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• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds got really stupid this season. It's like the creators decided that the basic Star Trek premise is totally played out, and just decided to do silly fun stuff with their remaining budget.

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American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.

• If it's a signed first edition it's not entirely out of line, but otherwise you can just come to one of my signing events and I'll sign your copy for free, or for the holiday season call my local bookstore and order a copy there and I'll sign/personalize it and then they'll ship it off.
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Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.

• QBERT 2026 NFL quarterback ratings

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• Thinky Dailies — charming ever-changing collection of free daily puzzles, now in its fourth season

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Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.

• ChatGPT gift cards are live in the US! Gift cards give people a new way to share ChatGPT with friends and family. They also bring ChatGPT to the places people already shop for gifts, ahead of the holiday season. Recipients redeem their card at https://t.co/oX1jDGtz1t to add funds to their wallet, then use the balance for eligible subscriptions, renewals, and usage-credit purchases on ChatGPT web. Redemption is currently available in the US for accounts billed in USD.

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Criminal defence lawyer in New York; writes Simple Justice, mostly about how criminal law works in practice rather than in theory.

• Pardons Remove Consequences, Not Reality

  At Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene picked up on a Connecticut decision addressing an issue that has grown increasingly prominent, as well as lucrative, under the current administration: Pardons. Three things are indisputable…

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• Football season is upon us. The Baltimore Colts and the SF 49ers were my football loves for decades. This summer, friends forced me to watch full World Cup soccer matches. I fell in love with soccer. Our football look pretty puny by comparison.

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Criminal defence lawyer in New York; writes Simple Justice, mostly about how criminal law works in practice rather than in theory.

• Seaton: And Now, Sports

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Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.

• CROSSPOST: DAN DREZNER: The Trump Administration Strategy Fail

  Dan’s subheadline: “They have no idea what they are doing in Iran or Canada”; it’s Trump who draws parallels between Canadian clown-show-tiff-of-choice & killing nearly all of Iran’s leaders...

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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

• BlueskyWas spending too much time reading Tweets, so set out to write down why one resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire -- and importantly square which claims I think are valid or hyperbole in the resulting discourse.

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• NewsletterOne resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire

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Prime Minister of Canada since March 2025; formerly governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.

• Canadians look out for one another. It’s who we are. The women and men I met this week at the Thunder Bay Fire Management Centre have been working relentlessly to keep people safe through one of Ontario’s worst wildfire seasons on record. Service. Courage. Canada at its best.

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Writer of MacSparky and author of the MacSparky Field Guides on Apple productivity software. A lawyer for 30 years before going full-time on the site, he co-hosts the Mac Power Users and Focused podcasts.

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Statistician at Columbia; writes Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and wrote Bayesian Data Analysis.

• Update on U.S. government’s Soviet-style push for “gold standard science”

  We had a discussion last year: I got this email the other day from a journalist at a major news organization: I’m a science reporter from **, wondering if you’d have some time to talk/reflect on the Trump administration…

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British historian, translator and broadcaster; author of Rubicon and Dominion, and co-host of The Rest Is History podcast.

• I finish a rehearsal with @MarinaHyde for the must-see show of the season - THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF REGENCY LONDON!!! Lady Melbourne! Lady Nelson! Lady Hamilton! Jane Austen! Plus - Lord Byron’s ultimate ex!!!

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Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.

• I kinda hated S1 of Tires It just didn’t work and wasn’t very good Gave S2 a try and thought it was very funny Just finished S3 and I absolutely loved it Funny, creative & weird The season finale is one of the best TV episodes I’ve watched in a while Bravo Shane Gillis

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• We’ve officially moved from subletting my apartment season to looking for a sublet season, that’s how you know summer is over

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• I will never know if this administration *wants* to delegitimize the US census, but they sure are doing a fantastic job of it. The amazing Gillian Tett offers a portrait of what's happening:

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• (100) What is an “embedded” brain? Johnson & Johnson plans to invest in “neuroplastogen” company Delix; and University of Miami gifts Trump Administration accelerated path to research ibogaine

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• Why September Is the Other January, and How to Take Advantage of This Clean Slate.

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• Donald Trump Gives Up on American Foreign Policy

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London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.

• Did your phone just explode with this severe alert too? 🤔 Literally ran helter-skelter around my place checking for smoke before realising it was a national wildfire warning on my screen. 📲 #UK #EmergencyAlert #PublicSafety #CrisisManagement #UKGovernment #MobileTechnology

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• Covid-19 summer wave, peak mosquito season, two Cyclospora deaths (and the outbreak calming down), and more

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Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.

• Is Europe having a bad wildfire year?

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Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.

• Conflict About the FRA Study on Penn Station

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• The fossil fuel money behind the GOP’s wildfire blame game

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Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.

• This Summer, Design a Daily Recess: 7 Ways to Have More Fun

  An earlier version of this article appeared June 19, 2023 Toward the end of summer, have you ever felt that you wished you’d done more with those months? Life feels richer and more memorable when each season of the year…

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• Quick Note on Ridership Estimation and the STOPS Model

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• How The Free Press spun Trump's cruelty toward migrants as a heroic campaign to "save" kids

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• OH in coffee shop: “The final season of America is riveting.” Response: “But we’ll be disappointed with the finale. Just like Game of Thrones.”

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Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.

• How to Design Your Summer

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Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.

• For the better part of a decade, I've been writing that the US government's restrictions on Chinese tech companies were unstrategic, poorly explained, and based in caprice (https://t.co/Ohrn9qFtIL). Now it looks like the administration is turning these controls on American firms
  Quoting@deanwballThink about the power Hegseth is asserting here. He is claiming that the DoD can force all contractors to stop doing business of any kind with arbitrary other companies. In other words, every operating system vendor, every manufacturer of hardware, every hyperscaler, every type of firm the DoD cont…

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Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.

• He’s Not the Worst Kevin

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Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.

• Zipper

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President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.

• I have been briefed on the Record Cold Wave and Historic Winter Storm that will be hitting much of the United States this weekend. The Trump Administration is coordinating with State and Local Officials. FEMA is fully prepared to respond. Stay Safe and Stay Warm! President DJT
  Quoting@NWSTake this storm seriously, folks. Moderate to major impacts are expected from the Central US through to the Northeast today through the weekend. - Hazardous to impossible driving conditions are expected. Avoid travel if at all possible. - Widespread closures and disruption to infrastructure may als…

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Environmental writer and campaigner; author of Six Degrees, The God Species, Seeds of Science and Our Final Warning.

• Is it over for nuclear? As the renewables + batteries electro-tech clean energy revolution gathers pace, do we still need those hugely expensive giant reactors? Join me and Bryony Worthington for our Season 2 ender podcast episode... we went out with a bang!

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American backpacking guide, writer and endurance athlete who has hiked more than 30,000 miles; author of The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide and publisher of gear reviews and trip-planning tutorials at andrewskurka.com.

• 114 testimonials from our 2025 season

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Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.

• Raspberries

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Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.

• We're also announcing today that "Ratcheteer", a fan favorite from Playdate Season 1, is coming soon to your computer as "Ratcheteer DX", complete with COLOR GRAPHICS. Thank you for supporting our weird little games. I hope you have a good day.

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Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.

• I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration:

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• A tale of two Claudes

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Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.

• There was a lot to like about the commentary from Q1 earnings season. I'm afraid we'll hear a different story next time.

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