Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Mitchell Robinson, Celtics agree to 3-year, $47.4M deal espn.com

Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off techcrunch.com

Death by firing squad: archaic method on the rise in US as Idaho opens new execution chamber theguardian.com

Eight Great American Novels newyorker.com

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Photos from Trump’s golf course tour reveal overhaul of East Potomac wapo.st

Putin Faces Increased Pressure as Moscow Is Again Attacked by Drones nytimes.com

"One side is playing constitutional hardball." talkingpointsmemo.com

NBA free agency 2026 live updates: LeBron James to leave Lakers but won't retire nytimes.com

Introducing Claude Sonnet 5 anthropic.com

Supreme Court ruling guts government’s use of geofence warrants arstechnica.com

BTW, this is my daveverse blog on wordpress.com. People for some reason are starting to ask about the blogroll, which has been available for two years daveverse.org

The Micro.blog Paradox: are its mindful features creating a Fediverse island vladcampos.com

Maine voters are mostly liberal and many are idiots politico.com

Monday, June 29, 2026

He Asked Claude to Review WordPress. Here’s What It Found pootlepress.com

James Dolan owner of the Knicks keeps doing unforgivable things. We didn’t want Trump at the Garden, we don’t want the team to celebrate with Trump, and we do want Mitchell Robinson back. He must want to be despised postingandtoasting.com

Sunday, June 28, 2026

In the 80s and 90s, Apple CEO John Sculley produced a set of videos outlining a vision for a Knowledge Navigator along with the idea of a Personal Digital Assistant. I just realized that that vision has been realized, it's called Claude or ChatGPT. It's almost exact en.wikipedia.org

NBA rumors: The biggest offseason question for every Eastern Conference team cbssports.com

EFF on RSS. Thanks for the push, but the NYT and Netscape deserve the credit for making RSS a hit eff.org

Question for Biden, how much responsibility do you take for this tragedy cnn.com

The pro-algae protest at the Reflecting Pool wapo.st

Rather than outlawing AI, we should reimagine education paulkrugman.substack.com