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Text • Taegan Goddard

U.S. Postal Service Finds Itself in the Midterms Spotlight

“Roughly six weeks before the first midterm ballots are mailed out, the U.S. Postal Service is emerging as a pivotal player in an election season that will determine control of Congress,” the Associated Press reports. “President Donald Trump is seeking greater control over mail balloting through an executive order while a change to how the […]

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Abdul El-Sayed Expands His Lead in Michigan’s Primary

A new Tavern Research internal poll in Michigan shows Abdul El-Sayed (D) pulling away in the Michigan Senate Democratic primary by 10 points, leading the field with 46 percent to Rep. Haley Stevens’ (D) 36 percent, while 14 percent are not sure.

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
Text • CJ McIntyre

Kingston's School Zone Speed Cameras Are Bringing in Big Money

Nearly 15,000 speeding tickets in school zones since late April. That's not a typo! The city is now figuring out what to do with the money. Continue reading…

Schneier on Security
Text • Bruce Schneier

Long-Lived Vulnerability in Microsoft Secure Boot

Microsoft’s Secure Boot has had a serious vulnerability for most of its existence. An industry-wide standard Microsoft invented to protect Windows, and later Linux, devices from firmware infections has been trivial to bypass for 13 of its 14 years of existence. The discover...

Paul Krugman
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When the Chips Are Down

When the Chips Are Down

This feels like the end of the beginning

PRINT Magazine
Text • Steven Heller

The Daily Heller: When Berlin Was Too Depressing for Words

Traveling back in time with books and the Merrill C. Berman Collection.

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Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Bill Pulte’s Power Play

Politico: “The Senate last night confirmed Jay Clayton to be director of national intelligence, teeing him up to relieve Bill Pulte of his acting duty. But anyone expecting a swift exit from Pulte, whose selection for the interim role roiled Washington, may need to reset expectations.” “Pulte is pressing Trump ‘to delay Clayton’s swearing-in, or […]

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Trump Overruled FEMA on Disaster Aid to Blue States

“President Donald Trump overruled his own agencies when he denied disaster aid for four Democratic-led states this month,” Politico reports. ”Emails between state and federal officials obtained by POLITICO along with more than 150 pages of documents submitted to FEMA by three states — New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island — provide new details about […]

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Text • Andrea Badgley

Home to the beach

Over the past decade, I’ve come to love our home in the mountains. So much so that I thought that despite a lifetime of deep soul connection to the ocean, the coast no longer moved me. In recent years we’ve vacationed as a family to seashores and I’ve thought, meh. It’s fine. That changed this […]

Ars Technica
Text • Ryan Whitwam

Tested: Google SynthID works great, but labeling AI content may be a losing game

Tested: Google SynthID works great, but labeling AI content may be a losing game

Deciding what's real on the Internet won't be easy in the future.

Poynter
Text • Jennifer Nehrer

A community can have local newspapers and still lack local news

After decades of working for national news media’s biggest names, Paul Miller retired to Carmel-by-the-Sea in the 1990s. But instead of spending his days soaking in the Monterey Peninsula’s stunning […]

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Poynter
Text • Eric Rynston-Lobel

As search and social traffic dries up, local newsrooms turn to Reddit

This article was originally published by Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative and is republished here with permission. Last October, the Big 12 conference issued a rule change that only really makes […]

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@art.feediverse.org - Great art on Bluesky
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Edgar Degas, Beside the Sea, 1869 #printsanddrawings #artsmia

@art.feediverse.org - Great art on Bluesky
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Park Scene NeBay, 1913 #postimpressionism #prendergast

Gift Articles
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How Psychopaths See the World (theatlantic.com)

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Midtown Manhattan Bookstore Crawl: Where to Shop and Recharge (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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(S+) Meinung: Friedrich Merz und seine fatale Führungsschwäche (Kommentar) (spiegel.de)

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A Deluge of A.I. Computing Power Is About to Come Online, Fueling Major Leaps (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Summer of Heat, Fires and Storms Is a Reckoning for Europe on Climate (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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