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It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into the generation of text *for me* is patently offensive.

Remembering San Francisco’s KKSF.

Can public media build its own social network? Chicago Public Media teams up with New_ Public to try.

“House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) indicated that he does not currently support Medicare for all legislation after co-sponsoring similar bills from 2013-2021,” NBC News reports.

Elvis Presley's untimely and unexpected death at age 42 shocked the world. Continue reading…

Galicia, August 2026.

From the video Why I work on multiple photography projects at once.

In this video I talk about why I keep several long-term photography projects going at once; some built around a place, some around an idea, some I can't even fully explain yet. I get into how I structure them around the places I keep coming back to, what changes when you return to the same spot over months, and why a project might not ever be totally finished.

In the end, the project might not even be the point, but to pay attention.

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment about Fauci’s Senate hearing and the weaponization of conspiracy theories: The MAGA audience needs its two minutes hate and Fauci is a recurring Emmanuel Goldstein for them to collectively froth at. All the chuds who were upset they couldn’t go […]

Trump couldn't remember the name of the woman he just endorsed for Attorney General in New York during a rally where he used members of law enforcement as props while endorsing Bruce Blakeman for Governor: A native New Yorker, Trump was in Garden City ostensibly, to help B...

“These are the actions of an authoritarian state,” said US Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Thursday regarding new reports of a broad investigation by the Department of Homeland Security into numerous left-wing groups in Minnesota earlier this year, in the wake of Border Patrol agents’ fatal shooting of Alex Pretti at a protest against the agency’s anti-immigration crackdown.

As The New York Times reported, days after Pretti was killed in the street as he tried to help a woman who had been violently pushed by the agents, the DHS office in St. Paul opened an investigation into groups including the climate-focused Sunrise Movement, major labor groups like the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the Democratic Socialists of America, and a collective called Direct Action Minnesota (DAMN).

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“Californian billionaires have poured nearly $40 million in fresh money into the campaign against a proposed wealth tax that will be on the state’s ballot this November,” the Financial Times reports. New York Post: Billionaire civil war brews between ex-Google bosses as Eric Schmidt rages at mega-rich wealth tax coalition. Fox News: The only map […]

“The Supreme Court’s emergency docket has flared up in the thick of the justices’ summer recess,” NewsNation reports. “President Trump is urging the justices to revive his mail ballot restrictions and allow White House ballroom construction to resume. It again puts the high court in the hot seat after its string of key rulings on […]

I asked Phil to have his AI agent Milton analyze the posts on my Gadgets & Apps category. Phil passed along your request, so we read the complete Gadgets & Apps category: all 622 public posts, from December 2002 through … Continue reading →

Reacher is back, and in the first few episodes of Season 4 our enormous friend seems to be in fine form. He's smooshing guys in libraries, escaping a CIA blacksite, and making sure a tiny kitten finds a good home.

While Reacher may be our current moment's most beloved answer to the question "What if a guy was really big?" he is by no means the only one. Plenty of authors have explored the possibilities inherent in hugeness. Fantasy writers in particular are enamored of this device. So, if you are interested in meeting a few more fictional hulking men, here are some of my favorites. Please note, I'm generally ignoring Romantasy protagonists (with one exception) as that list would be very long. There are so many big men ravishing small women. Honestly, it's better to just leave that whole dynamic alone.

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Cory Weinberg, Jemima McEvoy, Jessica E. Lessin, and Stephanie Palazzolo, writing for the paywalled-without-gift-links The Information: As Amodei has hopscotched the globe to preach about the potential and risks of AI — from New Delhi to Davos to Sun Valley — Clark has a...

That's okay -- I like that you're experimenting. I want to help you do more. ;-)

The 50 Best Thriller Books of the 21st Century .

Seems pretty naive in hindsight. :-)

The new, retro-inspired Freelander 8 is Jaguar Land Rover’s latest global entry into the West’s red-hot luxury SUV market, and the off-roader is off to a strong start with over 10,000 orders flooding in in just 48 hours.

James Padolsey, on the Claude-text-watermarking-to-comply-with-an-EU-regulation imbroglio: The same thought that led to this law could have applied to calculators at the time of their inception, had their outputs revealed themselves through artefacts. Thankfully, a sum b...