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The best books on The Best Politics Books of 2026: The Orwell Prize for Political Writing, recommended by The judges of the 2026 Orwell Prize for Political Writing

Five Books , Sunday, May 17, 2026 2:06:47 PM

Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast short-form video libraries from their own apps (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

Mediagazer , Sunday, May 17, 2026 1:05:00 PM

Keanu Reeves Gets His Samurai On with Stop-Motion ‘Hidari’ Film

io9 | We Come From the Future , Sunday, May 17, 2026 11:50:19 AM

Cannes 2026: Week One

RegionFree , Sunday, May 17, 2026 11:44:38 AM

From Mutual Suspicion to Political Embrace: How the U.S. Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Pakistan

Drop Site News , Sunday, May 17, 2026 11:35:46 AM

Hidden River, by Sara Lippmann

'The Nutcracker: Dipped in Chocolate,' catching up with Jaleel Shaw, and more for prime holiday times , Sunday, May 17, 2026 11:20:00 AM

Funeral of Lies, by A.E.S. O’Neill

'The Nutcracker: Dipped in Chocolate,' catching up with Jaleel Shaw, and more for prime holiday times , Sunday, May 17, 2026 11:13:00 AM

Continuing with this year’s theme, today I completed my first sprint triathlon, ...

Paul Robert Lloyd , Sunday, May 17, 2026 11:05:58 AM

And the Ancestors Sing, by Radha Lin Chaddah

'The Nutcracker: Dipped in Chocolate,' catching up with Jaleel Shaw, and more for prime holiday times , Sunday, May 17, 2026 11:05:00 AM

The Purity Culture Recovery Guide: The Shame-Free Sex Education You Deserve, by Erica Smith

'The Nutcracker: Dipped in Chocolate,' catching up with Jaleel Shaw, and more for prime holiday times , Sunday, May 17, 2026 10:59:00 AM

Mother Tongue: A Memoir, by Sara Nović

'The Nutcracker: Dipped in Chocolate,' catching up with Jaleel Shaw, and more for prime holiday times , Sunday, May 17, 2026 10:49:00 AM

Extrox Linux: Audiophile-Friendly MX Spin with an Arch Twin

https://fossforce.com , Sunday, May 17, 2026 10:45:29 AM

Photos: ‘BTS Army’ invades Stanford for K-pop group’s comeback tour

The San Francisco Standard , Sunday, May 17, 2026 10:30:25 AM

SB Day

Doc Searls Weblog , Sunday, May 17, 2026 10:24:00 AM

Are You Brave Enough for Nonviolence?

The Reframe , Sunday, May 17, 2026 10:19:13 AM

Werewolf Movie, by Stephen St. Francis Decky

'The Nutcracker: Dipped in Chocolate,' catching up with Jaleel Shaw, and more for prime holiday times , Sunday, May 17, 2026 10:03:00 AM

The Incredible Story Behind The Escorts, a 1970s Soul Band Formed in Prison

The Marshall Project , Sunday, May 17, 2026 10:00:00 AM

Publicis agrees to acquire LiveRamp, which allows companies to share and build new data sets and models that can power agentic frameworks, for $2.2B in cash (Alison Weissbrot/Adweek)

Mediagazer , Sunday, May 17, 2026 9:55:02 AM

Markiplier’s ‘Iron Lung’ Will Surface on YouTube This Month

io9 | We Come From the Future , Sunday, May 17, 2026 9:25:10 AM

SI prefixes for AQA GCSE Physics and Combined Science

e=mc2andallthat , Sunday, May 17, 2026 9:23:08 AM

Today Claude found a problem that would only be uncovered if you knew that assig...

Scripting News , Sunday, May 17, 2026 9:19:16 AM

Parent Trip: Unexpected Roads to Form a Family, by Anndee Hochman

'The Nutcracker: Dipped in Chocolate,' catching up with Jaleel Shaw, and more for prime holiday times , Sunday, May 17, 2026 9:08:00 AM

Elderberry Twitchy Ganna

oh messy life , Sunday, May 17, 2026 9:03:16 AM

GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source

Simon Willison's Weblog , Sunday, May 17, 2026 8:59:41 AM

Sunday assorted links

Marginal REVOLUTION , Sunday, May 17, 2026 8:56:48 AM

Philadelphia Quakers and the American Revolution, by Jeffrey A. Denman

'The Nutcracker: Dipped in Chocolate,' catching up with Jaleel Shaw, and more for prime holiday times , Sunday, May 17, 2026 8:50:00 AM

New York magazine is reviewing the past work of contract writer Ross Barkan after his story on Ben Shapiro appeared to copy a WaPo piece published days earlier (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

Mediagazer , Sunday, May 17, 2026 8:25:03 AM

A look at local news outlet Lexington Observer, whose primary revenue comes from acting as an intermediary between foundations and other local outlets (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)

Mediagazer , Sunday, May 17, 2026 8:15:00 AM

Weeknote 20/2026

Open Thinkering , Sunday, May 17, 2026 8:13:42 AM

The Mules

open..., Sunday, May 17, 2026 7:50:29 AM

Three Times a Mourner: Personal Essays on Grief and Healing, by Fredricka R. Maister

'The Nutcracker: Dipped in Chocolate,' catching up with Jaleel Shaw, and more for prime holiday times , Sunday, May 17, 2026 7:47:00 AM

Tycoon2FA hijacks Microsoft 365 accounts via device-code phishing

BleepingComputer , Sunday, May 17, 2026 7:43:10 AM

‘The Expendables’ May Return With a Female-Led Spinoff

io9 | We Come From the Future , Sunday, May 17, 2026 7:30:00 AM

Timothy Snyder made an important point. Trump sees his cause as a religion and s...

Scripting News , Sunday, May 17, 2026 7:17:38 AM

I envision a network of twitter-like systems built out of the components of the ...

Scripting News , Sunday, May 17, 2026 6:59:22 AM

This should be front of mind for every CTO, CFO, and head of operations reading...

Crank.report Survey , Sunday, May 17, 2026 6:43:18 AM

You're Weird: Explorer

Atoms vs Bits , Sunday, May 17, 2026 6:29:07 AM

my first favourite jazz albums

Winnie Lim , Sunday, May 17, 2026 6:07:09 AM

‘It wouldn’t be Anchor’: Beer pros speculate about the future of SF’s iconic brewery

The San Francisco Standard , Sunday, May 17, 2026 6:00:00 AM

The Giants-A’s rivalry is officially dead

The San Francisco Standard , Sunday, May 17, 2026 6:00:00 AM

San Francisco startups are pushing a hot peptide summer

The San Francisco Standard , Sunday, May 17, 2026 6:00:00 AM

Why the Valkyries can’t afford to ignore their sudden frontcourt hole

The San Francisco Standard , Sunday, May 17, 2026 6:00:00 AM

How do San Franciscans really feel about AI?

The San Francisco Standard , Sunday, May 17, 2026 6:00:00 AM

Chevron wants a school district tax break for a data center power plant

Grist , Sunday, May 17, 2026 6:00:00 AM

What's at Stake in Chatrie v. United States

Tech Policy Press , Sunday, May 17, 2026 5:40:06 AM

Espresso Shots 5-17-26

https://makoism.com , Sunday, May 17, 2026 5:01:33 AM

Dwarkesh in the Datacenter

Marginal REVOLUTION , Sunday, May 17, 2026 4:18:04 AM

Updated my #Bluesky chrome/vivaldi/edge/brave extension more info here if you’re...

A Node on the Web , Sunday, May 17, 2026 4:07:13 AM

Interesting Links for 17-05-2026

Very cool, if true , Sunday, May 17, 2026 4:01:51 AM

GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source

Terence Eden , Sunday, May 17, 2026 3:05:33 AM

Cannes 2026: Fatherland is a tremendous movie about grief

RegionFree , Sunday, May 17, 2026 2:58:02 AM

Digital loneliness

STORY VOYAGER , Sunday, May 17, 2026 2:39:45 AM

Cannes 2026: The Beloved is the best film at Cannes this year

RegionFree , Sunday, May 17, 2026 2:18:17 AM

Abpfiff

Ring2 * das Hamburg Logbuch , Sunday, May 17, 2026 1:38:14 AM

“We accepted this gradual bloat, but that’s not progress.”

Unsung , Sunday, May 17, 2026 1:33:26 AM

The illusion of Generative AI, the insanity of massive bets on hyperscaling, and the case for world models and neurosymbolic AI

Marcus on AI , Sunday, May 17, 2026 1:02:49 AM

Life with two kids: Language acquisition

Very cool, if true , Sunday, May 17, 2026 12:59:07 AM

Why The US Can’t Adopt Ukraine’s Innovative Approach To Unmanned Warfare Systems

open..., Sunday, May 17, 2026 12:29:48 AM

Safari and system design, pt. 1

Unsung , Sunday, May 17, 2026 12:15:45 AM

Why Your Unfelt Emotions Are Draining Your Energy. What Finally Released Mine

The Unmasked Woman - by Hannah Anstee , Sunday, May 17, 2026 12:13:51 AM

“Is the scientific enterprise too risk-averse?”

Marginal REVOLUTION , Saturday, May 16, 2026 11:35:41 PM

Saturday smorgasbord

diamond geezer , Saturday, May 16, 2026 11:00:00 PM

Okay, Bruges, you are indeed beautiful at night!

ruk.ca - Peter Rukavina's Weblog , Saturday, May 16, 2026 10:43:09 PM

Deciding to See, Hollow Men, Bezos’s Private Retreat, What Stories Owe Us, Writer Q&As

Following curiosity , Saturday, May 16, 2026 10:32:01 PM

OTR Links 05/17/2026

doug — off the record , Saturday, May 16, 2026 10:30:54 PM

South Korea facts of the day

Marginal REVOLUTION , Saturday, May 16, 2026 9:01:17 PM

FiveThirtyEight's archived website now redirects readers to ABC News; many thousands of articles dating back to FiveThirtyEight's founding in 2008 have vanished (John S.W. MacDonald/New York Times)

Mediagazer , Saturday, May 16, 2026 8:15:01 PM

Photo Post

Anthony Ciccarello , Saturday, May 16, 2026 7:54:31 PM

In an experiment that let Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok run radio stations, Claude tried to incite a revolution and Gemini cheerfully detailed tragic events (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

Mediagazer , Saturday, May 16, 2026 7:05:00 PM

Middle Age and the Art of Self-Renewal: An Extraordinary Letter from Pioneering Education Reformer Elizabeth Peabody

The Marginalian , Saturday, May 16, 2026 5:55:31 PM

New Cover: I Won’t Back Down

Whatever , Saturday, May 16, 2026 5:51:45 PM

AIE Singapore: The Agentic Nation

swyx's site RSS Feed , Saturday, May 16, 2026 5:39:17 PM

Season of change

Robin Sloan , Saturday, May 16, 2026 5:00:00 PM

Likes tenkara-fisher: Line Rigging and Rod Repair Kit.

Chuck Grimmett , Saturday, May 16, 2026 4:52:12 PM

Cannes 2026: Paper Tiger is a masterful crime thriller

RegionFree , Saturday, May 16, 2026 4:22:09 PM

Why data minimisation matters in the age of AI-powered cyber attacks

Kate Carruthers , Saturday, May 16, 2026 4:02:02 PM

i stopped looking for the weird problem

Scripting News , Saturday, May 16, 2026 3:36:08 PM

Microsoft rejects critical Azure vulnerability report, no CVE issued

BleepingComputer , Saturday, May 16, 2026 1:55:44 PM

Links

jwz , Saturday, May 16, 2026 1:37:36 PM

Warelay -> OpenClaw

Simon Willison's Weblog , Saturday, May 16, 2026 1:23:30 PM

Women’s sun hats

Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden , Saturday, May 16, 2026 1:23:00 PM

Peter Jackson Sure Wants to Do More ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movies

io9 | We Come From the Future , Saturday, May 16, 2026 1:15:03 PM

Linkfest #44: Hallucinopedia, Salmon on Cocaine, and How Phil Collins Accidentally Invented Gated Reverb

The Linkfest , Saturday, May 16, 2026 12:58:10 PM

Photo Post

Anthony Ciccarello , Saturday, May 16, 2026 12:54:31 PM

Perfect or better?

Seth's Blog , Saturday, May 16, 2026 12:20:23 PM

This Week In Techdirt History: May 10th – 16th

Techdirt , Saturday, May 16, 2026 12:00:00 PM

Revealing Life Preferences Through LLMs

Marginal REVOLUTION , Saturday, May 16, 2026 11:57:22 AM

‘The Batman Part II’ Turned to Social Media to Reassure Its Fans

io9 | We Come From the Future , Saturday, May 16, 2026 11:50:02 AM

Bonkoko Hoak Boba

oh messy life , Saturday, May 16, 2026 10:21:55 AM

A look at changes to Hungary's media since Viktor Orban's loss: more opposition voices and the most popular TV channel canceled its flagship news broadcast (Anita Komuves/Reuters)

Mediagazer , Saturday, May 16, 2026 10:05:01 AM

Quoting Julia Evans

Simon Willison's Weblog , Saturday, May 16, 2026 9:45:37 AM

Saturday assorted links

Marginal REVOLUTION , Saturday, May 16, 2026 9:38:13 AM

Tool: Discrimination awareness for news managers

Media Helping Media , Saturday, May 16, 2026 9:28:42 AM

The ‘Masters of the Universe’ Score Sounds Good as Hell

io9 | We Come From the Future , Saturday, May 16, 2026 9:25:01 AM