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A day or two ago I reminisced about San Francisco’s KKSF which was a delightful listen during the late 80’s-early 90’s. While I was working on that post, it dawned on me that I could try using AI to write a prompt to use with a new feature in Apple Music that allows you to […]

Ukraine finally destroyed the largest Wildberries warehouse in Russia, their answer to Amazon. Source: Kyiv Post A large-scale fire broke out at a massive Wildberries logistics complex in the Moscow region early Sunday morning, Aug. 16, following a reported drone attack. A...

Cari Champion, a podcaster and broadcaster on ESPN, was arguing with Dr. Lauren Wright, who is MAGA and transphobic, about trans athletes. Wright condescendingly said, "I think a lot of people care about these common-sense issues. I think for a lot of people, women's sports...

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“While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings. He golfs and trades stocks. So he doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by […]

kottke.org: Jamelle Bouie “chastises American political & cultural pundits for their lack of moral seriousness w/r/t their focus on ‘wokeness’ instead of the real harms being done by the authoritarian Trump regime.”

MAGA is building concentration camps, purging Blacks from high levels of the military, taking billions of dollars in bribes, murdering protesters, protecting pedophiles, committing violent insurrection and protecting those insurrectionists, “imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy.

Meanwhile, pundits are concerned about pronouns.

The Trump administration is building a growing detention archipelago overseas, often in unstable or autocratic countries. And in cases like Mosquera’s, it’s turning deportation into a form of indefinite imprisonment with no legal recourse.

Republicans hold a 53-to-47 Senate majority—and the vice president breaks ties in their favor. That means Democrats must flip at least four seats, not three, to take control of the upper chamber. The battleground has narrowed to seven states. Join now to continue reading. Members get exclusive analysis, bonus features and no advertising. Learn more. […]

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 ...