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“White House officials have asked the Justice Department to consider a new prosecution of a man accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, as President Trump fumes over U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s decision to drop the case,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “A new prosecution of the defendant, Olympic canoeist David Hearn, would be […]

Crackpot Real America's Voice host Wayne Allyn Root told Trump to declare a national security emergency for the 2026 elections so that he can force through all of the draconian SAVE Act provisions on the public in an effort to steal the midterms. Frustrated that the Senate ...

President Donald Trump drew ridicule and alarm after claiming "nothing bad can happen" from his executive order to limit childhood vaccines. Trump signed the executive order Monday in the Oval Office, calling for the number of diseases vaccinated against to be reduced ...

Anthropic announced it will embed invisible watermarks into text generated by new Claude models, including output produced through its API,

The post Anthropic’s watermark survives copy-paste, but not the real dev workflow appeared first on The New Stack.

“President Donald Trump has stepped in to defend FIFA President Gianni Infantino, throwing his weight behind a staunch ally as calls for the international soccer boss’ resignation have reached a fever pitch,” NOTUS reports. “Trump had earlier distanced himself from the FIFA president’s proposal to sell off private stakes in the World Cup, which resulted […]

“There are a lot of Ukrainian drones in the air. It would be dangerous.” — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, quoted by the Associated Press, when President Trump asked him if he would accept Moscow as a venue for peace talks. 

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Republican TN State Rep on why he is retiring: "Republicans introduced a bill that would allow schools to remove children who are here with parents illegally. I believe all these people are made in the image of God. That bill didn't pass, thank goodness. But that's where the mainstream GOP is at."

The "Imagine That" singer was asked about his relationship status during a new appearance on 'CBS Mornings.' His answer was just one word. Continue reading…

AI-generated country music is becoming a lucrative business, with two AI country artists already earning hundreds of thousands of dollars. Continue reading…

A New Draft Rule for the Census Seeks Sweeping Changes to How Political Power Is Allocated.

Sebastia Junyer-Vidal as rhapsode, 1903 #pablopicasso #naïveart

Alex Micek:

In the future, I will feel angry if my car strands me on the side of the road.
I will feel angry if the motor brushes fail expectedly.
I will feel angry if it leaks water.

By contrast, I don’t feel anger when the car tricks me into seeing an advertisement. Instead, I feel a deep, smothering, let-down at the promise of futurism. Bottomless despair is probably inappropriate; a symptom of the misanthropy I should grow out of. But. In the meantime, I feel helpless, discouraged, deeply sad.

Such a good take. I should not let 19 years pass again between linking to his writing.

This didn’t occur to me but should have — BMW paid Sony to place BMWs throughout the new Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie. They’re not just in the movie but part of the story. So it’s probably the case not that Sony paid BMW to put Spider-Man animations in the dashboards of every late model BMW on the road, but that BMW offered to do it as part of the promotional deal they paid Sony. So BMW probably paid Sony for something that ultimately infuriated a bunch of BMW’s own customers. Geniuses.

Two weeks ago Zuckerberg published a 1,000-word essay, “The AI Future Is for Everyone”. This week he published an expanded 6,500-word version of the essay on Meta’s website. Somehow it almost says nothing more than the original. This tidbit, however, struck me as notable: ...

“President Donald Trump has a new legislative obsession: College sports,” Semafor reports. “The president is getting closely involved in efforts to pass the Senate’s bipartisan college sports bill. He’s spent the last week whipping senators to support it and even enlisted former Alabama football coach Nick Saban to dial up undecided lawmakers.” “Trump has become […]

Less to talk about Anver Kantor in NiemanLab:  We analyzed 6,400 New York Times stories to find out how comments change when you give readers more information. The subhead: "The same stories that produced sharper, more analytic conversation also produced less conversation."

But will Gemini's surge survive slowing model releases?

A running list of restaurants that have recently opened in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, and beyond.