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Charity Majors, writing about how high-performing engineering teams are dealing with the transition from pre-AI to AI-native development: AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy. This is not a situation where one side is right and the other is huffing paint. (O, that it were!) Each side is grappling with a real, alarming, escalating threat to the company’s existence, and the …

Brian Fallon will release Not Bad for New Jersey on September 10th. Pre-orders are up. Brian Fallon is proud to announce his eagerly awaited new album, Not Bad For New Jersey, arriving via his own Lesser Known Records at all DSPs and streaming services on Thursday, September 10; physical release follows on Friday, September 11. Pre-orders/pre-saves are available now. Fallon’s first original solo LP in more than five years, Not …

A wine collector who confided 219 priceless and irreplaceable bottles to the SAQ for storage will be drinking Notre Vin Maison for the foreseeable future as the corporation has destroyed them all. But the story delves into complications beyond a mere warehousing error.

I'm a recent convent to AgentsView, Wes McKinney's (previously of Pandas fame) Python toolkit for analyzing transcripts of coding agents from your own computer. AgentsView can calculate your token spending based on those transcripts, across multiple different coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Pi and more.) You can run it via uvx like this to get as ASCII table of spending numbers in your terminal: uvx agentsview usage daily Example output: …

The rhythym of the Avenue of the Saints (apologies to Paul Simon)In preparing for the Triple Treat Character Convocation encompassing Water Ski Days (Lake City, MN), Whiz-Bang Days (Robbinsdale, MN) and the Glenwood (MN) Waterama through June and July, yours truly, in the company of Huckleberry Hound, were driving northbound on the Avenue of the Saints–a largely four-lane highway between St. Paul and St. Louis, as in US 61 up …

Linux PC vendor Juno Computers sells laptops, mini PCs, and tablets that come with Linux-based operating systems like Debian or Ubuntu pre-installed. The company launched its first Linux tablet in 2022, and delivered a few new models in the years since then. But the 2026 models could be the biggest updates yet. The new Juno Tab […] The post Juno Tab 4 is a Linux tablet with Intel Core i3-N300 …

That is the topic of my latest Free Press column. I will spare you the discussion of the AIs, but here is what I have to say about the humans: I am here to tell you that there is no ghost in the machine. But perhaps more importantly, there is barely a “ghost” in your own human machine. “Are people conscious?” is a better and more scientifically plausible question than …

Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Rex Morgan, M.D., 6/10/26 You know, maybe I’m sheltered, but I think that interpersonal violence happens a lot more often in stories than it does in real life, because some fisticuffs are fun …

This week Jonathan chats with Alexander Neumann about Restic, a particularly compelling backup and restore solution written in Go. Why did the world need one more backup program? And what’s Alexander’s personal take on transitioning from programmer to maintainer? Watch to find out! https://restic.net/ https://github.com/restic/restic https://fosstodon.org/@restic Did you know you can watch the live recording of the show right on our YouTube Channel? Have someone you’d like us to interview? …

New AI is deployed with a guardrail that if you try to use it to improve AIs, you will get silent corruption. Protecting their IP? Preventing the singularity? It's a bit baffling.

When we think of tarot cards, there’s a standout that probably pops to mind right away: the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. It was illustrated by British occultist and artist Pamela Coleman Smith, and more than 100 years after its publication, it remains the most widely used deck by readers. But the cards are far from being the first. Later this month, The Morgan Library & Museum presents Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions, …

This is a community submitted press release. Our Announcements section is free to post to and free to submit too, please help us keep this valuable industry resource available by subscribing to Rascal.SummaryGM Fest is a three-day, nine-game livestream showcasing eight GMs new to the TTRPG communityThe games stream at 10:30a, 1:00p, and 3:30p PT each day June 12-14 at twitch.tv/vorpahlsword & www.youtube.com/@alchemyrpgThe event is hosted by Amy Vorpahl, who …

The first things Warren King made from cardboard were toys and costumes for his two children. Before long, the former structural engineer and software executive found himself recruited by their teachers to make costumes for school plays and events. “Sometimes I would make 20 or 25 masks. Wolves, cats, dogs,... The Kid Should See This Warren King: Crafting cardboard figurative sculptures of the immigrant experience

News Project Hail Mary Project Hail Mary Gets Streaming Release Date… on MGM+ Amaze! By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on June 10, 2026 Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios Comment 0 Share New Share Project Hail Mary Gets Streaming Release Date… on MGM+&url=https://reactormag.com/project-hail-mary-streaming-release-date/” target=”_blank” title=”Twitter”> Project Hail Mary Gets Streaming Release Date… on MGM+” target=”_blank” title=”Pinterest”> Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios Amazon MGM Studios’ Project Hail Mary, the film adapted from …

How do you show love to your favorite Disney attraction, land, transportation, or even color? With the Logo Mania merchandise collection, you can share your favorite parts of your Disney days with everyone around you, no matter where you choose to wander. This colorful collection features six unique colors; four colors with an additional two colors exclusive to Walt Disney World, named after a feeling or place you can experience …