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Not to be mean but if you’re 30+ years old and still remember your SAT score i feel like you need more fun in your life

It is 69 weeks (483 days, 11,592 hours) until the next Congressional election. It is 174 weeks (1,218 days, 29,232 hours) until the next Presidential election. But who’s counting?

The actual news here is that the Democratic nominee’s opponents are in a state of chaos, calling on each other to drop out www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/n...

Yeah, let’s listen to the tarnished governor who had to quit his re-election campaign because he broke the state ethics law and lied about it under oath

Why are the other mayoral candidates refusing to release their SAT scores? What are they hiding? Lol

there is exactly one good U2 song. here it is www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIdT...

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/e-m...

ganondorf on golf, is this anything

Insane early Prime Day deals happening! AirPods Pro 2 are now just $149 shipped (Reg. $249), AirPods 4 now just $100 AirPods Pro 2 amzn.to/44gHg6S AirPods 4 amzn.to/4ls0zQw (Trusted affiliate source)

love my youtube comments

BREAKING: Apple’s top executive and distinguished engineer in charge of its AI models, Ruoming Pang, has been poached by Meta for its new AI Superintelligence division, sources tell me. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

you're telling me this jpeg is ready for the web?

“They’re gonna be so mad at us,” one Trump administration official tells Rolling Stone of the memo on the FBI and Justice Department conclusions www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Polymarket is in crisis because they can't decide if Zelenskyy wore a suit or not. a lot of money is on the line. @dieworkwear.bsky.social the menswear guy responds: www.404media.co/polymarket-z...

"Americans say they want options beyond Democrat or Republican, but when presented with those options in the form of, say, the Green Party or the Libertarian Party, they shrug," Jim Geraghty writes. wapo.st/4nBaHbn

The new law grants the FCC the authority to hold spectrum auctions, a power that could enable the agency to reassign spectrum from Wi-Fi networks and license it to mobile carriers.

Despite reports that a new version of TikTok is being prepped to launch in the US market this September, even Trump can't be sure the deal is imminent.

computation was a mistake. retvrn to small rocks and twigs, but not - and this is important - for counting

Beta 1 -> Liquid Glass Beta 2 -> Somewhat Liquid Glass Beta 3 -> Glass, Kinda

if you click the notification bell next to my profile you'll get a push notification when it's Friday, like today is.

"So what’s working? Original reporting can break through the noise and even overcome, at times, the hurdles that social-media companies have created." So, not AI crap, then?

really wish the reality writers room would pick the mysterious monoliths b-plot from 2020 up again

Betteridge’s law of question headlines would hold that the answer in both cases is “no”

On top of everything else going on ... nymag.com/intelligence...

EEEEEEEEE

In the 1970s, the oil lamps that illuminated lighthouses around the world started to disappear. As GPS technology became more common, hundreds of lighthouses were left empty and unstaffed. Check out this comic about a lighthouse keeper's world of 10,000-year-old icebergs, wild animals and love:

“All of the political fumbling of these tech billionaires reveals them to be babies with guns, utterly lacking in the maturity necessary to wield the power that has been placed in their hands.”

This is absolutely universal; totally global. Cities all over the world are either planning for this or are setting themselves up for disaster -- two prime examples are Copenhagen becoming a "sponge city" that can soak up water and Tokyo building a gargantuan underground reservoir

“We need to commit to a preparedness system. We have to view these agencies — NOAA, NWS — as intelligence agencies. You wouldn’t go to war without your Defense Intelligence or CIA telling you what’s going on on the ground.” @cnn.com @amanpourcopbs.bsky.social

Tomorrow’s hearing about Diddy’s request to expedite his sentencing will be held remotely online, and Judge Subramanian says the only people who can’t phone it in are you and every other member of the public. “Members of the public may listen in by attending in person…”

Publishers file competition complaints in UK and EU over Google’s AI Overviews pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/07/p... - text pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250707-goo... - podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrMf... - video

the only way out is through

The rise of AI-powered systems that can complete complex, multi-step assignments owes a lot to an industry-wide shift from pretraining to post-training.

It's not clear whether these hybrid devices will end up maintaining a permanent place in a consumer tech world already inundated with TVs, tablets, and laptops.

weather radio is one of the coolest things we've done as a country

could you play another one of your spiffy tunes for us www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGwJ...

"Democrats talk a big game about making the U.S. electoral system fairer," the Editorial Board writes. "But, so far, they are failing to live up to that commitment in D.C." wapo.st/46t97C6

I had some vacation time off from work and after some intense consideration and reflection I've come to the inescapable conclusion that DS2 is GOTY

i love paul mccartney but it is kind of astonishing how awful "the girl is mine" is

PSA: scrolling through your "mutuals" tab is mostly the opposite of doom scrolling, especially if you engage

this is going to be interesting

"CVS and other pharmacies have been struggling to contain a rise in thefts by gangs of fast-moving thieves," @mattbaidc.bsky.social writes. "Unfortunately for CVS, the solution might be worse for business than the organized shoplifting."

someone hasn't heard of Moravec's paradox

An unhinged era www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...

also feels relevant to reup this piece we wrote for Source back in 2021 on the history of multiracial identification in the US: source.opennews.org/articles/con...

This NYT callout also makes it seem like the backlash to the Mamdani story raised the idea of census categories not reflecting people’s identities for the first time????

"No one has ever defined it to this Court—and this Court has asked multiple times."

Zuck's latest predictions of the near future can't help but remind us of another vision he shared not too long ago.

i'm sure the newest Public Health Betrayed America thinkpiece breaks surprising new ground

www.wired.com/story/people... A little privacy lifehack of mine I've figured out to avoid this problem: be unable to afford to buy a house

i want the forbidden huawei watch musgrave.substack.com/p/oh-no-i-be...

fountain pen market about to get rekt

kind of horrifying that ten years ago i was instructed as a teenager to read the caity weaver mozzarella stick essay for a class and now this week i am instructing teenagers to read the mozzarella stick essay for class

Apologies folks, we're actually delaying the 90 day pause by 2 weeks. bsky.app/profile/jose...

"How individuals view race and how they are viewed by others can and do diverge dramatically." The latest from @pbump.com:

“‘The devil never sleeps’, but it is the second part of the quote that matters most: ‘but he only wins if we don’t do better next time.’ People of all faiths and no faith have to commit to that because we will see these disasters again and again and again.” @cnn.com

Book carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen it’s true face.

If you're not on the other bad site, you may've missed Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire calling Zohran Mamdani a lying Islamist (among other things). If you have worked with Maguire or Sequoia in any capacity and have thoughts about him or VCs and Palestine, please reach out for an article I'm writing.

donate to Liberty who are actually working their arses off on this one

I don't watch Love Island, but any time the show is mentioned at work I get Spike Island by Pulp stuck in my head

the thing is once you get a real job you see how little it matters

Gmail show how much of an email was written with AI

Joined our friends at @crooked.com to talk the winners and losers of the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” How’d I do? (If you really give me feedback, be polite 🫣)

the NYT's editorial vision makes more sense if you consider it a games/cooking/tech-recommendations company with a news apparatus that mainly needs to avoid attracting an inconvenient amount of ire from powerful people

My wearables say I was very distressed during my workout this morning and my heart was rate abnormally high, perhaps I’ve lost fitness. Well you try exercising in this humidity without loudly complaining that you wanna die every three seconds. God let me live my dumb life.

I remember Hillary’s emails.

“This is what government is for. It is to help people for the damage and the devastation and I hope Congress and the President reconsider these dramatic and deadly cuts. If there is anything that good comes out of this is that we reassess our commitment to being ready.” @cnn.com

It is the annual DECODER GRILLING EPISODE, this time with SharkNinja CEO Mark Barrocas. Everything is a fan, y'all www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

South Korea has more than 3,000 islands. Among the biggest is Geoje, with its clear waters, beautiful mountains and the freshest and creamiest sea urchin I’ve ever had. We also went to nearby Tongyeong, a port city with delicious seafood. Happy Fourth of July weekend ❤️💙🤍

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every day i live with the pain of knowing that for like 6 months there was a restaurant down the street from me that sold the best pad thai i have had in america and then they closed and reopened as a coffee shop under the same owners (?) but no longer sell the pad thai

finally we have created the People Are Using AI Chatbots to Guide Their Psychedelic Trips, from the classic phillip k. dick short story Don't Use AI Chatbots to Guide Your Psychedelic Trips www.wired.com/story/people...

interesting thread here from ex-rat

*loading a pistol* muskegon’s haunted

Caught up with the creator of Anubis, an open-source software that's stopping AI bot scrapers from crashing sites across the internet www.404media.co/the-open-sou...

it's funny that death stranding 2 can have more or less the core message of a saturday morning cartoon about the power of friendship and still feel like a refreshing political critique, hell yeah cooperation and the creation of a world not based on violent hierarchy IS good, kojima does it again

an emo band called macroeconomic headwinds

This is how Democratic politics often functions now: not as a counterforce to cruelty but as a machine for managing it. The party treats mass suffering not as a call for transformation but as fuel for the next election. www.levernews.com/a-big-bipart...

The haphazard national approach to emergency alerts and warnings www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

question for @semafor.com - also how the fuck did you write this story without the word "Lasker" the word "Nazi" made it in there with a quote did the story get a quick Lasker-ectomy late in editing? cos to be clear, 100% of the story is the white nationalist source

Was just informed that my essay "The Two Wolves Inside Me: Writer Vs. Translator" is the second-most read essay in Wasafiri this quarter! "Maybe I could give up translating and write full-time instead. I could really get all soft and nice and gooey like my author friends."

this is one of the a16z guys who was previously hot on Web3 and pivoted seamlessly to AI when I say it's the same literal guys, this is one of those precise guys

Only 3 more days to the next 90 day pause.