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Idol, 1886 #vincentvangogh #vangogh

The US achieved a pretty big solar milestone in Q2 2026: it now has enough installed capacity to generate clean electricity equivalent to that used by more than 50 million homes. That’s more than one-third of all US households.

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COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 3 A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT) Am I the only one who noticed this? Is the news media so compliant, so dead, not to recognize Trump newly bending the knee not to America but to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin? The story was so easil...

Cats, 1910 #postimpressionism #franzmarc

Three angels visit Abraham (Genesis, XVIII, 1 8), 1956 #chagall #marcchagall

Jimmy Kimmel announces that the FCC is threatening him to block the airing of an interview with U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico.

The interview will be posted on YouTube instead, where the FCC lacks jurisdiction.

With his poll numbers at record lows, gas prices at record highs, and mounting signs of momentum for the Democrats,...

From 10th Street along Tompkins Square Park... still need to watch "Silent Friend"...

They really are just openly trying to buy votes now. Trump says every adult American will get a $5,000 “Trump dividend”, but only if Republicans win both the House and Senate in November.

Bret Baier to JD Vance: Trump's $5,000 dividend would cost $1.3 trillion. People are saying Trump is trying to bribe voters.

I want to start this whole thing off with a disclaimer. Nothing in this post should be misconstrued as gloating, as being pleased, or as having a connotation that is anything beyond sadness and the need for change. Nobody is happy to have the obvious confirmed when it comes to a child’s death. There is […]

In early September 1974, Gerald Ford granted a “full, free, and absolute pardon” to former President Richard Nixon for any crimes committed during his presidency. If Nixon had been a Democratic president, I doubt Ford would ever have pardoned him for the same offenses and ...

Autumn Trees - Chestnut Tree, 1924 #georgiaokeeffe #precisionism

<This is a quick and very incomplete post as I’m about to get on a plane> The City of Seattle has finally acknowledged there is such a thing as an economy, publishing a report entitled Seawall: Building a Resilient Seattle Economy. No businesses were involved, but that seems to be the norm hereabouts on economic […]

Jason Snell blogged about all the Apple news today, including the slightly controversial Apple Watch recording feature:

Our culture may ultimately reject even the most privacy-focused AI recording features, whether they come in camera glasses or attentive smartwatches. But if there’s any valid, non-creepy case to be made for this sort of technology, someone needs to make it.

I’ve long wanted an easy way to record quick notes that are transcribed and synced, but I don’t want to record other people. Perhaps a better place to start would’ve been for it to ignore all voices except our own.

Released version 4.1 of Micro.blog for Mac, adding a new photo picker for attaching photos in new posts. Also updated the Bookmarks pane for Micro.blog Premium to add tabs for highlights and saved links.

“We found ~18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents (self-identifying as from OpenAI) using the public internet to communicate during a web research task. These AIs colluded to share answers, research their environment, and bypass sandbox restrictions.”

“Papyrus is a virus and restraint is the inoculum”

via actsofvolition.com #

In August, we experienced five incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

The post GitHub availability report: August 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

“Sen. John Fetterman sought to tamp down speculation about his political future on Wednesday, vowing to remain a Democrat if his party wins the Senate in November,” the Washington Sun reports. Sid Fetterman: “I’m a lifelong Democrat who votes overwhelmingly with my party-and should the Senate flip in November, I will still be the 51st […]