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Surprisingly, Marjorie Taylor Greene has emerged as a forceful critic of the GOP stance in the government shutdown fight. Greene just unleashed an angry rant at House Speaker Mike Johnson, pointedly accusing him of having no answer or millions of people who will lo...

New Mexico City International Airport was canceled when only half built, and has since been flooded and restored into wetlands.

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On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with reflections on the new Trump administration’s pattern of “politicized stupidity”: the willful refusal to understand abuses of power, including the destruction of the White House’s East Wing and the ...

My new WordPress News page is faster and looks better on phones. Also, lots of new sources thanks to suggestions from readers.

Carved a pumpkin!

It’s very interesting to compare my Wikipedia article and my Grokipedia article. The Grokipedia version is much, much longer, and does a better job of listing my accomplishments versus some random recent controversy. (Will someone reading about me a hundred years from now care that WordPress briefly had a sustainability team as one of its … Continue reading Grokipedia →

PLUS: ChatGPT users’ surprising questions for Sam Altman + Grokipedia launches

Update October 31: Added a missing section about new timeline settings. Mastodon 4.5 is almost ready. We just released the first (and hopefully only) release candidate, and the final release should be coming along very soon. This is once again a good time to highlight some o...

Other Mac-related news from OpenAI last week:

Sky is a powerful natural language interface for the Mac. With Sky, AI works alongside you, whether you’re writing, planning, coding, or managing your day. Sky understands what’s on your screen and can take action using your apps.

We will bring Sky’s deep macOS integration and product craft into ChatGPT, and all members of the team will join OpenAI.

Two of the founders of Software Applications Incorporated, the company behind Sky, are Ari Weinstein and Conrad Kramer, who a decade ago co-created Workflow, which Apple acquired in 2017 and turned into Shortcuts.

Federico Viticci got an advanced look at Sky and wrote a glowing preview back in May.

Writing Is Thinking With the Training Wheels Off

Crossing over the Lamar bridge.

Custom keyword notifications are one of the most valuable yet underutilized features available on WordPress.org. For plugin and theme authors, these notifications can offer real-time insight. They show how users are discussing and recommending your products across the support forums. Why Keyword Notifications Matter Keyword notifications allow you to stay connected to the ongoing conversation...

"The White House just marked the end of the console wars; DHS is posting deep fried Halo memes. We are somewhere else entirely."

Binance’s Changpeng Zhao earns a gold-plated pardon as other industry figures fund Trump’s $300 million ballroom

In many large enterprises, a hidden divide defines the technology landscape, creating a two-speed IT organization. On one side, modern,

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Most people’s primary computing devices are their phones — and even for people whose primary devices are desktop computers, their phones are much-used satellite devices. And on both iOS and Android alike, people live their mobile digital lives through native apps, not websites.

I checked out Elon Musk's answer to Wikipedia by going to the pages on his site that Wikipedia mangles the most. It looks like they basically copied Wikipedia, so it's no better or worse. They'll probably be able to improve it, because ChatGPT tells a much closer to actual-events story. Getting the story right, is more important imho than keeping democracy open to trolls.

Decades ago, the evolutionary biologist Jonathan Losos found himself chasing a lizard around an island in the Bahamas. The island was little more than mound of craggy limestone the size of a baseball diamond, and Losos, an evolutionary biologist at Washington University in S...

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