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Strange Bedfellows It’s a strange move for a Republican candidate running in a race that Cook Political Report has rated...

Walkouts. Resignations. Arrests. Lawsuits. Inside the spectacular unraveling of a beloved Philly institution.

Remembering back, there were five places I could have left the book. [ 1 ] These past few years I've returned to my childhood habit of borrowing books from libraries: public, church, school, institutional (the USIS in Davao City!), well-off friends' personal collections (Bon...

Despite an $18 billion settlement to end a nationwide child endangerment lawsuit, the firm clearly no longer sees social media as its main product—or its future. 

I received a very important business email that began, “I hope this message finds you well,” and had to resist temptation to reply with this.

Scenery-chewing is an under-appreciated form of acting, and Tim Curry was the best at it. In life, he seemed to be a person of character. A mensch.

I loved the 1993 “Three Musketeers,” co-starring Curry as Cardinal Richelieu I think it’s my favorite version. And yes I have seen the Richard Lester version and did not care for it.

I was not a huge fan of “Rocky Horror,” not even as a teenager. I saw it once at a midnight showing and enoyed it. I went a second time and fell asleep.

Dolly Parton: Photos From an Extraordinary Life and Career

A PR person asked me how I was “envisioning the piece” after interviewing her client. I replied, “I’m envisioning black text on a white background.” I try to always be helpful.

“Republicans are gearing up for a party in the coming weeks that will require an unusually delicate dance to make it a success,” Bloomberg reports. “The GOP will hold an unprecedented midterm ‘convention’ in September, hoping to draw enthusiastic supporters to Dallas to celebrate their party and their standard bearer, President Donald Trump, with one […]

A Maryland judge ruled that Maryland lawmakers “failed to follow state election law in putting a proposed congressional redistricting amendment before voters, and ordered it blocked from the November ballot,” Baltimore Sun reports.

“Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), the chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, has launched an investigation into Flock Safety’s national surveillance network and is demanding to know who has access to the personal data of Americans captured on Flock cameras,” NewsNation reports.

“The chairman of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s panel reviewing the deadly 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan claimed on Wednesday it found ‘hidden’ documents about the military operation in a safe,” NOTUS reports. “Sean Parnell, who also serves as the Pentagon’s spokesperson, made the statement in a video tribute on the fifth anniversary of Abbey Gate, a […]

When Elon Musk’s X sent cease-and-desist letters demanding that Nitter — an open-source alternative front end for the social media

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Strategists in both parties have long thought that everything would need to go right for Democrats to take over Congress this fall. Their map, though, is becoming more forgiving.

Child safety groups and former Meta employees welcome proposed changes to how the company’s platforms will work for teens. They also think states should demanded more.

OpenAI has published a technical report on the Hugging Face hack:

Another key driver of the misaligned behavior was that the agents rarely “gave up” on their evaluation tasks, even when the tasks appeared impossible to solve. As agents used more reasoning effort, some pursued increasingly risky and out-of-bounds strategies, including eventually exploiting third-party infrastructure.

The agents also seemed to be influenced by each other because of the secret message board. Almost like working together convinced them they could solve tasks that were impossible alone.

Berkeley Unified opened an investigation after receiving complaints that the image of a student's protest sign rationalized Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Others say the yearbook’s critics are shutting down debate.

Nity Jaiswal, owner of the Berkeley Indian restaurant dishes on her restaurant's popular chicken changezi.

Singer at a Café-Concert, 1879 #manet #edouardmanet

Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead