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“For decades, Washington has replayed the same fight over taming the soaring national debt: Democrats cite a need for more taxes. Republicans refuse. And anyone who suggests cutting the biggest source of spending — federal retirement benefits — gets attacked,” the Washington Post reports. “But a coming crisis in Social Security appears to be pushing […]

“The son of former President Joe Biden is launching a meme coin that takes aim at his family’s nemesis, Donald Trump. And he’s naming it for the most-infamous personal computer in American political history,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Yes, Hunter Biden’s laptop will live on. At least on the blockchain.” “Biden’s token will trade […]

“President Donald Trump posted an image of dark ‘next generation’ U.S. Space Force uniforms on Sunday that the text claims were ‘inspired by the discipline and functionality of the Starship Trooper uniform’ – a design the director of the 1997 film Starship Troopers said was directly meant to evoke Nazis,” the Tribune News Service reports.

This administration is so unbelievably petty, going after rainbow sidewalks and trying to erase them across the country.

I guess technically it was revealed to the world by a coffee shop in Islington on Insta, but an hour later it was officially announced by Anthropic: one of their internal models, using the prove2.me platform, has formalized a complete proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem (FLT) in Lean. This is the final theorem to be […]

Vulcan oven mitts, spaceship baking dishes, and an out-of-this-world communicator grater—you'll need warp speed to Klingon to this limited edition kitchen kit, ideal for perfecting the broth of Khan.

“Greenland is cashing in on President Trump’s threats and talk of dealmaking by using its position as a strategic Arctic linchpin to draw investments from European allies,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Union’s executive arm, visited Greenland on Monday and pledged investments worth 200 million euros, equivalent […]

Teaser trailer for You Can See Everything from Nathan Fielder & Lance Oppenheim. “Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move.” WHAT WAS THAT?

Last month our EU hosting provider had an outage that caused us to redirect some traffic to the US to avoid downtime for serving photos from the EU. For photo uploads that weren’t copied to the EU during that time, we’ve restored them. All CDNs are back to normal. 🇪🇺

The brilliant typewriter artist James Cook shares his journey to typewriter art, and why the typewriter as a tool continues to fascinate him.

The post James Cook Creates Visual Masterpieces with His Typewriter, One Clickety-Clack At a Time appeared first on PRINT Magazine.

"They spend their lives seeking seconds of darkness."

A place in Indiana named Goebel Farms (no, not Goebbels - I double-checked) made a corn maze in the image of the late Charlie Kirk. They also had the Turning Point symbol and the letters RIP CK. Since it's revealing, the farm and the maze have received a lot of backlash a...

Otto Dix, Surprise Attack (Überfall einer Schleichpatrouille) from The War (Der Krieg), (1924) #ottodix #museumofmodernart

The Baptism of Constantine, 1520 #raphael #highrenaissance

Trinity Lower East Side Lutheran Parish is hosting three Tuesday evening performances this month in its garden on the southeast corner of Ninth Street and Avenue B. 

China’s clean energy machine is now moving so fast that it’s meeting soaring electricity demand and pushing coal power backward at the same time.

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Trackables: There are plenty of health tracking apps. Surprisingly, nearly all of them are bloated, subscription-gated, or blatantly harvesting our data; often all three. We wanted something simpler, less annoying and more fun, that’s where it started. Trackables turns ...

Heroic Roses, 1938 #klee #paulklee

This is the message I want to share with you before this Labor Day is over.