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Denver Sues to Block Armed ICE Agents at Voting Sites

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The City of Denver, Latino civil rights organizations and government watch groups asked a federal judge on Thursday to block the Trump administration from allowing armed federal immigration agents to serve warrants at polling sites.

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Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn’t use their work

theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/993263/where-does-openai-get-mathematics-training-data

Another mathematician accused the company of ‘dishonesty’ after several big breakthroughs. 

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Return to East of Eden

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Adapting East of Eden required her to confront the family legacy she’d always tried to avoid.

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Arriving at Collective Power

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In The Common Good Economy, Mariana Mazzucato is clear-eyed on where we need to go, but the next step is understanding the power structures that prevent us from getting there.

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Climate outlook is ‘not pretty’ after oceans break heat records for 100 days

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Scientists predicted a brutal year ahead as climate change and the El Niño pattern collide, after the latest data showed sea temperatures broke heat records for 100 days and August was the equal hottest on record.

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Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online

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InquiryIQ, a previously unreported prototype, tested a model from xAI, maker of Grok, to surface associates, social accounts, and other information about people identified through Clearview.

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Debunking robot rights metaphysically, ethically, and legally

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In this work we challenge the argument for robot rights on metaphysical, ethical and legal grounds.

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Scripting News: Thursday, September 10, 2026

Thursday, September 10, 2026 I almost fell for a phishing hack. # Repository: BlackRock’s latest SEC filing values its Automattic shares at $14.33 per share. They originally invested at $85 a share in 2021. That means their market cap has dropped from $7.5 billion to $1.2...

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Watched: The Librarians. Really good, covering the book bans in Texas and elsewhere. Lots of stories about what it felt like at school board meetings and in libraries. 📺

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Portrait at Blue Coa, 1935 #henrimatisse #matisse

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Colorful life, 1907 #vasilykandinsky #wassilykandinsky

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Dominance Down Under: Instant takeaways from the 49ers’ statement win over the Rams

Brock Purdy threw three touchdowns and the 49ers forced two turnovers in an overwhelming performance in Melbourne.

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A Catskills Village Is Known As 'The Painted Village In The Sky'

In Greene County, we can stroll through this cute village and experience the vibrant buildings that make its colorful nickname so fitting! Continue reading…

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Netflix Pulls the Plug on 'Ransom Canyon' After Its Second Season

The Netflix drama had already faced an uncertain future, and now its second season will be its last — though Staten and Quinn got some closure. Continue reading…

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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence'

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Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, wrote in a company-wide Slack messages on Wednesday, viewed by 404 Media, that board members "conspired" behind his back to vote to put him on leave.

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White House Website Briefly Hosted Racist Tetris Clone Game Until The Tetris People Complained

Pick your favorite zombie movie or television show and you’ll eventually be confronted with dialogue justifying the killing of the zombies with the idea that they are no longer human. “They aren’t people, Rick. They’re just bodies. We have to stop thinking of them as if they’re still alive.” – The Walking Dead “They’re not […]

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Portrait at Blue Coa, 1935 #henrimatisse #matisse

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Trump: Pavarotti was a diva like no woman. He was the all-time diva

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Trump: If you don't vote, you go to hell

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September 10, 2026

September 10, 2026

We woke up today to news that Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants have taken control of the city and seaport of Mocha and much of the shoreline of the Red Sea near the Bab el-Mandeb strait, another chokepoint for world trade including trade in oil.