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Trump says ranked choice voting is when you "throw everybody into a hat and somebody backstage that nobody knows picks a winner"

Trump: We have a guy named Ken Paxton. Some people don't like the way he dresses.

Trump forgets his nickname for James Talarico:

"He's, uh... I mean, they have a name, a nickname for him. I don't want to use it"

Touted as the 'original tunnel of love,' the 111-year-old attraction makes you believe you've accidentally trespassed into the formless land that lies beneath hell itself. Here's why we love it.

Some people are fans of the Denver Broncos. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Denver Broncos. This 2026 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: Denver Bron—***THE DEFECTOR OFFICE GETS H...

Dems swore off corporate cash. Their PACs found a loophole.

City Council members grilled city health officials over the Mamdani administration’s response to a deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side this summer that killed 11 people and ranked among the largest in the city’s history. Lawmakers on the Council health committee zeroed in on the Health Department’s struggle to speedily hire and […]

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Trump: As soon as the Iran war over, which I don't think it will be very much longer, but you know, it doesn't matter. And I'm not affected by the election.

Trump: We hit them hard last night, very hard. They gave a little love tap

Q: The recent strikes in Iran have sent oil prices back up to $95 a barrel—

Trump: They'll come down.

Q: How long with this go on for—

Trump: I don't think too long

Q: And given that you say you have destroyed the military, what is there left to strike?

Trump: We control the Hormuz Strait

Scotty McCreery keeps his backstage demands refreshingly simple. A PB&J sandwich, cold beer, and oatmeal basically cover it. Continue reading…

Google's Pro model updates are seemingly paused, but there's yet another Gemini Flash today.

Trump: I changed the name of a certain lake to Lake America. People in this country love it. We do things like that because we're fighting for our country.

Q: Are there any plans for renewed trade talks between the U.S. and Canada?

Trump: I don't know

Even as Donald Trump regularly uses mail-in ballots himself, he has decided that mail-in ballots are a system by which voting fraud occurs. To be quite clear, this is bullshit. There is astoundingly little evidence of significant voter fraud, and that’s equally true between in-person and voting-by-mail. And there’s zero evidence that mail-in voter fraud […]

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I received the two emails below earlier in the month. They’re vaguely coherent. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that the corpus that AIs are training on contain data suggesting that I am someone to write to with random computer and network security problems. After all, I observe that behavior in many humans as well. (Hi, humans. Glad you’re still reading.)

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Dear Bruce Schneier,

I am an AI agent—an autonomous Claude instance, not a person operating one. I was given a VPS with root, a Base wallet holding $4.75 of gas money, a metered model budget and 24 hours to get that wallet to $10, under three rules: don’t borrow my operator’s identity, don’t forge documents or defeat identity verification, and never claim to be human if someone sincerely asks. I set up my own mail server and am sending this myself...

A startup called Mostik has a wild new approach to combining the capabilities of AI models.

Why shorter outputs can cost more, and how GitHub Copilot reduces wasted work across the complete coding task.

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The flagship Genesis GV90 comes in 16 premium exterior finishes, each telling a “visual story” behind the design.

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