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Waymo is now letting all riders in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix hail its next-generation Ojai robotaxi — a vehicle built in China by Zeekr.

That makes the Ojai one of the only ways for an American to ride in a Chinese-made EV, a car they still can’t legally buy for themselves.

A new Talk Business & Politics-Hendrix College Poll in Arkansas finds U.S. Senate candidate Hallie Shoffner (D) holds a slim lead over incumbent Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), 47% to 44%, but within the survey’s margin of error.

“All our neighbors worked for those firms — Facebook, Google and Apple. None of them would let their children interact with any screens. They all knew how addicting they were and how to protect their own children.”

In her desperate attempt to dig herself out of this ridiculous Reflecting Pool hole she's found herself in with Donald Trump, former Fox News talking head turned United States Attorney for the District of Columbia just unironically argued to a court of law that her vandalis...

The country superstar has disappeared from the public eye. Continue reading…

A search is underway in Upstate New York for a missing seventy-three-year-old Hudson Valley man. Continue reading…

The Economist: “For all the zeal Congress has shown in investigating America’s response to the covid-19 pandemic, it has been strangely uninterested in exploring a basic question: why did so many Americans die relative to the numbers who succumbed to the virus in other rich countries? Understanding the answer would seem relevant to guarding against […]

“Former Congressman Eric Swalwell, the disgraced California politician accused of rape, was confronted by FBI agents at San Francisco International Airport, where they seized his electronics as part of a federal criminal probe,” the New York Post reports.

“Boston, Denver and Philadelphia are the three finalists to host the 2028 Democratic National Convention,” CBS News reports. “The selection process now moves to the Democratic National Convention Committee. A DNC official stated that the process will take several months.”

“Democrats have a rosier view of the state of American democracy during President Donald Trump’s first term today than they did at the time,” the Washington Post reports. “That’s according to a new report from Bright Line Watch, a nonpartisan group that surveys political scientists and the general public to assess their views of the […]

Wrong, Wrong, and Wrong Again Today we begin with a particularly striking example of the bleak inanity of executive branch...

Natalie Harp, Trump's closest aide, worked at the White House for over a year without a routine security clearance.

A White House source reveals Trump may appoint Natalie Harp as White House Press Secretary.

We had moderate hopes for Tugboat Wilkinson in his major-league debut, just because his nickname and carriage merge so harmoniously. But because the San Francisco Giants clearly hate all of you, we didn't get nearly enough tug, or boat.

Wilkinson, whose real name is Matt, is only the second Tugboat in major league history after Thurman Munson, and he comes by his nickname with the fullest honesty. He is listed at 6-foot-1, 250 pounds, and has the front porch to suggest that the second number may be only an estimate, but that's not the hook. It's not even the fact that his best pitch has the 1934-styled nickname "invisiball." 

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Olivia Miles made her first bucket of Wednesday night's game against the Golden State Valkyries early in the first quarter. It was a pull-up jumper from the left elbow, and the broadcast camera zoomed in on her face as she backpedaled down the court. After a moment of though...

NEW on “Paper Trail”: Hundreds of immigration agents stormed a Chicago apartment complex overnight last year, some rappelling down from a helicopter.

Trump officials claimed they successfully arrested “terrorists.”

We uncovered a very different story. Listen to the full episode:
https://www.propublica.org/podcast/why-chicago-south-shore-apartment-immigration-raid?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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Use an LLM to build a personal wiki for areas of research

At the beginning of April, the prominent AI researcher Andrej Karpathy tweeted (https://x.com/karpathy/status/2039805659525644595) out an idea that was, for a certain kind of productivity nerd, an infohazard. He described the idea this way: ‘Something I’m finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest.’ He proceeded to describe his process: adding source documents to a local folder and using an LLM to extract and organize their contents into a Markdown wiki that gets updated as he adds new material."

I don’t know whether I will do this but it sure is intriguing.

Other events include a murder mystery show at Hammerling Wines, a discussion of reporting on AI and a night market on Fourth Street.

Sen. Jon Ossoff doubled down on his comments about Trump's disgusting, enabling sycophants he's surrounded himself with after the right wing freakout this week over his line about Trump's "binky," Natalie Harp. MS Now host Lawrence O'Donnell asked Ossoff during an intervie...

Nonconsensual AI images are getting much harder to spot.