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Trek is making a bigger push into the fast-growing fat tire e-bike segment with the launch of the new Borrego+, a Class 2 electric bike that blends adventure-ready capability with commuter-friendly practicality. The company is also offering a faster Borrego+ S variant for riders in markets where Class 3 e-bikes are permitted.

The Monkey, 1912 #expressionism #franzmarc

From TPM Reader OM … I’ve been reading TPM since my junior year of college (I graduated in 2003, so pretty early...

“ActBlue raised $586 million for Democratic candidates and causes in the second quarter, a record amount that will enhance the party’s fortunes as it prepares to confront Republicans in midterm elections that are projected to be the most expensive in U.S. history,” Bloomberg reports. “The total is the biggest for any quarter in a midterm […]

“While Congress is out of session this week, a House Republican encountered a hostile crowd at a heated town hall meeting in Bellevue, Nebraska, Tuesday night – a sour reception that may preview the tenor other lawmakers could face heading into the midterm elections,” ABC News reports. “Rep. Mike Flood faced repeated boos and shouts […]

The National Design Studio’s influence continues to grow. It is now working on Login. gov, the identity and authentication service used to access many federal agencies and government services.

As longtime Torment Nexus readers probably know, I have a minor obsession with the topic of artificial intelligence engines and consciousness — in part because such discussions inevitably reveal how little we know about human consciousness, let alone the machine kind.

“Progressive lawmakers Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders led the first wave of opposition to data centers. Now Republican candidates around the U.S. are seizing on the fervor even as President Donald Trump actively courts tech titans and promotes the rapid, streamlined expansion of the energy-hungry facilities,” Bloomberg reports. “The divide within the GOP months before […]

When news breaks — about, say, Graham Platner’s Senate campaign imploding over sexual assault allegations or Mitch McConnell’s hospitalization —...

“Palm Beach International Airport in Florida was formally rechristened President Donald J. Trump International Airport Thursday morning — with the commander in chief’s own Boeing 757 making the first landing,” the New York Post reports.

From TPM Reader BC … I am a long time reader, since the early aughts.  I have been giving to...

The Bezos-backed automaker building America's cheapest electric truck is teaming up with the crayon company in a bid to brighten its rides. Make ours Razzmatazz.

An AI detection company found that amount of AI content that users actually see in their day-to-day browsing is shockingly high.

“The $400 million Boeing 747-8 donated by Qatar to the United States is not simply another presidential aircraft. At more than 76 meters (250 feet) long and weighing up to 442 tonnes at maximum takeoff, it is the largest airliner Boeing has ever built,” Luxury Launches reports. ”Its sheer size is so extraordinary that before […]

There are really two very different ways of coding with AI. One is to quickly iterate with small changes. The other is letting an agent go off and work on a hard problem or high-level goal, where it churns for minutes or hours. For the first, model speed is almost everything.

State agency's delay could mean free robotaxi rides in company’s new Ojai vehicle for a few months.

The Chicago Bears are one of the most storied franchises in the NFL. One of just two charter members of the league still playing today (the other being the Cardinals, a somewhat less-storied franchise), the Bears have had a lengthy and stalwart kinship with the City of Big S...

“Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invited senior ministers from more than 60 countries to a meeting next week about what the Trump administration views as a major peril: the ‘resurgence of transnational far-left terrorism,'” the Washington Post reports. “The meeting has prompted consternation among career and political U.S. officials, some European allies and independent […]

Rumble of freight trains at dusk

Tuesday delivery at scrap metal yard

Broom sweeping floor of bar in Sheboygan at closing time

Hailstorm on roof of jalopy

Guy named Monty playing spoons in front of barrel fire

Minor league baseball game on radio in room next door at flophouse, 1953

Time

One-eared mule eating oats out of rusted Radio Flyer wagon

Footsteps, size ten wingtips, left heel worn down

Fly ricocheting against Greyhound bus window in August

Third-to-last unfiltered Chesterfield being drawn from pack

Musical saw practicing scales in abandoned Viennese opera house

Resigned exhalation of dishwater blonde sipping rotgut from chipped dimestore mug while hounds from the farm over the hill next grieve passing hours that slip away like clouds skulking over the rotted face of the moon

Carny coughing into red bandana