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DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab that’s been undercutting OpenAI and Anthropic on price since it arrived, recently refreshed V4-Flash, moving

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Willy Myco has made over 120 videos showing people his exact process for making everything from LSD to DMT vapes. Not everyone’s a fan of his methods.

Clean, free power from the sun is easier and more affordable to capture than ever with the best portable solar panels.

Spineless Senator Bill Cassidy ran to CBS for some Republican rehab after his shameful vote to confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General this week.

Cassidy was continually pressed by Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan about the concerns he had previously expressed on allowing Blanche to become AG, and Cassidy basically blew them off and pretended he's not fully aware of the damage this man is going to do to the department and the country in service of Dear Leader Trump:

MARGARET BRENNAN: You were emotional there. Your voice cracked. Why? And why do you think you're going to be criticized?

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How pathetic is this? Despite the fact that Fox's Maria Bartiromo opened the segment saying Paxton was coming off of one of his best fundraising quarters ever, and him going on the attack against his opponent for Texas Senate James Talarico for receiving money from out of s...

Annie Asks You - the crypto pump-and-dump scheme that funds corruption;

d r i f t g l a s s - the GOP’s two sets of books;

Seeing the Forest - everything is trickle-down now!

The Rude Pundit - the Fauci hearing is a moment for despair;

You Might Notice a Trend - who owns what when it’s all debt?

Send tips, requests, and suggestions to mbru@crooksandliars.com (with ‘for MBRU' in the subject line). Steve in Manhattan is on Bluesky.

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The attorney general of Michigan—the person who runs law enforcement in one of the two or three states that decides who wins the White House—says she won't walk into her own party’s nominating convention this month. Dana Nessel isn’t citing a scheduling conflict. She says she doesn’t feel safe.

“The threats that I receive are almost exclusively anti-Semitic threats,” she says. “People aren’t interested in the fact that I’m gay. They’re not interested in the fact that I’m a woman. It’s just been getting worse and worse and worse.”

A Democratic statewide official is telling you she'll to be chased, harassed, and shouted off stage by Democrats—and not for a vote or policy. But who she is. How the f*k are we not horrified by this? How's this become remotely acceptable in the Democratic Party--to where it's indistinguishable from Tucker Carlson?

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Self Portrait, 1499 #highrenaissance #raphael

Roman shipwreck with 500 amphorae found off coast of Sicily.

Still my favorite: https://daftsocial.com/drikkes/

Es gibt natürlich Unterschiede zwischen micro.blog und rss.chat, aber die Intention hinter beiden ähnelt sich doch sehr, oder?

https://www.redbubble.com/people/drikkes/shop

“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”

As research and AI-assisted papers surge, volunteer reviewers struggle to keep up.

Peter Alexander returned to television last week. It seems odd to say “returned” because Alexander has spent most of the past 22 years on American TV screens, covering some of […]

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