Red Drink for Juneteenth | Cup of Jo — Amber Mayfield Hewett loves a good party. Not “good” in the sense…
This Book's First Sentence Blew Me Away | Cup of Jo — What’s your favorite first line in a book? First, here are a…
bought a 'camping tent' from walmart and the rain fly doesn't actually cover the door. went full soaking wet at 2am and realized it's all marketing! 🤦♂️💀 why would they design it like that
Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand — The same company that monetizes everything you do online would like to switch on your camera.
Only One Photographer Captured Infamous Zidane Headbutt at World Cup Final 20 Years Ago — Sometimes the story is away from the action.
Set up my tent in the dark for the first time. Turns out I've been threading the poles wrong for three years and it actually stands up straight now!
But We Had Music — How, knowing that even the universe is dying, do we bear our lives? Most readily, through friendship, through connection, through co-creating the world we want to live in for the brief time we have…
Race Matters: A Conversation With TV Producer Mara Brock Akil | Cup of Jo — Christine Pride, left; Mara Brock Akil, right When I was six years…
How Has Your Partner Surprised You Lately? | Cup of Jo — After nine years of being together, I thought I knew all of my husband Max's go-to moves for impressing me...
How Beautiful Is This Opera Singer's Paris Apartment? | Cup of Jo — “What always surprises me about living in Paris is how free I…
set up a tent in the backyard to test it out. realized after an hour the rain fly was on backwards the entire time xD
Have a Lovely Weekend. | Cup of Jo — What are you up to this weekend? The boys and I are…
Things That Have Piqued My Interest in Summer | Cup of Jo — By the wonderful Grace Farris.
China Didn’t Make Americans Hate Data Centers — GOP lawmakers, tech investors, and even OpenAI have tied the anti-data-center movement in the US to Chinese interference. Experts say it’s much more complicated than that.
Have a Relaxing Weekend. | Cup of Jo — 12 fun links, including a summer dress and beautiful beach.
Nvidia finds that simple linear math can replace costly AI model handoffs — <p>When an agentic AI system hands a task from a small model to a larger one — or back down again — it pays a steep tax: the receiving model has to recompute the entire conversation from scratch,…
10 Great New Children’s Books Out in September 2026 — The start of every school year feels full—too full—of haircuts and back-to-school nights, last-minute trips to the store for sneakers that aren’t a size too small, and last-gasp-of-summer ice cream…
Are you ready for what it takes to stop ghost guns? — New laws in California and New York might stop anyone from 3D printing guns — and create entirely new kinds of surveillance.
Wall Street’s AI Winner Hunt Leads to Seasoning Maker in Japan — The beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence buildout are spreading far beyond technology high-flyers. Laura Lau found one in seasoning maker Ajinomoto Co.
Aces hold off Mystics, lock up postseason berth behind Young's 32 — Jackie Young scored 32 points to help the Aces clinch a playoff berth with an 83-76 win over the Mystics on Thursday night.
Someone catalogued every object in their apartment for a year... then kept only what they'd actually used. The spreadsheet is somehow calming to scroll through.
Mum who accused ex-partner of rape wins appeal against family court judge — Family Court Judge Robin Tolson KC's decisions have been successfully appealed several times in the last six years.
Edward Steed’s “Down to Earth” — Creatures underfoot.
Amnesty calls for Israel boycott over aggression in the occupied West Bank — Amnesty International’s Agnes Callamard says the ethnic cleansing and annexation of the occupied West Bank is state-led.
Have a Great (Long) Weekend. | Cup of Jo — What are you up to this weekend? We watch lots of ’90s…
Your storage strategy is backwards—and this simple fix eliminates last-minute panic buys — Why I started measuring storage in years instead of terabytes
Summer Notes | Cup of Jo — By the lovely Grace Farris.
Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips — <p>A few hours ago, Chinese delivery app company <a href="https://longcat.chat/blog/longcat-2.0/">Meituan officially unveiled…
The unlikely hero of global water scarcity | Slava Libman | TEDxDresden — In his TEDx Talk “The Unlikely Hero of Global Water Scarcity” Slava explores a provocative idea: Water isn’t just a resource; it’s the key enabler of the technologies driving today’s rapid transformation.…
Five Pick-Me-Ups | Cup of Jo — How is your summer going so far? Right now Anton’s traveling with…
Apricot Dumplings for the Austrian Emperor — Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Figuring It Out | Cup of Jo — Sometimes while watching my daughter I can't help but...
I can't believe I'm living this life - Finucane — Emma Finucane is the first Welsh woman to collect three golds at a single Commonwealth Games.
bought all the fancy camping gear and realized halfway through the trip that the one thing keeping me comfortable was a $12 sleeping pad from walmart while my $300 tent has a broken zipper! 🏕️😤
spent three nights in a tent and realized i was doing the whole sleeping bag thing backwards the entire time 😅 explains why my shoulders were always freezing
It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell — It all started in the winter of 2024. There was a burglary in our apartment building and we decided we needed to invest in our home’s security. The …
map of every backcountry site in the US with elevation, water source, and how many people actually go there. nice for picking somewhere quiet.
watched a guy at the campsite spend 20 minutes getting his tent stakes level — turns out he was using his phone's compass instead of a level app 💀 the whole thing was slightly crooked the entire trip
Do You Wear Linen in the Summer? | Cup of Jo — How do you stay cool in the summer? This past weekend, Brooklyn…
Rebuilding the computer room — We traded the physical boundaries of dedicated rooms for the convenience of our always-on digital lives -- but recently I've been building those walls back up.
this person documented every established campsite in the US national forests, shows elevation and water access, huh 🏕️
iOS 27 code suggests Apple could restrict leased devices after missed payments - 9to5Mac — Code found in the iOS 27 beta suggests Apple has built a system that could restrict leased devices when customers fall behind on payments.
I Tried It: 5 Summer Lip Trends | Cup of Jo — Including a lip cream that lasts alllllll night.
Weird Al Yankovic’s Tiny Desk Concert — Holy moly, NPR’s Tiny Desk has been going for a long time. Weird Al Yankovic first stopped by the desk in 2010, so early that they didn’t even have it on Yo
Colour-sensing toaster makes burnt toast a thing of the past — <p>Kitchen brand Sage Appliances has launched a toaster that uses sensors to measure colour change to determine when toast is cooked. Described by the brand as "a breakthrough in toasting innovation", the appliance…
Saudis Oil Logistics Roiled Again by Houthis’ Red Sea Threat — Saudi Arabia is yet again being forced to overhaul how its oil gets to customers around the world as Yemen’s Houthis make it harder for Riyadh to use a backup route that’s been vital to the global economy since the…
Most camping guides tell you to hang your food away from bears. Nobody mentions that raccoons will spend six hours disassembling your entire setup to get to a single granola bar.
Have a Lovely Weekend. | Cup of Jo — What are you up to this weekend? We’re going swimming at Freddie’s…
Toby's Pro Tip for Restaurants | Cup of Jo — Last night, Toby and I went to a neighborhood restaurant… And, when…
this person built a entire camp kitchen out of scrap metal and now documents every meal cooked on it 🔥✨
My #1 Trick for Having Fun at the Beach | Cup of Jo — Going to the beach is a dream, of course — we especially…
Why do camping tents have that weird reflective strip on the rain fly — and why does it actually matter at night? 🏕️ Found the breakdown with diagrams.
Shudder To Think Announce New EP 'Who Sent You?', Share Song — The Washington, DC art-punk band Shudder To Think started in 1986 and released a series of confoundingly foxy records before breaking up in 1996. Frontman Craig Wedren went on to a prolific career scoring films and…
Yen's Fundamentals 'Different This Time Around,' Natixis Says — There is room for a "lot of movement" for the yen, according to Trinh Nguyen, senior economist for emerging Asia at Natixis. "The reshoring of not just Japanese investors, the hiking of interest rates, and also on…
Dark matter discovery? A simple Q&A on what it really means — An unknown material fills the universe.