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“The Diablo Canyon Power Plant, which sits on a cliff on California’s Central Coast, has been the subject of ceaseless protests and political battles since it was proposed in 1963,” the New York Times reports. “Now, the plant is at the center of yet another major debate. After shuttering all the state’s other nuclear power […]

“President Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin that a swift resolution to the Ukraine war could pave the way for the countries to fully restore trade and economic ties,” CNBC reports.

“Democrats are at war in Brooklyn over a maneuver some inside the party have called ‘corrupt,’ a ‘power-grab’ and even ‘fascist.’ And they’re not talking about Republicans,” Politico reports. ”With weeks to go before the midterm elections, an intraparty feud is on full display among Democrats jockeying for control of the party apparatus in one […]

“Republicans are hoping the Trump-centric midterm convention kicking off in Dallas today reminds their base why they fell in love with the president in the first place,” Politico reports. “The next 48 hours are geared in part toward turning out low-propensity voters who are loyal to Trump but tend to skip midterm elections. If they […]

“Iran has signaled that it is willing to escalate its fight with the United States, with senior leaders issuing increasingly sharp warnings in recent days after attacking American warships for the first time,” the New York Times reports. “The country’s leaders are taking a more aggressive approach as Iran faces mounting economic pressure and they […]

Fourteen months after Donald Trump signed the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill to provide billions in tax cuts while seeking to reduce the cost of programs like SNAP food aid and Medicaid, the South Asian Council for Social Services in Queens is trying to help families who are the first to be ensnared in the […]

The post ‘Double Squeeze’: New York Safety Net Frays Amid SNAP and Medicaid Cuts appeared first on The City Reporter.

One kind of school is about culture, compliance and community. We indoctrinate kids, for better or worse, in what it means to be in this world we’ve built, and how to do it together. We teach them how to be kids, how to be citizens and hopefully, how to be adults. And the other kind […]

Donald Trump unleashed a barrage of angry, unhinged threats over the last few days. He posted a map of all of North America—including Canada and Mexico—under conquest by the United States. He angrily threatened to cut off all U.S. sales of Canadian aerosp...

Seated woman, 1909 #expressionism #picasso

Édouard Manet, The Absinthe Drinker, 1862 #artinstituteofchicago #museumarchive

What happens when we stop gathering? Bruce Feiler, seven-time New York Times bestselling author, explores why humans need rituals, especially during the uncertain moments that shape our lives. In his new book, A Time to Gather, he looks at everything from weddings and funera...

Pablo Picasso, Cover for an Exhibition Catalogue: Picasso, Dessins d'un Demi-Siècle, 1956 #minneapolisinstituteofart #printsanddrawings

Edward Hopper, Libby House, Portland, Maine, 1927 #edwardhopper

Connecting an AI assistant to WordPress now looks almost trivial. Install a plugin, copy an MCP URL, sign in, and start asking the assistant to work on your site. That is the easy part. The first difficult question appears one step later: what exactly can the authenticated assistant do? Or even better: what should it […]

The post Your AI Agent May Have More Access to WordPress Than You Think appeared first on Remkus de Vries.

Young Girl with Doll, 1884 #berthemorisot #impressionism

Hah! I had forgotten one of my blog obsessions, pursuit started in 2012 to track down and obliterate a never substantiated claim of “research showing people process visual information 60000 times faster than text.” It’s funny how I just circled back, I spotted in Mastodon a reference to Maginalia Search. An open source search engine […]

Court records and Summer Pardi's recent social media posts provide a clearer picture of the events leading up to the public announcement of her divorce from Jon Pardi. Continue reading…

The "Try That in a Small Town" singer has no interest in the traditional encore routine. He'd rather play everything he's got and end the show without the fake goodbye. Continue reading…

...is what it implies. ::chuckle::

Neologisms are a staple of this space (escarpment), as it has been in others — e.g. LND the past several years, the Maui decade of punctuated equilibria with writing/living, and the epic TFR decade and a half before (and overlapping) that.

But what does today's title neologism mean? Well...

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We’ll all know soon enough, but kudos to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman for breaking some new details 12 hours before Apple’s event begins:

Its device, called the iPhone Duo, will start at $2,000… The entry-level version will include 256 gigabytes of storage, with Apple offering higher-capacity versions that will take the price all the way up to roughly $3,000….

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