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The apocryphal quote supposedly from Mark Twain is one of my favorites: “History does not repeat, but it does often rhyme.” Now, there is no evidence that Twain ever actually authored these words, but it’s incredible how true they tend to be regardless. And when it comes to the current measles outbreak that is ravaging […]

Josh Turek's closing statement:

"Iowans, I know that you're struggling just to keep food on the table and gas in the tank. I want to go to DC—not to fight for billionaires like Ashley Hinson has, but to fight for you. Because I'm one of you."

“If a human did this, it would be an instant Fields Medal, no questions asked.” OpenAI recently released 350+ proofs of mathematical theorems, all in one go. “I imagine many mathematicians, like me, felt like they got punched in the stomach yesterday,”

How much are you willing to pay for bluesky, to enable them to hire the reporters that will save democracy ?

Meanwhile, at anthropic

Josh Turek: Ashley Hinson supported the DOGE cuts to the Social Security Administration, which closed the Social Security office in Decorah. She voted against insulin caps. I give my pledge: In the Senate, I will support and protect Social Security and Medicare.

Fair enough. It’s time to stop the bots!

Watch today’s live recording here.

Josh Turek: We have a corruption crisis that's leading to an affordability crisis because we're sending people like Ashley Hinson up to DC—not to fight for the people of Iowa, but to make themselves more wealthy. She's made cuts to healthcare and Social Security to give billionaires tax breaks.

Josh Turek on data centers:

"No more tax breaks to these large multinational tech companies. We certainly can't trust Ashley Hinson on this issue—she voted for $50 billion in tax incentives for those companies."

Josh Turek: Let's remember exactly why gas prices are up. It's because of the war in Iran that Ashley Hinson voted in favor of continuing 7 times. Gas prices have gone up in Iowa more than almost any other state as our farmers are going into harvest. We need to end this war.

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Tesla says it will finally stream its next-generation Roadster event this Thursday, October 15, at 7:55 pm Central, two weeks after it was supposed to happen.

It’s the latest date in a long list of them. Tesla first showed the Roadster in November 2017 and promised production in 2020. Nearly nine years later, it hasn’t delivered a single one.

The first trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew. I love Gerwig and I know this will be good, but I’m cautiously optimistic that it will be great. (I still forever have “Chronicwhatcles of Narnia” stuck in my head tho…)

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Gov. Pritzker: Lie after lie after lie. This is the Trump playbook. So I want to tell people who I am. I'm somebody who fights for expansion of health care. I've been fighting for universal preschool. And I've been making sure that we lift wages across the state.

Gov. Pritzker: Darren Bailey has sat silently while Trump has taken Medicaid and SNAP away from the people of Illinois. I've been fighting for universal healthcare. I think the most vulnerable people in our state need their SNAP benefits.

Trump: 211 pounds, that's a lot of weight!

(Trump weighs 238 pounds according to his latest physical)

We had Trump fantasizing about John Husted's ass and now we get this from JD Vance.

Vance stopped in Texas to stump for Ken Paxton and Republicans for the midterms.

The rally was parked in front of his Boeing C-32.

"Now, before we get started, I love you too, sir, in a totally platonic way, to be clear," Vance said. "I'm the vice president, not James Talarico."

Racism and homophobia define the Republican Party.

Vance sounds like a teenager spewing gay insults in a schoolyard.

Open thread.

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