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With the addition of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, four movies in 2026 have earned $1B+ at the box office globally, the most in one year since the Covid pandemic (Sarah Whitten/CNBC)

Mediagazer , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 7:55:01 PM

Kawakami: ‘No doubt I will be there’ — Kyle Shanahan on his healing process and return

The San Francisco Standard , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 4:34:30 PM

As the 49ers’ defense gets revenge, the offense adapts to Ricky Pearsall’s absence

The San Francisco Standard , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 4:24:13 PM

Here’s why Black Hat meeting pitches are almost always doomed with me

Rob Pegoraro , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 4:09:19 PM

Masters of the Universe (2026)

Justin Cox , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 3:41:12 PM

Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans

Simon Willison's Weblog , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 3:36:03 PM

at Lloyd Center Ice Rink

Aaron Parecki , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 3:06:06 PM

Here's the sign of success. (screen shot.) I wrote a post on demo.rss.chat was a...

Scripting News , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 3:04:55 PM

I want to connect RSS to AT Proto, both ways, inbound and out. Toward that end, ...

Scripting News , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 2:56:40 PM

The Death of Compromise

b10g.xyz , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 1:22:28 PM

Historic Painting: “Giant Steamboats at New Orleans” by Hippolyte Sebron, 1853.

The Garden of Memory , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 1:15:40 PM

Lionsgate Is Trying to Bring ‘Leprechaun’ Back to Life (Again)

io9 | We Come From the Future , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 1:15:10 PM

The Real Secret to Productivity Is ... RIDING THE TRAIN

The Hypothesis , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 1:14:13 PM

Business Insider CEO Christian Baesler says the company will focus on monetizing its non-website audience, with cross-platform sponsorships, events, and more (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)

Mediagazer , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 12:55:01 PM

at Holladay Park

Aaron Parecki , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 12:40:34 PM

Apple's war on OpenAI is really about who owns the Attachment Economy

Mike's List , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 12:33:37 PM

Straw Dog Writes: The Little Writing Group That Could

Steven D. BREWER , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 12:26:41 PM

Audiobooks for Tales from the Dragon Diner!

Lindsay Buroker , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 12:25:12 PM

Asides: Aug 8

Amit Gawande , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 12:08:26 PM

This Week In Techdirt History: August 2nd – 8th

Techdirt , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 12:00:00 PM

It May Be Game Over For the American ‘Squid Game’

io9 | We Come From the Future , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 11:50:11 AM

Dystopian Sci Fi Books, recommended by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Five Books , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 11:46:52 AM

The future of warfare? (from my email)

Marginal REVOLUTION , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 11:40:53 AM

Axioms of Local Information and its Value

Working Systems , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 11:08:02 AM

Ho guidato la Renault Symbioz Eco-G 120 GPL: quanto consuma davvero e quanto fa risparmiare

Gianluca Pezzi , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 10:30:39 AM

Type

Waxy.org , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 10:26:51 AM

Saving Your Time—This Week in One Email

Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 9:56:55 AM

The overwhelm of it all and the spike of “frozen water people” in Maine

Shay Stewart-Bouley , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 9:49:39 AM

Cloudflare is simultaneously blocking AI crawlers that harvest content without ...

Crank.report Survey , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 9:29:23 AM

Before ‘Lanterns,’ Check Out the ‘Green Lantern’ Cartoon

io9 | We Come From the Future , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 9:25:07 AM

We are the companies, labs, and independent builders who develop, research, dep...

Crank.report Survey , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 9:22:30 AM

R.I.P. Your Backlog

Rands in Repose , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 9:20:22 AM

Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America (2026-2026)

Justin Cox , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 9:19:53 AM

Will a Looming Budget Crunch Reverse Efforts to Rein in Fines and Fees?

The Marshall Project , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 9:00:00 AM

Saturday assorted links

Marginal REVOLUTION , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 8:42:08 AM

iPod’s circular apps

Unsung , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 8:30:09 AM

Dragoncatcher: Still Sublime after all these years

Robin Sloan , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 8:00:00 AM

Wonder Tools 💫 Catch Up On Recent Posts

Wonder Tools , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 7:55:32 AM

Carr's Consolidation Overdrive

Status , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 7:41:57 AM

The X-Men Casting Rumors Just Keep on Coming

io9 | We Come From the Future , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 7:30:06 AM

Cat’s Cradle and Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

Interdependent Thoughts , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 7:24:57 AM

Thing that I am now invested in: this woman has spent 30...

kottke.org , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 7:17:00 AM

Hackers breach TrueConf to trojanize client installers with backdoors

BleepingComputer , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 7:16:23 AM

Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

Simon Willison's Weblog , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 7:06:41 AM

Middle management roles are also a trap.

Irrational Exuberance , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 7:00:00 AM

Wishing there was a fully supported ATgeo lexicon that most bluesky app views co...

A Node on the Web , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 6:49:40 AM

Say What, now?

E.W. Doc Parris , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 6:26:20 AM

AI alignment is a red herring

Interconnected , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 6:06:26 AM

‘The Ribbon Hero’ Is an Infectiously Hopeful Magical Girl Take on a Classic

io9 | We Come From the Future , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 6:00:59 AM

Charli hits the city, Oscar takes the lake, and Corgi lashes out at ‘media circus’

The San Francisco Standard , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 6:00:00 AM

Inside SF’s ‘sexmaxxing’ scene: The people injecting peptides for optimal horniness

The San Francisco Standard , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 6:00:00 AM

Welcome to the age of the $4,000 apartment, when even the well-off are struggling

The San Francisco Standard , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 6:00:00 AM

Trump is blocking billions of dollars of grants that would fix the grid

Grist , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 6:00:00 AM

Deidre Bosa, an anchor based in CNBC's San Francisco bureau, is leaving at the end of the month to start a show about AI, working with producer Jasmine Wu (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)

Mediagazer , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 5:55:00 AM

Israel's Brutal Retaliation Against Imprisoned Palestinian Doctors Seeking Legal Appeals

Drop Site News , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 5:01:13 AM

Ten Years of Contempt Culture

The Particular Finest , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 5:00:00 AM

Dragoncatcher: WSJPT

Robin Sloan , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 5:00:00 AM

Sometimes I’m wondering, what would be the cost of stopping supporting the Masto...

A Node on the Web , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 4:29:52 AM

Interesting Links for 08-08-2026

Very cool, if true , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 4:00:49 AM

Lit Hub Weekly: August 3 – 7, 2026

Literary Hub , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 3:30:21 AM

Crab Odyssey: Crustacean Wandered the Seas in a Bottle for Months, Scientists Find

404 Media , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 3:00:26 AM

Xiaomi SkyNomad N90 Max, il SUV a sette posti che dichiara 1.705 km e si trasforma in camera da letto

Gianluca Pezzi , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 2:30:28 AM

Pluralistic: Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026)

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 2:04:00 AM

[RSS Club] I got an NLnet grant!

Terence Eden , Saturday, Aug 8, 2026 1:13:13 AM

Xiaomi SkyNomad N90 Max, le foto degli interni: il letto da 230 cm e i sedili girevoli

Gianluca Pezzi , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 11:53:34 PM

Restoring Childhood: How to Set Kids Free in the Age of Anxiety

Marginal REVOLUTION , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 11:43:54 PM

Tram stop of the month

diamond geezer , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 11:00:00 PM

X announces the Original Content Rewards Program and will discontinue Revenue Sharing on Sep. 7, saying existing Revenue Sharing members can apply for access (@xcreators)

Mediagazer , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 10:55:00 PM

OTR Links 08/08/2026

doug — off the record , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 10:30:56 PM

The open web has an amazing amount of free content that is actually free, both f...

Tantek Çelik , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 10:20:00 PM

Charli XCX wielded an influence over Outside Lands that was virtually unmatched

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 10:10:00 PM

HTML Day San Diego 2026

Anthony Ciccarello , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 9:45:14 PM

What I’ve been reading

Marginal REVOLUTION , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 9:43:17 PM

Oregon startup news for the week ending August 7, 2026

Portland Oregon startups, tech, news, events, jobs, and community , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 9:14:36 PM

The first notch is magical

Unsung , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 8:57:27 PM

Weeknotes: Aug. 1-7, 2026

Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 8:51:46 PM

Photo: 1786157013

https://crowdersoup.com , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 7:43:33 PM

Whetherday

Doc Searls Weblog , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 7:40:42 PM

Buc-ee’s Shies Away From John Oliver Challenge, Sues Tiny Ohio Convenience Store Instead

Techdirt , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 7:39:00 PM

A $60 uni bowl, a $16 pizza bagel: The best food at Outside Lands this year

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 7:30:00 PM

Hong Kong's security chief warns the Hong Kong Journalists Association against "misusing" its role or hurting national security, ahead of the group's elections (Agence France-Presse)

Mediagazer , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 7:15:00 PM

A US judge says ex-Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge doesn't have to pay the $800-a-day fine he imposed for not revealing her source as she appeals to SCOTUS (Ted Johnson/Deadline)

Mediagazer , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 6:05:00 PM

Quoting John Gruber

Simon Willison's Weblog , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 5:10:40 PM

Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

Simon Willison's Weblog , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 4:55:58 PM

Scott Wiener takes down Connie Chan AI chatbot after pushback from Pelosi

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 4:28:16 PM

Senate Democrats on the Commerce Committee say they will object if Republicans try to confirm Trump's pick for the FCC without a matching Democratic nominee (John Hendel/Politico)

Mediagazer , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 4:10:01 PM

weekend open thread – August 8-9, 2026

Ask a Manager , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 4:07:53 PM

Emptywheel Friday: A Week Filled with Explosive D’ump Hitting the Fan

The Nicole Sandler Show , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 4:05:45 PM

Michigan’s Polling Mirage

Status , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 3:55:34 PM

How to live somewhere safe

Mike Monteiro’s Good News , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 3:55:03 PM

Want to see your favorite Outside Lands artist up close? Head to the on-site barbershop

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 3:45:00 PM

Treasurer Garrity gaining ground on Gov. Shapiro, new poll shows

Glenside Local , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 3:44:45 PM

Employees say the five-person editorial staff of Restart, a games site funded by Walmart and managed by marketing agency Moonrock, has been laid off (Aftermath)

Mediagazer , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 3:40:01 PM

An eBike for Fitness

RasterWeb!, Friday, Aug 7, 2026 3:30:36 PM

Joseph Widener, heir to Lynnewood Hall in Elkins Park, posthumously inducted into the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame

Glenside Local , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 3:23:02 PM

Farmers Are Getting Control Of Their Equipment Back

Techdirt , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 3:18:05 PM

Fur eye day

Doc Searls Weblog , Friday, Aug 7, 2026 3:16:45 PM