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Spencer Pratt will not be the mayor of Los Angeles. There should be no need to utter this sentence, much like “You do not have to swallow a rhino whole, tonight” or “Human shit will not rain down from the sky.” Well, of course not. Should I have been worried about that? 

According to more than a few self-styled Serious Thinkers—perhaps still haunted by the shock they experienced on the night of Nov. 8, 2016—who insisted on treating Pratt’s mayoral primary run as a legitimate rebuke of status quo politics: Yes. The Free Press worked harder than anyone has ever worked before to imbue Pratt's candidacy with a sense of “woke Democrats just might lose because of woke” verve.  

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Despite plenty of cause to fear that the NBA Finals would be derailed by Donald Trump's attendance and the resultant security apparatus that turned Madison Square Garden into a cage within a cage within a cage, Knicks fans showed up early Monday night, packed the house, booe...

Don’t kill the code reviews; just move the human checkpoint upstream to reviewing intent, specs, plans, constraints, and acceptance criteria.

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It'll be the first time ER-100 technology they claim can reverse aging in cells has been tested on a human

With a competitive price, winning design, and better performance than the R1, Rivian could be set to break into the big leagues. Just make sure you get the right model with the right tech.

One thing is for sure: we’ve never seen anything like it. The actions of this president and his administration are completely and utterly unprecedented. - - - In an unprecedented move, the president chose to boost the inflation rate. That isn’t typically his job, although, i...

The affordable Artline doubles as a design piece and comes close to outshining the reigning champion of art TVs, the Samsung Frame Pro.

A decade ago, commuter buses attracted big protests in San Francisco. Years later, the city is still feeling the repercussions.

In 2019, Alex Vindman testified during President Trump’s first impeachment trial–a decision that ended his military career. Now he wants to challenge the president from the halls of Congress.

The state’s outbreak means adapting to America’s new reality, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again.

New research finds that in the six months after Meta relaxed rules in the name of free speech, violent threats against lawmakers—including President Donald Trump—surged on Facebook.

For the past 18 months, the corporate approach to artificial intelligence has been a gold rush. The mandate was simple:

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It can be unnerving to write on the internet, to take what’s inside your mind, your heart, your deepest soul, and put it on the outside for other people to see. Possibly, the scariest part of writing publicly is the extent to which it makes you examine your own life and ask, “What’s interesting here?” […]

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In this episode of Open Web Conversations, Zach Stepek and Carl Alexander discuss with Alex Standiford the impact of AI on developers, highlighting productivity, burnout, workflow changes, and the necessity of setting boundaries in this rapidly evolving landscape.

On Tuesday, Maine will vote in a high-stakes primary contest for a Senate seat that Democrats think they can win back from Republicans for the first time in decades. Democrats are pinning their hopes on Graham Platner, a progressive who has faced a string of scandals. Today,...

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📽️ I’d been trying the other series and it really wasn’t working for me - so now watching the prequel because @dave said how much better it was. Jury out for this bear - but I did spend the first episode trying to spot Rhys Ifans and couldn’t. Apparently he’s changed a bit!

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📽️ I’d been trying the other series and it really wasn’t working for me - so now watching the prequel because @dave said how much better it was. Jury out for this bear - but I did spend the first episode trying to spot Rhys Ifans and couldn’t. Apparently he’s changed a bit!

Micro.blog - @dave

📽️ I’d been trying the other series and it really wasn’t working for me - so now watching the prequel because @dave said how much better it was. Jury out for this bear - but I did spend the first episode trying to spot Rhys Ifans and couldn’t. Apparently he’s changed a bit!