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The roughly 3.2 million Americans who live in Puerto Rico cannot vote for president, and the island has no senators and no voting representative in the House. “Citizenship without equal political voice is an uncomfortable concept,” write José Massó III and Imari Paris Jeffries. “It should be.”

Marine archaeologist Sean Kingsley has explored more than 350 shipwrecks -- from pirate ships in the Bahamas to British India Steam Navigation ships off the coast of Ireland. We ask him what discoveries he’s made so far and what else he hopes to find.

firstSentence, a JavaScript function that returns the first sentence in a string. Useful in coming up with something to display for an untitled post. It's always been a klooge, but this time with Claude's help we're using a new API in JavaScript, and supposedly it really works. I'm using it in one of my apps, and you might find it useful too, and let me know if it works for you.

The browser and the web it defines is a hairball in a hairball in a hairball in a hairball in a hairball.

The hairballs are named Chrome, Firefox, MSIE, Netscape, Mosaic.

Each in turn has had their way with the web.

The stack of hair defines a "web" that is far far away from the web we started with.

It was going pretty good for a while, if you could live with the all the modal popovers and paywalls, but now the current owners are excluding old sites, and imho when you do that, it's not the web any longer.

It would take me nearly a year to find out. Let me explain...

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At an Oct. 12 rally in Youngstown, a fat, bloated, and unhealthy Trump ogled Senator Jon Husted's body to gin up support for his endorsed candidate. Husted was tapped to replace JD Vance after he became VP and is now running slightly behind Democratic challenger Sherrod Br...

Katie Zacharia has made her White House debut as Donald Trump’s press secretary.

Parents at a Hudson Valley high school are demanding answers after a student allegedly made a kill list naming nearly a dozen classmates. Now, families say their children are back in class with the student. Continue reading…

Caleb Hailey has announced socialspec.org, a suite of recommendations for making websites more social. Following lists, about pages, and contact info. “The future of social media is websites.”

interesting analysis using shot boundary detection mapped against hand counts from the Cinemetrics project

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Janelle Salaün is the first unanimous Sixth Player of the Year in WNBA history. Earning that honor required giving up a starting spot she held as a rookie.

Disney may acquire tech from one of the first chatbot makers linked to child suicide.

The higher prices are said to be unrelated to the Skydance merger.

Small EVs and efficient people carriers update familiar names for the modern age.

Google plans to help turn those personal AI-generated apps into wide releases.

Developers will get 50 percent discounted API rates through November.

The Pierced Rock, 1920 #matisse #henrimatisse

ArtCraft is building open source versions of what looks like most of Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps. Oh, and a word processor and a spreadsheet app because why not?

Epic Games reportedly pivoting to "AI first" game development model.