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Abraham Lincoln is remembered as one of the most eloquent presidents in U.S. history, but little of his command of language came from a classroom. By his own estimate, all his formal schooling added together amounted to a bit less than a year, or perhaps about 10 months. In ...

Back-to-school means more than buying pencils and finding the right backpack. There are several changes New York parents should know about before sending the kids back this year. Continue reading…

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: In today’s filing, Apple says that Liu’s lawyers recently handed over his MacBook that he used after leaving Apple. According to Apple, an “initial forensic analysis” of that MacBook revealed four things, quoted from Apple’s filing: Mr. Liu not ...

Sistine Chapel Ceiling: David and Goliath, 1509 #highrenaissance #michelangelo

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Obama should have seated Garland if the Senate wouldn’t have a vote to advise and consent. assume they consent.

And the governor of Kentucky should appoint a successor to McConnell unless someone can provide proof he’s actually alive.

Creative computer people, consider consolidating all the different OSes and programming languages. Give humans a fair fight in competition with the AI's who have no trouble deeply understanding every syntax human designers have come up with, where it totally disadvantages us.

Meta’s Superintelligence Labs on Tuesday launched Muse Voice Transcribe, a new real-time speech recognition model that, at least on some

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Creative computer people, consider consolidating all the different OSes and programming languages. Give humans a fair fight in competition with the AI's who have no trouble deeply understanding every syntax human designers have come up with, where it totally disadvantages us, who have much more limited memory.

The ID. California Cruise, Volkswagen’s first fully electric California camper, looks ready for your next adventure.

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When the average car could only do 40 mph, this Bentley could break 100.

Plus Stargazer shifts focus, Barrel Theory is taking over Lake Monster Brewing, and much more in the August Racket Restaurant Roundup.

“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) quipped Monday that a company should build an AI data center near President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort after he said communities will be ‘backwards and poor’ if they oppose the construction of such facilities,” NewsNation reports. Said Ocasio-Cortez: “How about we put one in Mar-a-Lago? I love that. Let’s put a data […]

Tim Cook enthusiastically supported global authoritarian policies while turning Apple Computer into a dull simulacrum of an interesting company.

Missouri farmer: 63 farmers a day are going out of business while people can't afford their groceries. There is a serious problem in rural America. Farmers and ranchers are in crisis.

Bessent: This is the Biden-Warren economy. We are bringing prices down

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we're talking about iPhone complaints, America’s infrastructure tragedy, changing clothes at the airport, and more.

Your letters:

Monte:

Industry Standard Tools. “Every trade has a small number of items so entrenched that they’ve become the de facto tool that nearly everyone in that trade uses.”

Joel Coen and Todd Haynes are among more than 170 Jewish figures who have signed a letter in support of Mark Ruffalo amid antisemitism claims.

like Airplane Mode, but multiplayer and in the browser

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