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A new Emerson College poll in Michigan finds Abdul El-Sayed (D) leading Haley Stevens (D) for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination, 54% to 39%. Including whom undecided voters lean toward, El-Sayed’s lead grows to 57% to 41%.

"A private company has cleared dozens of homeless encampments in Venice—with persistence, cash payments, and a team that includes former gang members. Clients love them. The people they move do not."

The following article was originally published on Drew Breunig’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Thanks to natural language interfaces, AI applications can be prototyped quickly. You write what you want in English, hand it to a frontier model, and a working prototype appears in an afternoon. This is extraordinarily powerful […]

Still Life with Gingerpot 2, 1912 #cubism #pietmondrian

IBM and its partners say quantum computers are now getting to the point where they can run calculations that can’t

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Of MAGA and the totalitarian mindset

“A super PAC that has invested millions to unseat Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) is putting another $700,000 behind his GOP primary challenger in the final week of the campaign,” Axios reports. “Ogles was already facing one his most perilous reelection battle to date, with Democrats making him one of their top targets in November. But […]

“Vice President Vance and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a ‘direct’ conversation about their differences in a one-on-one meeting in Washington on Tuesday evening,” Axios reports. “Vance has been the most Netanyahu-skeptical voice in Trump’s inner circle since the beginning of the war. As the war dragged on, he became increasingly critical of the […]

“Ballistic missiles are at the start of an unprecedented run of proliferation as nations draw lessons from the wars in Ukraine and Iran,” Bloomberg reports. “The demise of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty has also spurred development of new weapons. From 1988 to 2019, it prohibited the U.S. and Soviet Union/Russia from building missiles with […]

“The Trump administration on Thursday reiterated its view that China’s alleged efforts to collect millions of American voter registration files constituted election interference — an allegation leveled by President Trump in a primetime address two weeks ago,” CBS News reports. Washington Post: States cast doubt on Trump’s claim that China hacked their voter rolls.

How a home shopping channel became the soundtrack to a friendship.