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Do you still use RSS and feed reader apps in 2026?
Do you still use RSS and feed reader apps in 2026 ?
If you do , can you actually reach the full range of sources out there? Filter them by keyword, or just describe what you're after in plain language and get the 20 sources that matter for your monitoring in ten seconds?
My context: I've had this idea that any curious person or content creator should be able to reach the best 400,000 RSS feeds in the world without effort , straight from their AI tool or their automation stack.
If that existed tomorrow, what would you plug it into? And what are you using instead right now?
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#559: 12 Things You Should (and Shouldn't) Do in AWS
Your site is down. It's 3am. Is it a bug, a bill, or a breach? You can't tell yet, and everyone is watching you find out. Matt Lea has spent fifteen years being the person companies call when an outage is costing them real money per hour, and his whole argument is that everything you'd want in that moment gets decided months earlier, on ordinary afternoons, when someone chose the convenient thing. We walk his top twelve dos and don'ts in AWS - infrastructure as code, IAM roles instead of access keys, private subnets, no wildcards, no public buckets - and I push on which of them actually matter if you're one person on a small VPS. Then we get to Cloud War Games, where Matt breaks things on purpose so your team's first real incident isn't their first incident. Let's get into it.
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French Constitutional Council Blocks Under-15 Social Media Ban, In A Ruling That Should Concern Every Other EU Country
Even as the wider EU was grinding through a long, drawn-out process to figure out which regulatory levers to pull on kids’ safety online, France decided to YOLO it earlier this summer by jumping at the chance to ban all social media for kids under 15. This kind of thing has become popular with out […] -
Started a new repo today.
https://github.com/scripting/helloFrontier
We have to make a fair number of decisions about all aspects of the product, esp the surprisingly huge verb set.
For the tough decisions I'll document the issue, and seek feedback from friendly people with real Frontier expertise.
Right now it's just an intro page and nothing more. Eventually, hopefully, fingers crossed, something wonderful will show up here.
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Daily Deal: memoryOS Expert Plan
memoryOS is a gamified mobile app designed to significantly improve your memory through short, interactive lessons. Guided by two-time World Memory Champion Jonas von Essen, the software teaches proven mnemonic techniques alongside spaced-repetition schedules. It features a digital library of 3D “Virtual Mind Palaces,” which allows users to easily visualize, organize, and store complex information […] -
Lifeforms Can Survive on ‘Significant’ Regions of the Moon, Study Finds
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'I Saw a Shiny Thing': Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman
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Listening to Fireflies by U2 and Martin Garrix. Can't wait for the new album. 🎶
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ICE Opportunism Expands To Passengers On Domestic Flights
Things used to be normal. We used to be doing alright here in the United States, limiting ourselves to catching people at the borders or picking up migrants with criminal charges or convictions with detainers at local jails. Now, it’s just a constant swarm all day, every day. “Worst of the worst” has long been […] -
Synonyms and antonyms
Twenty years ago I participated in NaNoWriMo. I was just remembering how I had a printed book that was all synonyms and antonyms. Handy when I got stumped on just the right word to use.
That's how I think of editing with AI, except instead of words it's phrases. AI is good at telling me when I've written something poorly, something that would be improved by just changing a short phrase here or there. I treat it the same way I'd treat advice from anyone: if a friend told me this sentence was confusing, would I change it? Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
I don't bother with that for most of my blog posts. It's usually for the longer posts — where I'm trying to make a nuanced point and something feels off, or where the topic might blow up if it's misinterpreted — that I'll send the draft through ChatGPT for a sanity check. For some posts, in the prompt I will explicitly say "major grammar problems only", to avoid getting distracted away from my own writing.
Sometimes I won't make any changes. I just want some reassurance that my blog post isn't all wrong.
The value of getting help from AI is that because it's a synthesis of all the world's information, it tends to pull you toward accepted narratives. The risk is that it will water down your own unique ideas. Overusing AI for editing will produce a kind of sameness as everything else on the web. Taken too far, it becomes slop. Lots of words that don't really mean anything.
I mention all of this in part to be transparent, in part because it's relevant in the context of watermarking, and in part because I think I could still become a better writer. Even after blogging for over 20 years! I love to write and to blog. AI can't change that.
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New trailer out for Wildwood. This looks extraordinary. Hope it's even half as good as it looks.
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Gamifying Snacking with Snacker Tracker
So one of the things I've been trying to do as part of my journey to lose weight and get fit is sort my diet out. As the saying goes, "you can't out-train a poor diet". And the worst part of my diet is definitely snacking in the evening.
The routing generally goes:
- Have dinner.
- Put the kids to bed and settle down with my wife on the couch.
- Crave snacks out of habit.
- Get snacks and eat them!
I'm the type of person who finds an arbitrary thing to aim for very motivating. It's not enough to just want to stop snacking in the evening, nope. That shit will fail pretty quickly. But if I have a streak I have to maintain - now we're talking!
So I decided to build a simple little tool that I called Snacker Tracker. It's just a tap of a button every evening to say whether I've snacked or not, and it maintains a streak. Here's what it looks like on my phone:
Free pass & design
I decided to implement a free pass into the site as well. So I'm allowed to have 1 evening per calendar week where I can snack and it won't affect my streak - after all, I want to be able to have some fun!
I thought about bundling Simple.css in to make it look pretty, but I decided to have some fun with the CSS and went with a neo-brutalist aesthetic, which I think looks great. So much so that I'm thinking about re-designing this site in a similar way, but I've managed to hold off on that...for now.
Retrospective log
Snacker Tracker also has a way of adding days retrospectively, so if I forget to log a day, I can easily go back and do it:
I've only been using Snacker Tracker for a few days, but it's making me pause when that inevitable pang happens in the evening. I'm finding that instead of instinctively raiding the cupboard for some crisps or a chocolate bar, I'm thinking "don't screw up your streak" and not doing it.
I know I'm not hungry during the evening, it's just a habit. My hope is that with time I'll re-train my brain to not expect sugar in the evening, and the pangs will go away. Until then, I'm gonna continue tracking my snacks with this fun little site in the hope that it makes me form better habits.
But Kev, why don't you be a proper grown-up and just use your willpower?
-- All the internet people
Because, Internet Person, it's a habit that I don't even think about, and this forces my to think about it. Yes, I know it's arbitrary and rather childish, but it's working, so what's the harm?
Will you be releasing Snacker Tracker so we can try it?
-- Another internet person
Maybe. I threw it together pretty quickly and the code is rough. A lot of my spare time is focussed on Pure Blog and Pure Comments at the moment, so I don't think I'll have the time to clean the code up to the point where I'm happy to release it any time soon I'm afraid.
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Micro.blog book pages are looking pretty good.
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Seems like we might be settling in for a 5% Apple tax across the board, globally, based on the US court and EU compromise. I don't love it. Linking to external payments should give Apple 0% and nothing more.
Related, I saw this scare sheet yesterday while managing my account in Disney+.
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I wonder how many scenarios they're playing out in DC wrt Iran. Just guessing, probably none. We learned on Monday that the real war has yet to begin, according to Iran. What could they do to hurt the US. Or wake us up to the reality of war. We think the cost of war is higher prices. We are not safe in the US, any more than Russians are safe in Moscow. The parallels are pretty amazing. Both Russia and the US started unprovoked wars of choice, and clearly didn't consider that they might get bogged down. Russia has a source of drones so they can fight back. But I'd be surprised if Trump is stocking up, but if we were, where would we use them? We've already attacked Iran with our probably obsolete trillion-dollar military. Did a lot of damage, killed civilians, decimated their government, they keep going. I'm old enough to remember Vietnam and what asymmetric war is like. The US always falls for this. Our military is very impressive, until we use it. Bluffing was a much better approach for Trump. -
Imagine if you had to disclose whom and what terms you mute.
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The reason I'm not so into AI agents is that there's enough mop-up duty with "if this then that"-style automation. It can't be any better when automation is being done by a lava lamp. Plus the amount of setup is tiring (if not exhausting, since I like that kind of thing).
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Libraries Beg Brendan Carr To Back Off Plan To Make U.S. Broadband Shittier, More Expensive
Back in June, Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr announced he’d be reviewing the FCC E-Rate program with an eye on “reforms.” Generally, when Brendan Carr promises “reforms,” usually what he means is either “I’m going to destroy this program,” or “I’m going to illegally make changes to this congressionally-mandated program that ensures telecom giants like AT&T get more money […] -
Bernie is right . If healthcare, decent wages, taxing billionaires and protecti...
Bernie is right.
If healthcare, decent wages, taxing billionaires and protecting workers are now “radical” or “extreme”, then the current US administration is practicing something much closer to state terror against its own population.
Americans are fed up. The tragedy is that a huge part of that anger was successfully redirected — and many of those who wanted to punish the system ended up voting its most brutal incarnation into the White House.
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Amazon is Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
Take control of your data footprint risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Go tohttps://incogni.com/404Mediaand use code 404MEDIA for 60% off an annual plan. That's code 404MEDIA athttps://incogni.com/404Media We start this week with Emanuel’s big story about Amazon buying, and destroying, masses of books to train AI. After the break we talk about a couple of wild cases where people are using AI. In the subscribers-only section, we talk about Meta’s new smart glasses patent and research into how perverts are using them. We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility ‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side With Them Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party Researchers Show How Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' Are Used to Harass Women YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/_sf2VoKvxBk Subscribe at 404media.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicespdst.fm -
REDIFF. Sous un glaçage de réussite, un mental d’acier réhaussé d’une passion débordante avec Chloé Sengier
Sous un glaçage de réussite, un mental d’acier réhaussé d’une passion débordante avec Chloé Sengier
Dans ce nouvel épisode de Bombo, j’ai échangé avec Chloé Sengier, fondatrice de Crème, Bisous et Coco Donuts. Coco Donuts, son premier bébé dont elle nous raconte la clôture malgré sa réussite.
Chloé nous raconte comment son mental est sa plus grande force, comment sa passion la drive tous les jours pour se lever et offrir de l’amour à ses clients.
Je vous invite à croquer dans cet épisode autant que dans un bon cinnamon roll doux et épicé.
Belle écoute
Les raisons d’écouter Chloé Sengier :
Une leçon de résilience : Chloé partage comment elle transforme les coups durs en force motrice.
Authenticité brute : Un échange vrai, sans filtre, sur la vie, le doute, la peur et l'entrepreneuriat.
Mental d'acier : Elle raconte comment son mental est sa plus grande force, et comment il l’a sauvée.
Décroissance choisie : Pourquoi elle a décidé d’arrêter Coco Donuts au sommet de sa réussite.
Vision du travail : Une réflexion forte sur l’équilibre entre liberté, pression et maternité quand on est indépendante.
Passion contagieuse : Chaque mot transpire l’amour du beau, du bon et du partage.
Liens externes :
Instagram de Chloé Sengier : /chloesengier
Crème Coffee : www.cremebrussels.be
Instagram de Creme : /cremebrussels
Bisous Milk Bar : www.bisoubrussels.be
Instagram de Bisou : /bisou.brussels
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Bombo, le podcast, donne la parole à des passionnés, des rêveurs, des artistes afin de créer, questionner et propager la joie ! Le propos de mes invité.e.s n’a pas la valeur d’expertise mais est le reflet de leur vécu, leur liberté et leur intimité.
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Michele McPhee – The Polygamist, the Criminal, and Their Multibillion-Dollar Scam
This week, Meagan and Lola sit down with Michelle McPhee, investigative reporter and host of podcast Kingdom of Fraud, to discuss how Jacob Kingston, a fundamentalist Mormon from the secretive polygamist sect known as the Kingston clan, or the “Order,” teamed up with a shadowy Armenian tycoon nicknamed “the Lion” to commit one of the largest fraud schemes in U.S. history.
She’ll explain how Jacob’s drive to prove himself as one of over 100 siblings within the insular Kingston hierarchy got him in over his head with Levon Termendzhyan, his unlikely partner in the massive scheme they embarked on: it involved renewable fuel tax credits, international money laundering, powerful political connections, and billions of dollars. Plus, how they finally got caught–with the help of a couple of Trust Me’s previous guests.
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[Android] I rebuilt what I missed about Pocket. Closed beta, looking for testers
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Sen. Adam Schiff on Israel, Impeachment, and Post-Trump America
More To The Story: Sen. Adam Schiff is often on the receiving end of President Donald Trump’s rage online. It should be no surprise. Back in 2020, the California Democrat was the lead prosecutor during the first Trump impeachment trial as a member of the House of Representatives. Now a senator, Schiff has been laying out a different strategy for how Democrats might challenge the president if they reclaim Congress. Much of that strategy focuses on how the president has enriched himself in the White House—all at the expense, Schiff argues, of the American people. On this week’s More To The Story, Schiff describes what it’s like to be an ever-present target of Trump’s ire, how the Israeli government has pushed longtime supporters like himself to criticize it more openly, and lays out his proposals for rebuilding America’s institutional guardrails in a post-Trump era.
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Listen: The Gaza Flotilla Story You Didn’t Hear (Reveal)
Read: 10 Ways to Enrich the Trumps and the MAGA Movement (Mother Jones)
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Does anyone else feel like Inshorts completely stops showing important news after a week or two? "
**I recently started using Inshorts to stay updated on daily headlines in 60 words.**
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**For the first few days, the experience was great—the feed was packed with relevant national, world, and business news. But after about a week of usage, it feels like the quality dropped off a cliff. My feed is now mostly filled with Random viral social media trivia and memes. Bollywood / celebrity gossip**
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Risky Business #849 -- Trump will unleash contractors on cybercriminals
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host Dmitri Alperovitch to talk through the week’s news, including:
Trump’s memo authorising the private sector to release the cyber hounds is fine, don’t worry! OpenAI finally decides to add a few safety measures after the whole “oopsie we committed some felonies” thing Anthropic’s models start a turf war when given the same task, surprising… nobody We can’t figure out whether a device that can hack a 737 is showboating stunt hacking or … something more real-world cool. Or both. Or something. Much, much more
This week’s show is brought to you by threat hunt and detection platform Nebulock. Founder and CEO Damien Lewke joins Pat to chat about what it looks like when you try to reinvent the SIEM in 2026 on a clean sheet of paper.
This episode is also available on YouTube
Show notes
- Trump signs memo authorizing private sector to launch cyberattacks | washingtonpost.com
- Trump taps cyber firms to go on offensive against criminals | therecord.media
- OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue | wired.com
- Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities |
- Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war. | TechCrunch Security
- Researchers observe first ‘near-autonomous’ AI attack on government target in Taiwan | cyberscoop.com
- Researchers find AI-powered hacking tools for sale in underground forums | Cybersecurity Dive
- Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack | arstechnica.com
- Trivy, Not LiteLLM Behind the 2,500 Org Compromise | securityweek.com
- Ukraine says cyberattack hit Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries amid drone strikes | The Record
- ‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators | TechCrunch Security
- This Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737 | wired.com
- "City-Forum" data-theft attacks target Salesforce, ServiceNow portals | BleepingComputer
- Max severity SAP Commerce Cloud flaw now targeted in attacks | BleepingComputer
- Shell investigates 'potential incident' after Clop data theft claims | BleepingComputer
- Philips and GE investigating Clop ransomware data theft claims | BleepingComputer
- Uber Freight reportedly investigating after hacking group claims data breach | TechCrunch Security
- Details emerge on BlackFile’s recent attacks on financial companies | cyberscoop.com
- After Microsoft threatened legal action, a security researcher publishes a new Windows zero-day bug | TechCrunch Security
- Kimwolf botnet rebuilt to survive takedowns, researchers say | cyberscoop.com
- Hundreds of fake Chrome VPN extensions route traffic through a proxy | BleepingComputer
- Deepfake hiccup unmasks suspected digital certificate fraudster | theregister.com
- Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation | arstechnica.com
- Critical VMware vCenter RCE flaw exploited for reverse SSH access | BleepingComputer
- Poland probes MyDr healthcare software breach potentially affecting 19 million people | therecord.media
- Crypto hardware wallet owners face fresh security risks after recent spate of personal data thefts | TechCrunch Security
- [un]prompted.au — AI × Cybersecurity Conference · Sydney, 18–19 September 2026 | [un]prompted.au
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Buc-ee’s Billboard Near Beaver’s Mini Mart Vandalized As Corporation Gaslights Mayor
This Buc-ee’s vs. the Beaver’s Mini-Mart is just not going to go away. While Buc-ee’s has made quite the name for itself as a trademark bully over the past several years, it may have finally run into a combination that is more than the corporation can handle. Between John Oliver’s continued coverage of this lawsuit, […] -
Box? What box?
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I've never run out of Codex tokens before, so it's always felt essentially unlimited. At 4% remaining now with a day left! Uh oh. I don’t think my usage has changed much except that I’m running with
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Looking to create Reddit RSS Feed using post flair
I am looking to have an RSS feed for r/pimax with post flair Official(emoji)News
Here is a link for a topic with this post flair just looking to feed Op post no comments.
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An Update On How I Use AI To Help With Techdirt (It’s Still Not Writing Articles)
Over in our Insider Chat, someone recently pointed out a tiered “REAL Rating” five-tier scale designed to replace the fairly blunt and misleading question of “did you use AI on that?” with something a bit more nuanced. As someone who believes the discussion about AI could use a lot more nuance, I’m all for the […] -
Catching up on news from D23. Cartoon Brew has a rundown of some of the theme park changes coming up. The first Lion King ride will be in Disneyland Paris... A little surprised they never built that in Animal Kingdom.
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This is a wild story: The Scientist Who Lived with...
This is a wild story: The Scientist Who Lived with Dozens of Children from the Pacific Islands. “I realized I’m in the middle of a pedophile operation that has been run out of the N.I.H. by a Nobel laureate for thirty years.”
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“Scientists have found that people are being...
“Scientists have found that people are being exposed to more toxins than previously known, and beyond damaging lungs, wildfire smoke may affect hearts, brains and other organs.” (Research is preliminary & ongoing but sheesh…)
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Coalitions
My post earlier about X didn't resonate exactly as I had intended. Let me zoom out.
Let's think of proponents of the social web as a coalition. People actively choose to be on the fediverse, atmosphere, and (though it's a dated term) blogosphere. There are people who:
- Dislike Elon Musk for political reasons.
- See federation as the answer to developer-hostile platforms.
- Want a more distributed web with personal blogs.
- Hope smaller communities will encourage civility.
- Care deeply about web standards.
These are all different things. Which of these matters most to you will shape your perspective.
I believe that blogging is the best way to contribute to the web. Because of this, many other things follow. For example, it’s better to post to your blog and X (or your blog and LinkedIn, or your blog and Instagram) than it is to post to Mastodon alone.
We spend so much time on this social network vs. that network that we risk missing the big picture. Maybe the social web has gotten too tribal and in turn too far away from principles.
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FOIA Documents Show Epstein Files Had Flag List Which Included The Term ‘POTUS’
MAGA, the GOP, and the Trump administration don’t really care about the victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking. The MAGA GOP made a lot of noise during Biden’s single term because they were sure the files would show a Pizzagate’s-worth of Democratic political figures engaged in the ritual abuse of underage girls. Once Trump was […] -
Ring of Fire in the Sky
Portuguese photographer Rui Santos captured this shot of the recent solar eclipse.
Stunning. Here’s what makes this shot look a little different from other eclipse photos; from APOD:
Usually the solar corona appears white, and to some observers the corona of last week’s total solar eclipse did appear this pearly color. But this time, totality observers in Spain saw a corona that appeared unusually golden. For one reason, from Spain, the totality occurred when the setting Sun was near the horizon. That low, sunlight travels through a large amount of air which scatters out blue light. An unusual amount of smoke in the air from nearby forest fires acted as a second filter, further scattering the remaining blue tones and deepening the already gold-dominated light.
Tags: 2026 solar eclipse · astronomy · eclipses · photography · Rui Santos · Sun
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How to make a good Star Wars movie for once ....
How to make a good Star Wars movie for once. “Stop making stuff that’s so self referential and start focusing on projects that once again are bringing things from the outside and putting them in a Star Wars container.” Fan service is bad storytelling.
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And also a trailer for season 2 of Star Wars: Ahsoka ....
And also a trailer for season 2 of Star Wars: Ahsoka. Huh. Lots of Anakin, but where are the space whales?
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ABC Sues The FCC For Massive First Amendment Violations
After years of feckless capitulation, ABC is clearly developing something vaguely resembling a backbone. The company has filed a new lawsuit against Brendan Carr and the FCC (pdf), (correctly) claiming that the agency has been engaged in a coordinated campaign of harassment that violates the First Amendment and tramples the company’s free speech rights. The […] -
Daily Deal: Hypergear 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Dock
The Hypergear 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Dock is meticulously engineered to reduce the cable clutter and streamline your daily routine. Featuring 2 dedicated wireless charging surfaces, you can power up your phone and AirPods easily. In addition, you can charge your Apple Watch with the built-in charger mount. Stylish and compact, the dock is perfect for […] -
Pretty significant design changes coming to Mastodon for version 5.0. I don't use Mastodon often (my blog posts get to the fediverse from Micro.blog) but these seem like good changes.
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The Smell of AI
The Smell of AI
by Kevin Wammer
Kevin talks about his opinions for various use cases for AI and LLMs.
I started reading this post and thought to myself "oh here we go, another piece about how awful AI is..." but as I got further into it, I found myself nodding along.
While I don't feel as strongly as him about AI generated images I do agree with the premise of everything he said. It's refreshing to see some pragmatic opinions on AI and its uses as a tool.
Ended up being a good read.
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Trailer for VisionQuest , the third leg of the...
Trailer for VisionQuest, the third leg of the Wanda/Vision/Agatha trilogy. Huh. “Ultron! Human avatars only!”
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Webz.io built a News Search API with 300K+ sources and filters most news APIs don't offer
[Webz.io](http://Webz.io) News Search API combines **natural-language search** with filters that go beyond the basics.
Instead of building complex Boolean queries, you can describe what you’re looking for in plain language, then narrow the results by **sentiment** and **category**, in addition to source, country, language, and date.
That makes searches like these much easier:
* Negative news about a company * Cybersecurity incidents in the technology sector * Positive financial news around a specific market * Political or business news related to a particular event
The API searches across 300K+ news sources and returns relevant articles and matching content chunks.
Useful for RAG, AI agents, media monitoring, financial research, risk intelligence, and competitive analysis.
You also get **$5 in free credit every month**, so it’s easy to test and build with before committing.
[https://docs.webz.io/docs/webz/news-search-api\](https://docs.webz.io/docs/webz/news-search-api)
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Why do people care if Claude puts watermarks on text it wrote. It's screwing with its writing, not yours. As a person who publishes their own writing, and carefully labels it when it's written by an AI bot (docs, change notes, podcast show notes, quotable things it said), I want people to be able to tell that I wrote it, this is what I thought, I'm not just shoveling random written sludge to people, sloshing around, devaluing every bit of real writing in its midst. I bet teachers love the idea. Why does everyone have to have an opinion about every damned thing? And of course I have even more to say on the subject.
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In Bourgogne, they’ve been recording grape date harvests...
In Bourgogne, they’ve been recording grape date harvests since 1354. This year’s harvest set a record for earliest start: Aug 8. “From 1354 to 1987 the average start was 28 September. Since 1988 it runs 13 days earlier.”