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Electrek
• Jo Borrás

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is working with leading transportation nonprofit CALSTART to roll out a $45 million incentive program to help electrify the port’s operators’ heavy truck fleets.
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Electrek
• Fred Lambert

A Tesla Model 3 ran a stop sign in Buena Vista Township, New Jersey, and hit a Honda Civic turning left through the intersection. The Civic’s driver, 82-year-old Stephen Field, was killed.
Police reported it as a car that failed to stop. What no one reported is that Tesla’s own data says the car’s driver-assist system was engaged. This is part of an ongoing Electrek investigation matching reported crashes to Tesla’s redacted NHTSA data.
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Electrek
• Peter Johnson
What a Labor Day message 🙄, but yes most of us are exhausted by the constant chaos coming from this corrupt administration. But being exhausted doesn’t mean we will stop fighting.
SCOTUSblog
• Amy Howe
This could be really good. Trailer for a new documentary from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim about Elizabeth Holmes: You Can See Everything. Amazing cut to the wider shot at the end.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Amanda Caswell

GPT-6 Astra has an obvious problem for developers considering an upgrade from GPT-5.6 Sol: its tokens cost 2.5 times as
The post OpenAI’s new model costs 2.5x more per token — and developers are saving money anyway appeared first on The New Stack.
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Donny Meacham
A new study suggests one of Morgan Wallen’s biggest songs might not be the best choice when you’re trying to stay focused at work. Continue reading…
Head of an Old Man, 1866 #paulcezanne #romanticism
Selected Details after Courbet, 1968 #duchamp #expressionism
Electrek
• Reinette LeJeune
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smays.com
• Steve Mays
In 2016 Barb and I paid $1600 for this professional grade treadmill. It’s been in a dark little windowless room in the basement ever since and I’ve used it numerous times over the years. But having joined the YMCA recently, … Continue reading →
smays.com
• Steve Mays
Relocated to an undisclosed location. I paid the wildlife guy 500 bucks to get rid of this guy and all he trapped was a raccoon. “What about the groundhog,” I asked. “It’s $500 for every critter trapped” explained our former … Continue reading →
Whatever
• John Scalzi
The latest Hugo arrived while I was away at Tampa Comic Convention, and Krissy took the opportunity to go in and rearrange the award shelves a bit to accommodate it. Would you like a tour of the shelves? Of course you would! Top shelf (from left): The Summit Award (for 250,000 reads of my story […]
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
Thank you for three years, and for partying hard with us for two sold out nights of celebration IRL in NYC.
Silver Bulletin
• Nate Silver
Team ratings, playoff and Super Bowl odds, and forecasts of every upcoming game from Silver Bulletin's exclusive NFL model.
Silver Bulletin
• Nate Silver
Way more detail than you probably wanted on Silver Bulletin's new NFL forecasting system.
People love Markdown because it's impossible to hide the crud. And because people love it so much it's become a favorite of tech startups esp in the AI field. This is a great turn of events. We're getting back to the web, and the sooner everyone gets on board, the better. I've written about this for a few years. Everything in Markdown, it's just enough HTML. And with that, Microsoft has created a white flag, here's all your data dear users, in Markdown, to use as you please. Instead of waiting for Claude et al to start reading Word files.