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The town of Hunter is developing a new comprehensive plan with the villages of Hunter and Tannersville, creating a shared blueprint for land use, development, and government decision-making across the three municipalities.  The plan is being guided by New York’s “Smart Growth” principles, which seek to balance development with housing needs, environmental protection, accessibility, and […]

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“Vice President JD Vance said Thursday he couldn’t predict when the fighting with Iran would end or when gas would return to $3 a gallon,” the Washington Post reports. “President Donald Trump originally said the war, which began Feb. 28, would last four to six weeks. In July, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he hoped […]

Well, this is pretty f***ed up. The White House has launched an official government arcade featuring games designed to promote Trump administration policies. One has you play as a Border Patrol agent rounding up migrants. Another, called “Build the Wall,” asks players to defend the border from what

The decisive moment Well, a provençal moment anyway. Quote of the Day ”The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them … Continue reading →

For 35 years, bald eagles were part of the Dollywood experience. After a storm damaged their longtime home, the birds now have a new permanent address. Continue reading…

Labor Day weekend will bring live music, art, outdoor activities, and community gatherings to the Catskills, offering residents and visitors several ways to mark the unofficial end of summer. Observed on the first Monday in September, Labor Day honors the contributions of American workers. The holiday grew out of the labor movement in the late […]

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I wonder if the standard.site folks have thought of implementing a twitterlike timeline interface for posts with optional titles, the ability to edit, styles, links.
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“Vice President JD Vance said Thursday he is ‘looking forward’ to meeting with former President Joe Biden while in New York City next week for the 25th anniversary of 9/11,” Fox News reports. Said Vance: “I’m really looking forward to hanging out with Joe Biden. I’m sure that we’ll have many, many intense intellectual conversations […]

“Pentagon official Emil Michael on Thursday said that Anthropic is still considered a ‘supply chain risk,’ a day after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the company is ‘back on the right side,'” Axios reports. “The Trump administration is not entirely aligned on one of the world’s leading AI labs following months of fighting over how […]

Five years after saying “I do,” Dog the Bounty Hunter is looking back on the love he and Francie Frane found after both experienced devastating loss. Continue reading…

Paul Gauguin, Noa Noa: Nave Nave Fenua (Fragrant Isle), 1893-1894 #museumarchive #cmaprints

CDC staff had already accepted the measles death reports when RFK Jr. meddled.

Over 1 million Game Pass subscribers will have to pay more for their heavy streaming use.

Researchers now have clear new targets and insights for developing a Shigella vaccine.

AWS vs GCP Vibe coding is a great way to create web apps if you know what you're doing. But how do you figure out where to deploy your app? AWS or GCP or somewhere else? To make this decision more complicated, each of these cloud providers has many different web services ...

I don’t usually repeat all the little deploy notes from news.micro.blog, but I’m especially happy about fixed video playback in the timeline. It has bugged me for a while that the aspect ratio or dimensions get wonky briefly when clicking play. Much better now!

Freedom: What a concept. But for Janci Patterson (and her co-writer Brandon Sanderson), it’s a concept with relevance, because in Blightfall, the characters are offered a sort of freedom that comes with potential… but also consequences. JANCI PATTERSON: What would you do if the entire universe was suddenly at your fingertips? This is the question […]

Gene-edited pig kidneys could offer a lifeline to patients stuck waiting for a human donor.

At this point all fifty states have considered passing “right to repair” law aimed at making it easier and cheaper for consumers (and independent repair shops) to repair their tech. That said, only Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, California, Oregon, and Washington have actually passed laws. And of those states, none have seen any enforcement […]