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Nowhere to Go: 68 NYC Parks Bathrooms Sit Closed — Some for More Than a Decade

The bathroom inside East New York’s Ethan Allen Playground has been closed for at least eight years,

A few blocks off the Belt Parkway in Gravesend, Brooklyn, a playground bathroom has been closed so long its doors no longer have handles. A rusted latch box is bolted to the graffiti-tagged doors of the cube-like structure, which city records show has been shut since at least 2018 — three mayors ago. One local […]

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Crash-Detecting System Rolling Out on More City Buses Navigating Crowded Streets

A cyclist rides in the bus lane in front of an M79 bus on the Upper West Side

The MTA is looking to significantly boost the number of buses in its fleet that alert drivers about would-be hazards while they’re behind the wheel. With the number of collisions between buses and bicycles this year down 16% from the same time period in 2025, according to MTA data, the transportation authority plans to add […]

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THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent
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Trump Tirade at Rally Takes Delusional Turn after Fox Drops Poll Bomb

In a remarkable move, Fox News just shifted numerous House races toward Democrats. Fox finds them pulling even or favored in really Trumpy places like Kentucky’s 6th district and North Carolina’s 11th district. Fox also shifted the Ohio Senate race to “Lean Democratic.” In b...

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Woman writing, 1863 #realism #edouardmanet

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Inside the Making of the Sagrada Família, Barcelona’s 144-Year Megaproject

To get a sense of Sagrada Família’s popularity with YouTubers, you have only to take a look at the related Open Culture posts linked below. As will hardly escape your attention, most subjects that consistently draw the attention of the GoPro class are not nineteenth-century Catholic churches. But Antoni Gaudí’s masterpiece, whose construction alone has […]

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Bosch’s popular e-bike motor just got upgraded with more power and less weight

Bosch has unveiled the latest generation of its popular Active Line Plus electric bicycle motor, bringing more power, less weight, and a significantly smaller footprint to one of the company’s most widely used drive systems.

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The Vibrant Color Wheels Designed by Goethe, Newton & Other Theorists of Color (1665–1810)

Maybe it’s the cloistered headiness of Rene Descartes, or the rigorous austerity of Isaac Newton; maybe it’s all the leathern breeches, gray waistcoats, sallow faces, and powdered wigs… but we tend not to associate Enlightenment Europe with an explosion of color theory. Yet philosophers of the late 17th and 18th centuries were obsessed with light […]

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Peasant Woman by the Hearth, 1885 #realism #vangogh

WIRED
Text • Joel Khalili

Should AI Decide Your Court Case? This Judge Says Yes

One of England’s top judges, Geoffrey Vos, believes that AI could adjudicate plenty of civil cases. The question, he says, is where the line should be drawn.

Letters from an American
Text • Heather Cox Richardson

October 27, 2026

October 27, 2026

On Sunday a student-led democratic movement ousted Serbia’s Aleksandar Vučić, a key ally of Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, from power.

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Foehn Wind in Marc's Garden, 1915 #paulklee #klee

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Meadow at the banks of Aven, 1888 #gauguin #paulgauguin

The David Frum Show
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The Man Who Risked Death Documenting ISIS

In this episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with thoughts on the coming midterm elections and the difficult position Republicans now face. He explains the political “fork” confronting Republican candidates: Having attached themselves to an incre...

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Anthropic Flags Gas Supply as One of Its Biggest Near-Term Risks

wired.com/story/anthropic-ipo-identifies-gas-supply-as-big-near-term-risks/

The data center buildout could cause a massive increase in gas prices as companies scramble for limited supplies and infrastructure fails to meet demand.

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Scraping our friends back

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I too want the internet to be better. I want this for altruistic reasons, as I think the internet offers a unique and important value to society, but also se…

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Firefox brings back internet icons for new anti-tracking, anti-AI campaign

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Numa Numa Guy, Overly Attached Girlfriend, Annoying Orange — they're all here.

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In Leaked Audio, Flock CEO Tells Cops Backlash to the Company Isn’t Real

404media.co/in-leaked-audio-flock-ceo-tells-cops-backlash-to-the-company-isnt-real/

In comments at a private police conference, Garrett Langley also said his wife advised him to never apologize.

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Google tells platforms to noindex link-shared pages by default

ppc.land/google-tells-platforms-to-noindex-link-shared-pages-by-default/#/portal/signup

Web app builders and generated-content tools now sit in the spam guide, next to new Search Console alerts. Will those platforms switch their indexing defaults?

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In Graphic Detail: What Apple’s identity block means for the ad money

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Digiday has charted how Apple's identity block hits publishers' wallets, and why the tech giant can afford it.

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Serbians celebrate ouster of Vucic as proof their country is a real democracy

theglobeandmail.com/world/article-serbians-celebrate-ouster-of-vucic-as-proof-their-country-is-a-real/

The question now is how the Student List, whose candidates were selected via a plenum, will govern