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Earlier this year, in WN-23/2026, I set a goal of doing at least 3 pull-ups by the end of this year. I did that last week, WN-42/2026. But I didn’t ask my coach to record it. Mostly because I didn’t know I could. This week, I have been repeating it. So I thought...

Pablo Picasso, The Spider (L'Araignée) (plate, facing page 144) from Eaux-fortes originale pour des textes de Buffon (Histoire naturelle), 1936, published 1942 #museumarchive #museumofmodernart

Elvis was on the radio, The Ed Sullivan Show was on the TV, and scores of people were hightailing it to the suburbs — this was 1950s America.

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The Second World War plunged nearly every part of the globe into a violent clash that altered the course of history.

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Mary Shelley’s gothic horror novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus was published in 1818, and is widely considered to be the first science fiction novel.

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Let’s look at when some of the country’s biggest and most vital interstates were built. 

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Israel: We had ourselves the hell week of all hell weeks last Saturday. And in the aftermath, the top of the sport is upside down and incoherent, babbling and whining about which teams are good and which are bad in tones you can otherwise only find from Old Testament prophet...

For Halloween this year we will give out paper clamps, Post-It notes and other useful office supplies. Surely the children will be grateful.

I ran out of coffee.

Light rain started as soon as I left the house to walk the dog this morning. Because rain was not in the forecast I was not wearing rain gear and assumed the waterworks would stop momentarily. Instead, the rain turned heavy and after the dog and I were thoroughly soaked, I cut the walk short and returned...

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Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email CAPEX season is here! The anticipation got so intense I forgot to write last week. My Writing Cleveland’s Big Lesson for Seattle I return to Cleveland (only […]

The new model will be BYD’s largest and most luxurious electric sedan, with coach doors and a shape similar to the Rolls-Royce Phantom.

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President Donald J. Trump returns to Florida today to highlight a clear record of results that puts hardworking Americans first. Under President Trump and Republican leadership, Floridians are seeing historic tax relief, a surge in private investment and job creation, stronger rural healthcare, accelerated infrastructure and environmental progress, expanded support for veterans, and safer communities. […]

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Birds' compact nervous system seems to help them handle tasks very quickly.

Company says foreign-made robotic vehicles are crucial to US chip production.

"Trust is slow to build and quick to lose," board chair Jack Leslie said.

Corporate phishing tests are common, but this one was especially cruel.

Sound designer lets Half Life-related codename slip at a conference.

Birds' compact nervous system seems to help them handle tasks very quickly.

Stormy Whether GDPR services is a market we shouldn't need at all, but it's growing like a thundercloud. (Source: Mordor Intelligence) Toward Agentic VRM vCon is "A new IETF open standard defining how conversation data — audio, video, text, and metadata — is structured, signed, and exchanged across any system. The foundation of VCONify." More: A […]

Rivian wants to rebuild the roads its customers drive as 3D test worlds for its self-driving system, and it just bought a 15-person UK startup called Third Dimension to do it, as first reported by TechCrunch.

The startup was founded in 2024 by a former Tesla Autopilot simulation engineer and a veteran of Wayve’s neural simulator team. Rivian didn’t say what it paid.

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