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Trump’s SEC is moving to let Wall Street firms fund the politicians who decide where your retirement savings are invested.

Frederic Bazille @artistbazille #artontwitter #bazille

The Prepared Bouquet, 1957 #surrealism #belgianart

Students across The Overlook’s coverage area are returning to classrooms this month as the 2026-27 school year gets underway. The Hunter-Tannersville Central School District and Saugerties Central School District are the first to welcome students back on Thursday, Sept. 3. Saugerties schools will then close Friday, Sept. 4, and Monday, Sept. 7, for Labor Day […]

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The Historical Society of Woodstock dedicated new grave markers to two veterans as part of the town’s commemoration of America’s 250th anniversary. The Historical Society of Woodstock honored two Revolutionary War veterans Thursday with a ceremony at Woodstock Cemetery on Rock City Road. New footstones were dedicated to John Yerry and William Longyear, who were […]

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The Olive Free Library has earned a national sustainability certification after a three-year effort to reduce its environmental impact, strengthen its finances, and make its services more accessible. The Sustainable Libraries Initiative awarded the designation on Aug. 24, making Olive the 36th public library to complete its certification program. The initiative evaluates libraries in three […]

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Kevin VanHentenryck was studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan when he saw a film that changed his life. “Savage Messiah,” released in 1972, traces the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. For VanHentenryck, watching from a small theater around the corner from Carnegie Hall, the film helped awaken his own creative […]

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The Woodstock Cemetery Committee and American Legion Post 1026 dedicated new grave markers to two Revolutionary War veterans during a ceremony Thursday, Sept. 3, at Woodstock Cemetery on Rock City Road. The committee, American Legion, and Historical Society of Woodstock honored John Yerry and William Longyear, who were buried in the cemetery in the 19th […]

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The Olive Free Library has earned a national sustainability certification after a three-year effort to reduce its environmental impact, strengthen its finances, and make its services more accessible. The Sustainable Libraries Initiative awarded the designation on Aug. 24, making Olive the 36th public library to complete its certification program. The initiative evaluates libraries in three […]

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The Steller sea lion dwarfed local small fry on the dock Thursday.

Simon Willison:

GPT-6 Astra is “rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API and AWS” — I’ve not tried it yet myself, so I don’t have a great deal to say about it yet.

It’s going to be API priced at the same rate as Claude Fable 5 and 5.1: $10/million input and $50/million output. This is clearly OpenAI’s Fable competitor, and appears to score higher than Fable on most of OpenAI’s self-reported benchmarks.

And astoundingly, the MAGA Republicans argued in front of the Supreme Court that they plan to defy court orders if they rule against them. Or maybe it shouldn't be that astounding since they're taking a page straight out of the Trump playbook, and we've got an election deni...

Kevin VanHentenryck was studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan when he saw a film that changed his life. “Savage Messiah,” released in 1972, traces the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. For VanHentenryck, watching from a small theater around the corner from Carnegie Hall, the film helped awaken his own creative […]

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1. I love puzzles.

2. I love Rube Goldberg contraptions.

3. I love solving problems (I have an inner-Columbo).

4. People are the biggest piece of the puzzle (again Columbo).

5. It teaches me about myself and my limited vision and imagination (if I had unlimited vision and imagination, I would never program a bug, and if I did it would take me 0 seconds to find it).

6. I yearn to work together with great minds. Programming gives me that, when I use someone's API. And when the API anticipates my needs, and is instantly understandable, I feel the soul of another artist is present. I imagine this is how musicians feel when they play another musician's song or symphony.

I'm sure there's more to it. But today I'm working on a "lite" problem, and I'll figure it out, but right now I'm enjoying the fact that I don't get it.

Back to work Dave!

James Talarico is a special candidate. Just watched this video of his rally in Plano. Feeling optimistic seeing that crowd in the Dallas suburbs. 🇺🇸

On Feis day, the tense waiting is part of the performance.  Young Irish stepdancers, some as young as 5, stand shoulder to shoulder beneath a pavilion at the Michael J. Quill Irish Cultural Center in East Durham. Then the judges call them forward, two at a time. Parents watch as the children begin their routines, […]

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On Feis day, the tense waiting is part of the performance.  Young Irish stepdancers, some as young as 5, stand shoulder to shoulder beneath a pavilion at the Michael J. Quill Irish Cultural Center in East Durham. Then the judges call them forward, two at a time. Parents watch as the children begin their routines, […]

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A third loss in antitrust court leads to ... very little. PLUS: GPT-6 Astra and 'the AGI era'

1. I love puzzles. 2. I love Rube Goldberg contraptions. 3. I love solving problems (I have an inner-Columbo). 4. People are the biggest piece of the puzzle (again Columbo). 5. It teaches me about myself and my limited vision and imagination (if I had unlimited vision and imagination, I would never program a bug, […]