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Four years, two disasters, and zero investors later, Azikiwee “Z” Anderson is ready to welcome the public into his SoMa space.

Michael Martin, the city’s new port chief, inherited a massive seawall renovation project and piers that have been “coming soon” for years.

Tired of comparisons to Ivy League programs, the former star quarterback is starting his second season as the Cardinal GM and attempting to “plant flags of seriousness.”

For Micro.blog Premium subscribers, significantly improved the thumbnails for new websites saved under Bookmarks → Links.

Researchers used AI to search through more than 100 million possible settings for 3D-printing a high-performance NASA alloy. After only 40 experiments, the system identified six successful configurations, including one that worked at a record-low 500 watts. That could allow GRCop-42, currently difficult and expensive to print, to be made with much more widely available equipment.

Carly Pearce's real training ground wasn't a recording studio. It was six shows a day at Dollywood, where she learned what it actually takes to perform for a living. Continue reading…

A woman from Orange County, NY is celebrating after a routine stop at a gas station in Middletown turned into a $1 million lottery win. Continue reading…

Wall Street Journal: “The air war between Russia and Ukraine has entered a new phase. With expanded aerial arsenals and inadequate air defenses, both sides are bludgeoning each other in a bare-knuckle fight that is causing a widening swath of destruction and a rising civilian toll.”

Paul Krugman: “A clear indicator that Trump sycophants realize that they are caught in reality’s snare is how they respond to any question about current economic difficulties. Their first sentence almost always contains the word ‘Biden,’ as they make the false claim that things were worse under Joe Biden, or that Biden somehow caused all […]

“Newly obtained documents indicate that the U.S. health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, lied during two congressional hearings last year, telling lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation that a 2019 visit to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines,'” The Guardian reports. “Letters obtained by the Guardian and the Associated Press contradict that […]

“The U.S. aims to ‘advance and accelerate’ the transfer of responsibility for most of Europe’s own conventional defense as Washington continues a review of its troop presence, a top Pentagon official said,” Bloomberg reports. “Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby arrived in Brussels for talks with NATO allies on Thursday to update them on […]

Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.

FeedLand Rivers for WordPress: I’ve noticed that people are setting up news reader sites with FeedLand that are getting considerable flow. We thought they’d use News Products, a feature that was supposed to make it easy to create standalone sites like the one I did for WordPress insiders. But people aren’t going that way, they’re […]

My WordPress mirror site stopped updating on August 12. It’s now updating once again. I’ll try to watch it more carefully.

All of a sudden it’s cold here in the Catskills this morning. It’s still August, I don’t get what’s going on. We haven’t had a really hot day all month. I’m starting my workday wearing a freaking hoodie and am thinking about turning on the heat.

The Atlantis project continues. Today I’m working on the code that updates the frontier.root object database using RSS, a technique I started in 2007. I actually let the codecasting.org name lapse, figuring I’d never get back to that stuff, but here we are, doing unpredictable things.

Alienware’s latest gaming monitor explores a new size and resolution for ultrawide monitors, and I have a feeling PC gamers are going to love it.

If you liked the toilet paper shortage during COVID, you’re going to love Donald Trump’s latest ploy to raise the prices of just about everything we need.

The guy who promised to lower prices “on Day One” is about to add toilet paper to the list of necessities whose prices he has caused to soar.

Thanks to the spectacular failure of President “Deal Maker” to make any kind of deal with Canada and his efforts to bully that country into bowing to his childish petulance, the cost of toilet paper is slated to spike 25-50%, according to The Guardian. Ditto for facial tissues.

“Paper products are among the hardest-hit sectors” on Canada’s list of retaliatory tariffs set to start on September 8, The Guardian said.

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Donald Trump has spent his entire second presidential term absolutely plagued by incessant, humiliating leaks that have crescendoed with the suspension of three top Secret Service officials, including the agency's director of communications, Anthony Guglielmi, and a thoroug...

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