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Racket
• Jessica Armbruster
Freeloader Friday: 113 Free Things To Do This Weekend
Art-making sessions, spooky artist markets, dog Halloween, and the Saint Paul Art Crawl.
Ars Technica
• Kate Knibbs, wired.com
Polymarket saw $600 million in election trades after the elections were over
Millions kept changing hands long after the election outcomes were effectively settled.
Ars Technica
• Jonathan M. Gitlin
Tesla turns to 50-year-old stunt technology as it tries to Roadster again
If you want to make a car spin in the air, compressed gas is a good way to do it.
Ars Technica
• Ashley Belanger
Super Scam Me documentary shows what it takes to catch a romance scammer
Watch an exclusive clip from Super Scam Me where a victim tracks down her scammer.
SCOTUSblog
• Nora Collins
The Supreme Court and the midterms
Six Colors
• Jason Snell
Fun! With! Preorders! ↦

It was iPhone Duo preorder day, if you didn’t know. If you weren’t up at 5 a.m. Pacific like I was. Like so many of us were.…
TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Jeremy Kohler
Frustrated by Losses in the Courts, Missouri Republicans Want to Change How Top Judges Are Selected
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I want us to make our own network. In the meantime they’re all the same junk including this one. They raised $100 million and the best they could come up with is copying twitter 20 years ago, which hasn’t done anything but lock users in.
If you're still puzzled about what Trump is doing, this clip from Goodfellas explains, and it's a great movie too.
CBS: Tariffs definitely don't work for Mary Buchzeiger. She owns an auto parts manufacturing company near Detroit and says tariffs forced her to scrap plans to add 350 more jobs. She remembers one day a tariff changed 3 times in 24 hours.
CBS: Vance had to face a lot of questions from voters on the administration's handling of the economy. We had a small business owner who was wondering — and they were Trump voters — when the economic wave that Trump is talking about, this "A+ plus economy," is going to show up in her pocketbook.
Zacharia on high prices: Trump has done everything he is able to. I would urge Americans to be patient. You can't correct the ship overnight.
Katie Zacharia argues her 14 minute press conference was a success:
I had the opportunity to do what I don't think many press secretaries in the past have done, which is to break news on staff. And I do believe that really shifted the press conference.
Electrek
• Micah Toll
This cool accessory turns your bike electric in just three seconds

There are plenty of e-bike conversion kits designed to turn your existing bicycle electric, but most involve at least a bit of wrenching. Spiny 2 takes a different approach, using a removable friction-drive system that can apparently snap onto your bike in just three seconds.
more…If you're still puzzled about what Trump is doing, this clip from Goodfellas explains, and it's a great movie too.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
Cops Used AI Generated Photos of a Child to Lure Out a Suspected Predator
Christopher Thomas Mertens, a high school maintenance worker, was arrested after attempting to meet up with an AI persona that he thought was a 15 year old boy.
Scott Loftesness
• Scott Loftesness
The Revolt: Interstate 280
Here’s the six podcast episode in the story of Interstate 280 on the San Francisco Peninsula. This time it’s about the freeway revolt in San Francisco that killed plans for six of seven planned freeways. Here are the earlier episodes:
Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci, 1476 #earlyrenaissance #sandrobotticelli
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