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A new smart thermostat from Apple and Schneider Electric could soon use your iPhone to figure out when you’re home – and help move heating and cooling to times when electricity is cleaner and/or cheaper.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle, the recently defenestrated and soon-to-be-former Ambassador to Greece, has that stench about her of third-string corruption, the type...

From a 2014 article on The Dark Power of Fraternities by Caitlin Flanagan, this is one hell of an opening paragraph: One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back deck of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at Marshall University, in West...

A key role universities play in society is providing knowledge that can guide public action. Moreover, public universities have a legal duty to serve the public. We expect researchers in universities to  produce and disseminate knowledge that can ultimately advance human flourishing and meet the informational needs of lawmakers, civil society, and the public generally. […]

Before his arrest by the FBI, Abdulrahman Alfozan chronicled his journey through elite U.S. tech. His lawyer says the allegations are “wholly out of character.”

Trump: You want your secretary of state to look a little nerdy.

Trump, 20 days before the midterms: If I didn't do the Apprentice, would I be president?

Trump: I'm never taking a cognitive test again.

Trump: Hat. Hair. Logo. White. Black. Oh, you got it right.

Trump: That person over there, a friend of mine, he looks like shit. He looks like he's going to have a heart attack

Trump gets distracted: I hate flies. What the hell did they put on this thing? Don't pay the bill.

Garden of Les Mathurins, 1876 #camillepissarro #pissarro

We at PJP are so proud of our alum Joe Garcia for not only being published again in @newyorker.com, but also for the documentary they produced which followed him as he approached his release after more than 20 years inside.

story via @newyorker.com
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/an-unlikely-taylor-swift-fan-gets-out-of-prison-in-daylight

The Democrats should say so.

Thao, her romantic partner, and a father and son who run recycling and modular housing companies are on trial for bribery, conspiracy, and fraud. 

“Elon Musk and Trump are throwing Ukraine to the Wolves” was The Telegraph's headline this morning. Last night, Musk suddenly restricted Starlink from Ukraine’s military while America didn’t give Ukraine warning of Russian missile attacks.

Some international leaders believe Musk is playing a political game. Poland finances many of Ukraine’s Starlink terminals. Poland’s Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has put Elon Musk on notice about the sudden Starlink outage:

Elon's Strategic Starlink Restriction

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Trump: There are a lot of people that shouldn't be in the military.

Trump on "4 more years" chant: I'd love to. There's not a lot of wiggle room there, we've looked.

Trump: You know who number 1 on TikTok is? Trump! Taylor Swift is number 19, I'm number 1.

Trump on Republican Senator: I picked him for his looks. But then I found out he's actually kind of smart.