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Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote in 1869.
๐Ÿ“… This Day in History
๐Ÿ”ญ On August 20, 1909...
Pluto was photographed for the first time at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, U.S., 21 years before it was officially discovered by Clyde Tombaugh.
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๐Ÿ“ฐ News
Tesla is cutting Powerwall lease prices as startups like Base Power expand rapidly. Falling battery costs and virtual power plants let companies profit by supporting the grid, making home batteries cheaper while helping utilities meet surging electricity demand.
The FCC scrapped its long-term 1Gbps broadband goal, arguing it favored fiber over slower technologies like satellite and fixed wireless. Critics say this lowers standards, ignores affordability, and lets regulators declare broadband deployment โ€œgood enoughโ€ despite limited competition.
๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ Corporate Sabotage 101

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Keeps your Claude session warm for you
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Codex-native Academic Research Skills suite for human-in-the-loop academic research workflows
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Lore is a next-generation, open source version control system
๐Ÿ™ GitHub Pulse
Users allege Claude Opus 4.8 regressed in readability, producing verbose, jargon-heavy, smug-sounding responses. The complaint highlights productivity costs, unreliable prompt workarounds, higher token usage, and frustration severe enough to push some daily users toward rival models.
Developers are coalescing around AGENTS.md as a tool-agnostic guide for coding agents to understand projects. This could improve collaboration across Codex, Cursor, Amp, and others, while reducing reliance on vendor-specific files like CLAUDE.md.
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