we know it

cnn.com/2024/04/30/opinions/campus-protest-what-created-university-medieval-perry-gabriele

Seeing current campus protests unfold is a reminder that solidarity between protesting students and their teachers in medieval Europe was the origin of the modern-day university, write historians David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele.

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Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

NYC’s Buzziest Nightclub Announces Stance On Smart Glasses: Even Try To Bring Them In, You’re Banned Forever

futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/nyc-basement-smart-glasses

Basement, one of NYC's buzziest nightclubs, has announced a total ban on smart glasses amid growing controversy.

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Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The Onion's Audacious Plans for Infowars Are Not a Joke

inc.com/sam-blum/the-onions-audacious-plans-for-infowars-are-not-a-joke/91383744?mvgt=9r1uq3bMJOuX

Owner Jeff Lawson, CEO Ben Collins, and comedian Tim Heidecker tell Inc. how they found themselves owning goblinlove.net and selling gay frog plushies, and what it means for the future of 'The Onion.'

Techdirt
Text • Karl Bode

Republicans Stumble In Bid To Flood Midterm Airwaves With Discounted Ads

Back in June, the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission that federal limits on coordinated expenditures by political parties violate the First Amendment. Which is every bit as stupid and corrupt as it sounds. Previously, under the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), political parties were subjected to strict […]