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The Good Parts by Evann Normandin

The Good Parts by Evann Normandin

Published by Jenni Sidey

Some love stories open with a meeting. This one opens with a letter that arrives eleven hours and twelve minutes too late. That small, cruel margin sets everything in motion, and it tells you almost everything you need to know about the kind of writer at work here: precise about time, tender about consequence, and willing to let a single missed moment reshape two lives. The Good Parts by Evann Normandin is the sort of debut that makes you sit very still on the last page, unsure whether you want to talk about it or protect the quiet it leaves behind. A premise that lives a breath away from real The speculative hook is deceptively gentle. In this world, a “forgetting pill” can wipe grief clean off the slate. No doctor will prescribe it, but with enough cash and a quiet clinic, you can walk out a person with a blank past and a hopeful morning. Rose has taken it. She has left behind her sorrow, her history, and the husband she once planned forever …

Drought Has Been Declared In Parts Of The UK – Here's How It May Impact You

Drought Has Been Declared In Parts Of The UK – Here's How It May Impact You

Published by Sam Flores

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A TV Show That’s Equal Parts Joy and Torture

A TV Show That’s Equal Parts Joy and Torture

Published by Sam Flores

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what’s keeping them entertained. Today’s special guest is Janay Kingsberry, a staff writer who has covered Donald Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center, the president’s beautification projects, and more. Janay has been on a memoir-reading spree, and one in particular inspired her to explore writing her own. She also enjoys wandering around with her film camera, has plans to watch The Odyssey twice, and wishes that capri pants weren’t back. — Stephanie Bai, senior associate editor The television show I’m most enjoying right now: House of the Dragon is a double-edged sword for me. Every Sunday brings equal parts joy and emotional torture. But like the rest of the internet, I’m completely captivated by Emma D’Arcy’s adept portrayal of grief, and I can’t …

I used an open-source Windows clone for a week, and I’m equal parts impressed and confused

I used an open-source Windows clone for a week, and I’m equal parts impressed and confused

Published by Miika Tikkanen

ReactOS has always been a bit of an enigma. At its core, ReactOS is a free and open-source operating system that aims to be compatible with Windows software. It uses reverse-engineered versions of proprietary Windows code, and one of its selling points is being able to replicate the NT kernel and run Windows executables. It kind of sounds like the antithesis of Windows and, in many ways, an anomaly. However, ReactOS is not Linux, and uses a custom Windows NT kernel. Which is what makes it all the more fascinating. I spent a week running ReactOS on both a virtual machine and real, supported hardware — and realized why it ultimately matters. Related These open-source projects have been running for 20+ years — and they’re still unfinished Two decades in, still no version 1.0. Installing ReactOS on a virtual machine Surprisingly easy To get started with something easy, I decided to install ReactOS onto a virtual machine using QEMU. This would also let me test out the OS and have a feel for its layout …

Why parts of Latin America loves MAGA

Why parts of Latin America loves MAGA

Published by Sam Flores

WASHINGTON — Colombian presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella has vowed to crush criminal groups and slash government programs. He promises to bomb “narco-terrorist” camps and build sprawling mega prisons if he wins Sunday’s runoff election. De la Espriella’s views have earned him the vociferous backing of President Trump, who has broken with White House tradition by publicly seeking to tip the scales in foreign elections — particularly in Latin America. After Trump gave his “complete and total endorsement” to De la Espriella, whom he referred to by his nickname, “El Tigre,” the candidate posted an AI-generated image of a bald eagle and a tiger, with American and Colombian flags waving side by side. “You have paved the way for the people to defeat the entrenched powers that have long held sway,” he wrote to Trump. “In Colombia, we have now begun to follow the same path.” De la Espriella, a political newcomer who built his campaign around gym workout videos and vows to “disembowel” the left, is part of a new wave of far-right, MAGA-aligned politicians …

Nicolas Sauvage is betting on the boring parts of AI

Nicolas Sauvage is betting on the boring parts of AI

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Nicolas Sauvage believes it takes four years for the best bets to look obvious — thinking that he shared on stage last week at StrictlyVC’s San Francisco event, which TDK Ventures co-hosted. It’s a theory he’s been working to prove since 2019, when he founded the corporate venture arm of the Japanese electronics giant, which is now managing $500 million across four funds. The AI chip startup Groq, valued at $6.9 billion during its most recent funding round last fall, is the highest-profile example of this thinking. In 2020, well before the generative AI boom made infrastructure bets look obvious, Sauvage wrote a check into the company, which was founded by Jonathan Ross — one of the engineers who built Google’s Tensor Processing Units. Groq was focused from the start on inference: the computational heavy lifting that happens every time a model responds to a query. Ross had designed his chip by building the compiler first, stripping the architecture down until, as Sauvage describes it, “you can’t remove one part and have it still work.” …

A fruit dish greater than its parts

A fruit dish greater than its parts

Published by Sam Flores

Good things take time. Haste makes waste. Go the extra mile. Did you too grow up on platitudes such as these? Sayings designed to instill the value of hard work and dedication? Funny how these catchphrases stick. Trite little verbal tidbits repeated by parents, grandparents, mentors and coaches burrow into your psyche and weave their way into an entire philosophy on how to live life. They certainly did in my case. In fact, they lodged so firmly that I could use a lesson or two in not trying so hard. I bring my striving attitude to the kitchen and have sworn my allegiance to paying attention to details and putting in the time required. Proficiency comes with practice, and experience has taught me that the more time and effort I put into something, the better that something (usually) is. However, on days when life throws so many curveballs my way as to steal my time and stymie my motivation to soldier through making dinner after arriving home later than planned, all that work-ethic hoo-ha goes …

Possessing the Painful Parts | Omari Weekes

Possessing the Painful Parts | Omari Weekes

Published by Jenni Sidey

There once was a time when one could eat the oysters of Jamaica Bay. In 1891 the wetland estuary located on the southwestern tip of Long Island was so renowned for shellfish farming that The Cosmopolitan ran an illustrated article titled “An Oyster Village,” which documents daily life in Inwood, a sleepy but prosperous coastal town sitting across an inlet from where John F. Kennedy International Airport currently stands. It describes the quaint existence enjoyed by a flourishing tight-knit community around the bay, “the freedom of the oysterman’s life, which, notwithstanding its hardship and exposure, is full of that poetry of the picturesque always furnished by water and sky.” In one of the many overlapping timelines in Tyriek White’s arresting debut novel, We Are a Haunting, a woman standing on the banks of Jamaica Bay in 1990 encounters a spirit who tells her a story about growing up long ago in a community of enslaved people living on farmland just northwest of Inwood. In this dead woman’s memories of enslaved life, oysters largely figure as …

5 signs that mean your PC parts are failing

5 signs that mean your PC parts are failing

Published by Miika Tikkanen

360-degree cameras are incredible, but the promise of capturing everything can quickly get buried under layers of confusing settings. Your shiny new Insta360 might advertise 8K 30fps recording out of the box, but that spec alone doesn’t guarantee great footage—or even usable files. Frame rates, stabilization modes, bitrates, and export options all play a bigger role than most people realize. Worse, one overlooked setting can quietly cripple video quality or cause dropped frames. And before you blame the camera, remember this: the storage you use matters just as much as the settings—especially when recording high-bitrate 360 video. Stop overexposing everything with EV compensation Let your highlights survive longer than five seconds It’s easy to leave your camera in auto mode and let it figure out the best settings for the situation you’re in. However, if you’re shooting in bright daylight, you’ll often find that the image is a bit too bright. This often results in blown-out skies and lost highlight detail that you simply can’t recover in post. It’s always easier to lift shadows than …