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Great story at Cartoon Brew about Peter Cullen’s voice acting work. I had never really thought why he was so good as Optimus Prime:

His brother’s idea of heroism became central to Cullen’s interpretation of the character and arguably had a tremendous impact on generations of children who could look up to a strong leader who didn’t rely on bravado or overt displays of aggression.

Rest in peace.

So who believes in Reds Week? The Reds, you fools. The Cincinnati Freaking Reds. And all the rest of you cynical apostates do too. If you didn't know it before, you damned well know it now. And not just for historical, electoral, or tonsorial reasons, either. We're tal...

Unlike other cities, Berkeley doesn’t require managers to disclose romantic relationships with their subordinates unless they’re married. Auditors say that should change.

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You could have a mechanical duck waddling through your home before Christmas.  Hugging Face‘s Pollen Robotics on Thursday opened pre-orders

The post This duck will teach you reinforcement learning — and pick up your socks appeared first on The New Stack.

Last Sunday at a venue in the Austin suburb of Kyle, Merideth Keller delivered a speech to local attendees that took square aim at a man she once voted for back in 2014: Governor Greg Abbott. Over the course of her 12 years on the school board of Hays Consolidated Independent School District, a position […]

The post Will a Coalition of ‘MAGA Moms’ Rally Behind Gina Hinojosa’s Bid for Texas Governor? appeared first on The Texas Observer.

Texas Observer reader, As I write this, Texas families are getting ready to send kids back to school in districts where campuses have been vanishing. As Josephine Lee recently reported, in the first half of this year alone, boards of trustees voted to shutter more than 50 schools around the state. The reasons for this […]

The post Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our September/October 2026 Issue appeared first on The Texas Observer.

Ok, we’re gonna go a little old school today. I’m talking the late 1990s and early 2000s, back before permalinks (sorry), RSS, and social media turned blog posts & tweets into their own little discrete units packaged to be easily passed around and things were less homoge...

Along with Christian Castro, there are at least four more Latinos from South Texas suspected of committing crimes when they invaded the state in January. It's almost as if Stephen Miller recruited a criminal gang to invade blue states!

The post Stephen Miller’s Armed Latino Gang appeared first on emptywheel.

OpenClaw is the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Peter Steinberger and several maintainers share what they learned in the project's first six months.

The post OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

The first of Dolly Parton's six living siblings has shared her feelings in the wake of the singer's death. Continue reading…

The Headless Horseman is already one of the Hudson Valley’s most popular haunted attractions, and now it could be named the best in America. Voting is open now! Continue reading…

Fans are raving over his take on the classic song. Continue reading…

Sergeant Ma, opening Sept. 9 in Mission Bay, blends fine-dining technique with Chinese and Vietnamese flavors.

AI coding company Replit is throwing its weight behind the model-routing trend by making its “intelligent model routing” system the

The post Replit’s new default: Auto mode picks the best model for each task appeared first on The New Stack.

Sai, a computer agent built by Simular, has achieved a 73% success rate on OSWorld 2.0, in a benchmark update

The post “Posterity will find it ludicrous”: Sai agent hits 73% on OSWorld 2.0 performing routine (but necessary) work appeared first on The New Stack.

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, putting one of the biggest names in AI hardware

The post Nvidia doesn’t need to block rival chips on Hugging Face. It just needs the defaults. appeared first on The New Stack.

This is Defector Music Club, where a number of our writers get together to dish about an album. In honor of Reds Week, we're discussing Taylor Swift's 2012 pop-rock hit Red.

Patrick Redford: I can’t be the only one whose strongest and first thought about Red is that there’s a sound at the end of the first synth swell in “I Knew You Were Trouble” that sounds just like the jail-cell door slamming closed in Akon’s “Locked Up,” right?

Lauren Theisen: I primarily remember the screaming goat remix.

I shaved off about half a second while loading the Micro.blog home page timeline. It helps, but also doesn’t have as dramatic a perceived effect as I was hoping. Performance is so many small things.