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Republican convention speaker: Do you need a grenade launcher on your assault rifle?

RNC crowd: Yes!

I sort of tuned out during the Apple Watch part of the presentation today. Catching up on Siri Recap and Live Rewind. How it works (PDF) is interesting… It’s pretty clever. Jumping through a lot of hoops for maybe not-great transcription, though.

A federal appeals court rejected the Justice Department's defense of an IRS program that gave immigration agents tens of thousands of taxpayer addresses in violation of a post-Watergate privacy law. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of C...

We break down Apple’s September 9 event, including the foldable iPhone Duo, the non-foldable iPhone 18 Pro, the surprising new Apple Watches that double as AI wearables, and the event debut of John Ternus as Apple’s CEO.…

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION A quarter of a century has passed since the terrible day of September 11, 2001, and an entire generation of Americans has now come of age with no living memory of that fateful day.  The passage of time must never dim what will forever burn bright in the […]

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“Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) delivered a video message at the Republican midterm convention, in which he praised a bipartisan effort to bolster the steel industry and distanced himself from his party’s left wing,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “It comes on the first night of the Republican midterm convention, in which multiple speakers have portrayed […]

“Rep. Jim Jordan said Wednesday he plans to end his eight-year run leading Republicans on two of the House’s most prominent committees after this Congress, raising fresh questions about what comes next for the veteran Ohio lawmaker,” Politico reports. “Jordan, 62, said in an interview on the sidelines of the Republican midterm convention that he […]

From the Internet Archive: Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record. “When digital materials are vulnerable to sudden removal…our collective memory is compromised, and the public’s ability to access its own history is at risk.”

Over on Flickr, Jane McDevitt maintains a huge collection of 20th century matchbox label art from Eastern Europe, over 4000 photos in all. Some of the labels are available as prints. They did a book too, but it’s sold out. It was really difficult to narrow these down to some of my favorites, but I managed. P.S. I wrote this whole post and then discovered that I’d written about this collection before. But I picked different labels so it’s all good. Tags: art · illustration · Jane McDevitt

A catalogue of 645 acts of hate from the week after 9/11. “Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and Sikh Americans were targeted for how they looked, dressed, or prayed.”

Republican senator warns crowd against sending money to Washington DC for “failures and fraud”

When an Oceanview Diner manager was detained at the Oakland Airport, friends, family and coworkers rallied to track him down and fight for his release.

First Lady Melania Trump shared her forward-looking vision on the generational significance of institutional design, declaring that, “The White House stands as an architectural autobiography of America, embodying the enduring values of ambition, democracy, and civic life through its design, craftmanship, and the objects within.” First Lady Melania Trump’s elevated creative vision has played a […]

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Grindr outage reports are surging in Dallas on Day 1 of the Republican midterm convention

Design for a parabolic compass, 1500 #highrenaissance #davinci

Pierre-Auguste Renoir @artist_renoir #renoir #pierreaugusterenoir

Several Level 2 and Level 3 sex offenders with ties to the Hudson Valley have changed addresses over the past two weeks. Continue reading…

For the last few months, there has been much talk of AI agents going “rogue”. This is another of those unhelpful anthropomorphisms that are great for clickbait headlines, but which obscure a multitude of important issues. So far, there have been three major incidents of AI agents evading containment in their software “sandboxes” and going […]