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The job Smith already has is better than one that comes with plenty of institutional baggage.

WordPress emerged from the ashes of UserLand, something I am recently reacquainted with, working the last couple of months with Claude on a reboot of Frontier, this time written in JavaScript, running in Electron. But someone is sure to reboot Manila in this context, and Manila is at least a grandparent of WordPress. I’m following […]

What started as one tip about a sheriff's investigator led to discovering over 4,000 unauthorized license plate searches in just months. Continue reading…

Fox: If you have the money to give people $5,000, why not just do it now?

Trump: Because the Democrats can't do it

Republican convention speaker Oliver Henry: My contact from the White House asked if I wanted to come to speak at the convention. I said, "What convention?" I don't follow U.S. politics

Talarico talk to be on YouTube to save ABC stations the hassle of dealing with FCC.

Buy a new iPhone Duo 18 folding iPhone with max storage (2 TB, which is what I have in my iPhone 16 Pro Max) for the low-low price of just $3199. danah boyd, who I mentioned two posts ago, is probably now the leading authority on the American Census. She just posted American democracy depends on […]

“Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico appeared in Dallas Thursday with a group of Jeffrey Epstein survivors, accusing his Republican opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, of ignoring their push for greater transparency about the disgraced financier and sex offender,” Bloomberg reports.

Stephen Collinson: “America no longer seems to believe that he, alone, can fix it.” “At his 2016 convention, Donald Trump billed himself as the unique force who could end America’s troubles.” “A decade later, at a midterm Republican pseudo-convention on Wednesday night, he sweetened the offer, with a pitchman’s promise of a $5,000 jackpot for […]

i started writing about it this morning and then i re-read something about the stock value tanking, there's actual data about that, and the only thing a company can do when the stock goes down like that is get a new CEO. it's almost the definition of what boards do. i'm sure...

Joseph Pfeifer, retired FDNY assistant chief, founding director of the FDNY’s Center for Terrorism and Disaster Preparedness, and the author of Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11 (Portfolio, HC 2021, PB 2026), reflects on his experiences as the first FDNY chief to respond to the World Trade Center 25 years ago, and how the attacks led to changes in crisis response, and the lingering health effects of the aftermath of the attacks.

photo: May We Never Forget, 2011 (Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

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Last week, Mayor Mamdani announced the creation of a new "Office of Worker Power." Julie Su, deputy mayor for economic justice, explains what that office will do, and unpacks some other organized labor initiatives her office has been working on.

Photo: Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on May 09, 2024 in Washington, DC. Su testified before the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee about the Biden Administration's proposed FY2025 budget for the Labor Department. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Priya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters (Riverhead Books, 2018) and her latest, The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict (Riverhead Books, 2026), talks about the importance of conflict and offers a framework for resolving it constructively.

Book cover art courtesy of Riverhead Books

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On this first day of school for NYC public school students, composer, pianist, and bandleader Arturo O'Farrill, also the founder of Belongó, talks about his work to bring music education to New York City schools, and for youth on Rikers Island.

Photo: Arturo O'Farrill (Photo by Shervin Lainez)

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WordPress emerged from the ashes of UserLand, something I am recently reacquainted with, working the last couple of months with Claude on a reboot of Frontier, this time written in JavaScript, running in Electron. But someone is sure to reboot Manila in this context, and Manila is at least a grandparent of WordPress. I'm following all kinds of trails as we test the product, codename Atlantis, against all the apps we wrote for it back then.

A baseball bat attack at a local gas station left one man injured and four people facing serious charges. Continue reading…

Drew Baldridge just got an exclusive peek at Luke Bryan's world, and it went way beyond the concert stage. Continue reading…

A growing number of New York teachers are reversing a decade of classroom technology, and lawmakers want to make it the law statewide. Continue reading…

China has already crossed its record car export number from last year, and we’re only 2/3 of the way through the year. It shows how China’s EV choices are leading the country to dominate manufacturing, while the rest of the world’s automaking nations simply stand by and eagerly enable it.

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