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“On Wednesday, the Pentagon reported on its casualties website that 18 American service members had been killed during the war in Iran. By Thursday, the Defense Department had lowered that number, reporting that 14 American troops had been killed in the war. Three military o...

Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, has quit RE100, the global corporate initiative whose members commit to using 100% renewable electricity. That’s because Meta is bankrolling a fleet of new gas-fired power plants to fuel its expanding AI data centers.

Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.

Trump Asks SCOTUS to Let Him Mess with Mail-In Voting Before Midterms.

BTW, I had no idea the WordPress connection was coming and here it is.

In response to the spectre of Chinese open-weight AI models haunting America, Dean Ball, OpenAI’s director of strategic futures [are there directors of strategic pasts?], issued a warning more shrill even than the New York Post’s alerts about Mamdani’s bus-and-grocery socialism.  One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely […]

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BTW, I had no idea the WordPress connection was coming and here it is.

Starlink has a Texas factory but also makes routers in Vietnam.

We Used to Be Able to Buy Things in This Country. “Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy.”

The second annual festival brought together 60 low-intervention wineries from across the Bay Area for tastings, conversations and celebrating the local wine community.

“Audio recordings that former President Joe Biden fought for years to keep private have now been released,” CBS News reports. “The roughly 70 hours of audio recordings were cited in a 2024 special counsel’s report, which said Biden kept volumes of notes at his home that included classified information.” At one point, Biden is heard […]

The Economist: “Across America, millions of people… are finding life harder. One in nine Americans receives food stamps; around 70% of recipients are seniors, children or people with disabilities.” “But the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, passed last year without a single Democratic vote, is projected to cut federal spending on SNAP by about a […]

“A year and a half after leaving office, former West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is embarking on a new political chapter with an initiative designed to elect independents to Congress,” NPR reports. Said Manchin: “The way the parties have weaponized the political process today, they make it impossible to have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ […]

“I’ve done more for you than your parents, OK? Your parents are good, I’m not gonna knock your parents, but I have been better to you than your parents.” — President Trump, quoted by NOTUS, speaking at a rally in Michigan.

Climate change is upping the odds of major wildfires, creating a need for new tools to combat them.