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Jobs week is coming up in the US, with a whole slate of indicators on the state of the labor market culminating on Friday with the government’s official report on employment for the month of May.

Does the inaccuracy or unfairness of an underlying conviction count as an “extraordinary and compelling reason” for compassionate release?

A24’s Backrooms nails the feeling of the Backrooms: drifting into an undetermined limbo that is unnavigable and inhospitable.

Kendrick Lamar reportedly ended Drake’s career. The charts suggest otherwise—to a point.

Tools like Pangram claim to detect AI writing with 99% accuracy. But if we can’t ever be sure, then no one knows what’s true at all.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is in dangerous denial about the consequences of enabling a wannabe king.

The new EV from the iconic Italian sportscar maker is so underwhelming it had to be memed.

I know the feeling of opening a blank index.html.erb file and having no idea how to make it look...

My end-of-week morning reads: • One Million New-Car Buyers Are Gone and They’re Not Coming Back Soon: WSJ on the demand hole left by affordability — a million households permanently priced out of the new-car market.…

Slate Auto begins taking orders for its modular, low-cost electric truck on June 24, revealing final pricing the same day. With over 160,000 reservations and $1.4 billion in funding, the company targets late 2026 deliveries from its Indiana factory.…