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“There’s nothing we could do to rein in the president” — Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), talking to reporters.

“The U.S. Army has used up much of its global stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, raising concerns about the military’s readiness for future conflicts,” Reuters reports. “The missiles are principally the Army’s surface-to-surface weapons, known as Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) and Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM). The U.S. […]

“Rep. Max Miller, facing allegations of domestic abuse from his ex-wife, said he would ask the House Ethics Committee to investigate the claims in an attempt to clear his name,” Politico reports. Said Miller: “In light of all the renewed interest in my family affairs I am going to file my own paperwork for an […]

“The top federal prosecutor in the nation’s capital carted a box full of evidence to the White House on Monday, in a bid to prove to President Trump that the damage to the Reflecting Pool was caused by shoddy construction and not by vandals,” CBS News reports. “U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro, a staunch […]

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 51,000 individuals in July, according to sources familiar with the data,” ABC News reports. “The arrests are the largest in a single month in DHS history.”

It has been 3 months since Sean Duffy announced his Great American Road Trip reality show, funded by companies he regulates.

Not a single episode has aired.

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Just when it seemed this Upstate New York restaurant controversy couldn't get any bigger, another Facebook post surfaced. Continue reading…

Dozens of police officers have been accused of improperly accessing public safety cameras.

Until a month ago, everything was going great for David Ellison and his plan to control American cultural production. He'd successfully made Paramount an outer arm of the Trump Administration, with all the lucrative sinecures and harrowing moral and journalistic compromises ...

A hundred years ago, the Jesuit philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin imagined a third great leap for the Earth: after the geosphere and the biosphere, a noosphere — a layer of human connection that would link every mind on the planet and push us toward shared knowledge and ...

Vase with Lilacs, Daisies and Anemones, 1887 #vincentvangogh #postimpressionism

Instead of one huge, un-reviewable pull request, teach coding agents to decompose work into a clean, ordered stack with GitHub stacked pull requests.

The post Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

I don’t know but when your best argument is “we got locked out of our accounts for supporting violent insurrectionists,” maybe it’s time to stop arguing. But if there’s anything Trump likes, it’s being a plaintiff in a lawsuit. So, that’s exactly what the Trump Organization argued, in hopes of pressuring Capital One into a […]

OpenAI shared some text messages and emails to support their side of the Apple lawsuit. OpenAI opens with this:

Apple is one of the greatest companies of all time, and built a reputation for obsessing over the smallest details. This careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit sadly doesn’t live up to that reputation.

Apple is clearly worried about OpenAI’s upcoming device. I remain skeptical of any company of Apple’s size using lawyers to stop a competitor.

Lots of recent work on the apps is rolling out. A new version of Sunlit today that has a bunch of design improvements and fixes. And the brand new Wavelength (our app for podcasting) is ready on Android, with iOS hopefully to follow soon.

Micro.blog includes podcast hosting at all plans. Crazy.

Paul Rand, the influential art director and graphic designer who created logos for IBM, UPS, and ABC, once said, “Design is the silent ambassador of your brand.” He knew how important a logo could be — more than simply identifying a company, it could become shorthand for an ...

Using high-definition open source videos and photos from NASA and his own music, John Boswell (aka Melodysheep) created this mesmerizing eight-minute video recap of the Artemis II mission that enchanted us all back in the spring. Like all of his videos I’ve featured on KDO, this one is really well done.

See also Animated Artemis II Photos Reveal Satellites Buzzing Around Earth and Stunning Artemis II Phone Wallpapers. (via colossal)

Tags: artemis · astronomy · Earth · John Boswell · mesmerizing · Moon · NASA · photography · space · video

Enough is enough. It is time for Max Miller to go to prison. In a letter newly filed by the legal team of Emily Moreno -- daughter of Ohio Republican House Rep. Bernie Moreno and ex-wife of embattled Republican House Rep. Max Miller -- Emily lodges a series of extremely di...