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SF nonprofit paid out $5.6M without checking whether anyone did the work

Auditors say the Japanese Community Youth Council hired the former Human Rights Commission director’s sister to run a program but refused to hand over her contract.

Ars Technica
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RIP Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances

RIP Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances

A dashing pirate, a butler, a killer clown, an alien mad scientist in drag—the man had range.

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NYC homes hidden behind LLCs complicate pied-à-terre tax rollout

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LLC owners who elude the Department of Finance could escape the tax and lower overall revenue from the tax.

WIRED
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How Rising Temperatures Likely Contributed to Nepal’s Deadly Flood

Climate change is causing glaciers to retreat and become less stable, upping the odds of catastrophic collapses.

Racket
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Fact Check: How Exaggerated is MN GOP’s Ceaseless $9B Fraud Claim? (Spoiler: Extremely.)

Fact Check: How Exaggerated is MN GOP’s Ceaseless $9B Fraud Claim? (Spoiler: Extremely.)

Plus more bad MPS news, Hmong funeral garb, and two attenuated celebrity death local angles in today's Flyover news roundup.

Ars Technica - All content
Text • Scharon Harding

AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”

AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”

Reuters report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Lobbyists Go to Work for Canada Tariff Carveouts

“Companies that do business with Canada, and the lawmakers who represent them, are ramping up their lobbying for carveouts from new U.S. tariffs on Canada,” Semafor reports.

xkcd.com
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Trade

"You legs may have a comparative advantage at running, but we arms have a competitive advantage at swinging hammers, so unless you accept that we're the dominant limbs and stop hogging the oxygen, that running advantage won't be around for long."

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Microdramas are the death rattle of Hollywood

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Read to the end for Dolly Parton’s “Stairway To Heaven”

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Frederic Lardinois

Anthropic’s Claude now has a browser of its own

Anthropic is giving Claude its own browser. As the company announced on Wednesday, Claude on the desktop (Mac, Windows, and

The post Anthropic’s Claude now has a browser of its own appeared first on The New Stack.

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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New Yorkers Fleeing The State Are Still In For A Rude Awakening

A growing number of New Yorkers who fled the state are quickly realizing they made a terrible mistake. Continue reading…

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Shapiro Blames RFK Jr. for Vaccine Distrust

“Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro blamed U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for sowing distrust in vaccines as the state confronts a widening measles outbreak that has killed two people and infected hundreds of others,” Bloomberg reports. “Shapiro said Kennedy’s rhetoric and efforts to reshape federal public health policy had contributed to confusion about vaccines […]

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Republicans Are Still Dismissing Affordability

CNBC: “President Donald Trump, in a Wednesday interview, said that the word ‘affordability’ was ‘devised’ by Democrats to disparage him. The Republican National Committee sent out a fundraising text attributed to Vice President JD Vance that said groceries ‘cost what they cost.’ And Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) who won the nomination for a full Senate […]

Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
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Chief Economist Calls Out Bessent: 2% Growth Isn't Helping Most Americans

Navy Federal Credit Union Chief Economist Heather Long dismantles Scott Bessent's distorted picture of the US economy and explains how it's heavily weighted for the wealthiest Americans. After describing the US economy as Domino's instead of wood-fired gourmet pizza, Long...

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The City Reporter
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Schools Left in Lurch After Mamdani Administration Halted Education Software Purchases

Yellow buses sit outside of a Bronx school,

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. After intense backlash to its initial artificial intelligence policy, New York City’s Education Department ordered principals last month to halt software purchases while officials develop new guidelines. But the city has yet to release a new policy or lift the purchasing freeze despite the approaching Sept. 10 start of […]

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Ars Technica
Text • Scharon Harding

Meta’s scrapped plans to go “AI native” included slashing teams by 60 percent

Meta’s scrapped plans to go “AI native” included slashing teams by 60 percent

Reuters report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.

Amazon News
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AWS and NVIDIA expand partnership for next-gen AI infrastructure

AWS and NVIDIA will deploy 2 million additional GPUs and deepen collaboration across CPUs, networking, and robotics.

Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
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Carville Slams Hakeem Jeffries For Kushner Meeting

James Carville is old and out of touch, but even he understands that the optics of this are terrible. At the same time, Hakeem Jeffries seems completely oblivious or just uninterested in what the Democratic base thinks. Source: Daily Beast James Carville is no fan of Hakee...

News – The White House
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Further Ensures Affordable Beef for the American Consumer

ADDRESSING BEEF AFFORDABILITY WITH TARGETED ACTION: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Proclamation to temporarily increase the quantity of lean beef trimmings that are imported with no above-quota tariff to ensure affordable beef for American consumers in light of current supply challenges. This action includes key safeguards to maximize cost savings while protecting American ranchers […]

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