2025 was a political disaster for MAGA (Justin Glawe/Public Notice)
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Recruitment and Relocation Incentive Waivers (Federal Register)
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Recruitment and Relocation Incentive Waivers
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Ethan McLeod: Macclesfield forward dies in car accident on M1
Macclesfield forward Ethan McLeod has died in a car accident on the M1 motorway while travelling back from a game.BBC Sport
Two More Heritage Foundation Trustees Resign Over Support for Tucker Carlson (David A. Fahrenthold/New York Times)
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Two More Heritage Foundation Trustees Resign Over Support for Tucker Carlson
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Bluesky claims its new contact import feature is ‘privacy-first’
Bluesky says its friend-finding system will only work if both people participate, so no sneaky coworkers searching your number.
Bluesky claims its new contact import feature is ‘privacy-first’
Bluesky says its friend-finding system only works if both people participate, and people can’t look you up using only your number.Robert Hart (The Verge)
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Libcom: **Whiteness again - Amiri Barksdale**
Self-Help Books That Offer Quiet Contemplation
Grief meets nature writing, we learn how to tuck away from burnout, 100 writing prompts for journaling, and more.
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What Is an American? -- There are two competing visions now emerging on the American right, and they are incompatible. (Vivek Ramaswamy/New York Times)
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What Is an American? — There are two competing visions now emerging on the American right, and they are incompatible.
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Amazon in talks to invest $10bn in developer of ChatGPT
OpenAI seeking to strike latest deal in its efforts to pay for huge spending on datacentresDan Milmo (The Guardian)
From Project Gutenberg:
Lustra of Ezra Pound
by Ezra Pound
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Lustra of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound and Bai Li
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)
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The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing
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The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump's Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive (ProPublica)
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The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.Peter.DiCampo@propublica.org (ProPublica)
My Final Post
Yes, I’m stepping down as a contributor to Writer Unboxed. When I told Therese about my decision, she urged me to share my reasons and reflections with all of you. I agreed—not realizing that this would be the hardest writing task I’ve ever undertaken.
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The Atlas of Desertification in Spain (PDF) presents maps highlighting one of the country's major environmental issues, aimed at compiling an inventory of cases and finding solutions #desertification
In 2025, wearables made a hard pivot to AI
AI glasses, AI fitness coaches, and AI pendants… It’s AI all the way down.
In 2025, wearables made a hard pivot to AI
Wearable tech spent 2025 leaning hard into AI across multiple new form factors, in their apps, and in existing smartwatches and headphones.Victoria Song (The Verge)
The Republican Party Is Fracturing Over Trump's Labor Agenda (Jade Lozada/NOTUS)
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The Republican Party Is Fracturing Over Trump's Labor Agenda
Trump has made several moves undermining unions. His party isn’t coalescing around an agenda.Jade Lozada (NOTUS)