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I don’t usually enjoy flying, and we had a couple hours of delays because of everyone arriving for F1, but it’s still amazing to have coffee and breakfast with family in NYC and then the same night be back in Austin for the Spurs / Rockets game. 🏀

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The Web isn’t dying, but it is being removed from our experience. As a place to seek knowledge and connections, it is being replaced for many (including me) by AI chatbots that harvest findings from it, rewrite and summarize what they find, and—as gravy on that steak—point to sources it finds there. To some degree, […]

On this week’s Saturday edition of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum discusses the possibility of an AI bubble and the bleak forecast for the American economy under President Trump.

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Singer, songwriter, and bassist Meshell Ndegeocello helped define the sound of neo-soul, blending funk, jazz, and R&B into music that was unmistakably her own. Now, on her new album, Synonym, she's taking familiar duets and turning them into something unexpected.  

In the hit horror/comedy series Widow's Bay, Betty Gilpin plays a new bride in 1700s New England who finds herself caught in a terrifying satanic curse. She talks about why she’s drawn to weird "anti-algorithm" projects.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews some newly released recordings by Stevie Wonder for the 50th anniversary of Songs in the Key of Life.


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Portrait of Agnolo Doni, 1506 #raphael #highrenaissance

In all of our coverage of the disastrous tenure RFK Jr. has had as Secretary of HHS, we have not yet discussed a bonkers study the CDC planned to fund in Guinea-Bissau. This hepatitis B “vaccine trial” was supposed to already have been kicked off, but it has been suspended since January instead because of […]

This is absolutely horrible! A nonverbal student with special needs was walking to Santa Maria High School when ICE agents tackled him, restrained him, and left him with a broken wrist requiring surgery, according to witnesses and school officials.

During this episode, Arthur mentions that he did security at the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival. He shares his job duties and opinions of the concert attendees! Continue reading…

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What’s one thing you know now that would have saved your younger self a lot of pain? Okay I was gonna post this regardless but I guess I could have saved my hands 🤭 In Ghana, we mostly do our laundry by hand. We set out two or three basins, wash from one into the […]

Nice post by Jason Snell on the iPod’s 25th anniversary. Amazing that it has been that long. I had the original iPod at launch and it really was a special device. On how quickly the iPod was developed, Jason blogs:

Not every product can, or should, be made at a breakneck pace. But Apple should have the ability to shift into that higher gear from time to time, when the opportunity arises. I’m not sure today’s Apple is wired that way, and maybe remembering how quickly the iPod came to fruition could serve as a little bit of a prod for Apple to work on getting that capability back.

The criminal complaint charging Nikki Floris and Brad Benavides with lying to Jim Jordan's committee about the Hunter Biden laptop treats the laptop and all its derivatives as the same, as an article of faith.

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The Valkyries star is accustomed to leading by example. Facing a 2-1 series deficit against Angel Reese and the Dream, Williams is finding her voice.

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[ writing... ] It began with that post titled sadness, on 17 October; didn't know it would become a pentadic series, much less end with something I'd write together with a language model. Then, the following day saw its scathing rebuttal, hardness, and a glimmer that it wou...

I didn't see it at the time, but caught it online.

In the middle of the skit (1:25), there's a new member who hates the boyfriend, which made me laugh.

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"Wouldn't it be nice to date someone who isn't afraid to tell you the truth — for better or worse? "Mean, Scary Girlfriend," from Dakota Johnson's October 3 Saturday Night Live episode, introduces us to a woman who'll do exactly that for boyfriends around the world.

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