Why Carnegie’s Libraries Are Getting $10,000 Checks. nytimes.com

Majority of Americans Think Trump Is a Dictator. politicalwire.com

Can Substack Recover the Blogosphere We Lost? talkingpointsmemo.com

Mental exercise can reverse a brain change linked to aging, study finds. npr.org

Part of the White House East Wing is being torn down to build Trump's ballroom. npr.org

OpenAI looks for its “Google Chrome” moment with new Atlas web browser. arstechnica.com

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases. nytimes.com

Gotosocial is a great idea, but can't it be simpler to set up a server? If not, let's look at creating a higher level interface that can then be bridged to ActivityPub. gotosocial.org

It wasn’t space debris that struck a United Airlines plane—it was a weather balloon. arstechnica.com

Ontario launches $75 million ad campaign using the words of Ronald Reagan to argue against tariffs. youtube.com