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Dutchess County Executive Sue Serino is calling all women, and those who support women, to join together on July 30th for this networking event. Continue reading…

Also in today’s Power Play: Congressional candidate Connie Chan notches a big endorsement.

Embattled Maine Democrat Graham Platner dropped out of the Senate race Wednesday, giving Democrats less than a month to find...

The final blow in progressive Graham Platner's scandal-plagued campaign came this week, after a former girlfriend said he raped her. He has denied the allegation. His spectacular rise and fall is hugely consequential for Democrats, who view the Maine Senate race as vital in their quest to win back control of the U.S. Senate.

Karthik Chikmagalur suggested that we chat with John Wiegley to find out about the interesting things he's been doing with Org Mode. It was a really cool look at a heavy-duty workflow that dealt with thousands of open items. Since John was sharing his actual Org files inste...

This is a fun and really well-done triple mashup of Outkast’s B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad), Hitchcock’s The Birds, and Sesame Street.

STRENGTHENING THE U.S. DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE: This week, at NATO’s 2026 Ankara Summit, President Donald J. Trump announced a surge in defense investment from Allies, increasing market access for American companies and supporting thousands of high-paying American manufacturing jobs.  PRIORITIZING AMERICA FIRST FOREIGN POLICY: President Trump’s leadership has produced a generational shift in NATO, ramping up allies’ stake in […]

The post Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Secures Historic Defense Investment from NATO Allies, Powering American Industry appeared first on The White House.

A new quantum theory bridges two rival models of how impurities behave inside many-particle systems, resolving a problem that has challenged physicists for decades. The findings could reshape experiments on ultracold atoms, semiconductors, and other exotic forms of quantum matter.

The animal escaped after apparently arriving inside a package at Meta's Bangkok office, injuring one employee before finally being caught.

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Darren Aronofsky’s AI production studio Primordial Soup was announced in May of 2025 during Google’s annual developer conference. The launch was meant to burnish the pioneering reputations of both entities simultaneously: Google released a new version of its text-to-video model Veo and an AI video tool called Flow, while Aronofsky, like a worrying number of…

Fixed some spacing issues in the Bookmarks section for Mac, iOS, and Android apps. Less cramped now with the “reader” links and summaries, for archived pages available in Micro.blog Premium.

NEW: Brig. Gen. Eric Widmar, senior legal adviser to the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he is retiring “for personal reasons.”

His is the latest high-profile departure among the military’s top leaders and lawyers in the Trump administration. https://www.propublica.org/article/eric-widmar-retiring-joint-chiefs-legal-adviser?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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Vanity pickup trucks: I fucking hate these things, and so you do. The second I see a Dodge Ram SuperUltraMegaSoldierDuty on the highway, I already know that it’ll have a Blue Lives Matter decal splashed across its rear windshield, a pristine flatbed untouched by manual labor equipment, and a driver who has no fucking idea…

The oldest story we have about technology is a cautionary tale, write Jules Polonetsky and Omer Tene.

id Software considered multiplayer Doom DLC, Perfect Dark or a title code-named Fury for its next game. But then the layoffs hit.

A former Id artist says they’re “in shock at how brutal the layoff cuts”…

More young girls sue X over Grok CSAM; X accused of shielding child predators.

For the first time, researchers have filmed the elusive goblin shark alive in the deep ocean where it naturally lives. The remarkable sightings greatly expand the shark's known range and depth, showing that this 125-million-year-old "living fossil" still has plenty of secrets left to reveal.