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British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.

• MastodonAverage taste, but on 241 as they festival is starting to close. Drinking: Orchard Dry By: Snails Bank Cider Co At: Woolwich Works 🍺🍺🍺 https://untappd.com/user/edent/checkin/1602685606 #untappd

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• BlueskyChecked in to Workers' Bar, SE18 6HD, United Kingdom Gonna try to work my way through this festival list 😄

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• MastodonA very small local beer festival 😄 Drinking: Raspberry Ripple By: Snails Bank Cider Co At: Woolwich Works 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺 https://untappd.com/user/edent/checkin/1602592820 #untappd

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• NTP, an atomic clock, and having a great time at the world's largest VCF

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• 7 Films I Love: 1. Perfect Days. Can you find enlightenment from cleaning toilets? After watching this Tokyo-based film, you might well think so. Perfect Days is beautifully shot and earned lead actor Kōji Yakusho (Shall We Dance) the Best Actor Award at the 76th Cannes Film Festival. 2. The Wild Robot. This is a family-friendly, “This is so cheesy! Why am I crying?!” type of feel-good watch. This film was adapted from the #1 New York Times bestselling illustrated middle-grade novel The Wild Robot by Peter Brown. 3. ​Argentina, 1985. I absolutely loved this film. It explains the brutal story—…

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• I'm excited to be appearing at Gloucester History Festival this Autumn - you can catch me on the 20th Sept at 4pm, at Blackfriars Priory. https://t.co/9kwJ2iJTr8 Come along and say hello—I can't wait to see you there! @gloshistfest #GlosHistFest26

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• Should I Ask for Sponsorship?

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• Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd

  In June I purchased this TrueTime XL-AK time server, so I could learn more of the history of GPS-based time. I received it on June 22, and just 16 days later a similar GPS time server took down Australia's cell service…

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Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.

• RE: https://front-end.social/@zeldman/117190835659376366 AI versus the open, human web. What’s a humanist—or a humanistic company—to do? Listen in as Patrick Neeman and I try to make sense of things today 2-3PM ET. Free to attend (of course).

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Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.

• If you’re in SF you shouldn’t skip this. What a banger team. Must attend.
  Quoting@PlanetScaleWe're pulling back the curtain on Neki, our sharded Postgres product, at THE SF DATABASE MEETUP on Sept 10. The lineup: @NickVanWig — A first look at Neki's architecture @BenjDicken — Why Postgres needs sharding @harshitgangal — The lifecycle of a query in Neki @rohitnayak — Data movement in Neki @…

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• Join me next summer for a continuing education retreat in Ireland! 🏰✨ Join me at historic Kilkea Castle to prevent burnout, deepen your somatic & EMDR practice, and reconnect with your passion. 📅 June 22–25, 2027 🎓 Up to 12 CEs 🔗

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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.

• Talk Your Book: Cash Was Easy...Now What?

  Sponsored Meet YCharts Live at Future Proof Festival See how YCharts helps enhance every stage of a client relationship. Join our session on building client confidence through effective visuals, get a demo and 20% off Y…

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General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.

• It's time to decentralize Hollywood with AI. Introducing the new Network School Astana AI Film Festival, in partnership with the Republic of Kazakhstan. We're awarding $2M in prizes with entries accepted from around the world. So: submit your film now at https://t.co/6iF4Bpno03.

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• The Compound and Friends: The Four Horsemen of the AI Apocalypse

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General partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Cold Start Problem. Previously led rider growth teams at Uber; has blogged on growth, network effects and marketplaces since 2007.

• 👇 we're paying for 20 folks to fly in across the world to attend SF Tech Week in Oct and attend our special events focused on global founders details below
  Quoting@tkexpress11it’s live! we’re flying 20 top builders from around the world to San Francisco for Tech Week Oct 5-11th Applications for the Global Founder Sprint by @speedrun are now live What? - up to $3K to cover travel costs to SF (by @Airwallex) - small dinner with a16z investors - invites to VIP a16z events…

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• I'll be at Ilkley Literature Festival on the 11th October - and general booking opened yesterday! https://t.co/w8JaxB7m3K Thanks for the invite @ilkleylitfest

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• Animal Spirits: Are Free Markets Dead?

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Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.

• (Almost) everything you'd want to know about cancer vaccines can be heard in this great @owl_posting podcast episode from June, feat @iskander @BenjaminGVincen. Highly recommended!

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Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

• Surprise DM

  When I saw the Slack notification preview, “Matt, I’m literally crying right now,” I must admit my first reaction was “Oh no, what happened…” Matt, I’m literally crying right now. I just read the Baby & Caregiver Attend…

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Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.

• NecronomiCon now labels itself as “The International Conference and Festival of Weird Fiction, Art, and Academia”, no longer a Lovecraft con specifically. And that is fair; the next panel I’m going to is “weird Appalachiana.” But Lovecraft sure does seem to be still the anchor and common thread.

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Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.

• An interesting subplot to the Clayton by-election result. Just why didn’t Nigel Farage attend? His comments seem to indicate embarrassment “I'm damned if I'm going to stand on a stage … and be demeaned and humiliated by nobodies” 1/2

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American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.

• i wanted to take a second to say thanks today marks 52 weeks of working with @GuiBibeau he's been with me since i launched this side business and i've seen him: - completely change his wellness habits - prioritize sleep, clean eating and always getting his steps in (~45m walks multiple times throughout week) - experiment with new supplements - attend various workout classes (Muay Thai, HIIT, pilates) and he's continued it for an entire year. all while maintaining a digital nomad lifestyle. changing your habits is hard. staying committed over the long-run is even harder. cheers to Gui for insp…

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• I'm very excited to have been invited to Gloucester History Festival on the 20th September - and I hope to see you there! https://t.co/9kwJ2iJTr8 @GlosHistFest

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Product discovery coach; wrote Continuous Discovery Habits and writes Product Talk.

• The Call to Adventure

  In June, I returned to Product at Heart in Hamburg, Germany. I love this event. Arne Kittler and Petra Wille do such an amazing job of curating a thoughtful lineup of speakers and they obsess over the attendee experienc…

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Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.

• I spent the last academic year (Sept 25-June 26) on sabbatical, looking after my baby granddaughter, and I loved every moment. I missed teaching, though, and I will be back in the classroom in spring 2027. In the meantime, I will be on the road in Latin America, Europe and Asia in 2026.

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• The S&P 500 capped off a middling month in June 2026, but had a stunning 2nd quarter, up 14.87%. Rising earnings helped, and the equity risk premium for the index stood at 4.17% over the 10-year treasury rate.

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Economist; Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, and Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017.

• Jobs day: 57K jobs added in June (111K average for last three months), less than expected but probably more than breakeven. Unemployment rate fell to 4.2%, has been stable for 2 years now, but participation and employment rates fell. Wage growth picked up.

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Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.

• Top 1 Million Analysis – June 2026: The State of Crypto

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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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• Top 1 Million Analysis – June 2026: Ten Years of Web Security

  It's been a long time since the last one of these! The previous Top 1 Million Analysis was way back in June 2022, and a lot has happened since then. But there's a much bigger reason to dust off the crawler and publish a…

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Game designer and programmer, co-founder of id Software and co-creator of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D. Now runs Romero Games in Galway, Ireland.

• The June newsletter ships tomorrow! Sign up if you haven't already, and thanks for supporting independent game devs.

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  Quoting@romeroSign up now to receive the June newsletter, coming out soon! Lots of cool stuff to share!

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Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.

• Alan Greenspan, RIP

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Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.

• Two-Tier Justice

  It’s real, and it’s the exact opposite of what the far right says it is. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th June 2026 “If you are targeting people on the basis of the colour of their skin,” the Northern I…

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Writer of the personal-finance blog Of Dollars And Data and author of Just Keep Buying and The Wealth Ladder. Chief Operating Officer at Ritholtz Wealth Management.

• Take two students who attend the same school, have the same major, and earn the same grades. A decade later, the one who grew up poor will make about 7% less. My latest on the gap that a degree doesn't close:

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• The next stop on the festival circuit for me is Oxford Festival of the Arts on the 7th July - I very much look forward to seeing you there! https://t.co/CPJUYAVGjs @ArtsFestOxford

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

• The enormous size of the oil and gas market drives adoption of synthetic fuel production

  Originally posted at the Terraform blog June 16 2026. One of the underrated joys of hardware tech development is having the opportunity to tell and retell the story until it gradually becomes less mysterious. To me, wha…

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Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.

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• I am looking forward to the wonderful Burford Festival this week - see you there on Thursday!

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Music critic of The New Yorker since 1996 and author of The Rest Is Noise, Listen to This and Wagnerism.

• Habermas, Dudamel/Conlon

  The Dream of Reason. The New Yorker, June 22, 2026. Farewell, My Lovely. The New Yorker, June 22, 2026.

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• Reality Be Damned

  The policies of both Reform UK and the Conservatives would destroy a million jobs. In return, they offer imaginary employment in a fantasy industry. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th June 2026 Really? Yo…

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• DC-area happy hour on June 23!

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• I'm doing a reading in Asheville tomorrow night. We've already maxed out on RSVPs but you can still attend; hope to see you there:

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• Vampire Capital

  The highly lucrative trade in children in care reveals another level of cynicism altogether. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th June 2026 Bring your suitcase, your bin liner, your dumpy bag. They’re handin…

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• I've been on a wild travel journey in China for several weeks, with only a backpack, making new friends and meeting & getting to know people from all walks of life. I've been truly humbled and inspired by everyone's kindness. Next, I'm hopping over to Taiwan (first time for me) to hang out with Jensen, attend Computex, eat a bunch of street food, and just have fun talking to all kinds of folks around the city & beyond. After that, no plans, anything goes. As always, please give travel suggestions or fill out coffee form if you want to hang out in Taiwain or anywhere else in the world. Love yo…

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Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.

• If you're a blogger (or aspiring blogger) interested in "progress", I recommend you consider applying for the roots in progress blog-building initiative. (Deadline June 1)

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• I'm doing a book event on June 10 at Malaprop's in Asheville, NC — come! say hi! ask questions!

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Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.

• Austin, Texas! June 1!! Come hang out!!!

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Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.

• There's a fairly common assumption that to know yourself better, you should attend to yourself more—journal, introspect, meditate on your patterns. And there's something to this. But also. The more you make yourself an object of attention, the more you reinforce the narrating self—the self that has problems, the self that needs fixing, the self with its story of development. I notice that when I, instead, sort of forget about myself and attend deeply to the outer world (when I unself as Murdoch would say) I actually see myself more clearly in a paradoxical way. If I engage fully with somethin…

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• Wait, the bathrooms at a festival cost how much??? We peeled back the curtain for a behind the scenes look at the biggest event in wealth management.

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AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).

• LLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (July to December)

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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.

• The United States did not attend the G20 in South Africa, because the South African Government refuses to acknowledge or address the horrific Human Right Abuses endured by Afrikaners, and other descendants of Dutch, French, and German settlers. To put it more bluntly, they are killing white people, and randomly allowing their farms to be taken from them. Perhaps, worst of all, the soon to be out of business New York Times and the Fake News Media won’t issue a word against this genocide. That’s why all the Liars and Pretenders of the Radical Left Media are going out of business! At the conclus…

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China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.

• India and the invidious comparison with China

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Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?

• A Short History of My Last Six Years

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Co-founder and partner at Union Square Ventures in New York. Has written the AVC blog almost every day since 2003, on venture capital, startups, music and crypto.

• @whitneymcn @aweissman happy cover friday. here is Valerie June covering Gillian Welch

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Author of Fluent Forever and founder of the app of the same name; teaches pronunciation first and vocabulary through images rather than translation.

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