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Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche finally met with some of the Epstein survivors after demands by Sen. Thom Tillis to meet with them, or don't expect his vote: Sen. Thom Tillis said Thursday his vote to confirm attorney general nominee Todd Blanche is contingent on Bla...

“The Senate is set for another big House infusion next year,” Axios reports. “The two chambers often clash over differing cultures and procedures. An influx of senators used to the faster, more confrontational politics of the House could create new headaches for Senate leaders.” ”At least five, and potentially as many as 13, current House […]

“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is bracing for a fight to stay in power as he heads toward his first election since a Hamas-led attack shocked the country and plunged it into nearly three years of war,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The country’s longest-serving leader, who has held the prime minister’s officer, on and […]

“Two U.S. servicemembers were killed and several were wounded in an Iranian attack on an air base in Jordan, further escalating a weeklong exchange of fire where both sides have been striking increasingly sensitive targets,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “U.S. Central Command, which oversees American forces in the Middle East, confirmed the deaths and […]

A second ex-wife of the ICE agent who killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine has come forward. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes."

Just published some first thoughts on RSS.Chat on my blog. I dig the protocol and the idea. Still have some reservations on the acceptance and how it will be integrated in new and existing services. We'll see. 

How about mintelligence? We need different words for human and machine intelligence.  The human kind is a quality, like empathy, anger, or contentment. You can't measure it, as if with a ruler or a dipstick. If you could, you'd get the same measure every time. IQ testing pretends to measure intelligence, but it doesn't. (I […]

During past blackouts and major events, the company left dozens of vehicles stranded. This time, it says, it suspended rides before that could happen again.

This week, Chinese equipment brand LiuGong officially launched its battery-electric equipment and material handling asset portfolio in the United States and Canada, making it easier than ever for construction and forestry crews to decarbonize their fleets.

Released Epilogue 2.5 for iOS, adding a new screen to browse an author’s other books.

People assume rss.chat is going to go the same route as twitter or mastodon, and it isn’t.

This is going to remain a small group. That doesn’t mean our posts can’t be viewed in other places, together, as collections of people you follow. We already have experience doing just that, in feed readers. The user interfaces there might be different. And there can be more elegant ways of editing your subs. And sharing subs among services. We already support that tech in FeedLand, btw.

The social networks we’ve been using have a lot of dead ends, by design, lot of “you can’t get there from here.” We’ve got the opposite philosophy. Small pieces loosely joined and every part replaceable. That gets you to new places we’ve never been before.

A New York nurse just made state history with a record-breaking penalty tied to a vaccine fraud scheme that reached the Hudson Valley. Continue reading…