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The Harvesters (July–August), 1565 #pieterbruegel #northernrenaissance

Donald Trump seems rather annoyed that people are questioning his needless, unpopular, and costly war against Iran. On Friday, he downplayed the seemingly endless war and its costs as “small potatoes for us” and “not a big thing.” “We did Venezuela, and we did this in Venez...

“As Dr. Anthony Fauci has faced public scrutiny from congressional Republicans, the Department of Justice has pursued a quieter and more expansive effort against a wider circle of researchers,” the New York Times reports.

Developers of popular open source projects are inundated with pull requests. What about a solution somewhere in between a user feature request and a code diff? User writes a feature request, AI checks the project code and turns the idea into a summary that highlights pros/cons based on the codebase.

Using an advanced new instrument, scientists observed Einstein’s equivalence principle on a free-falling quantum object, demonstrating that this prediction of general relativity also holds up in quantum physics.

CNN: “For all the handwringing in all corners of the nation over the direction of the Democratic Party, the decisions by party leaders to intentionally not run nominees in several states is a blunt acknowledgment of the party’s toxicity in a stretch of the country that once routinely elected Democrats to state and federal office.” […]

“The Trump administration says it will break ground on a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, D.C. without final federal approval and despite an ongoing lawsuit,” NPR reports. The Guardian: Excavation work on Trump’s towering, gilded arch to begin over next two weeks.

“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may still be mulling what she does in 2028. But her outreach to one particularly disaffected — and surprising — slice of the electorate could offer a clue to how she’s preparing for her future,” Politico reports. “Ocasio-Cortez told Emma Vigeland in a July interview for ‘The Majority Report’ that she’s been meeting […]

Marco Arment:

And I can’t help but feel that maybe we were better off before we knew everyone’s hot takes on everything.

The town coffee shop was just a coffee shop. We weren’t publicly shamed for going there because one of the owners was an ass. It was just a place to hang out with our friends.

It’s a word you hear a lot from proponents of AI. Yeah, some jobs will be eliminated but a bunch of new jobs will be created. And even if the new ones don’t pay as much, AI will usher in … Continue reading →

1969 interview with Don Rickles by WMAR-TV reporter Susan White. “Rickles had a reparation for not letting reporters get a word in edgeways, so Susan decided to hilariously turn the tables…”

Rickles has a reputation for being kind, gracious and charming in his personal life and that shines through in this video.

Raphael, Figure of Justice, 17th century #raphael

Our advanced statistical ratings on every quarterback’s past, present, and future are back for the new NFL season.

The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab meets vehicle safety standards.

Fixed blog post summaries to allow both <!–more–> tags and custom summaries at the same time. Updated the help page with better documentation for how to use this in Hugo templates.

“Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA) repeatedly refused to say whether he wants President Donald Trump to visit his district and campaign with him ahead of November’s midterm elections,” Mediaite reports.

“Republicans appear to have a unity problem in Georgia,” NBC News reports. “In both of the battleground state’s marquee contests this fall, Republican power brokers have yet to fully rally around either of their nominees, Rep. Mike Collins for Senate and billionaire Rick Jackson for governor, months after they emerged from bruising primaries. It stands […]

A couple times over the last year, I’ve turned off fediverse posting from my blog. This is another one of those times. I may keep fediverse posting disabled until Trump is out of office, when I hope it’ll be easier to lower the temperature in online discourse.

“Two of the top Democratic fund-raisers this cycle are teaming up for a finance event with some big Hollywood names,” the New York Times reports. “James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee from Texas, and Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia are headlining a fund-raiser on Thursday evening in Los Angeles.”