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The Washington, DC, metro area is getting its first en-route overhead pantograph electric bus chargers.

Simon Willison blogged about letting Fable decide when to use cheaper models:

Jesse Vincent just gave me a related tip to help avoid burning too many of those valuable Fable tokens in the few days we have left before the prices go up. Tell Fable to use other models for smaller tasks, applying its own judgement about which model to use.

Fable pricing is nutty. I’m happy to just run GPT-5.5 with fast and xhigh for everything and not worry about it.

"Blending humor, nostalgia, spirituality and pop culture," this new exhibition is "the only place where Maimonides meets the Grateful Dead as they both drink Dr. Brown's soda."

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The USPS Route 66 stamp collection will feature images of roadside culture taken by David Schwartz.

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This holiday weekend, as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation's founding, I'll be thinking not just about the history of the United States but about our future.

American flag with 28 stars, on display at the Texas State Library. Wasn’t expecting it to be so big! Texas joined in 1845 and it was only another year until the flag needed 29 stars. 🇺🇸

An accent doesn’t just tell someone where you are from – but who you are – your cultural background, race, age and class. How the way we talk tells people more than we think.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Founders of our great Republic gathered in Philadelphia to fulfill a God-given destiny — the freedom and Independence of the United States of America.  Fifty-six men — representing legions of freedom-loving Patriots sprawled across 13 Colonies — pledged their […]

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Heat and humidity as severe, prolonged and far-reaching as this week’s would have been “virtually impossible” in the Northeast and eastern Canada before humans began warming the planet, a team of scientists said on Friday.

Earlier this week, Apple’s WebKit team shipped Safari Technology Preview 247 with a built-in Model Context Protocol server — 16

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In Europe we use Hetzner, and I’ve always been bewildered about how it’s a fraction of the cost of Linode. But lately we’ve had a number of server crashes over there. Spreading servers across multiple providers is probably still the way to go.

128GB capacity. It will be used to store back ups of this blog (>6,500 posts and a couple thousand media files) as well as KBOA830.com and The Basement Diaries.

It's pop art that is unapologetically political.

Most Americans still love their country, but patriotism is in sharp decline.

More than 4,000 nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital are set to strike on July 8. Leaders at the hospital, owned by Mass General Brigham, met with union members Thursday but failed to reach a contract agreement. No additional bargaining sessions are scheduled at this time.

In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss the launch of the Tesla Model YL, BMW iX5, and EV sales results for the second quarter.

Some brains appear to fight back against Alzheimer's by helping immature brain cells survive damage instead of succumbing to it. Understanding this natural resilience could point researchers toward entirely new ways to protect memory and slow dementia.

I have resisted (for the most part) anthropomorphizing the AI tools I use. But it’s getting harder. I think of Claude as male (my maternal grandfather was named Claude); Gemini seems genderless; and Perplexity is female because the voice I … Continue reading →

The companies’ Fourth of July plans include celebrating new reactor designs coming online. But there’s still a long way to go before they deliver energy at a meaningful scale.

I loved “Song Song Blue," a 2025 movie starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as a Neil Diamond tribute act from Milwaukee around 1990, based on a real-life couple. This is not a sentence expected I would ever write. The music is great — as the characters point out, everybo...