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The sexual dystopias of 'I Want Your Sex' and 'One Night Only' raise (and duck) questions about How We Fuck Now.

According to a new report from Zeteo, the Trump White House has already accepted the fact that a humiliating midterm loss is "all but written in the stars" for the Republican Party. Now, they're desperate to control the impending damage that they know will ensue once Democr...

If you’ve ever been driving at night and felt like the car behind you had too-bright headlights, that car might have been a Tesla, and it might have felt that way because its lights broke the rules.

That invasive bug you've probably seen all over the Hudson Valley is getting a new level of attention from New York lawmakers. Continue reading…

From space-bound hardware to the world's best meatball, here's a look at what New Yorkers are building, crafting, and creating. Continue reading…

Matt Riddle, REAL1, Zack Clayton, and a stacked roster are headed to Barton Orchards in Poughquag for a night of professional wrestling on August 15th. Continue reading…

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The band American Football released their fourth self-titled LP in May. They are no longer the band they were in the late '90s, when their debut EP and album somehow developed a cult status that has endured to this day. Today they are a middle-aged band making a much more ad...

The 1990s and 2000s were great decades for the sports idiot. Movies like Talladega Nights, Dodgeball, Kingpin, and others belong to this subset of the sports comedy, one that explores the unique problem of being good at sports and bad at everything else. With the help of an ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you're at it. Today, we're talking about butter parties, severance packages, finding new hobbies, and more.

Before we go any further, I demand you give it up to Albert Burneko for so capably filling my shoes here a week ago. Truly, Bert is the king of kings.

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GOP Senate candidate Mike Collins goes on the record supporting the $1.8 billion "weaponization" slush fund for January 6th insurrectionists: "When the federal government harms you, then yes, they have a liability too. That’s easy. Yes."

Amid a spike in detention center deaths, taxpayers gave billions of dollars to private prisons so that Immigration and Customs Enforcement may escape oversight.

Here’s a fun new game for political junkies. Yea or Nay gives you five senators and three bills each day — and challenges you to guess how each senator actually voted. It sounds easy. It’s not. But it’s surprisingly addictive. And there’s a new game every day. Play Yea or Nay.

Databricks on Tuesday announced that it’s acquiring Electric, the startup behind the WASM-based Postgres project PGlite and the Electric sync engine, as

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“Your brain is a gambling addict that bets on reality. It doesn’t wait for information. It guesses what should happen and adjusts when surprised. Most bets win. But when they don’t, you run into walls.”