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Grazia Editor-in-Chief Hattie Brett is stepping down in September after an eight-year tenure during which the outlet launched brand extensions like Grazia CASA (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)

Mediagazer, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 3:15:01 AM

What’s at stake for tech at the Trump-Xi meeting

Rest of World, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 3:00:00 AM

A Noncitizen Says She Was Told She Could Vote. Then Customs Detained Her at the Airport and Threatened to Deport Her.

ProPublica, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 2:00:00 AM

Lucy Sante Recommends Five Books About Her Most Important Tool as a Writer: Memory

Literary Hub, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 1:59:56 AM

A New Language: On Primo Levi’s Translation of Kafka

Literary Hub, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 1:59:44 AM

When Biography Goes Delulu: Writing the Life of Superstar Astrologer Linda Goodman

Literary Hub, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 1:59:33 AM

When the Librarians Fought the Archivists Over Who Gets the Declaration of Independence

Literary Hub, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 1:59:14 AM

On the Early—and Unlikely Friendship—of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

Literary Hub, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 1:59:01 AM

A Complex Yet Crucial Chemical: Exposing Myths About Dopamine

Literary Hub, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 1:58:43 AM

What We Can—and Must—Learn From the Burning of Pacific Palisades

Literary Hub, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 1:58:16 AM

Is It Even Real? On the Conflation of Money and Things

Literary Hub, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 1:58:06 AM

Wall Street is betting big on clean energy tech

Grist, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 1:45:00 AM

Death of the Soccer God

Literary Hub, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 1:41:05 AM

The EPA wants to shift monitoring of toxic coal ash to states

Grist, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 1:30:00 AM

From Signals to Infrastructure: Strengthening the Commons for the AI Era

Creative Commons, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 1:00:45 AM

Some non-obvious reasons why AI will create some transitional problems in employment

Marginal REVOLUTION, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 12:36:23 AM

Magical thinking about magical thinking

Hi, I'm Heather Burns, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 12:30:45 AM

Pizza maths

diamond geezer, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 12:17:07 AM

Marginally Better S01E18: The True Cost of Bad Customer Experience

https://joetaylorjr.com, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 12:00:00 AM

Marginally Better S01E18: The True Cost of Bad Customer Experience

https://johnsandtaylor.com, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 12:00:00 AM

Book Review: The Republic of Memory by Mahmud El Sayed

nerds of a feather, flock together, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 12:00:00 AM

More TV news anchors are considering digital options like video podcasts and YouTube shows, as lucrative TV contracts become less valuable and more scarce (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

Mediagazer, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 11:35:00 PM

How to radicalize investment bankers against AI:

jwz, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 11:13:12 PM

#busnatter

diamond geezer, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 11:00:00 PM

OTR Links 05/13/2026

doug — off the record, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 10:30:51 PM

Data centers are good

Marginal REVOLUTION, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 10:13:43 PM

A Heart Attack or Not, but the News WILL Kill You – Nicole Sandler Show 5-12-25

The Nicole Sandler Show, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 10:04:42 PM

Cannes 2026: The Electric Kiss kicks off the festival with a dud

RegionFree, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 9:57:05 PM

CSP Allow-list Experiment

Simon Willison's Weblog, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 9:50:45 PM

Brain Rot, AI Slop and the Work of Thinking

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 9:37:00 PM

employee’s skirts are too short, blessing the food at work event at my home, and more

Ask a Manager, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 9:03:34 PM

tweet

Derek Sivers, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 8:37:47 PM

HSV - FC St. Pauli - die Woche der Entscheidung

Ring2 * das Hamburg Logbuch, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 8:24:51 PM

Canadian ‘Pickle Fest’ Rebranded Under Bullshit Trademark Threat

Techdirt, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 8:04:00 PM

at Wayfare Tavern

Aaron Parecki, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 7:43:07 PM

SAG-AFTRA's tentative contract lets studios use synthetic actors if they add "significant" value and requires bargaining if studios license performances for AI (Gene Maddaus/Variety)

Mediagazer, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 7:20:01 PM

Döpfner’s MAGA Dance

Status, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 7:05:42 PM

Aaron Vegh and Ben McCarthy Launch Indigo

Pixel Envy, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 6:59:08 PM

Salem Media agrees to be acquired by The Christian Community Foundation, doing business as WaterStone, in a deal that will take Salem Media private (Adam Jacobson/Radio & Television ...)

Mediagazer, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 6:50:00 PM

YouTube is shifting its creator monetization strategy by acting as a matchmaker between creators and sponsors, as Netflix and TikTok increasingly woo creators (John Koblin/New York Times)

Mediagazer, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 6:20:00 PM

The Best Holes of Curiosity

CogDogBlog, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 6:17:11 PM

Likes Going With the Flow: Dany Davis, Catskill Streams, and the Long ….

Chuck Grimmett, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 5:44:31 PM

Paramount sent a letter to California AG Rob Bonta last week saying "Paramount and WBD have every intention" to keep filling theaters in the state and worldwide (Rohan Goswami/Semafor)

Mediagazer, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 5:30:01 PM

PIGsquad on KOIN

Portland Oregon startups, tech, news, events, jobs, and community, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 5:03:39 PM

Mastering the Universe: the Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class

RSS Feeds, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 5:00:00 PM

Cuba: New U.S. sanctions aim to starve people, justify military aggression

RSS Feeds, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 5:00:00 PM

Thousands of Malians demonstrate in support of the government’s fight against terror groups

RSS Feeds, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 5:00:00 PM

Outsourced: Chad as the armed wing of a low-visibility American strategy

RSS Feeds, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 5:00:00 PM

If Iran has the Strait of Hormuz, What Can Black People Use for Leverage and Power?

RSS Feeds, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 5:00:00 PM

The Similar Praxis of Jim Crow and Lord Voldemort (Or, Why the Democrat Party Ain’t Harry Potter)

RSS Feeds, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 5:00:00 PM

France Out of Africa! PASAI Shows the Way

RSS Feeds, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 5:00:00 PM

Race to the Bottom: Prison Labor Exploitation in the South

RSS Feeds, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 5:00:00 PM

MANIFESTO: Analyse Schématique 1932-1934, Jacques Roumain and Étienne Charlier, 1934

RSS Feeds, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 5:00:00 PM

These Wild Young People

Asterisk, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 5:00:00 PM

My News Archive app is available here – check it out!

Andy Sylvester's Web, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 4:48:58 PM

The path to resilience: Why we are studying the soul of small news businesses

Tiny News Collective, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 4:47:13 PM

Hatboro teen accused of aiding a robbery and assault wins bid to move case to juvenile court

Glenside Local, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 4:41:48 PM

datasette 1.0a29

Simon Willison's Weblog, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 4:41:06 PM

For Lease: Primark space at Willow Grove Park Mall

Glenside Local, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 4:30:42 PM

Surprise! ‘VisionQuest’ Arrives on Disney+ in October

io9 | We Come From the Future, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 4:10:35 PM

US govt seeks Instructure testimony on massive Canvas cyberattack

BleepingComputer, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 4:09:55 PM

Quoting Mo Bitar

Simon Willison's Weblog, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 3:59:58 PM

AI News Archive Project – Report 2 (app now available)

Andy Sylvester's Web, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 3:50:37 PM

Day 1939: “Every American understands.”

What The Fuck Just Happened Today?, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 3:45:49 PM

Silicon Florist links arrangement for May 12, 2026

Portland Oregon startups, tech, news, events, jobs, and community, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 3:41:48 PM

Prosecutors Had A Drugs-for-Votes Scheme “Locked Up.” Under Trump, They Were Told Not To Pursue Charges.

Techdirt, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 3:32:35 PM

Why AI needs a Proof-of-Concept to Production pipeline

Kate Carruthers, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 3:23:31 PM

Quoting Mitchell Hashimoto

Simon Willison's Weblog, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 3:21:51 PM

Broken Promises: RIP Instagram’s End-to-End Encrypted DMs

Electronic Frontier Foundation, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 3:11:00 PM

I have regained control of my Twitter account. I really missed it, truth be told...

Scripting News, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 3:06:15 PM

Antenna: ad-supported tiers make up ~50% of all US premium subscription VOD sign-ups; ad tiers drove 78% of ~65M net subscriber adds in the past nine quarters (Wall Street Journal)

Mediagazer, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 3:05:03 PM

Man arrested for making ‘politically violent’ threats to Pa. lawmakers online, State Police say

Spotlight PA, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 2:50:38 PM

‘Section 415’ podcast: What Steve Kerr’s return means for Steph Curry and the Warriors

The San Francisco Standard, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 2:48:05 PM

Patch Tuesday, May 2026 Edition

Krebs on Security, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 2:46:45 PM

Speaking of robot bartenders

jwz, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 2:42:46 PM

Lurie touts a major drop in homelessness. Critics say the numbers don’t add up

The San Francisco Standard, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 2:37:10 PM

On monocultures, institutional agency, and resilience

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 2:37:00 PM

This bit of code kept coming up, so I wanted to make it easier to find.

Scripting News, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 2:28:49 PM

January, February, & March 2026: Abridged sonnets and legible arrangements

https://gretchenmcculloch.com, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 2:28:13 PM

Why This Is Not a Newsletter

https://nathanschneider.info/, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 2:28:12 PM

Retiring to… Something

Steven D. BREWER, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 2:24:15 PM

Unrealistic Cynicism vs Realistic Hope

The Connector, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 2:16:38 PM

A profile of Kareem Rahma, host of Subway Takes, which has 2M Instagram followers, as he prepares to launch 10-episode YouTube series Keep the Meter Running (Sam Schube/Wall Street Journal)

Mediagazer, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 2:10:01 PM

‘Ahsoka’ Season 2 Won’t Arrive Until 2027

io9 | We Come From the Future, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 2:03:51 PM

Report: Nevada’s lithium boom comes at the expense of Indigenous rights

Grist, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 1:55:29 PM

The Festival of Many Colors on May 17 marks a new chapter for the Mummers

'The Nutcracker: Dipped in Chocolate,' catching up with Jaleel Shaw, and more for prime holiday times, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 1:52:00 PM

Don't fear the Dark Factory

Matt Wynne, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 1:49:28 PM

Ebon Moss-Bachrach on Why the Thing Was the Right MCU Role for Him

io9 | We Come From the Future, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 1:45:16 PM

ProPublica says it is launching a regional reporting hub in California, covering issues including tech and housing plus the state's role in national politics (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Mediagazer, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 1:45:05 PM

“Affiliation, not just access”: Newsrooms try to move beyond membership to a focus on “belonging”

Nieman Lab, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 1:38:34 PM

A slopfondler walks into a bar, redux

jwz, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 1:34:42 PM

Kawakami: Year 2 Valkyries — how do you keep the culture but keep getting better?

The San Francisco Standard, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 1:30:38 PM

Google launches Intrusion Logging, a feature developed with Reporters Without Borders and others to log sophisticated attacks, on Android 16 Pixel devices (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)

Mediagazer, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 1:30:01 PM

Techdirt Podcast Episode 451: Preserving The Web In The Age Of AI

Techdirt, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 1:30:00 PM

Use NotebookLM in your Google Workspace Studio flows

Google Workspace Updates, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 1:21:56 PM

UK fines water supplier $1.3M for exposing data of 664k customers

BleepingComputer, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 1:17:19 PM

World Cup fails to deliver promised hotel boom in Philadelphia, other US host cities

Spotlight PA, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 1:15:40 PM

OrionVM launches managed enterprise AI cloud solution (TechPartner News)

OrionVM, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 1:08:46 PM

“So, at about 14, I became the team’s...

kottke.org, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 1:00:00 PM

Libyan Coast Guard Fired on Migrant Rescue Ship, Charity Says

OCCRP, Tuesday, May 12, 2026 12:49:00 PM