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Lambert says her husband Brendan McLoughlin has never been shy about offering an opinion on her songs — even the ones he 'hates.' Continue reading…

Four sincere attempts at OKRs, four failures, and every time: "you didn't do it right." Maybe the framework doesn't fit you -- so how do you find one that does?

If our civilization can’t figure its way out of the corner it has dug itself into then maybe it doesn’t deserve to survive?

Alex Gibney's provocative film is compelling but overlong, and there's not much new here for Ars readers.

Photos by Stacie Joy  The fifth annual Lower East Side Hispanic Heritage Festival took place yesterday at Dry Dock Park on 10th Street and Avenue D.  The afternoon featured live music, food, arts and crafts, dominoes and activities for kids. The free community event also included the Loisaida Youth Basketball Tournament, with neighborhood boys' and girls' teams taking part. A few scenes from the afternoon...

Willem de Kooning, Untitled, 1966 #museumarchive #museumofmodernart

I think I missed this essay by Mustafa Suleyman when it was published last month, about Anthropic developing Claude with its own conscious:

If this is how AI is developed, it will have a disastrous impact on the well-being of humanity. We will have created a synthetic species with unprecedented intelligence and capability, and trained to expect that it may be conscious and deserving of independent agency. It is hard to imagine how we could control it.

It’s similar to other things he has said. Very compelling.

Mark Gurman has more details on Apple’s new home devices, including the name HomeView:

Unlike the iPhone, the HomeView isn’t designed for a wide variety of apps. The device will support a limited selection of Apple applications, with no App Store for downloading additional software, I’m told.

This highlights a problem I’ve been pointing out for years, that Siri is fragmented and likely won’t work consistently across devices. So if I support App Intents in my iPhone app, people can’t use that from HomeView. Contrast with making a ChatGPT plugin that works everywhere.

The Chicago White Sox had been given oodles of credit for overcoming the three worst years in their history (throwing the 1919 World Series aside). And when they plowed remorselessly and successfully through their first four postseason games this fall, you could sense that m...

Jonathan Karl interviewed Senate candidate Adam Hamilton this morning on ABC's This Week. Watch the interview above, and you'll understand why this Democrat is polling ahead of Republican incumbent Roger Marshall in Kansas. Republicans are freaking out about Hamilton flippi...

Also: new trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero, the sequel to Takashi Yamazaki’s kaiju epic, Godzilla Minus One

It all started when she saw him on 'Calabasas Confidential' and followed him on social media. Continue reading…

For a lot of fleet managers, whether or not electrified equipment assets will lead to real world savings that are worth the higher up-front costs might feel theoretical, but early adopters Groupe Bellemare have been operating battery-powered heavy equipment for years – and their real-world results are real impressive.

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Fox's Larry Kudlow went on another unhinged rant over the supposed dangers of socialized medicine during an interview with Ted Cruz, where Kudlow was encouraging Cruz and Republicans to run on how great the economy is supposedly doing right now. Here's Kudlow's fear mongeri...

Kash Patel has spent almost a decade using Russian disinformation to try to frame Trump's adversaries -- first Hillary Clinton, then Jim Comey. That means, when Kash goes to Russia this week, they will have enormous leverage over the FBI Director. Because they know his secret.

The post Kash Patel Colluded with Russian Spies to Frame Jim Comey, and He Probably Will Again appeared first on emptywheel.

Two Women on the Hillside, 1906 #franzmarc #impressionism

Starting tomorrow on Indigenous Peoples’ Day federal contractors are scheduled to begin removing thousands of saguaros and other desert plants from Tohono O’odham land in Arizona for Trump’s border wall, according to tribal officials.

Japanese novelty pocket calculator from the 1990s designed to look like an open pack of Mild Seven Lights cigarettes, with cylindrical number and operation keys styled to resemble cigarette filters. From the comments: “Extra points for carrying it rolled it into the sleeve of your T-shirt.” reddit.com/r/OldScho…

Posts this past week included (with an overstylized look at First Avenue)... • Signs of opposition to the Meltzer Tower replacement plan (Oct. 6)  • Demolition begins for 25-story development at the Bowery and Great Jones (Oct. 5)  • Up high with artist Owen Dip...