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Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain

AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.

Parker Molloy on why the panic about trans women in sports is not actually about fairness or protecting women & girls (in the similar way Gamergate was not abou

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America!: Insane Clown Posse Changes Their Name to Pretty Reasonable Clown Posse

The Overton window of bonkersness has shifted so far that songs like “Still Stabbin’ ” sound Sinatra-esque.

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Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain

AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.

35 years ago, the Mac got an era-defining upgrade

System 7 is mostly forgotten today, but we're all still using many of its innovations

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The AI Boom Is Starting to Drain America’s Towns

Watch now | While residents were told to conserve water, an AI data center in Georgia quietly consumed 29 million gallons.

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NME

Iconic Liverpool venue The Jacaranda teams up with Paul McCartney to change name to 'The Maccaranda'

The iconic Liverpool venue The Jacaranda has teamed up with Paul McCartney to change its name to The Maccaranda.

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Surfing Complexity

Form may follow function, but use doesn’t follow design

At this point, you have no doubt heard about GitHub’s availability woes over the past several months. In April, Mitchell Hashimoto (of Hashicorp fame) wrote a post about how he is moving his …

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The Bastl Kalimba is a wild synth that thinks it’s a thumb piano

Pluck it, touch it, tap it, or tilt it.

Transgender World: "Supreme Court rules trans people not entitled to …" - Mastodon

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Invite Only - The Stranger

Of the 62 record stores in Washington (according to Discogs’ Indie Record Store Directory), only six are owned by women, and none of those six are in Seattle. “It can be a very hard world to enter,” Rachel Gardner, the owner of the Edmonds record shop Musicology tells me, while lounging on a leopard-print couch […]

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The coming coordination calamity

We cut middle managers across the organization because AI allows us to have more direct reports per manager while still measuring and mentoring our teams effectively. – Matthew Prince, How I Choose…

Political Wire

A Perfect Reflection of Trump’s Washington

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become an almost too-perfect metaphor for Donald Trump’s presidency.

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The Quietus

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Launches Label, Details New Album | The Quietus

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has launched her own label, Someone Special, and shared details of its first release: an album the artist herself, titled Ruin: It’s Not Just Music. The US artist will run the label alongside producer James Daniel, and its first release will feature heavier drums and breakbeats than heard on her past work. […]

Study: “A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right‑wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly.” People using the “For You” feed were more likely to favor

Transgender World: "Aubrey Williams didn't enter the World Series of …" - Mastodon

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Undersea Internet Cable Projects Are Getting Tangled in the Iran War — Bloomberg Businessweek

If construction ever resumes in the Persian Gulf, tech companies will have a new headache to deal with: Unexploded missiles and mines.

Surfing Complexity

Reliability as a game of improving the odds

I’m a betting man; I just enjoy making bets, even when there are no stakes at all. Examples of my enjoyment of betting And when you talk about bets, you end up talking about odds. It turns ou…

The Pulse: Did capacity shortages turn Anthropic hostile to devs?

Also: Amazon finally allows engineers to use Claude Code and Codex, Meta forcefully assigns engineers to data labelling work ahead of layoffs, more small “AI-forward” teams, and more

Former ethics lawyer says Trump's crypto poses 'clear conflict of interest'

Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter says President Trump "stands alone" in having substantial financial conflicts of interest and that, "for every other executive branch official, it would be a violation."

Positive News

Life after: confronting a killer

Thanks to a restorative justice programme, Joan Scourfield is sharing a stage with the man who killed her son to talk about forgiveness

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NME

Linda Perry hits out at Green Day for dropping her from producing 'American Idiot' follow-up "all because Billie Joe’s a little pussy and got all this backlash"

While speaking to NME recently, Linda Perry hit out at Green Day for dropping her from producing the follow-up to 'American Idiot'

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The Conversation

As Route 66 turns 100, what is it that we’re actually celebrating?

The ‘Mother Road’ has long symbolized freedom and reinvention. But its history reveals a more complicated story shaped by migration, segregation and the highways that eventually circumvented it.

More than 500 children have died in an outbreak that the world is virtually ignoring

The number of cases — and deaths — in Bangladesh is staggering. As of Sunday, 528 have died, mostly children. How did this measles outbreak begin? And how is the country responding?