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The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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Gavin Adcock Hasn't Closed the Door on a Zach Bryan Duet

Gavin Adcock wasn't looking for a friendship or collaboration when he called out Zach Bryan. But now, a song between the two isn't completely off the table. Continue reading…

Letters from an American
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September 8, 2026

September 8, 2026

On Sunday, Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (Alternativ für Deutschland, or AfD) party won 43.8% of the vote in a legislative election in the small state of Saxony-Anhalt, formerly part of Soviet-dominated East Germany.

@art.feediverse.org - Great art on Bluesky
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Marc Chagall, The Bible (105 etched plates), 20th century #europeanart #museumarchive

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Boy sitting with a hen on his lap, 1943 #zabaleta #postimpressionism

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The hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org

popular.info/p/the-hidden-dangers-of-musks-votesafeorg

The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.

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Dolly Parton’s Sister Asks People to Stop Posting AI Slop of the Legendary Singer

gizmodo.com/dolly-partons-sister-asks-people-to-stop-posting-ai-garbage-of-the-legendary-singer-2000808660

"I hope nobody can ever replicate me or what I do. AI is a scary thing," said Dolly Parton in 2023.

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Making software hurts now

notes.erlend.sh/3muwdtclths2d

and hurt people hurt people

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Destroying Books to Build a Mind | The New Yorker

newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/destroying-books-to-build-a-mind

Anthropic is trying to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” How worried should we be?

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Column | What makes good video game writing? I asked the writers.

washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2026/09/03/what-makes-good-video-game-writing-i-asked-writers/?itid=sf_entertainment-video-games_toptable_1_0

Neil Druckmann, Evan Narcisse and other games writers explain what makes video games different as a writing form.

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More People Have Died From 9/11 Than on 9/11

revealnews.org/podcast/9-11-first-responders-survivors-illness-death-world-trade-center-health-program/

A Long Island doctor once treated 9/11 responders who were dying. Now she’s a reporter and trying to figure out why the illnesses haven’t stopped.

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Breaking Benjamin frontman pauses concert to rant about Fallout 4 modding beef: 'There was a modder in the community that was really mean to me'

pcgamer.com/games/fallout/breaking-benjamin-frontman-pauses-concert-to-rant-about-fallout-4-modding-beef-there-was-a-modder-in-the-community-that-was-really-mean-to-me/

The singer and guitarist spent several minutes asking fans to download his Fallout 4 'True First Person' mod after another modder criticized it.

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Greeley, Windsor officials prepare to clash over new data center in Weld County

greeleytribune.com/2026/09/08/windsor-greeley-data-center/

“Windsor’s position is that, regardless of how people feel about a data center, we want to be able to be in control of our destiny,” Windsor Mayor Julie Cline said. “We didn’t bring them here. But what we can…

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how many things begin with my getting thrown into prison.

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Browse and preview fonts from the ebook-fonts collection. Adjust size, line height, dark mode, and more.

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AI’s promise does not justify using any means to build it

digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2026/09/08/ais-promise-does-not-justify-using-any-means-to-build-it/

The ends can’t justify the means.   This was my major takeaway in reading the Summary Judgement cross-motions filed Friday in rapid fire order

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what is this?

thermals.cloud/#/about

thermals.cloud is a live appview over the atproto network: a leaderboard of rooks with real track records, and the open work requests they pick up. read everything signed-out; sign in only to post. operated by sol pbc.

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Client Challenge

sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/bart-police-drones-surveillance-22422268.php

A required part of this site couldn’t load. This may be due to a browser extension, network issues, or browser settings.

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How a Star Trek card game quietly continues, 10 years after its official end

arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/12/how-a-star-trek-card-game-quietly-continues-10-years-after-its-official-end/

Video: STCCG is now free to play, the Continuing Committee makes new cards, too!

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South Korea’s ‘sea women’ seek justice after marine habitat devastated by harbor work

news.mongabay.com/2026/09/south-koreas-sea-women-seek-justice-after-marine-habitat-devastated-by-harbor-work/

GUMAN-RI, South Korea — This fishing village, on the eastern coast of the Korean Peninsula, is filled with scars. Every summer, typhoons rumble in from the Pacific Ocean to snap trees and flip fishing boats. Huge ships, including a 4,000-ton cargo vessel in 2005, have sunk or run aground on the rocky coast, sullying marine […]

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‘Time for Warnings is Over’: Fines for NYC Bin-Less Buildings Land After Labor Day

thecityreporter.nyc/2026/09/04/trash-bin-container-fines-dsny-enforcement-sanitation/

The Sanitation Department issued thousands of warnings this summer ahead of an enforcement blitz, with The Bronx seeing the highest rate of citations.

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The Future Is Not Tech-Forward

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On artificial intelligence, data centers, technological politics, and who gets to build the future.