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When new creation technologies arrive, they make the best a little worse and the bad a lot better. Desktop publishing made every local garage sale sign a lot more legible, but can’t quite replace the hand-kerned and tweaked typography of the era before. A smartphone in your pocket takes far better video of the family […]

“The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee announced it is spending $40 million on organizing, research and voter contact across 10 states as the party looks to take back control of the upper chamber,” Politico reports. “The effort, branded as ‘Win The Senate’ includes seven states where Democrats are on offense — Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, Alaska, […]

“Michigan Democratic Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens clashed on issues of spending by outside groups, the tone of the race and electability in the last televised debate before a pivotal primary election next Tuesday,” CBS News reports. “The Democratic primary contest to fill the open seat of outgoing Democratic Sen. Gary Peters […]

“Discussions over the future of the Strait of Hormuz continued on Tuesday as Iran’s Foreign Ministry said it had held talks on the strategically vital maritime passage with Saudi and Omani counterparts,” CNBC reports. Bloomberg: Iran-Oman talks focused on restarting Hormuz shipping traffic.

Aaron Blake: “Early in Trump’s second term, the percentage of Americans who said the administration wasn’t focused enough on lowering prices was already high.” “Back then, it hovered in the mid-60s, when the president seemed more focused on tariffs than kitchen table issues and inflation.” “But the percentage of Americans who think the administration is […]

CNBC: “Just 33% of Americans approve of the job the Supreme Court is doing, Gallup found. That is a 6-percentage-point drop from the 39% who approved of its work in July 2025, which was the prior low-water mark for approval of the court.” “A record high of 61% of Americans disapprove of the court, according […]

Andrew and Tristan Tate, two major “manosphere” influencers, were recently arrested in Miami and now face charges of rape and sex trafficking in Britain. The White House now says Donald Trump will not intervene in their extradition, a turnaround...

When Pingzhu Wan, 77, bought her condominium on the northeastern tip of Staten Island more than 40 years ago, hers was the only Chinese family among the 100-odd units in the apartment complex. Her neighbors were mostly Italian and Jewish, and the nearest Chinese grocery store was across the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, in southern Brooklyn. She […]

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Scientists have long assumed that there’s an upper limit to the intensity of the solar winds that reach Earth. New research suggests there’s not—and the implications are alarming.

Roy Lichtenstein, Girl (double page headpiece, pages 118 and 119) from 1¢ Life, 1963, published 1964 #museumarchive #roylichtenstein

Landscape with Steer, 1937 #expressionism #pollock

Amodei in his latest blog post wrote a mix of agreeable things and things that I believe misrepresent where the real risk of AI is located. I want to focus my attention on why, among all the risks, open weight models constitute the mildest one. I write these words as a person...