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Work vs gym: a simple way to decide whether to use AI for a task. “At the gym, it makes no sense for that robot to lift weights for you. The point of weightlifting isn’t to move heavy things across the room; it’s to actually lift those heavy things.”

A months-long investigation, two homes, two warehouses, and a number that keeps coming up — seventeen million dollars worth of product moving through the region. Continue reading…

One of the men convicted in the 1980 murder of a Hudson Valley teen is heading back to prison for violating parole again. Continue reading…

Ohio Congressman Mike Turner attacked CBS' Face The Nation for daring to ask him to comment on Ohio Rep. Mike Miller's abuse allegations, whining that the courts should handle it and not a television studio. He, like every Republican, only offers blistering and damning opi...

Audi is reviving the A2 name for its new entry-level electric vehicle. With its debut just around the corner, Audi revealed a few more details about the new ultra-efficient EV.

Pink Peonies, 1873 #camillepissarro #pissarro

President Trump is now demanding that Iran reach a deal with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz as soon as...

This hasn’t gotten much attention, but it should. While everyone was focused on Schedule F, the administration created something even broader. On July 30, a new OPM rule took effect that creates a second way to fire federal employees outside the normal civil service process.

Edward Luce: “Even amid war, America rarely selects its president on the basis of foreign policy. For the U.S. electorate, it is almost always the economy, stupid. This year’s Democratic primaries, however, have turned into ‘It’s Israel, stupid.'” “The rubble of Gaza for liberals today is a candidate litmus test in much the same way […]

From an un-bylined post on OpenAI’s site:

Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction is both based on false information and completely unnecessary because we do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets.

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Everything that went wrong with the reflecting pool, including the fabricated charges against Davey Hearn, went wrong for two reasons: Trump's unprecedented corruption and his rush to include the reflecting pool in his authoritarian hijacking of the Nation's celebration of independence. 

The post Trump and Pirro BOTH Screwed Up by Rushing to Beat July 4 appeared first on emptywheel.

“We do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets,” the ChatGPT maker says.

She's waitin' all day for Sunday night...again! Continue reading…

We independently tested hundreds of homes in eastern Omaha and found toxic levels of lead in soil throughout — including in yards that the EPA remediated years ago.

Here’s how we did it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/omaha-nebraska-lead-testing-superfund-methodology?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Science #Research #Omaha #Nebraska #Environment #Pollution #Soil

The EPA spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site.

New soil tests by The Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show that years later, many yards still have harmful levels of lead.
https://www.propublica.org/article/lead-contamination-epa-superfund-omaha-nebraska-analysis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Omaha #Nebraska #Environment #Pollution #Children #Health #EPA

“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that the U.S. joined Japan’s effort to strengthen the yen because the currency’s weakness risked destabilizing markets across Asia,” CNBC reports. Said Bessent: “A stable yen is not only important for the U.S. but very important for the entire region.”