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Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Author: Matt Dinniman
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-fi
Released: 2021
Rating: ★★★★★"The training levels have concluded. Now the games may truly begin."
The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive.
They call it the Over City. A sprawling, once-thriving metropolis devastated by a mysterious calamity. But these streets are far from abandoned. An undead circus trawls the ruins. Murdered prostitutes rain from the sky. An ancient spell is finally ready to reveal its dark purpose.
Carl still has no pants.
They call it Dungeon Crawler World. For Carl and Donut, it's anything but a game.
Similar to the first book I absolutely loved this one too, and finished it in a couple days as well. This book focuses on the next level in the dungeon, level 3, and introduces new concepts to the game, as well as new characters.
Of course, Dinniman continues to develop the main characters as well, and I'm finding myself beginning to like Princess Donut. Which is strange, as I'm not a cat person. 🙃
Some intergalactic politics are starting to make their way into the story line too, which acts as a nice reprieve from all the mob killing...sometimes. I hope to see these story lines continue to develop as Carl and Donut (hopefully) continue to find out more about this whole shit show they find themselves in.
Blooding loving this series.
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#525 – IA, données, cybersécurité : les nouvelles menaces
Episode 525 avec Thierry, Sébastien S. et Pierre
Sommaire
- C comme CHUV : Quand un hôpital développe une IA pour les incidents critiques. (00:01:19) un assistant IA destiné à analyser les événements indésirables signalés Sources ictjournal.ch, chuv.ch et wp.unil.ch.
- E comme Elastique : L'élasticité qui a tout changé. (00:09:28) Les 20 ans d'Amazon EC2: la naissance du cloud computing. Sources aws.amazon.com et aws.amazon.com.
- F comme Fuite : A qui le tour ? (00:16:50) Les fuites de données, une routine française. Sources bonjourlafuite.eu.org, frenchbreaches.com et secnumacademie.gouv.fr.
- L comme Le Meilleur du Podcast : Quand un chroniqueur fait de la promo pour du Podcast. (00:32:25) Seconde édition de l'événement Le Meilleur du Podcast, parlons audience et plateformes Sources lemeilleurdupodcast.ch et cominmag.ch.
- L comme Liquidation : Quand les données se vendent comme des meubles. (00:41:21) Google, Spirit Airlines et la ruée sur les données d'entreprise. Sources theregister.com et storage.courtlistener.com.
- P comme Photo : Pas de photo sans appareil. (00:52:31) Votre visage est déjà dans une base de données que vous ne connaissez pas. Sources malwarebytes.com, claritycheck.com et pimeyes.com.
- S comme Suisse : Quand la Suisse consommera suisse. (01:02:58) Et si la Suisse privilégiait ses propres entreprises tech pour ses achats de services numériques ? Sources combourse.com et letemps.ch.
- U comme Unifiée : Faire tourner un LLM chez soi en 2026. (01:15:45) Pourquoi la mémoire unifiée lancée par Apple écrase les GPU ? Sources theregister.com, nvidia.com et wendy.dev.
- Y comme Yaris : Cape d'invisibilité. (01:25:44) Attaque par exemples contradictoires. Sources korben.info, lacremedugaming.fr et flocksafety.com.
Toutes les informations pour vous abonner au podcast et à l'infolettre : 🌐 lestechnos.be
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New Update: Radar RSS v0.0.6 (Beta) — Comprehensive Light Theme Polish & UI Refinements 🎨
Radar RSS v0.0.6-beta delivers complete Light Theme optimization across all UI components, fixing contrast and illegibility issues, and refining color palettes and borders.
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A Doctor’s Gut Reset: 4-Part Protocol to Stop Bloating, Boost Energy, & Feel Better Now
Why are you bloated all the time?
Why can certain foods suddenly make you feel terrible?
And what is actually going on inside your gut when nothing you try seems to work?
Today, Mel is joined by Dr. Rajsree Nambudripad, MD, a board-certified medical doctor specializing in integrative gut health and integrative medicine, who has spent years helping patients uncover what’s really behind their most stubborn symptoms.
This conversation will change the way you understand your gut – and reveal a simple 4-part protocol for getting to the root of what’s making you feel so bad so you can feel your best again.
Dr. Rajsree covers it all: IBS, bloating, SIBO, constipation, diarrhea, leaky gut, histamine intolerance, low stomach acid, reflux, food sensitivities, and more.
And she explains the surprising ways your gut can impact your energy, anxiety, focus, sleep, skin, weight, metabolism, blood sugar, and thyroid health.
You’ll learn:
-The 4 systems that control your gut health – and what happens when even one is out of balance
-2 steps you can start taking immediately to improve your gut health
-What causes bloating and how to stop it fast
-The 3 main symptoms of IBS and what they may be telling you
-What histamine intolerance is and how it disrupts your “gut garden”
-The surprising connection between your gut and your thyroid
-The Hashimoto’s symptoms your gut may reveal first
-How exercise can help reverse insulin resistance
-Why your “acid reflux” may actually be the opposite problem
If you’ve been told “everything looks normal” but you still don’t feel normal – or you’re tired of guessing which food, supplement, or symptom to chase next – this episode will help you understand what your body may be trying to tell you – and what to do next.
For more resources related to today’s episode, click here for the podcast episode page.
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Broken feeds for newspapers owned by MediaNews Group?
San Francisco Bay area newspapers owned by MediaNews Group (East Bay Times, Mercury News, Marin Independent Journal) have for a long time published RSS feeds for various sections of their sites. For example, the source code for the Mercury News homepage currently includes the following link to an article feed:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="The Mercury News » Feed" href="https://www.mercurynews.com/feed/" />My feed reader software indicates that these feeds all quit working on March 9th. When I try to load any of them directly in my browser, I get an
HTTP 403error.Does anyone know what happened and how we might get them to fix it? I tried contacting them via a form but never heard back.
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Claude Code is like Victor Wembanyama, assuming you follow the NBA and are interested in first hand experience with CC as a programming partner for the last 8 months or so.
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Understanding ChatGPT Work
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here's what I've figured out about it so far.
ChatGPT Work is actually two products
The more interesting version of ChatGPT Work is the one that runs in the cloud. This can be accessed via chatgpt.com or through the ChatGPT mobile apps. Let's call it Work Cloud.
If you install the ChatGPT desktop app - the app that used to be called Codex - you gain access to a thing called ChatGPT Work that can access files and run programs directly on your computer. Let's call that one Work Local. This one feels more like regular Codex re-skinned to be less intimidating to non-software-developers.
(Update: Work Cloud is also available from the ChatGPT desktop app, via a Where should this chat run? dropdown.)
For the rest of this article I'm going to talk exclusively about Work Cloud.
Work is for paid subscribers only
Right now, ChatGPT Work (in both flavors) is available only to $20/month and up subscribers. Free users and $8/month Go users do not have access.
Work has features that aren't available in Chat
The interface for accessing Work is a tab selector, which presents it as an alternative to Chat:
The obvious question is when should I use Chat, and when should I use Work?
OpenAI's official answer to that question is:
Use Chat when you want an answer, explanation, brainstorm, or short draft. Use ChatGPT Work when you want ChatGPT to complete a task with a clear outcome, such as a brief, deck, analysis, recurring update, workflow, or file you can review and use.
I find that almost entirely useless, because I've been using regular ChatGPT Chat for all of those task categories for years!
The better question then is what features does Work have that are missing from Chat?
After extensive experimentation I think I've mostly figured that out:
- Options to use Luna and Terra in place of Sol
- A code execution environment with Internet access
- A headless Chrome browser
- A persistent filesystem shared between sessions
- The ability to publish ChatGPT Sites
- The ability to run sub-agent sessions with Sol, Luna, and Terra
- Scheduled prompt automations (may be in ChatGPT Chat too)
Model selection
In Work, you get the option to pick GPT-5.6 Sol, Luna, or Terra, each with Light, Medium, High, Extra High, Max, or Ultra reasoning levels. You can also pick GPT-5.5 at Light, Medium, High, or Extra High.
These look to be the same models that are available through the OpenAI API.
Chat offers a different selection: 5.6 Instant, Medium, High, Extra High, and Pro (actually Extra High and Pro are only available for $100/month+ subscribers - $20/month subscribers cap out at High). It doesn't explain if those are Luna or Terra or Sol (I'm assuming Sol?). 5.6 Pro appears to be exclusive to Chat, with no equivalent in Work.
My current understanding from using Codex is that Ultra is a special mode that more eagerly delegates to sub-agents.
I believe ChatGPT Work sessions are billed against your Codex allowance, while ChatGPT Chat Sessions get their own, separate allowance. This may help explain the model availability differences.
Code execution with Internet access!
As a long-time fan of the Code Interpreter pattern - pioneered by OpenAI in 2023 - this is by far the most exciting feature of ChatGPT Work (Cloud) for me.
The code execution environment can now talk to the rest of the internet!
ChatGPT Chat can't do this - if you ask it to install additional software packages or interact with websites or APIs that access will be blocked by the container proxy.
(Weirdly, back in January it grew the ability to install packages, but that doesn't seem to work any more. I wish they had better changelogs!)
Claude's equivalent container has allowed restricted internet access since it launched last September. Claude can install packages from PYPI and NPM and clone repositories from GitHub. But that is about it: the allowlist of domains is very short.
ChatGPT Work allows a whole lot more than that. It can be configured with a specific list of allowed domains, but the default appears to be open to all.
This makes Work an incredibly useful tool. You can have it clone GitHub repositories, install their dependencies, then use them to interact with the rest of the web!
A full, headless Chrome browser
Another killer feature of ChatGPT Work is the browser tool. ChatGPT Work can launch a full Chrome instance, load websites, fill out forms, and take screenshots.
If a site requires sign in the browser can prompt you to take over and enter both passwords and 2FA codes, without round-tripping those credentials through the model itself.
It can even run JavaScript against the DOM of loaded pages. I prompted:
Load simonwillison.net in your browser and extract the headings using JavaScriptChatGPT Work fired up a browser instance and ran the code:
await tab.playwright.evaluate(() => { return Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6"), heading => ({ level: heading.tagName.toLowerCase(), text: heading.innerText.trim().replace(/\s+/g, " "), id: heading.id || null })); });
This feels a lot like my shot-scraper javascript tool, only now I can access it on my phone!
A persistent, shared filesystem
ChatGPT Chat gets a fresh filesystem for each chat session. These cannot be accessed from any other session.
In ChatGPT Work each session gets its own scratch folder - named something like
/workspace/scratch/e00a0a017944- but each of those are persisted across sessions, so you can access files from previous chats. I have 171 folders in/workspace/scratchright now!As far as I can tell that
/workspacevolume is mounted to all Work sessions that are currently running - file edits from one can be instantly seen by the others. They don't seem to share the same process space though, and localhost servers running in one can't be accessed from another.ChatGPT Sites
ChatGPT Work has the ability to build and deploy entire websites, using Cloudflare Workers. These can have HTML and JavaScript and can run server-side features too, including stateful features on top of Cloudflare D1 and R2.
Here's a simple site I built with this feature:
london-pelicans-in-her-piety.simonw.chatgpt.site
My prompt was:
Figure out all of the places in London with a pelican in her piety, then turn that into a JSON file and build a ChatGPT sites site about them(A pelican in her piety is a fascinating piece of medieval Christian imagery - once you know about them you'll find them all over the place.)
These sites default to being private to the user that created them, but you can make them public and (on team plans) share them with other specific individuals.
Sub-agents with Sol, Luna, and Terra
There's not much to say about this one. ChatGPT Chat can't run sub-agents. ChatGPT Work can. This is very much a power-user feature: if you are running a complex project that can benefit from multiple parallel agents working together, Work can do that.
Scheduled prompt automations
Another feature that seems to have migrated from regular ChatGPT to ChatGPT Work at some point. You can prompt ChatGPT Work like this:
run a search to see if Waymo have announced a launch date for Half Moon Bay every day at 8amThis will schedule a prompt to run on that frequency. These prompts can decide that nothing interesting has happened, or they can decide to notify you of some new information.
Update: Actually this seems to work in ChatGPT Chat as well.
It's still worth noting here though, as it can be used in conjunction with other ChatGPT Work exclusive features. You can set a scheduled task to update a ChatGPT Site on an hourly basis, for example.
Is this safe?
An open question for me right now is how safe all of this stuff is.
My lethal trifecta model warns about the risks inherent in any agent system that combines access to private data with exposure to untrusted content and a way to communicate stolen information back to an attacker.
ChatGPT Work combines all three!
I'd love to hear more from OpenAI about how they protect ChatGPT Work sessions against prompt injection attacks. I expect their answer is the same auto-review mechanism as Codex.
OpenAI could make this a lot less confusing
Figuring this all out took way more work than it should have.
I think there are two key problems here:
- OpenAI explain Work in terms of what it's for, not what it actually does
- OpenAI still insist on hiding their system prompts and tools descriptions
If the ChatGPT Work documentation included the exact system prompt and tool descriptions used by the agent I wouldn't have needed to write this post.
A list of all the tools
Shortly after publishing this article I had an idea. I started a fresh Work session and prompted:
Build a site that lists every one of your tools - nearly grouped into categories - and for each one explain what it does. Try to exactly duplicate arguments and tool descriptions where possible. Design aesthetic should be technical docs, minimal flareHere's the site it built, which includes details of 223 registered tools - though 6 of those are from my own personal MCPs served via datasette-mcp.
And a whole lot of Skills
I noticed that the only browser-related tool in the list was web.run, which has methods for running searches, opening URLs, and clicking links, but didn't look like the full story in regards to headless browser automation.
This made me suspicious that something was missing, so I told the ChatGPT Work session that built that tools reference site:
Add full copies of every skill to the website (separate pages linked to from the homepage)It turns out ChatGPT Work uses a lot of skills - 44 in fact!
The control-browser skill explains how the browser works:
Run browser setup code through the Node REPL
jstool. In this environment the callable tool id typically appears asmcp__node_repl__js. [...]The ability to interact directly with the browser is exposed through the
browser-clientruntime via theagent.browsers.*API. Before trying to interact with it, you MUST emit and read the complete documentation returned byawait browser.documentation()in one go.So I told Work:
Add the full output of await browser.documentation() to the bottom of the /skills/control-browser page
And now you can read that on /skills/control-browser as well.
A few more interesting Skills:
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documents for creating
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imagegen with tips on creating images with the
image_gentool - pdf for both reading and rendering PDFs
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Spreadsheets for manipulating
.xlsx,.xls,.csv,.tsv - sites:sites-building for creating ChatGPT Sites
- openai-docs for answering questions about itself
- data-analytics:build-dashboard for building data dashboards
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How Taylor Sheridan's Fever Dreams Explain MAGA Foreign Policy (with SecDef Rock)
Samantha and the pseudonymous commentator Secretary of Defense Rock talk "Lioness," "Sicario," and the broader Taylor Sheridan-verse as a Rosetta stone for untangling right-wing policy from the border to Venezuela to drones.
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1899 - "Asymmetric Intimacy"
No Agenda Episode 1899 - "Asymmetric Intimacy"
Asymmetric Intimacy"
Executive Producers:
Stuart Greene
Jessica Greene
Sir Sala Hauser
Sir Ty of God's Flat Earth
Eric Wilka
Dr. Sir OneAwesome Jason PhD.
Tom Beben
Katherine Nicholas
Sir JoFo
Peter Bickford
Raymond Lee (switcheroo from Indy NA Meetup)
Indy NA Meetup
The Sydney No Agenda Meetup Mob — Sir Chris Wilson
Associate Executive Producers:
Manuka Gold Family — manukagold.com (code TREASURE)
Eli The Coffee Guy — Gigawatt Coffee Roasters (code ITM20)
Annette Miller (switcheroo from Indy NA Meetup)
Indy NA Meetup
Linda Lupatkin — Imagemakers Ink, Duchess of Jobs
Knights and Dames:
Stuart Greene > Sir Troubleshooter
Raymond Lee > Sir Raymond
Jessica Greene > Dame Doula at your Cervix
Annette Miller > Dame Near Perfect
Order of the Ant:
Stuart Greene
Jessica Greene
Sir Sala Hauser
Sir Ty of God's Flat Earth
Eric Wilka
Dr. Sir OneAwesome Jason PhD.
Tom Beben
Katherine Nicholas
Sir JoFo
Peter Bickford
Raymond Lee
End of Show Mixes:
Jus Baker (Where's The Beef)
Jus Baker (All-In Jason Calacanis)
Jus Baker (The Biggest Oil Deal)
Mark van Dijk - Systems Master
Ryan Bemrose - Program Director
Back Office Jae Dvorak
Chapters: Dreb Scott
Clip Custodian: Neal Jones
Clip Collectors: Steve Jones & Dave Ackerman
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, MrWilson scores another double-win with both top spots on the insightful side. In first place, it’s a piece-by-piece response to a commenter who defended ICE’s failed illegal raid on an immigration law office: In second place, it’s a comment about the first two measles deaths of 2026: Then: “Nobody has died. It’s not […] -
New Update : Radar RSS v0.0.5 (Beta) — Instant Launch, Universal Image Engine & Gesture Navigation
What's New in v0.0.5
⚡ Instant App Startup (< 50ms)
- Offline-First Stale-While-Revalidate Engine: Articles and headlines are now cached in local persistent storage, enabling immediate paint upon launch with zero blank screens or perceived network delays.
- Instant Electron Window Launch: BrowserWindow displays in under 30ms with dark theme (
#0a0b0e) to eliminate white flashes.
👈👉 Fluid Swipe Story Navigation
- Horizontal Swipe Gestures: In the Story Reader modal, swipe Left-to-Right or Right-to-Left (or use keyboard arrows / UI buttons) to seamlessly flip through stories with smooth slide animations and haptic feedback.
🖼️ Universal RSS Image Loading & Layout Previews
https://github.com/dznass-cmd/RadarRSS/releases/tag/v0.0.5
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The AS/400 Revolution: “The System is the Solution” 🖥️ The AS/400 (introduced i...
The AS/400 Revolution: “The System is the Solution” 🖥️
The AS/400 (introduced in 1988) was revolutionary because it was one of the first systems to integrate the hardware, operating system, and database into a single box — way before that became a common concept. IBM’s “The System is the Solution” campaign was one of the most successful in computing history, and the platform lasted so long that it was rebranded as IBM i in 2008, yet still actively used in thousands of businesses worldwide in the 2020s.
Even more impressive? RPG, which was created in the 1960s, is still in active use today — making it one of the longest continuously used programming languages in history. Many companies still rely on RPG programs written 30-40 years ago that continue to run flawlessly on IBM i systems.
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RSSMonster – An agentic RSS reader built on local embeddings and small models
Article URL: https://github.com/pietheinstrengholt/rssmonster/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498634
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I've been watching Season 1 of The Pitt, and as its reviews said, it's great drama, and there are lots of episodes. I like shows like this because they're simulated communities, we come to know the characters, and think about them even when we're not watching. Before too long we'll have AI programming that makes these shows like software, the stories assemble around the characters, and then are generated the same way ChatGPT generates the art we call slop, which will someday not be a pejorative the same way sick and junk aren't negative terms today. So we'll be able to call up new episodes of The Wire or The Sopranos or The Pitt any time we like. We'd be missing the fun of discussing the latest episode with friends, or maybe we'll have bot-invented friends too who will simulate having watched the episode you just watched, which leads us to another masterpiece of entertainment, The Matrix. On the other hand, I've watched The Wire at least five times all the way through, and even though I know what they're about to say in a lot of places, I do forget the sub-plots so at least some of it can be new each time. And btw, finally an episode of Silo that's was surprising that I didn't see coming. I read the books, so I feel like I should watch the show, but until the latest episode I was uninterested in any of the characters. Finally there's a plot to think about! -
Obama's Campaign Manager's 2028 Scouting Report
Jon sits down with legendary Democratic strategist David Plouffe to assess the race for the Senate and House and — why not? — look forward to 2028. The two talk through the new roster of early primary states and the political dynamics at play in each, and then do some (very) early handicapping of the rumored '28 contenders, from Kamala Harris to AOC and Jon Ossoff.
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RadarRSS Update: Improved AI curation, refined UI, and new features based on your feedback!
Hey r/rss!
A few days ago, I posted here introducing RadarRSS—an open-source, AI-curated modern news dashboard aimed at reimagining how we consume RSS feeds.
Thanks to the valuable feedback and discussion on my previous post, I just pushed a new release with several improvements to make the experience cleaner, faster, and more practical:
Refined Dashboard UI: Polished the feed layout to minimize clutter and give a true "modern newsroom" feel instead of a plain feed list.
Smarter AI Curation & Summaries: Fine-tuned the AI categorization and summarization layer to highlight key takeaways faster and reduce redundant articles.
Better Feed Organization: Enhanced auto-tagging and filtering so you can easily track high-priority topics across multiple feeds.
Performance & Stability Tweaks: Optimized feed fetching and overall responsiveness.
The goal is still to build a lightweight, open-source alternative for anyone looking for something more dynamic than traditional readers like FreshRSS, Miniflux, or Feedly.
🔗 Release & Source Code: https://github.com/dznass-cmd/RadarRSS
Would love to hear your thoughts on these updates—especially regarding the layout and AI curation flow. Any suggestions on what to tackle next?
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👁️ TIL that a kiwi driver’s license can be digitized on your phone - but that doesn’t mean that it will be accepted by the other party.
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An absolutely delicious temperate cloud-free day in the Catskills, so I got up from the computer and enjoyed.
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Trump’s Third Term May Not Need Trump
There are at least two obvious ways to imagine Donald Trump trying to remain president after 2028.
The first is the constitutional loophole: someone close to him — perhaps one of his children — runs for president with Trump as vice president, wins, then resigns. The 22nd Amendment says Trump cannot be elected president a third time; whether that also makes him constitutionally ineligible to become president through succession has never been definitively settled.
The second is more dramatic: war, perhaps an escalating ground war with Iran, becomes the justification for emergency powers, disruption of the 2028 election and an attempt to remain in office.
The second scenario is constitutionally much harder. America held elections during the Civil War and two world wars, and Trump’s term ends on January 20, 2029 regardless of whether the country is at war.
But focusing on those two scenarios may miss the more plausible one.
Trump doesn’t necessarily need a third term.
He needs a successor.
A JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Trump family member or another loyalist could occupy the White House while Trump remains the political center of gravity of the movement. That would be the American version of the Putin-Medvedev arrangement: formal power moves, personal power doesn’t.
And this is where things become much less predictable.
Vance may currently look like the obvious heir, but early polling tells us more about name recognition and his position as vice president than about who will actually control MAGA in 2028.
Trump remains enormously influential in Republican primaries even with national approval around 33%, and his endorsement continues to move Republican races.
But Trump, the Republican Party and # MAGA are no longer necessarily the same thing.
Trump spent ten years teaching Republican voters not to trust the Republican establishment. He taught them that Washington politicians are corrupt, institutions cannot be trusted and ordinary Americans must “take their country back.”
That lesson cannot simply be switched off when Trump needs to appoint an heir.
Imagine Trump eventually says: JD Vance is my successor.
The Republican establishment falls in line.
But part of the grassroots answers:
No coronations. We choose.
That wouldn’t necessarily be a revolt against Trumpism. It could be a revolt against Trump himself in the name of Trumpism.
“We made MAGA.”
“We are America First.”
“Trump started the movement, but the movement belongs to us.”
This is where a succession crisis becomes far more interesting than a conventional Republican primary.
There could effectively be four competing sources of legitimacy:
Trump’s chosen heir: “Trump selected me.”
The Trump family: “We are the people who can actually be trusted with his legacy.”
The grassroots: “We created this movement and we decide what MAGA means.”
The old Republican establishment: “The Trump era is over; we need to become a governing conservative party again.”
The grassroots faction doesn’t need to control the whole Republican electorate to cause enormous damage. Highly motivated primary voters can punish candidates, threaten incumbents, dominate state-level party structures and make support for the “wrong” successor politically dangerous.
We already see Trump’s endorsement remaining powerful but not absolute: Trump-backed candidates can win decisively, but Republican voters have also defeated Trump-endorsed candidates while still choosing candidates who describe themselves as pro-Trump.
That distinction matters.
It means MAGA may already be capable of separating Trump the man from Trumpism as an identity.
And then comes the linguistic war.
RINO.
Establishment.
Uniparty.
Traitor.
America First.
These labels do more than describe factions. They decide who belongs. A candidate branded “RINO” doesn’t merely have a different policy position; they become illegitimate.
The most dangerous phrase for Trump’s chosen successor might eventually be something like:
“Establishment MAGA.”
At that point, every candidate would be competing to prove that they are more authentically Trumpist than Trump’s own candidate.
That sounds contradictory, but charismatic movements frequently fracture this way. Once the founder can no longer lead indefinitely, everyone begins fighting over who has the right to interpret what the founder really meant.
So I would still put the probability of Trump personally exercising presidential power after January 20, 2029 relatively low — perhaps 5–10%.
A de facto third Trump administration through a loyal successor is considerably more plausible — perhaps 20–35%.
But I would put the probability of a serious MAGA succession struggle much higher.
Because the real question approaching 2028 may not be:
Who does Trump choose?
It may be:
Who owns MAGA?
Trump?
His family?
His chosen successor?
The Republican Party?
Or the millions of people Trump spent a decade convincing that they, and not the institutions around them, are the real voice of America?
Trump created a movement based on rebellion against political authority.
His eventual succession crisis may reveal that this includes rebellion against his own.
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I built an open-source RSS news dashboard with AI-powered curation
I've always liked RSS, but I wanted something that felt more like a modern news dashboard instead of a traditional feed reader.
So I built RadarRSS.
The idea is simple:
- Monitor multiple RSS feeds
- Automatically organize news into categories
- Highlight relevant stories
- Use AI to help summarize and curate content
- Keep everything centralized in one interface
- Open source under MIT
It's still an early project, so I'm mainly looking for feedback.
What I'd really like to know:
What would make you actually switch from FreshRSS, Miniflux, Newsboat, Feedly, etc.?
GitHub: https://github.com/dznass-cmd/RadarRSS
I'd especially appreciate criticism about the UI, RSS workflow and AI features.
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The New Patrol (Liam Scott #2)
The New Patrol (Liam Scott #2)
Author: Andy McNab
Genre: Military Fiction
Released: 2014
Rating: ★★★☆☆KNOW YOUR ENEMY.
Liam Scott is back in Afghanistan, this time with 4 Rifles. No longer the new guy, it's his chance to prove himself and take the lead. But the warzone has changed dramatically, and so have the rules.
Working alongside the Afghan National Army, Liam and his new patrol face daily attacks from Taliban insurgents. But the real threat seems to be coming from within his unit.
It looks like there's a traitor in their midst.
This is the second book in the trilogy, after reading the first book to my oldest son, he wanted to continue and read this one.
As a veteran myself, parts of this book were close the the bone. I found myself having to take a moment to compose myself a few times, but it's a good read. In hindsight, it's probably too mature and graphic for him, but we're commited now, so we will continue.
We're planning to start the 3rd and final book soon.
Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️
You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
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Ahhh, relax with the sights and sounds of the Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator.
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Voting is now open for the 2026 Tiny Awards, featuring 10 sites that celebrate “the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web”. You have until Sept 25 to vote.
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Heat waves are disproportionately harming people with schizophrenia. “The bodies of people with schizophrenia, especially those on medication, simply regulate temperature very differently than others do.”
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would the world's largest database of rss feeds (mostly human content) be useful to anyone?
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Which app is better feedly or news explorer?
I an setting up rss feed news on my ios device and i downloaded few and liked these two. (Not downloaded news exp. cuz its not free to try).
Has anyone used both or any? Can anyone share advise on this
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📺 Not yet finished watching all 5 series - but just letting you know that ‘Brassic’ is just wonderful.
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The Race Equation
In medical school, Aaron Baugh, like most doctors in training, was taught that Black people have smaller lungs than white people. His professors explained that it came down to evolution and body proportions.
A spirometer measures lung capacity and helps doctors diagnose and treat most lung diseases, including asthma, COPD, and cystic fibrosis. And for generations, it had a so-called race equation built into it. When a patient breathes into the machine, their lung capacity is compared to what is considered normal for their age, gender, and race. For Black patients, that normal range was 10 to 15 percent lower than for white patients. For years, doctors believed that a race “correction” made the test more accurate.
But after becoming a pulmonary and critical care physician, Baugh discovered that historical assumptions embedded in the spirometer were not only wrong, but were based on racist science that can be traced back to American slavery. And they were leading to misdiagnoses in thousands of Black patients, including military veterans.
“This is not a small test,” Baugh says. “It is used in diagnosis of lung disease. It is used for job hiring. It is used for disability assignments. It is used for different medical treatments. So it can touch people in a lot of important ways if you’re doing this wrong.”
This week on Reveal, we team up with The Race Equation podcast series from the New England Journal of Medicine to examine a standard medical test with a brutal history that is harming Black patients and is still being used in hospitals across the country.
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Buc-ee’s Decides The Right Response To Pushback On Its Trademark Bullying Is To Invoke Partisanship
We’ve been detailing the trademark bullying ways of Buc-ee’s, famous gas station and convenience store chain in the American south and infamous IP bully, for over a year now. Buc-ee’s seems to think that any semi-related business that has branding that involves a cartoon animal or in any way references beavers somehow violates its trademark […] - ! Pulp playing at Live in Wythenshawe Park, earlier tonight.
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‘Right To Repair’ State Laws Continue To Surge, But Enforcement Remains Nonexistent
There’s still a massive effort afoot to implement statewide “right to repair” laws that try to make it cheaper, easier, and environmentally friendlier for you to repair the technology you own. All fifty states have at least flirted with the idea, though only Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, California, Oregon, and Washington have actually passed laws. US PIRG […] -
Are we closer to “Users writing code” using the microphone? I’d settle for my phone(s) not getting me killed while driving and I need something only found on the internet. I say phones because I’m tracking Android with a Pixel Pro and Apple with an iPhone. So, far it “ain’t soup yet”.
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Nitter/XCancel is dead, alternatives to get X's RSS/feeds?
I think the title pretty much sums it up. I used to get feeds from a few profiles on X, as I'd rather have everything centralised, searchable and archivable rather than just go to X to search for specific posts from people I wanna read everything. So, any (free) alternatives to Nitter/XCalcel so I can turn X's posts into RSS?
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Move Fast And Settle Things
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes with additional coverage, support us on […] -
Podcast subscriptions without RSS? Any work-around?
I want to buy podcast subscriptions to get rid of ads. Unfortunately most providers no longer offer rss feeds for itunes (they used to) I like adding the private RSS because you can download the mp3 and put it on and old mp3 player, like the tiny clip-on shuffle mp3 player. I don't like carrying phones or looking at screens when I'm exercising.
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Move Fast and Settle Things
Become a Ctrl-Alt-Speech supporter to get extended episodes of the podcast plus the chance to submit stories for us to cover.
In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover:
- Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform (Techdirt)
- Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Make Sure His Competitors Share His Pain (New York Times)
- Meta settlement opens new front in global fight over social media harm (Reuters)
And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover:
- UK expects Meta to match US child safety measures after $18bn settlement (The Guardian)
- What Meta’s US Settlement on Child Safety Means for Europe (TechPolicy.Press)
- Did Meta’s Big Settlement Actually Help It? (New York Times)
Our fun links this week include a new table format for food recipes and Rainbolt’s tear-jerking Geoguessr video.
If you’re already a Patreon supporter, you can get the extended episode on Patreon.
Follow us on Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky.
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. It’s co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).
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Local-only RSS reader for Chrome — no account, no server, OPML import
I wanted an RSS reader that didn't turn my reading list into someone's dataset. Most Chrome extensions want an account and sync your subscriptions to their servers, so I built my own.
Canopy Reader has no backend at all. Feeds and read state live in chrome.storage, and the extension makes exactly one kind of network request — to the feeds you added yourself. No account, no analytics, no paid tier. About 50 KB.
Three-panel layout, RSS 2.0 and Atom, feed autodiscovery from a site URL, folders, OPML import/export, unread badges, background refresh, j/k/r/m/u/o keyboard nav, light/dark.
What it doesn't have: a filtering rules engine, social/YouTube feed adapters, or cross-device sync (that needs a server, which defeats the point).
Coming from another reader — import your OPML and subscriptions and folders come across in one step.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/canopy-reader-rss-feed-re/lnfnfpjiohnjlmagagpokbadejelnflg
I wrote it, so salt accordingly. Mainly after feedback on what's missing.
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I built a web RSS reader that turns feeds and topics into one continuous audio briefing
I have been working on PressPlayed, a mobile-first RSS reader built for listening instead of scanning.
You can select publishers you already trust and group their feeds into briefings. If the subject matters more than the publisher, you can also enter something like “housing market” or “Fed interest rates”; PressPlayed finds relevant current coverage across sources and builds the briefing. Articles are extracted server-side and narrated continuously in the browser.
It also supports a narrator choice, language filtering, a minimum article length, played-article skipping, and muted words or phrases.
I would especially value feedback from people who already care about RSS:
- Does the source-versus-briefing model feel intuitive?
- Which portability features matter most to you—OPML import/export, visible raw feed URLs, or something else?
There is a public audio sample and a short mobile tour here: https://pressplayed.com/tour.html?utm_source=reddit-rss&utm_campaign=first100
Access is free and does not require a credit card. I run this account for the product and am happy to answer technical or product questions.
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Pete Hegseth And His Department Of Unconstitutional Revenge Lose Again In California
When Pete Hegseth declared Anthropic a national security risk because it wouldn’t agree to his dangerously unethical demands for what Claude should be able to do, Anthropic sued to challenge the directives. One of the challenges was brought in the Northern District of California, where Anthropic has now notched another significant win. While the previous […]