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H Mart’s SF store just got bigger. Here’s what to eat, buy, and ignore

The Korean grocery giant’s Ingleside Heights location now spans 75,000 square feet, including a new food court.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Juan Pablo Pérez Burgos

Who is watching the AI companies? Handpicked Berkeley safety groups

Anthropic followed through on its promise to pick a third-party auditor. It’s an organization it knows very well.

Ars Technica
Text • Lesley Evans Ogden, Knowable Magazine

Science says your boss should talk less in meetings

Science says your boss should talk less in meetings

Research suggests listening more while talking less. Killing aimless meetings can help, too.

Ars Technica Valid
Text • Lesley Evans Ogden, Knowable Magazine

Science says your boss should talk less in meetings

Science says your boss should talk less in meetings

Research suggests listening more while talking less. Killing aimless meetings can help, too.

Ars Technica Valid
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Why BioWare's Neverwinter Nights still has thousands of active players

Why BioWare's Neverwinter Nights still has thousands of active players

The single-player is just OK, but according to the players, that doesn't matter.

Matt Mullenweg Valid
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Anthropic Employment

How employment is changing at Anthropic is a fascinating read.

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Text • Conover Kennard

Trump Threatens Democrats With Dirt If They Impeach Him Again

Donald J. Trump apparently thinks the prospect of another impeachment gives him an opportunity to remind Democrats that he claims to have dirt on their political heavyweights. In an interview with Newsmax, Trump boasted that he had plenty of information on Hillary Clinton,...

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Text • Conover Kennard

Zacharia Finds A Way To Blame Biden For Trump's Price Problem

With inflation up 3.7% and gas prices up 9%, Fox & Friends co-hosts asked White House Secretary Katie Zacharia how Republicans should respond to Americans who might vote for the opposing party over rising costs. Zacharia, who obviously got her 'blame Biden' talking poi...

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Mike’s Blog Round-Up

On this day in 1964, the anthology science fiction show The Outer Limits showed what television science fiction could be when it treated the genre as serious dramatic literature rather than as a parade of rubber monsters and blasters. Written by Harlan Ellison and starring...

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Text • John Amato

Michele Tafoya Refuses To Say If She'd Appear With Trump In Minnesota

During today's Minnesota Senate race, Republican candidate Michele Tafoya refused to say if she would join Donald Trump on stage during a campaign event. Democratic candidate Peggy Flanagan has a 3-4 point lead as the midterms close in. During their debate, the moderator...

WIRED
Text • Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman

Encryption Is Getting Squeezed From All Sides

Canada’s planned surveillance law is the latest grim step in a series of threats to encryption that are spreading around the world.

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Best Of: Mahershala Ali / Writer Yiyun Li

In his new film, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, Oscar-winning actor Mahershala Ali plays a devout Muslim father and hit man whose life is upended when he suddenly has to care for his children on his own. The role brings together a lot of what has shaped Ali as an actor,...

Scott Loftesness
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Two-Stroke Memory

Susan Orlean says a life's memories burn down when we die, unless we carry them out. I took inventory of mine, a Yamaha 350 in perfect condition and a doorway that was never filed.

@art.feediverse.org - Great art on Bluesky Valid
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@DrMaxKoss Have you seen Yiannis Tsaroychis @Tsaroychis? Cheers, @andreitr

WIRED
Text • Kat Merck

The Best LED Grow Lights for Houseplants This Winter (2026)

Shorter days don’t have to spell trouble for your houseplants. These are the lights we’ve used and loved in our own homes.

WIRED
Text • Boone Ashworth

HTC Made Smart Glasses That Are Way More Private

These smart glasses do just about everything Meta glasses can, but they're not tied to a social media platform.

WIRED
Text • Jill Duffy

Don’t Let a Crypto Inheritance Get Stuck on the Blockchain

Claiming an inheritance of Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency can be like hunting for buried treasure. It doesn’t have to be.

Ars Technica
Text • Samuel Axon

Why BioWare's Neverwinter Nights still has thousands of active players

Why BioWare's Neverwinter Nights still has thousands of active players

The single-player is just OK, but according to the players, that doesn't matter.

@art.feediverse.org - Great art on Bluesky Valid
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Portrait, 1960 #surrealism #romanianart

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Text • Dave Winer

blog.louisgray.com/2026/10/how-antigravity-brought-my-blog-back-from-the-dead.html

Louis Gray an old time blogger who went to Google, used their AI to resurrect his old blog which had disappeared from the web. Maybe he can convince Google to stop fucking with my blog.