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Anthropic-linked Public First Action donated $3 million to a pro-Wiener PAC, one of the largest contributions from an outside group in the race.

Since I was revising the post below as I got more information, here’s the latest on White House Press Secretary...

EVs are giving oil-importing countries some breathing room during the Hormuz energy crisis. Between March and August, their EV fleets displaced an estimated $20 billion worth of crude oil, according to new analysis from energy think tank Ember.

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"I can always find a couple of biotech stocks to smoke," Shkreli said in a livestream.

Girl and Child on the Grass, 1875 #impressionism #morisot

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/117434963703286230

It's unsurprising when people still use the term "bots" interchangeably for anything between search engine crawlers, automated accounts like the ones that post the weather every hour, automated accounts that pretend to be real people, real people who are paid to pretend to be other people, and real people they disagree with.

As I noted in the earlier post, new Press Secretary Katie Zacharia claims she passed the bar exam in China...

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions around […]

But third-party sellers, not Anbernic, are the ones routinely selling ROM-filled SD cards.

Topgolf and VMware "ran deep" before the migration.

US attorney apologized to court, said government has stopped running Trump ads.

Disney may acquire tech from one of the first chatbot makers linked to child suicide.

The higher prices are said to be unrelated to the Skydance merger.

It's only a matter of time before Trump claims he never met Kimberly Guilfoyle. Trump reportedly asked Guilfoyle to resign after a series of damaging reports about her conduct before and during her time in Athens hit the headlines. Guilfoyle took to Xitter to announce her d...

These two absolutely dreadful House members look like they'll soon be unemployed, as top Republican super PACs have pulled the plug on both. That usually means they think their races are not winnable. Source: New York Times Top Republican super PACs aligned with President ...

A Bible-believing Democrat who can discredit the GOP's authoritarian project.

Plus an Iron Range elementary school goes on a book banning spree, award-winning young adult novel 'Hatchet' get's a movie deal, and more about that fire on Franklin in today's Flyover news roundup.

Recently John Gruber, whom I’ve followed for decades, published X Once Again Marks the Spot. It’s short and I’m not going to try to summarize it so go read it if you haven’t already. But here are two key quotes: “I see more interesting posts on X than I do on Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon combined. I wish that weren’t so but it is.” and “The culture on X today is remarkably friendly and inclusive. It is a cheerful place.” Reaction on Bluesky and the Fediverse has been pretty fierce

The deeply uncomfortable film forces audiences to confront what types of stories we tell ourselves about who has economic and political power.

But third-party sellers, not Anbernic, are the ones routinely selling ROM-filled SD cards.