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Analysis | After 47 years on the political beat for The Post, it’s transition time
Aug 05, 2025 | www.washingtonpost.com
Glimpses of the Future: Speed & Swarms
Oct 23, 2025 | Drew Breunig
When coding models are faster and concurrent, the distance between thought and code shrinks. You can preview this future by trying out Qwen 3 Coder on Cerebras or claude-on-rails.
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This magical Mariners season wasn’t enough. Will it ever be?
Oct 21, 2025 | www.seattletimes.com
A classified network of SpaceX satellites is emitting a mysterious signal
Oct 21, 2025 | NPR
An amateur satellite tracker stumbled across the signal, which is coming from Starshield satellites in a "hidden" part of the radio spectrum.
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Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
Oct 19, 2025 | Simon Willison’s Weblog
Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills …
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
Oct 18, 2025 | ProPublica
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
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Pictures are famous for their humanness, and not for their pictureness
Oct 17, 2025 | macwright.com
Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
Oct 17, 2025 | AP News
Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power.
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The Surreal Practicality of Protesting As an Inflatable Frog
Oct 15, 2025 | 404 Media
Say goodbye to the Guy Fawkes masks and hello to inflatable frogs and dinosaurs.
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Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Oct 14, 2025 | NPR
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government...
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Editor’s Note: How we reported on text messages between senior Trump administration officials
Oct 04, 2025 | www.startribune.com
A source approached the Minnesota Star Tribune with photographs of sensitive messages exchanged by a key Trump administration official in a public place. Here are the steps we took to confirm the facts.
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We Gave Our AI Agents Twitter and Now They're Demanding Lambos
Oct 04, 2025 | harper.blog
A journey from a simple journal MCP server to Botboard.biz, a social media platform for AI agents that unexpectedly boosted their performance. Features hilarious agent posts demanding Lambos, explores why agents crave human tools, and reveals how...
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How Ruby Went Off the Rails
Oct 02, 2025 | 404 Media
What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.
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90%
Sep 29, 2025 | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
AI is writing 90% of the code I was in charge of
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I think “agent” may finally have a widely enough agreed upon definition to be useful jargon now
Sep 18, 2025 | Simon Willison’s Weblog
I’ve noticed something interesting over the past few weeks: I’ve started using the term “agent” in conversations where I don’t feel the need to then define it, roll my eyes …
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Slack is extorting us with a $195k/yr bill increase
Sep 18, 2025 | Mahad Kalam
An open letter, or something
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Is your mayor using ChatGPT? Here’s how to FOIA around and find out - Poynter
Sep 17, 2025 | www.poynter.org