Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning | The Nation

read
Opinion: With iOS 26 over the horizon, jailbreaking iPhones is officially a thing of the past
With iOS 26 just over the horizon, and no jailbreaks for several interations, it seems like jailbreaking iPhones is now a thing of the past.
Drone delivery is set to finally take off with D-FW as an early incubator
Something’s stirring in 2025 for drone deliveries. The industry in the U.S. is going beyond experimentation and tests — and entering a phase that’s more...
Reflections on Palantir
A retrospective of an eight-year stint.
Hasan Piker Thinks America Might Be Cooked
Martial law. Canceled elections. The combative leftist streamer Hasan Piker predicts an ominous possible future for the US. He’s fighting back the only way he knows how: by raging against Trump, Israel, Democrats, and the wannabe bad boys of the manosphere—in between beefs with his opps and gym sessions with his boys.
‘Chapo Trap House’ Isn’t Going to Save the Democrats
Trump’s takeover of the manosphere left liberals pining for their own Joe Rogan. But the hosts of ‘Chapo,’ still stung by Bernie’s defeats, would rather let the party establishment burn. “I’m not giving any campaign advice here,” says Will Menaker, “other than to believe different things.”
Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
"For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT."
GQ - Men's Fashion, Style, Grooming, Fitness, Entertainment, Lifestyle, News & Politics
The latest tips and advice for men on style, grooming, fitness, best products, travel destinations and more. Find politics, sports and entertainment news.
San Francisco’s Ultrarich Are Blocking a Zohran-Style Agenda
For years, democratic socialists in San Francisco have been passing Zohran Mamdani–style policies in the city legislature and through ballot measures, only to see them blocked by Silicon Valley billionaires and powerful real estate interests.
US proposes new drone rules that could lead to Starbucks, Amazon deliveries
The U.S. Transportation Department is proposing new rules to speed deployment of drones beyond the visual line of sight of operators, a key change needed to advance commercial uses like package deliveries.
Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145 million
Employee stocks will be canceled as part of the deal; former employees point to culture change across Philz Coffee.
The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.
This Queer Online Zine Can Only Be Read Via an Ancient Internet Protocol
New Session publishes poetry via Telnet, rejecting the internet’s fast-paced enshittification.
Tracking every ICE action in San Francisco so far
At least 30 people have been arrested by ICE officers in San Francisco. Mission Local is tracking these arrests.
SPVs, Credit, and AI Datacenters
How a new credit bubble is building in AI data centers
Sociality - Paolo CIRIO Artist
GitHub - jj-vcs/jj: A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful
A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful - jj-vcs/jj
What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective
Solution-space Taste
A graphical representation
WesBurger, which changed how SF eats burgers, will shutter next month
Having graduated from pop-up to brick-and-mortar almost a decade ago, Wes Rowe did more to popularize smashburgers than almost anyone in the city.
The Parks Alliance, now in financial crisis, has a long and sordid history
Private group was linked to corruption scandal and threat to a sitting supervisor—and has very close ties to the head of Rec-Park
When Is a Torched Waymo More Than a Torched Waymo?
The moves of some Los Angeles protestors could be the start of something far bigger. Welcome to the techlash.
An early Joby Aviation backer might soon be its biggest distributor in Saudi Arabia
Joby Aviation has signed an MoU with investor and Saudi Arabian conglomerate Abdul Latif Jameel (ALJ) to distribute up to 200 electric aircraft valued at about $1 billion over the coming years.
Crypto billionaire's company, nonprofit to give over $9M to S.F. police for surveillance unit
Ripple founder and billionaire Chris Larsen continues prolific donations for police surveillance technology.
Lemmings: How DMA Design Redefined Puzzle Games
A look at one of the greatest puzzle games ever created. Lemmings in 1991 was developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis. Originally releasing on the Amiga and Atari ST it has seen ports to 20 different computers and consoles and has sold over 15 million units. In this episode we take a look at Lemmings and how it changed the industry.
Sources/Credits:
► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlFnMt3o1as
► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChmQBK_EaUQ
► https://web.archive.org/web/20180525191513/http://tle.vaarties.nl/lemmings/versions/
► https://lemmings.info/lemmings-gamehistory/
Music Credits:
► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC5AkdCbjuY
► 1988 - Psygnosis
► Composer: David Whittaker
► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiWbcws-s4o
► Lemmings (1991) music by Tim Wright.
TimeStamps:
00:00 - Psygnosis in the early days
01:23 - DMA Design
02:29 - The idea/concept
04:03 - Lemmings the game
09:45 - 2 Player Spilt screen mode
11:02 - The Ports
13:58 - Legacy
Social Media Links :
► X : https://x.com/ModernVintageG
► Threads : https://threads.net/ModernVintageGamer
► Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/ModernVintageGamer
► IG : https://www.instagram.com/modernvintagegamer/
► BandCamp : https://modernvintagegamer.bandcamp.com/
#Lemmings
Who Does a Supervisor Really Serve? Hayes Valley Deserves an Answer - Hayes Valley San Francisco
In light of recent developments regarding the closure on Hayes Street, we’re answering the two top questions we ask and have been asked as of late:Who does a Supervisor really serve?And have you even talked to Bilal about the closure?Yes, we did. Once. It was a meeting that left the room stunned and the community even more demoralized. What follows ... Read post
isn’t
Real Masculinity has Never Been Tried
More info about this below, but I released a new short story on Itch called Soft Hands. It's about masculinity and weakness and sledgehammers. It's pay-what-you-want, so check it out here. On to the newsletter:
I love to write about men. Men with strange ideas and fixations, men who are
Ex-cop jailed and deported during holiday to US
A former NSW police officer has described the terrifying ordeal she faced after she was detained, jailed overnight and deported from the United States – despite travelling there legally on a tourist visa to visit her US military husband.
Still Life: Jia Zhangke on the changing times of Caught by the Tides • Journal
With the release of his decades-spanning new feature Caught by the Tides, filmmaker Jia Zhangke speaks with Jourdain Searles about the necessity to keep going, the freedom of karaoke bars, the…
The New York Times Really Asked Ms. Rachel If She's Paid By Hamas | Defector
The house style of the New York Times is severely outdated. Depending on the topic, the newspaper’s purportedly impartial tone instead reads as smug, self-amused, and deeply lazy. The results are disastrous when applied to a recent article which sincerely considers the idea that Rachel Griffin-Accurso, the popular children’s entertainer known as Ms. Rachel, might […]