Can Dems Make Inroads in Deep-Red West Texas?
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• Dave Winer
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• Dave Winer
Dennis Crowley: Some final words on Foursquare.
Defector
• Chris Thompson
The Guardians Were And Are A Drag
The Cleveland Guardians will not win the World Series this autumn, just as they have not in any of the last 78 autumns. They were eliminated Monday night by the Tampa Bay Rays: out-slugged, out-small-balled, and outlasted. Thus ends what was, by regular season record, an une...
The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300 Million Games
Perfect Play ran over 300 million games of Monopoly to determine the best strategy and the most common mistakes players make.
I turned eight classic Monopoly strategies into computer players and made them play 312,898,560 games against each other. At a table of four, the...
Trump: JD and the untouchables behind me have done an incredible job
Electrek
• Reinette LeJeune
Segway E3 Go electric scooter launches at $100 off, Bluetti 2,016Wh FridgePower station exclusive $854 in Member Sale, more
Our two headliners for today’s edition is the newly launched Segway E3 Go Electric Scooter with $100 savings at $550, which sits just $50 above the current pricing of its sibling E3 Pro model. Next, Bluetti has begun its 4-day Member Sale event that has a selection of deals...
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• Chris capper Liebenthal
MAGA Rock Star Wants To 'Eliminate All The Democrats'
MAGA star Ted Nugent spoke at a rally for Sen. Roger Marshall in Kansas and shit all over himself on the stage by making a thinly veiled threat about "eliminating Democrats."
Vote Hunter Nation texted and emailed, and I called them, and I did robocall things, techno gonzo ...
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• The White House
Delivering for North Carolina: Safer Streets, Bigger Paychecks, and a Manufacturing Boom Under President Trump
President Donald J. Trump returns to North Carolina today with a clear record of results that put Tar Heel families, workers, seniors, and communities first. Since taking office, the Trump Administration has driven down crime, returned money to workers’ and seniors’ pockets, and unleashed a surge of advanced manufacturing, pharmaceutical, aerospace, biotechnology, and SI investment […]
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TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Andy Mannix and Doug Bock Clark
Trump Appointees Asked a Federal Cybersecurity Agency to Secretly Acquire a Voting Machine—and Hack It
This article first appeared at ProPublica. A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department...
Racket
• Em Cassel
Did You Know a Hockey-Themed Coffee Shop Opened in the Old Annie’s Parlour Space?
Two For Tripping wants to revitalize Dinkytown with breakfast and banana bread lattes.
David Treuer traces America's relationship with violence back to the frontier
Ojibwe writer David Treuer’s new book, The Savage Mind: An American Legacy, is written as a letter to his three children. It examines how the violence that shaped America's founding still influences who we are today. Treuer has spent much of his career challenging the idea th...
Defector
• Alex Sujong Laughlin
Mana Shim Walked Away From Soccer, Then She Rebuilt Her Life
Five years ago this fall, The Athletic published a feature in which NWSL players Mana Shim and Sinead Farrelly opened up about their abusive former Portland Thorns coach, Paul Riley. The story prompted an investigation into how the NWSL handled reports of abuse, and by the e...
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Ars Technica
• Ashley Belanger
Meta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs
Meta argues nobody “decided” to pirate books to train AI.
WIRED
• Isabella Ward, Anna Desmarais
French Government Calls Emergency Meetings With Platforms Over Protests
TikTok and other sites were told to curb protest footage and AI-altered images, while online retailers like Vinted and eBay reportedly signed an agreement stop looted goods from flooding resale sites.
Definitely charge private aircrafts more fees than what consumers pay for their flights
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The majority of Americans don't protect the lives and safety of millions of people every day.
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Tedium
• Ernie Smith
Death & Domains
A recent piece on “forever domains” sparked bigger questions about permanence online: when domain owners die out, do we need new systems that don't rely on domains at all?
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• Jonathan M. Gitlin
Polestar tries to quantify what it’s like to drive a performance car
Drivers had electrodes strapped to their heads as they tested EVs on track.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Alex Wilhelm
Scripted tests can’t keep up with AI-written code. Datadog is betting agents can.
Nearly a year into the agentic coding explosion, many teams now use AI to write software as their de facto
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