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Flower in the Desert, 1946 #salvadordali #dali

Untitled, 1903 #mondrian #postimpressionism

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“New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) slammed President Trump’s recent posts where he said renaming her state as ‘New America’ would be ‘much more prestigious and beautiful,'” NewsNation reports. Said Lujan Grisham: “New Mexico’s name isn’t up for debate — it’s been ours since before the United States existed. What is up for debate? […]

“Russia will shutter the German consulate in St. Petersburg, deepening a diplomatic dispute that began with Germany accusing Moscow of responsibility for a failed drone attack,” Bloomberg reports.

Around the world, authoritarian movements are attacking science to weaken democracy: cutting research funding, smearing scientists, and spreading mis- and disinformation. This piece argues that defending free scientific inquiry is part of defending democratic institutions and calls on citizens, funders, and leaders to actively support science and truth.

Changed the cloud server to rpc.rsscloud.io. the old server rpc.rsscloud.org -- i let it lapse for some stupid reason or so it turns out. ;-)

Volkswagen’s new ID. Polo EV is apparently sold out after receiving over 30,000 orders. Buyers are now being told it will be at least a 10-month wait.

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Today I updated the Micro.blog web interface with better links and icons in the timeline, and a new context menu for editing your own posts or muting a conversation. There are a lot of related design fixes too. Just a better design and more room for us to build new things on.

When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems?

Redesigned the web timeline links like Reply and Bookmark, adding a new “…” menu with more options including Edit for your own posts and Mute Conversation. Also improved the reply editing page and lots of other tweaks.

A win for the bison in Montana! 🦬 A federal judge just blocked the Trump administration from forcing more than 900 bison off public lands where they’ve been grazing for years and helping restore the prairie.

Edgar Degas, Marie Dihau (1843–1935), 1867–68 #edgardegas #themet

JvE4dFLgPzg #werefkin #mariannevonwerefkin

Second update. Now it has a cloud element.

Tesla is now asking businesses whether they’d like to buy and operate their own fleets of Cybercab robotaxis on its network. It’s the same pitch Elon Musk has been making since 2019: buy the cars, put them to work, and earn money while you sleep.

There’s one problem with it. And it never happened, and you shouldn’t fall for it now. If running a fleet of Cybercabs were actually profitable, Tesla wouldn’t sell you a single one.

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Second update. No changes to script code, just want to see if the new header values appear in the feed.

On Meet The Press, Rep Jamie Raskin easily pushed back against the continued insistence that Hasan Piker is relevant to the Democratic Party and the issues the U.S. faces from the destructive Trump administration. Host Kristin Welker played a clip of Piker choosing Hamas ov...

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Reflecting on the Astra launch… It was a killer business instinct for Greg Brockman to say, “yeah, this is basically AGI.” Dario Amodei is much more cautious. He’s not going to say that about Fable. But it works because it actually feels true. Marketing not based on truth is just bullshit spin.