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

Preparing for a post-Trump internet pluralistic.net

Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users openrss.org

Omarchy is a good idea. Everyone should have their own OS to customize via AI omarchy.org

The EV4 is the all-electric sedan (and hatch) we want in the US, but can’t have. electrek.co

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Autonomous aircraft: Pilot-free crop dusters lead the way bbc.com

Whistleblower warns about USPS plan for Trump mail voting order npr.org

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