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That’s possible on the little Elixir clone server I’m working on. And if a user changes her screen name, her feed’s exposed URL also changes, although the feed’s item links stay the same.

Researchers fear AI is moving too fast, while Mark Zuckerberg is worried about who owns it. Plus: Inside Black Forest Labs’ push into robotics.

“The Department of Commerce quietly announced this week it will designate more than $870 million in federal incentives for semiconductor manufacturing in exchange for a minority equity stake in seven companies,” NewsNation reports.

“Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche met Thursday afternoon with Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) — the key holdouts on his nomination as permanent AG,” Politico reports. “It took place just hours after President Donald Trump indicated he would not give in to demands made by Cornyn and Tillis to modify his May […]

Yeah, they got me doing a lot of things this year, plus I’ll be at the Hugos because, you know, up for Best Series and all (hey, remember to vote for the Hugos, okay? You got about another week to do that. Don’t worry, I’ll remind you again soon). But the most important thing: I’m […]

Two things can be true at once:

Todd Blanche is unfit to serve as Attorney General... and John Cornyn can get his get-back while doing this country a favor.

This felt like an UNO Reverse on Trump lol.

Rivian reported its second-quarter 2026 earnings today, and there are improvements across the board. It’s a car. The company started delivering the R2, its first vehicle priced under $50,000, to customers on June 9.

The financials came in strong too. Revenue reached $1.658 billion, up 27% year-over-year, and Rivian posted a record $179 million gross profit while beating Wall Street on revenue, earnings, and adjusted EBITDA.

New York is changing social media rules. Continue reading…

There are the very special episodes that Drew and I do before heading off on vacation, and then there are the rarer ones we do while one of us is on vacation. This week's installment was one of those, as Drew joined from a beach house in an undisclosed—well, he mentions it w...

“A new Airbus passenger jet completed an ultra-long test flight between Australia and France lasting more than 24 hours—paving the way for the world’s longest nonstop commercial flights starting up next year.” Wow.

Trafalgar Square, 1943 #neoplasticism #mondrian

It has never been easier (or cheaper) to fake and alter media. The evidence that journalists rely on to verify facts — photographs, videos, documents, websites, and even audio calls with sources — can now be convincingly generated with AI. In June, dozens of journalists, technologists, and academics gathered at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism...

Deliberate audience initiatives and breaking news alike have driven traffic to local newspapers in the last few months. According to Similarweb’s data, The Philadelphia Inquirer received 1.1 million more web visits in April than it did in March, about a 17% jump. Lisa Hughes, the Inquirer’s publisher and CEO, told me the spike coincided with...

Cyclosporiasis would have been a great name for a 70s jazz fusion band.

A lifelong Republican left his party in 2016. Ten years later, he says Democrats are making the same mistakes — and the end result could be worse than Donald Trump.

A lifelong Republican left his party in 2016. Ten years later, he says Democrats are making the same mistakes — and the end result could be worse than Donald Trump.

Fox: We've been in this negotiation phase for almost four months. And we don't have the Strait of Hormuz open. Are we getting close to a nuclear deal? I don't think so.

Virginia GOP Rep. John McGuire appeared on Newsmax following Dr. Anthony Fauci's roughly three-hour hearing before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, which left Sen. Rand Paul going full crazy pants on the government's former top infectious disease expert....

Dave, I've tested a wee bit here, demo.rss.chat and the one I've running on my pi along side WordPress. Going to concentrate on the pi one for a bit so as not to clog up this space. I've two accounts on my test rss.chat. It is probably fragile;-)

OpenAI has lowered API prices for two GPT-5.6 models only three weeks after their launch. On Thursday, the company announced

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