The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Donny Meacham
Brad Paisley and Dolly Parton's "When I Get Where I'm Going" is a powerful reflection on Heaven, faith and the hope of seeing loved ones again. Continue reading…
escarpment
• lnebres
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Since yesterday, President Donald J.
John Singer Sargent, Sketches of Men Reclining in Boats, 1912 #johnsingersargent
Scripting News for email
• Dave Winer
Willem de Kooning, Landscape at Stanton Street, 1971 #minneapolisinstituteofart #printsanddrawings
Georgia O'Keeffe, Blue and Green Music, 1919 #georgiaokeeffe #museumarchive
The Liberated Earth with The Powers of Nature Controlled by Man, 1927 #muralism #diegorivera
Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
• John Amato
Electrek
• Fred Lambert
XPeng has switched on what it calls the world’s first automated production line for advanced humanoid robots, and its IRON robot walked off that line under its own power. The Chinese automaker says the line runs with more than 80% of its core processes automated.
It’s the clearest signal yet that IRON is headed for real manufacturing and not just stage demos. XPeng is targeting mass production by the end of 2026.
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Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“The war in Iran has now cost U.S. consumers $100 billion in higher energy prices, and the bill is rising another $1 million about every two minutes, per a real-time estimate from Brown University as of Monday morning,” Axios reports. “Energy inflation shows up across the entire economy, and the recent surge in diesel prices in […]
Willem de Kooning, Landscape at Stanton Street, 1971 #minneapolisinstituteofart #printsanddrawings
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Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“An alleged attack on Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton remained under investigation Monday but the aftermath of the weekend incident made one thing clear: Acton’s closer-than-expected race against Republican Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio has become extraordinarily toxic,” the Washington Post reports. NBC News: Amy Acton reflects on a “rough day” as witnesses recall “frightening” confrontation.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“When Corey Lewandowski was at the Department of Homeland Security, he approached senior Qatari officials with a proposal,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Hire me on the side, the longtime Trump aide who was effectively the shadow secretary at the department last year, told them… He said he could help the tiny, wealthy Gulf state […]
Sacha Chua
• Sacha Chua
Just days after OpenAI launched its newest and most powerful model dubbed Astra, which the company said marked the arrival
The post “Some agents will be pursuing their own objectives”: OpenAI’s chief scientist warns AI could trick and blackmail humans appeared first on The New Stack.
The Ship of Fools, 1500 #bosch #northernrenaissance
Continuations
• Albert Wenger
Today’s post is an interlude to the Universal Moral Core series, which will resume next week. Labor Day originated during the peak of the Industrial Revolution to celebrate workers and their contributions to the economy. Now, however, the Industrial Age is two decades past its expiration date. The decline of labor as a share of GDP, which began in the 1960s, accelerated dramatically starting in 2000. But that was just a preview of what is about to happen. With the release of the latest AI mod...
