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Trump’s intelligence nominee refuses to reveal the winner of the 2020 election

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🔥 Read this awesome post from PBS News Hour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: director of national intelligence,Donald Trump news,FRED FLEITZ,jay clayton,Jon Ossoff ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Jeff Bennett: Another Trump nominee for high office faced off with senators today. US Attorney Jay Clayton appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee to attend his confirmation hearing as Director of National Intelligence. The job is largely focused on external threats and national security.But, as Nick Schifrin says, much of today's hearings have focused instead on the recent past. Nick Shiffrin: Today on Capitol Hill, a hearing that was supposed to be about…

Making 768 servers look like 1 — PlanetScale

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🚀 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: This is 768 servers.To some, that looks like a lot of computers. To those managing the infrastructure for apps with millions of customers, executing millions of queries per second, pretty normal. Products at this scale frequently require thousands of servers working in unison.The most difficult infrastructure component to scale is almost always the database. A single database server cannot handle such demand, so we must spread the queries and data out across many servers with database sharding.Database sharding is the best way to scale a…

Senators question Blanche about Trump’s loyalty, the January 6 cases, and the Epstein files

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✨ Explore this insightful post from PBS News Hour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: attorney general,Department of Justice,Donald Trump news,retribution,Todd Blanche 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Jeff Bennett: Welcome to the News Hour.Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee today for more than five hours to testify about his nomination to serve permanently in the position.As justice reporter Ali Rogin reported, Blanche faced pointed questions about his record as President Trump's personal attorney, the fate of a proposed settlement fund for people who claim to have been targeted by the Justice Department, and his handling of the…

The best books to read in July: new paperbacks from Andrew O’Hagan, Miriam Toews and Oyinkan Braithwaite | Books

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture,Paperbacks,Oyinkan Braithwaite,Fiction,Biography books,True crime books,Autobiography and memoir,Essays,Thrillers 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: FictionFictionCursed DaughtersOyinkan BraithwaiteRepeat a family story often enough, and it becomes a kind of legend – or a curse. The Faloduns at the centre of Cursed Daughters share tales of heartbroken women across the generations who just can’t seem to hold on to a man. There’s Fikayo, whose husband left after he tired of tending to her chronic illness; Afoke, who seduced her younger sister’s boyfriend; Feranmi, the matriarch of the family, who got pregnant by…

If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe

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🔥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The title is a tongue-in-cheek parody of a quote from Carl Sagan(External link).And it ties in very well with the thought exercise we are doing today. When we start learning about web accessibility the first thing we hear one of two things: The first rule of ARIA is to not use ARIA. And: If there is a native element, use that instead of recreating the element. But people never explain why this advice is given, and why we should not recreate things from scratch. I’m…

World Cup 2026: English star Jude Bellingham slaps Argentine substitute Barco

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✨ Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Jude Bellingham then slapped Argentine substitute Valentin Barco on the back of the head England lost 2-1 in the World Cup semi-final.Barco, who did not play in the match, was on the pitch throughout and was hugging his teammates near Bellingham when the England midfielder approached him and slapped him.It sparked a small scuffle as players from both sides became involved before Bellingham walked away.It is not known what sparked the reaction, but the footage showed Barco running on the field after the equalizer scored…

minh-ton/reynard-browser: An experimental Gecko-based web browser for iOS 13+. · GitHub

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🔥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Reynard is a Gecko-based web browser for iOS 13+. Unlike other browsers on iOS that are forced to use Apple's WebKit engine (including Safari and all third-party browsers), Reynard uses Gecko. This is the same engine that powers the Firefox browser on desktop and Android devices. This project is mainly for users on older iOS versions who are stuck with an outdated version of WebKit. Because WebKit is bundled with the OS, these devices cannot receive engine updates and often fail to load modern websites.…

Sweeney Todd review – Sondheim’s Devil’s Barber is still above par | stage

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Musicals,Stephen Sondheim,Stage,Culture,Birmingham Rep 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: STiffin Sondheim was drawn to fairy tales — and not just the subject of the short story book Into the Woods. The origins of Sweeney Todd, the devilish barber of Fleet Street, lie in Victorian melodrama, but in the hands of the composer, working with book writer Hugh Wheeler in response to a Christopher Bond play, steeped in folklore tropes.The story of a serial killer who delivers the grisly contents of his landlady's pies is filled with the kind…

Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: [2026 Update] This post has garnered significant traffic to my blog as well as discussion on and offline over the last 10 months. For some google search queries (such as “ai just a tool”), this ranks in the top-2 search results consistently. So for folks finding this post, and my thoughts on the matter, I want to note that I’ve given a keynote on “tool-making” (which is the subject of my PhD) and I encourage you to read this blog and then consider watching…

Christopher Nolan’s epic used the occupied territories as a film location. This sounds like betrayal Odyssey

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: The Odyssey,Film,Culture,Christopher Nolan,Western Sahara,Morocco ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TSimply carrying a camera in my home country of Western Sahara can constitute a crime. When Sahrawi filmmakers and journalists try to document daily life under Moroccan occupation, they can often end up in prison cells. For the Moroccan regime, a camera in the hands of a Sahrawi threatens its official narrative that Western Sahara is part of Morocco.In contrast, when world-famous names in the film industry want to capture the perfect photo of an epic journey, and it…