Jimmy Kimmel's James Talarico Interview Hits 5 Million YouTube Views. #streisandEffec variety.com

Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage nytimes.com

Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff, saying he's back in control after CEO ouster techcrunch.com

Jimmy Kimmel, James Talarico and the FCC’s Muzzling of the Media talkingpointsmemo.com

What happened the last times Trump pitched direct payments to Americans wapo.st

Republican chief election officials say it is too late to implement Trump’s mail ballot order politico.com

Automattic Minus Matt: Mullenweg’s Forced Break tedium.co

Exploring Muse: Meta's New Personal AI Assistant in Action sjl.us

Trump’s $5k bribe offer is a great reason to vote against Trump, even if repubs win he’ll never pay it, and it isn’t his money to give out, it’s ours bbc.com

Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence techcrunch.com

If AI is so smart and powerful and capable of reinventing things, why hasn’t it reinvented software yet nytimes.com

A democracy tax in support of science science.org

For those of us who followed Microsoft in the early days of the web, this was kind of a revelation. I didn't realize Ballmer was this weird, corrupt, basically stupid nytimes.com

Army Heroes’ Humiliating Nickname for Pete Hegseth Is Leaked thedailybeast.com

Amazon service that Jeff Bezos called artificial AI is shutting down cnbc.com

Introducing Claude Tag anthropic.com

Metacritic co-founder Marc Doyle lifts the veil on how the site works gamesindustry.biz

Retired general calls Trump's proposed arch near Arlington a 'sacrilege.' pbs.org

OpenAI releasing major upgrade to ChatGPT and Codex with GPT-6 Astra 9to5mac.com

I kind of despise the way journalists have made this a gender war. Makes communication hard. And preserves even nurtures one of the biggest divides in our country. It is not men vs women unless you insist on making that nytimes.com

Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 nytimes.com