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Writer, activist and face of the women’s liberation movement Gloria Steinem died Wednesday at age 92. She spoke with Terry Gross several times over four decades, this remembrance pulls from three of those conversations: In 2015, Steinem talked about her unconventional childho...

FOIAball uses public records to report on college football and pulled in 7,500 subscribers in its first year. Of those, 420 pay $70 a year or $7 a month. Sarah talked to FOIAball proprietor David Covucci this week about his business and what he’s learned about how to get people to pay up. This is...

Chris Arnade rides the 22-hour bus trip from Darwin, Australia, to Alice Springs.

The first time I consciously contemplated a museum’s installation-specific smell was in Fernando Romero’s “El Sol” at Kristallwelten in Innsbruck, Austria. Viewers stand in a cave-like, red-lit room under a Swarovski crystal sphere exactly one-billionth the size of the sun. ...

If you’re as horny for football as I am, you’ve probably noticed that a vast, vast majority of NFL podcasts have some unwelcome amount of gambling/fantasy chatter in them. Corporate pods are often directly in bed with the sportsbooks, and a great number of indie pods have to take the books’ sponsorship money if they…

In 1858, William Parker Foulke, a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences—a group of naturalists committed to public education and outreach—was on vacation in the quiet Quaker community of Haddonfield, New Jersey. There, he befriended a local landowner, John Estaugh Hopkin...

It's been more than a month since UNC general manager Mike Lombardi was placed on administrative leave, and now he's gone for good. Lombardi and the school announced on Thursday that he is stepping down from his role. According to reporting from WRAL and ESPN, Lombardi's res...

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Dolly Parton fans in the Hudson Valley can celebrate her legacy on the big screen. Regal Cinemas is bringing her classic films to local theaters for a special tribute weekend. Continue reading…

Today's St. Mark's Place sunrise ... as the Labor Day Weekend officially gets underway.

Here at DIE HOT Pilates (SoHo), we do things a little differently. We’re your new favorite fitness fusion studio blending elements of Pilates, barre, yoga, drought, inclement weather, the 1930s Dust Bowl, Zara Larsson, HIIT, cardio, cardiac arrest, and fun. Our UNIQLO-adjace...

“The Federal Communications Commission has asked a federal judge to dismiss ABC’s First Amendment lawsuit challenging the agency’s early review of licenses for eight Disney-owned television stations, arguing the court lacks jurisdiction and that the network failed to establish that the scrutiny was retaliation over its programming,” The Wrap reports.

I got to this a little late last night because I was at the U.S. Open watching some great tennis, but Democrats got two potentially significant redistricting wins. First, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the state must use its old congressional map in this year’s general election. Join now to continue reading. Members […]

The GPT-6 Astra announcement yesterday was a bit anticlimactic because most people don’t have access to it yet. That’s fine, plenty of things to work on with the old-and-busted GPT-5.7 Sol.

Also listening to the interview with Greg Brockman on Stratechery this morning.

I’ve been working on Micro.blog for about a decade and only now does it feel like it’s really starting to get good.

While philosophers ponder AI consciousness, the models have ideas of their own.

It’s around this time of year that Santa makes his first appearance on my blog. Want to get out in front of the others.

My first job after college was on the 39th floor of the Empire State Building. I wrote software for our customers, in BASIC, on a teletype in our office, talking to our mainframe in New Jersey. It seemed magical at the time. When I hit a bug, a mystery — you’d try this and that, […]

If you've ever wanted to try your hand at rounding up immigrants, building a border wall, or getting into a cage fight with "unhealthy" foods, you're in luck! The Trump White House is here to make all your dreams come true. In what may be one of their most bizarre moves ye...