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Journalist Jim Acosta filmed workers tearing chunks out of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool a day after President Donald Trump declared the landmark almost completely fixed. In a video posted to X on Monday, Acosta reported while standing at the edge of the drained...

Electric semi truck brand Windrose has developed an all-electric power take-off (PTO) that puts out up to 70 kW of power without burning a drop of diesel – and it could give his big BEV a real market advantage.

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Ed Markey has won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts.

I just landed a PR that fixed a nasty data race in Quamina. Which shouldn’t have been technically challenging, but I took side-trips into Erlang, unit test footguns, whether or not I should go on accepting LLM-generated PRs, and programming while aging

“Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) is projected to win the often-bitter Democratic Senate primary against Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA),” the Boston Globe reports.

“Joe Biden will attend the New York ceremony on Sept. 11 commemorating the 25th anniversary of the most lethal terrorist attacks in U.S. history, filling out the group of former presidents to attend the event,” the New York Times reports.

“Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s resignation follows a strained relationship with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and repeated warnings to the White House, including Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, about what has been described as Hegseth’s widespread and seemingly indiscriminate firing of senior military officers,” ABC News reports. “Driscoll also warned the White House about unprecedented efforts […]

“President Trump said he’s nominating Navy veteran Hung Cao to become the service’s top civilian leader, a job that has been vacant since spring when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pushed John Phelan out of the job,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Green-card holders have been detained for more than a week, and those walking past had no clue it existed.

Dolly's Hollywood Walk of Fame star became a memorial after her death. Now, the vandalized landmark is being replaced with a new one. Continue reading…

A few years before my mother passed away, we were having a conversation about my dad.  She told me the story of the first time they met. It was at one of those old-time mountain dances; the kind where they would put all of the furniture out in the yard and open up the house […]

Maura Healey has won the Democratic primary for Governor of Massachusetts.

Autonomous aircraft: Pilot-free crop dusters lead the way.

Søren Kierkegaard, 1847 www.reddit.com/r/walking…_danish_philosopher_s%C3%B8ren_kierkegaard_in_1847/ The Coming Meat, 1880 reddit.com/r/vintage…_coming_meat_1880/ King of the Fourth Planet, by Robert Moore Williams. Cover artist: Ed Emshwiller reddit.com/r/CoolSci…_of_the_fourth_planet_by_robert_moore/

I just spent an hour shredding cardboard boxes that I was saving because they could be useful for something. Perfectly good boxes, destroyed like garbage.

This is a very difficult moment for me and I ask for your emotional support.

“Tuesday’s Democratic primaries in Massachusetts are likely to determine who will represent the state in Washington next year,” the New York Times reports. “The state is so Democratic that its primaries are usually more consequential than general elections in congressional races. The state’s last Republican House members left office after the 1996 elections. Scott Brown, […]

The Punishment of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, 1481 #botticelli #earlyrenaissance

Bart gets a facelift Seen in an Arles street yesterday. With “No More War” scrawled on his forehead. Wonder what Homer would think. Quote of the Day ”In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be … Continue reading →

21 Burgers & Wings, well-known for both of those types of eats and then some, has the Hudson Valley guessing as to where their new location will be. Continue reading…