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Why your health insurance is dropping GLP-1 coverage
The promise of GLP-1 drugs has always depended on people being able to afford them. These drugs still cost hundreds of dollars per month if you’re paying cash, at which point access becomes a privilege: The higher-income executive who wants to trim a few pounds might be able to afford them either way, but the low-income worker who needs the drug to lose significant weight might not be able to afford them — unless their health insurance covers it.
- Inverse Read
‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Was Always Meant To Be Just 3 Seasons, Apparently
It feels like Charlie Cox has only just settled back into the shoes of Matt Murdock, the Man Without Fear and star of Daredevil: Born Again. Shockingly, though, Cox’s place in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe is about to be in flux yet again. The third season of Born Again will, sadly, be its last — but what’s more insulting is the idea that three seasons are all that Born Again has ever had to give.
- Jacobin Read
Turkey Risks Being Drawn Into Saudi Arabia’s War in Yemen
Ankara’s new defense pact with Riyadh risks drawing Turkey into the war in Yemen. The country’s past experience offers a grim reminder of how ordinary Turks pay for such entanglements.
- Jacobin Read
It Won’t Stop With Ilhan Omar
Up until now, the Donald Trump-J. D. Vance administration has been busy weaponizing the US immigration system against fairly low-level political opponents: college students protesting US support for Israel’s genocide, independent journalists applying scrutiny to government policies, or random tourists who happened to be critical of the president and his lackeys. Now it’s taking the unprecedented step of turning it against a sitting member of Congress.
- Main - Kottke.org Read
Fishdraw is a single JavaScript file that generates
Fishdraw is a single JavaScript file that generates drawings of fish. There’s an option to slow the animation down so you can watch it draw the fish line-by-line.
- Inverse Read
The DCU Just Sneakily Revealed The Stars Of Its Latest Show
Surprise reveals can come from anywhere, especially in an age where you can be spoiled by anything from international voice-actor credits to McDonald’s Happy Meal toys. But sometimes an executive just blurts out some information. That’s the case with James Gunn’s counterpart at DC Studios, Co-President Peter Safran. In a broad interview with IGN, he casually dropped two casting choices that we had no idea about.
- Main - Kottke.org Read
How Hunting Owls Use Sound to “See” Under the Snow
The great grey owl basically has a sound cone for a face, which helps it hunt down voles burrowing through snow in the winter. The owl’s large facial ruff, form
- Inverse Read
‘Street Fighter’ Review: A Treat For Fans — Less So For Everyone Else
The new 'Street Fighter' remake is certainly the movie fans have been waiting for, even if it isn't a knockout for the uninitiated.
- Main - Kottke.org Read
How many shots are in the average movie? How does it
How many shots are in the average movie? How does it compare to the past? “You might expect the editor to be the most important factor in the number of shots, but in fact, knowing who directed a film accounts for 70% of the variation in its cutting pace.”
- VentureBeat Read
New Tool Recommendation system cuts your firm’s input token costs by 37%, according to Arcade.dev
The distinction Arcade emphasizes is packaging discovery with execution controls in a layer customers can use across their chosen AI systems.
- VentureBeat Read
Black Forest Labs opens FLUX 3 Image Klein weights, with free commercial use limited to smaller businesses
That makes Klein an additional option for local AI imagery, but the ability to download its weights does not give every business unrestricted commercial rights.
- Jacobin Read
Climate Policies Can Bring Relief on Affordability and Beyond
As the US midterm elections approach, one word keeps coming up in campaign promises and headlines: “affordability.” That working people in the United States are struggling to afford basic necessities is a problem that many are willing to acknowledge, but there is very little agreement on what should be done to tackle a core driver of the affordability crisis: climate change.
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Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World. “The epic
Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World. “The epic story of how a handful of surprisingly simple mathematical ideas have sparked today’s technological breakthroughs — from Netflix’s recommendation algorithm to medical imaging to AI…” Interesting!
- Inverse Read
‘Avatar: Seven Havens’ Mysterious Spirit Isn’t Who You Think It Is, According to the Producers
The 'Avatar: Seven Havens' producers debunk a common fan theory about the show's new red-and-black demon.
- VentureBeat Read
NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Super VL with post-training beats Claude Opus 5, GPT-6.1 Sol on specialized task benchmarks
NVIDIA has shown a coherent set of models for testing those possibilities; enterprises still need the licensing, deployment details and workload results to decide whether to build on it.
- Jacobin Read
Historian Eric Hobsbawm Was a “Communist Polymath”
Emile Chabal, author of a new biography of the massively popular and influential historian Eric Hobsbawm, explains how Hobsbawm’s Central European roots set him apart in Britain — and why he kept faith with communism through the devastation of his century.
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Where You Should Live: Five Factors to Keep in Mind
I ran across this post on Instagram by Bobby in Space (who posts about design and the psychology of place) and wanted to pull it onto the actual internet. Here are some snippets of his “5 hills I will die on as someone who studies the psychology of place”. I don’t think these are universal (e.g. people who live in rural areas likely prioritize other needs) or even necessarily the most important considerations (climate, sunlight, crime, schools), but they resonated with me.
- Inverse Read
39 Years Later, One Star Trek Legend Is Ready To Explore A Brutal Backstory
Back in 1987, when Star Trek: The Next Generation debuted, one character represented a bold, new step for the franchise. As Tasha Yar, actress Denise Crosby set the tone for TNG, playing a female chief of security on the USS Enterprise. Inspired by the character of Vasquez from Aliens, Next Generation creator Gene Roddenberry, the early TNG writers, and Crosby herself, infused Tasha with strength, bravado, and a very brutal and tragic backstory.
- Jacobin Read
How Bernie’s Campaigns Reorganized the Organized Left
Ten years ago, while socialist Bernie Sanders was making his historic run for the Democratic presidential nomination that drew millions of supporters and promised a “political revolution” to live long past his campaign, I was part of a small revolutionary organization that pooh-poohed him as a faux renegade.
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