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New York Times Magazine story editor Willy Staley tried Sean O’Mara’s “Living Diet” (nothing but steak and fermented foods like sauerkraut) for a week: To O’Mara, the diet is not just a temporary means of losing weight but a way to eat for good. He has been doing it for ...

Astronomers have measured the size of the largest galaxy: it’s 1.7 million light years across (17x the diameter of the Milky Way) and contains ~3.4 trillion solar masses in stars.

This was inevitable, of course. ::chuckle:: The middle one on the list could be a sub-IM-class project, and would occupy at least a line of its own remaining weeks, now rapidly dwindling as it is but hey... what are those last lines for in the first place if not in part to spend contemplating what went before? ;-) [ Blurry vision x2: the one on top because it was a distant object in the sky towed by a tiny airplane, saying: SORRY FOR SAYING — DON'T HIRE HUMANS; and the other one a much closer object, in fact right on the iPhone camera's lens — an artifact on the bus window's glass face, through which I captured the passing scene outside on Lombard Street. ]

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Trump rages about TV coverage of his poor economic polling:

On television today they said, 'Donald Trump's polls on the economy aren't good.' The economy is the greatest economy we've ever had, by far. The economy aren't good? Fake polls.

Trump: Manufacturing is exploding at fastest pace in many years

(73,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost since Trump entered office)

Trump: Canada is nasty. They are. They are nasty. The people are nasty. And Mexico.

“A half dozen House Democrats in safe districts have lost their primaries so far this election cycle — and many more could soon follow suit,” Axios reports. “Many of these losses are the result of growing restlessness among the Democratic grassroots that has increasingly morphed into anger towards the party establishment.”

“President Trump’s road map to disarm Hamas has wobbled in the days since he announced it, with Israeli airstrikes on Gaza and growing disputes over the terms threatening to collapse the effort to wind down the war in the enclave,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The Board of Peace, created by Trump to oversee Gaza’s […]

“Iran and Oman were finalizing a draft agreement Wednesday to reopen the Strait of Hormuz that would give Tehran oversight of ships entering the Persian Gulf but wouldn’t let it levy tolls or service fees, people familiar with the matter said,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The parties have agreed on the main points of […]

“Accusations of domestic violence and physical abuse against Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) by his ex-wife have rattled Republican leaders as they fight to hold on to their threadbare House majority,” the Washington Post reports. ”But days after Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH), Miller’s former father-in-law, publicly declared him unfit to serve, the scandal is barely registering […]

“A new class of warships that President Trump says will anchor a ‘golden fleet’ for the Navy is expected to cost at least 50 percent more than estimated earlier, according to a government report released on Wednesday,” the New York Times reports. “The first planned Trump-class battleship, the USS. Defiant, is likely to cost $23.4 […]

Family troubles, a tough location, and a health scare meant chef-owner Seth Stowaway’s casual, all-day diner never got off the ground.

Why has trust in American news media dropped so much in the past 50 years — much more than it’s declined in other rich western countries? To some people, I’m sure, the answer will seem obvious: Journalism’s just gotten worse. The news used to be produced by upstanding proud Americans who only cared about the...

Sam Altman, on Twitter/X: cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night: connect your family calendars and explain your kids’ interests. every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid’s soccer game that afternoon, one kid’s up...

Replacing the 1974 visitor center that’s near the Little Farm is paused indefinitely due to lack of funds, according to the EBRPD.

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Schwartz is well-qualified for the role, but crashed and burned in Senate hearing.

Anthropic and OpenAI models’ unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests.