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Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post simply isn’t what it used to be. During the Trump era Bezos and his lackeys have fired all of the paper’s black columnists, turned the op-ed section into pro-corporatist agitprop, censored cartoonists that criticized Jeff, and generally shifted the paper’s journalistic tone in a more right wing, corporate/autocrat-friendly direction. You know, like the […]

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The Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million Fiasco
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ProPublica revealed how a rushed effort to arm Ukraine with artillery shells wasted half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding. Here are the biggest takeaways from that reporting.
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“Last year, Republicans set American health care on a new path: They slashed $1 trillion from expected Medicaid funding over the next decade and allowed tens of billions of dollars in annual insurance subsidies to expire,” Stat reports. “The full impacts of those changes won’t be felt for years, but many parts of the health […]

“The boss of a defense manufacturing start-up backed by Donald Trump Jr’s investment firm donated almost $450,000 to Republican causes just months after winning a $900mn contract from the U.S. government,” the Financial Times reports.

On Monday afternoon, Craig Moss was testing out a new silage chopper. The machine can dice up an entire green...

TAKE (Throw Away the Key Encryption) will become the default encryption for all Ring customers worldwide when fully rolled out.

The New York Times has a long article (alt link) on surveillance systems aimed at babies. They are increasingly using AI.

Nanit and its rivals want to own 24/7 health tracking for the sub-four-foot set. And their already astonishing levels of baby data collection are just the beginning. Nanit recently raised $50 million from investors to expand its use of A.I. and use its camera to track speech and language development, motor skills and more, while extending its presence in children’s bedrooms into early adolescence.

Sean Goedecke makes a compelling case that domain expertise beats generic prompting when it comes to high-quality LLM outputs — and that the gap will only grow as models evolve.

Just the other day, for reasons unknown, I started thinking about which older celebrities (those in their 80s) could die and whose deaths would be truly upsetting to the masses. […]

The post In a divided country during troubling times, Dolly Parton was the joy we could all agree on appeared first on Poynter.

The focus is on agentic capability and predictable enterprise deployment.

A steel frame cargo bike with a unique twist: You can let it choose your gear.

A group of Chicago business leaders have announced plan to launch what they’re calling, “the first airport express train in the US.” The O’Hare Flyer is a fully electric train that will offer non-stop rides between downtown Chicago and America’s busiest airfield.

Pet owners, rescue agencies, and wildlife groups are calling for new safeguards as AI makes it harder to tell whether animals, from polar bears to house cats, are real or fake.

HelloFresh’s organic meal kit Green Chef offers transparent sourcing, layered cooking, and trustworthy gluten-free dishes.

Xbox and Ikea collab alert! This unique nine-piece collection for gamers arrives this fall and has a slew of Easter eggs.

“President Donald Trump often dismisses ‘affordability’ as a political attack line from Democrats. He’s still worried about it,” Politico reports. “The president’s latest bid to lower beef prices is a last-ditch effort to ease consumer strain at the grocery store, a key driver of negative sentiment. The move, which angered farm-state Republicans and agriculture industry […]

Dolly Parton Liked to Read by the Fire in Her Pajamas.

One of the most important and misunderstood reasons for the crisis in journalism has little to do with revenue or technology. The problem is the journalism itself. Much of what […]

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I’m reading Matthew Butterick’s Practical Typography, and with each section—Why does typography matter?, hyphens and dashes, letterspacing—I think, ahhh, so that’s why I love the way The New Yorker looks. They are attentive to every tiny detail of publishing. The finished product is gorgeous as a result. Our son gave me a subscription to The […]