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America is lawless. Are Dems ready to get tough on crime?

America is lawless. Are Dems ready to get tough on crime?

Maybe.

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Trump Honors Dolly Parton With A Rambling Tale About How Much She Liked Him

The world is mourning the death of country music icon Dolly Parton at age 80, a beloved figure who remained largely neutral in the culture wars. She embraced inclusivity, and earned a very devoted following in the LGBTQ+ community. She became a national treasure as she buil...

Political Wire
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Trump Doubts Iran’s Supreme Leader Is Dead

“President Trump said Wednesday that he believes Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is alive but badly wounded from a February airstrike — dismissing speculation that he is secretly dead despite being unseen throughout the U.S.-Israeli war with his country,” the New York Post reports. Said Trump: “He was very seriously wounded, but I don’t think […]

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Claude Desktop can now easily run Qwen, DeepSeek and Kimi models — after Ollama’s first effort stalled

Illustration of a developer's desk with three monitors showing code, a terminal-style panel, and streams of binary, next to a pastel keyboard and mouse, depicting the concept of developers running alternative AI models in their coding setup.

Open-weight model runner Ollama has reintroduced an integration with Claude Desktop that lets users connect Anthropic’s app to models served

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WIRED
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Candidates Are Signing a Pact Promising Action on Data Centers and AI Safety

More than 15 politicians from across the country have signed on to the AI Pact, vowing to regulate data centers and AI. “We’ve got to get this right,” says Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn.

Ars Technica
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Xbox’s new disc-to-digital program gives physical games a digital future

Xbox’s new disc-to-digital program gives physical games a digital future

"Most" Xbox One and Series games are compatible; discs will still work after being claimed.

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Trump signs an executive order to vet top AI models for security risks.

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Tim Curry, Star of ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ Dies at 80.

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Updated cross-posting to support Bluesky’s new limit of 10-minute videos, for Micro.blog Studio subscribers.

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Brooke Rollins refuses to answer which countries the U.S. is importing beef from

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Poll Shows Talarico Beating Paxton in Districts Trump Won

A new Texas Southern University poll of the Texas Senate race finds James Talarico (D) with a solid lead over Ken Paxton (R) in three congressional districts that President Donald Trump carried by double digits. And don’t miss the new Polling Dashboard for the latest.

Political Wire
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Philadelphia DA Says He’ll Keep Piece of Trump’s Ballroom

“Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said Tuesday he was going to keep a piece of President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom as a paperweight ‘after we all blow it up,'” Fox News reports. Said Krasner: “In about 10 to 15 years, we are all going to be sitting here with smiles on our faces. And […]

Political Wire
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GOP Candidate Wants ICE Agents at Polling Places

“Maine gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles said he plans to ask White House border czar Tom Homan to send U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to Maine polling stations this election season,” NOTUS reports. “If Charles succeeds, the move could validate long-held fears by many in the Democratic Party that President Donald Trump could use immigration […]

Electrek
Text • Fred Lambert

Tesla owners are now filming themselves breaking the law on FSD — and posting it for clout

Tesla owners used to hide the fact that they were abusing Full Self-Driving. Now they film it, add a caption, and post it for the algorithm.

Sleeping at highway speed, gaming with a controller, watching live TV, answering emails on a laptop — a whole genre of “look what my Tesla lets me get away with” content has taken over Instagram, TikTok, and X, and almost every clip in it shows a driver doing something that is flatly illegal in the country where it was filmed.

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Inside Dolly Parton's Unusual 60-Year Marriage

Read on for some of the highlights of Dolly Parton and Carl Dean's relationship through the years. Continue reading…

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Exchange of the Day

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was interviewed on Spectrum News: REPORTER: Which countries are we importing the beef from? ROLLINS: I will be very transparent, I am actually not part of those conversations. I am not sure.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Google’s new legal AI exposes a bigger battle over the enterprise stack

Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal this week, a purpose-built agentic AI solution to automate legal workflows, including contract

The post Google’s new legal AI exposes a bigger battle over the enterprise stack appeared first on The New Stack.

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Z.ai’s GLM-5.3-Flash is cheap, good, and served on Chinese chips

Ox-alpha, the stealth model that quickly became the most popular model on OpenRouter in the last few days, is actually

The post Z.ai’s GLM-5.3-Flash is cheap, good, and served on Chinese chips appeared first on The New Stack.

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Our Favorite Dolly Parton Performances

Our Favorite Dolly Parton Performances
"High Sierra" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvKRwNR7kXw On Tuesday, in the moments after I heard that Dolly Parton had died, I returned immediately to "Light of a Clear Blue Morning." It's a song I've always loved, even when I was a child, and that feels so cathartic t...