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Jonathan O’Connell, Sarah Blaskey, and Aaron Schaffer, reporting for The Washington Post: A list obtained by The Washington Post reveals all the major donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project, including previously undisclosed contri…

The Wirecutter has put together 118 Things to Do Instead of Doomscrolling.

Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30 in Cambridge, Mass.

Apple has just announced Apple Home View: Apple today introduced Apple HomeView, designed to be central to the home and personal to everyone in it.

Any Human Ever randomly picks an average person from some point in human history and tells you about what their life was like: The stories that we call history are a deeply biased sample, selected for a variety of reasons, none of them having to do with f…

SPREAD, an underground club located in Tokyo’s Shimokitazawa neighborhood, hosted ‘JUCY BOOK RAVE,’ a daytime event that temporarily transformed its dancefloor into a dimly lit reading lounge on September 26th.

Trump’s screws are so loose they are starting to fall out.

“Chrissie Hynde’s Advice to Chick Rockers or ‘How I Did It’” appears to have been included on promo copies of the Pretenders’ 1994 hit “Night in My Veins”.

Matthew Butterick: So let’s not take the bait.

Catherine Rampell writing for The Bullwork: THE FEDERAL RESERVE RAISED interest rates today, and Donald Trump is Big Mad.

Apple’s website on their product dimensional drawings.

Recently, Jacob Coxon posted on X that he believes frontier AI models will likely kill us all by the end of the decade.

An amazing artwork constructed from hundreds of 1950s vacuum tubes sourced from Eastern Europe: Vacuum Tubes require high voltages to work efficiently and are not for the faint hearted.

The Chicago Public Library informs patrons of how much money they’ve saved borrowing from the library instead of buying.

The 101 Plays Itself turns live traffic on Los Angeles’ Highway 101 into music.

Gloria Steinem, in a posthumous essay for The New Yorker: For me, saying that I am a feminist has always meant that I believe in the social, economic, and political equality of all males and females of all races and groups.

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot more about what I actually care about.

Jamelle Bouie in a New York Times opinon piece: The details of what is happening here are important — that’s why I laid them out — but it’s also important to step back and make a more fundamental point: the president of the United States is engaged in a c…

Writer, journalist, and feminist activist Gloria Steinem has died.

Phil Schiller steps down from running App Store and Product Events: Apple Inc.’s Phil Schiller, one of the most visible and influential executives across both the Steve Jobs and Tim Cook eras, has stepped down from his role leading the App Store and produ…

ß Homing pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field using superparamagnetic macrophages in their livers: An international research team led by scientists from the University of Bonn, the University Hospital Bonn and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Be…