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Instagram Is a Streaming Service Now

Instagram’s long-form video update is more than a swipe at YouTube. It’s an attempt to capture the clip economy.

WIRED
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Massive Groups of Volunteers Are Ready to Face Down ICE at the Polls

From heat maps to Signal chats to war rooms, volunteers across the US are ready to act if federal immigration agents show up on Election Day.

WIRED
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How to Hide Your Baby From the Government

“Sovereign citizens” think they can live beyond the reach of the state. Now the movement has influencers—and they’re selling all sorts of anarchist courses to expectant families.

WIRED
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Is an Under-Sink Reverse Osmosis System Worth It? Benefits, Costs, and Drawbacks

The Waterdrop X12 improved the taste of my tap water, but reverse osmosis comes with costs beyond the purchase price.

WIRED
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I Tested Every Major AI Agent for a Day. Here’s the Best One

I ranked six AI agents—from Meta’s Muse to Anthropic’s Claude Duet—on how well they completed basic tasks.

Longreads
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“I Play the Field; I Read Around.”

The Great Circle Author on Her Omnivorous Habits, E-Reader Renaissance, and Unending Search for “The One.”

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Judge Allows Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Subpoenas to Identify Gay-Torrents Users

FlavaWorks can subpoena Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and three other companies to identify staff and members of the defunct BitTorrent site Gay-Torrents.org, an Illinois federal court ruled. Instead of starting from IP addresses, the subpoenas target the email accounts that are linked to their tracker profiles. How FlavaWorks obtained those email addresses remains unclear.

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The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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Wappingers Boy Takes Lead in National Superhero Contest

A young Hudson Valley boy is one step closer to becoming a real-life superhero, but he needs your help. Continue reading…

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Village View parking lot sale moves forward as shareholders raise financial questions

EVG file photos by Stacie Joy The proposed sale of a parking lot at Village View is moving into another phase, even as some shareholders continue to question the co-op's finances and the process surrounding a potential deal.  At an Oct. 20 Zoom meeting of the Village ...

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A very East Village Saturday, in photos

Photos by Stacie Joy  There was no shortage of things to do around the neighborhood on Saturday, with fall festivals, an indie bookstore crawl and a milestone birthday celebration, among other events.  Stacie Joy made the rounds, capturing scenes from the fourth ...

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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Orange County Drivers Can Now Save Money Crossing the Hudson

Orange County residents who regularly cross the Mario Cuomo Bridge are about to get a break on tolls, with a new discount now available to drivers who use E-ZPass. Continue reading…

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree: Is It From the Hudson Valley?

There was plenty of speculation about where this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree would come from, including rumors involving two Hudson Valley towns. Now, we finally have an answer! Continue reading…

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They Protested ICE. Now They’ve Been Convicted of Terrorism.

On July 4, 2025, a group of 10 antifa protesters was arrested, accused of what the federal government called a planned attack on the Prairieland detention facility in Texas. They were prosecuted as terrorists. Janet Reitman, who has been covering the story, discusses the leg...

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New Yorkers Want to Play Ball. The Toughest Game is Getting a Field.

This story was reported by Haidee Chu and Carol Chen of The City Reporter, based on original research and data analysis by Stephen Lurie and Matt Daniels of The Pudding. Katie Honan contributed. When the playground at St. Vartan Park closed for renovations this spring, parents in Murray Hill rallied around one question: Where will […]

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The City Reporter
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A Freedom of Information ‘Christmas Present’ Remains Unopened as City Delays Rollout

The sun highlights the Municipal Building in Lower Manhattan.

The city is dragging its feet on a requirement for all city agencies to upload records requests and data to an online public portal, further delaying transparency from city agencies, good-government advocates said.  The bill, which was passed in the City Council last November, requires every municipal agency to opt into the city’s Open Records […]

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The half-life of disappointment

When things don’t turn out the way you pictured, how long does it take for you to move on? Reducing this window of disappointment unlocks the path to creativity and leadership. People who get over disappointment more quickly aren’t less excited about the project than the others. They realize that getting attached to an outcome […]

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Trump Unravels as Early-Voting Data Is So Brutal It Even Rattles MAGA

Donald Trump is stewing about elections big time. He raged at Senator Lisa Murkowski for opposing his dumb effort to rig the Alaska Senate race, fumed over imagined voter-fraud in the upcoming midterms, and seethed that the right’s huge loss in Brazil was “rigged.” It’s no a...

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How Balzac’s Extreme Coffee Habit Fueled His Productive Writing Routine

Even now, in this age when the very reading of literature is endangered — or so the articles tell us — Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) retains a notable ability to pick up new admirers. But even though he may have a decent readership by the standards of French novelists who died in the middle of […]

TorrentFreak
Text • Ernesto Van der Sar

Judge Allows Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Subpoenas to Identify Gay-Torrents Users

FlavaWorks can subpoena Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and three other companies to identify staff and members of the defunct BitTorrent site Gay-Torrents.org, an Illinois federal court ruled. Instead of starting from IP addresses, the subpoenas target the email accounts that are linked to their tracker profiles. How FlavaWorks obtained those email addresses remains unclear.

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