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A look at the NYT's Wirecutter, which increased its staff from ~80 in 2019 to 180 today and more than tripled its traffic to 15M monthly readers in recent years (Bill Adair/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/behind-the-scene…

Behind the scenes at Wirecutter for an epic duel of air purifiers
"One thing we've never figured out how to do is make a video of an air purifier test because it is so boring. It literally is just a machine sitting alone in a room."

Just did some tea tasting and bought expensive tea 🙈🫖 #HongKong

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Trump prepares for shameful birthday spectacle at the White House
Don't watch it
See the No Kings concert int
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/13/trump-ufc-birthday-white-house?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Preparing for a fun concert workshop in Brussels at the end of may @…
29 May '26 - panel with @… Greg Berger and myself talking about live coding, leading into extra special event bringing together cooking and live coding as performan…

AAA game launch is one of the most demanding stress tests any database can face. Jan Lehnardt (co-creator of Apache CouchDB) is at #bbuzz26 to talk through how they achieved 10x performance gains to meet exactly that challenge.
Learn more about this session: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/10x-couchdb-performance-gains-for-a-aaa-game-launch/

Trump, the would be dictator is really a minion for Putin https://mstdn.social/@Powerfromspace1/116225575276956462

I wanna jump one more time on the whole "distraction" framing, because this is a point that needs to be hammered home (and I need a reminder to write something longer).
Attacks on trans youth are not a distraction from other types of coercion, they are central to it. Attacks on trans youth come from a conceptualization of children as property, which is literally patriarchy in the Roman sense of the legal objectification all people who share a household as belonging to a man. This legal structure, Roman slave law, continues to be the root of property rights and therefore the foundation of capitalism.
But colonialism also extends from it through the infantalization of colonized people as a justification for oppression. This can also be turned inward again manifesting as the justification for police (that is, some people "can't handle themselves and need external authority to act right").
The #Epstein stuff isn't some weird thing that rich people get away with, it's core to how wealth works. Money isn't useful by itself, it's a proxy for power. One manifestation of power is being able to violate laws that constrain others (this is the "freedom of the monarch" that Graeber talks about in Dawn of Everything). The war in Iran, especially the threats of nuclear weapons and genocide is not a distraction from the #EpsteinFiles, but rather a manifestation of the same thing.
Power must be demonstrated to affirm that it is real. War is a demonstration power. Violating the law without consequences is a demonstration of power. The most taboo things are using nuclear weapons and child sexual abuse. He has already done one of those, and he is going to do everything he can to do the other.
These are not distractions, these are all manifestations of the underlying thing that we need to fight. But we need to make sure we're fighting it as a single thing. We have to tie these things together, because if we do not then we risk reproducing the same thing again but worse.

Miami residents sue to stop Trump's presidential library from taking prime waterfront plot (Kyla Guilfoil/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/miami-residents-sue-stop-presidential-library-waterfront-property-rcna345030
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p2#a260514p2

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