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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) “used her new YouTube talk show to debut spicy tattoos on both arms — as she went sleeveless in public for the first time in months,” the New York Post reports. “Mace broke out her inked-up gun show while promoting ‘Get Maced,’ a program where she will apparently address news of […]

“U.S. Central Command Commander Adm. Brad Cooper on Sunday acknowledged mental health challenges aboard the USS Lincoln after reports that a sailor jumped overboard amid the aircraft carrier’s long Middle East deployment,” CNBC reports. Said Cooper: “Here’s an important fact: Of the U.S. Navy’s 11 active aircraft carriers, the Lincoln currently has among the lowest […]

Le Guin: “We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called ‘technology’ at all…. One way to illustrate that most technologies are, in fact, pretty ‘hi,’ is to ask yourself of any manmade object, Do I know how to make one? Anybody who ever lighted a fire without matches has probably gained some proper respect for ‘low’ or ‘primitive’ or ‘simple’ technologies; anybody who ever lighted a fire with matches should have the wits to respect that notable hi-tech invention.”

Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing.

The story gods have been good to me in my decades of typing for a living. But never better than with the Mayo football tale, which has consumed all of Ireland and me since the final 45 seconds or so of the historically downtrodden team's July 26 All-Ireland championship win ...

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 […]