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Kevin Meyers dreamed about the arm against his windpipe in the war in the Middle East. Everything became a blank void except the man at his back. Meyers was flailing, then stopped. His training kicked in and he grabbed the man’s head, giving him control; whoever had control would win this fight. With his right hand, he grabbed his K-Bar, a Marine-issued knife strapped to the chest of his flak jacket, and stabbed the man.

The post How One Veteran Survives PTSD in Prison appeared first on Prison Journalism Project.

Mid-November dawn filtered through the barred windows of Cell Block C, where I began my morning vigil from my bunk. The chill had already seeped into the concrete walls of Shawangunk Correctional Facility, a New York state prison 75 miles north of Manhattan. The air smelled like institutional bleach and unwashed linens from the laundry cart.

The post An Unexpected Bird Brought Gentleness to This Prison Block appeared first on Prison Journalism Project.

This feels like a silly question to explore. It seems like, if one realizes one wants to begin a prayer practice, it would be obvious to know how to go about it. It turns out, if that one is me, that it’s not so obvious at all. I do not have a faith tradition to […]

In the 1980s, Japan led the world in semiconductors, consumer electronics, and computer hardware, the industries everyone assumed would decide the next phase of economic power. Japan won them and still did not overtake the United States in the information revolution that followed. Jeff Ding, a political scientist at George Washington University, opens his book […]

Maybe intimidation and threats work after all — even when it comes to important topics like a free press. Earlier this year, Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr announced that […]

The post Is the FCC’s investigation having a chilling effect on ‘The View’? appeared first on Poynter.

The canola-for-cars deal cooked up by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping is about to bear its most exotic fruit yet: a shipment of sporty new Lotus Eletre EVs set to arrive in Montreal this month.

They’re long. They’re ancient. Their hideous whorl of a mouth looks like a “vortex of pain.” But sea lamprey are native to the the Connecticut River watershed and a vital part of the ecosystem.

The MBTA plans to run special bus service to several Parade of Sail viewpoints on Saturday, from Castle Island to the Charlestown Navy Yard.

“You can make a living, you can have a life, and leave 55,000 emails unread with a big fuck off.”

Norwegian striker Erling Haaland isn’t just a footballer anymore. He’s become an internet character perpetuated by fans and AI.

In a world regulated by devices, humanity has become disconnected from the physical world—from stick-shift cars to postcards.

The lab will beam back data to train AI models to predict how proteins behind age-related diseases like Alzheimer’s and certain cancers behave.

"I am yearning to reject something that is not even being sold to me."

Coauthored with Claude The soap opera starring Anthropic and the US government looms in the background of this month’s Trends. It may be over by the time you read this, or it may be headed for a third act. OpenAI has been drawn in, and a spat between Alibaba and Anthropic may become a side […]

The rssCloud Server now features WebSub support, an alternative protocol for notifying subscribers of real-time updates. Following Dave Jones' 2020 suggestion, the integration allows compatibility between rssCloud and WebSub, enabling apps to use either protocol for publishing and subscribing to RSS feeds seamlessly.

The rssCloud Server now features WebSub support, an alternative protocol for notifying subscribers of real-time updates. Following Dave Jones' 2020 suggestion, the integration allows compatibility between rssCloud and WebSub, enabling apps to use either protocol for publishing and subscribing to RSS feeds seamlessly.

Not sure this will have any effect, but I support the effort:

According to Google’s legal filing, Outsider Enterprise operates through Telegram. The group offers phishing-as-a-service to individuals who may not be technically savvy enough to set up fraudulent websites and text campaigns on their own. In its Telegram channels, Outsider Enterprise reportedly provided instructions on how to use Google’s Gemini AI to create websites that imitate those of Google, YouTube, and government agencies such as New York’s E-ZPass. The group offered nearly 300 scam templates...

Drivers who speed through certain work zones in Connecticut will be ticketed or issued official warnings via speed cameras. Going more than 10 miles per hour over the speed limit will result in a warning or a $75 ticket.

Finding your way through an episode just got easier. Pocket Casts now supports AI generated Chapters on Android, Web, Desktop and (coming very soon…) iOS. When an episode does not include chapters from the creator, Pocket Casts can add automatically generated chapter markers so you can jump to the parts that matter most. What’s new […]