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Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has disclosed a 5% stake in Lucid Group, and the market read it as a fresh vote of Saudi confidence in the cash-strapped EV maker.

Lucid (LCID) shares jumped as much as 25% on Tuesday after the filing surfaced, even though the disclosure itself is passive and mostly a technical formality.

Our Tuesday Green Deals this week are all about home maintenance and improvements, led by the $1,200 savings on Greenworks’ 80V CrossoverT 30-inch Cordless Electric Riding Mower that comes with 4x 6.0Ah batteries and a 600W turbo wall charger at a new $2,500 low. Next, we h...

Trace Adkins says his mom mostly just writes letter to citizens with untidy lawns, but now and again, she gets to handle sentencing for minor crimes. Continue reading…

She left work one afternoon, climbed into a stranger's red pickup truck, and was never seen again — until now. Continue reading…

Officials from the Hudson Valley issued an urgent warning and tips after a wild animal took a family's pet. Continue reading…

Italy's top pizza experts ranked America's 50 best pizzerias, and New York dominated the list, including the No. 1 spot. Continue reading…

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Bill Essayli posted the "diversion agreement" he used as an excuse to drop the case against SEIU CA President David Huerta. It ultimately shows that for a year, he has been trying to prosecute Huerta for his legal protest activity.

The post Bill Essayli Confesses He Could Never Prove the Case against David Huerta appeared first on emptywheel.

A new this.how page for RSS.chat. I’ll point to it from blog posts.

I am longtime friends and an admirer of Howard Rheingold, who expressed an interest in RSS.chat. I asked Claude to read my blog posts and summarize, in the third person. RSS.chat is a small social network built from the web’s own parts. It looks like a chat room or Twitter — you write short posts, […]

Morning: Today on RSS.chat we are knocking off quick hit bug fixes. We’ve been focusing on big hit examples for the last few sessions.

In my experience in software development, it’s good to start small with something useful, learn how it works before adding big new features. That’s the basic principle of bootstrapping. I thought that Mastodon, for example, took on too big a job. Same thing for the protocol behind it, ActivityPub. If you go all the way […]

A new this.how page for RSS.chat. I'll point to it from blog posts.

The usual worry about Texas’ data center boom is that the state is flying partly blind. It does not yet know how much electricity these projects will actually need, how much water they will take, or whether the tax breaks offered in the name of growth will return enough to justify their cost.  That sounds, […]

The post With Texas’ Data Center Boom, Uncertainty Is the Business Plan appeared first on The Texas Observer.

ICE subjected a hunger striking detainee to force feeding, hydration, urinary catheterization, or involuntary blood draws, which human rights experts describe as torture.

A Woman Picking Up a Stick in Front of Trees, 1890 #postimpressionism #vangogh

Last July, the Republican-led Congress voted to end federal funding for public media, clawing back $1.1 billion in funds that had been previously allocated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (The CPB officially shut down this past January.) The depressing one-year anniversary is being marked by a slew of articles and updates on how public...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we're talking about crabs, eating butter by itself, living near a McStadium, and more.

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The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people,” he said.

“They didn't understand it was satire in the beginning until the end,” Casa Grande, Arizona resident Jacob Petrosky told 404 Media. “They were not happy, they were very upset.”