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🚀 Check out this awesome post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Culture / Photo Booth 📌 Main takeaway: There is something inspiring about an ugly building. I don't mean high-concept ugly, like the Brutalist tower, but a purely temporary and functional place, if barely any—the Meadowlands, the halls of the Knights of Columbus, your malls. These are pranks, however our Pranks. Among my dear dumps are old newsrooms. It was my first Trentoniana tabloid newspaper in New Jersey that is still going strong, although its former headquarters, where I used to work, now houses a gypsum supply company.…

Bricklink suspends Marketplace operations in 35 countries (developing story)

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🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: November 29, 2025 | 88 Bricklink, LEGO’s biggest online marketplace and lifeblood of the LEGO community has made quite an alarming announcement. From 12 December 2025, BrickLink Marketplace will not be available for members in 35 countries around the world, which means that LEGO and Bricklink members will no longer be able to buy or sell on the Marketplace. See Bricklink’s statement and list of countries impacted. This is very surprising as the list of countries (listed below) are pretty established, and are home to thousands…

Lawmakers expressed bipartisan support for congressional reviews of Trump’s boating strikes

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Boat Strikes,congress,Donald Trump news,U.S. military ✅ Key idea: WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers from both parties said Sunday they support congressional reviews of U.S. military strikes against suspected drug-smuggling ships in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific, citing a published report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members as part of the Sept. 2 attack. Lawmakers said they did not know if a Washington Post report last week was true, and some Republicans were skeptical, but said attacking survivors of an…

How Noah Baumbach (The Return) fell in love with movies

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💥 Discover this awesome post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Culture / The New Yorker Interview ✅ Main takeaway: It was somewhere on a deserted highway in Ohio at about four o'clock I amWith a rain machine while I was filming "White Noise." I think I felt, God, I don't know that I like doing this. This movie was very difficult for me for several reasons. We shot through Coronavirus diseasewhich was a big part of it. It was a difficult time. I'm proud of the film, but it was very difficult to make. And then, when I…

Don’t Push AI Down Our Throats

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✨ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: AI is being done wrong.It's being pushed down our throats. It’s in our search bars, our operating systems, and even our creative tools, whether we asked for it or not. It feels less like an upgrade and more like a force-feeding.It doesn’t need to be this way. Technology can be adopted slowly. Organically. One piece at a time.Right now, the frantic pace of deployment isn't about utility; it's about liquidity. It’s being shoved down our throats because some billionaires need to make some more billions before…

Joan Silber on friendship in a broken world

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✨ Check out this must-read post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Books / This Week in Fiction 💡 Key idea: Your story in this week's issue, "Aman," is about two childhood friends, Nicole and Yasmina, whose lives diverge, then converge, then diverge again, and it is set against the backdrop of our increasingly fraught political moment. Did any of these items come to you first?I traveled to Uzbekistan last spring, and before I left I read that Stalin had ordered the evacuation of millions of Soviet citizens to Uzbekistan in the early years of World War II. For…

‘Avatar’ director James Cameron says generative AI is ‘terrifying’

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🔥 Read this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 Category: AI,Media & Entertainment,Avatar,James Cameron ✅ Main takeaway: James Cameron's films are often at the forefront of visual effects technology — especially the "Avatar" films, with their heroic blue Na'vi characters brought to life through performance capture. But that doesn't make Cameron a fan of generative AI. في مقابلة أجرتها شبكة سي بي إس صنداي مورنينغ مرتبطة بالإصدار القادم من فيلم "Avatar: Fire and Ash"، أقر المخرج بأن التقاط الأداء (حيث يتم تسجيل أداء الممثل كقالب للفنانين الرقميين) يمكن أن يبدو مشابهًا لـ genAI. But in fact, he said, "it's the…

A Love Letter to FreeBSD

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: Dear FreeBSD, I’m still the new person here, learning your ways, stumbling over the occasional quirk, smiling when I find the small touches that make you different. You remind me of what computing felt like before the noise. Before hype cycles and performance theatre. Before every tool needed a plugin system and a logo. You are coherent. You are deliberate. You are the kind of system that doesn’t have to shout to belong. You carry the quiet strength of the greats, like a mainframe humming in…

Tom Stoppard’s Radical Call | The New Yorker

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💥 Check out this awesome post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Culture / Postscript ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, his 1966 Shakespearean theatrical mystery about third-rate characters grappling with their inexorable fate, and pervasive conversations about probability and comic boredom (“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn't take it”). He hit the stage like a comet. Even in the alternate reality in which Stoppard only wrote Rosencrantz, we would still be in the hole resulting from that masterpiece. Crucially, it demonstrated the scope and ambition of…

A new report examines how David Sachs could benefit from the Trump administration’s role

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 Category: AI,Crypto,Government & Policy,david sacks,Donald Trump 💡 Main takeaway: David Sachs's role as President Donald Trump's AI and cryptocurrency chief could be very good for his investments, as well as his friends, according to a new New York Times report. However, Sachs responded in a post on X, where he described the five-month reporting process in which the accusations were "debunked" in detail. “They obviously raised their hand today and popularized this burger,” Sacks said. “Anyone who reads the story carefully can see that it has gathered together a collection…