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Friends and neighbors will gather Saturday afternoon (Oct. 17) to celebrate the life of Pamela S. Pier, the longtime owner of Dinosaur Hill, the East Village toy store that was a fixture on Ninth Street for nearly four decades.  Pier died earlier this year at age 82.&...

Meta has launched Muse Spark Open, a new 816B open model (with 42B active parameters) that the company argues is

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NEW on “Paper Trail”: A defense contractor CEO told the FBI that he had bribed politicians — and that Susan Collins was his most important patron. Then Trump shut down an elite FBI anti-corruption unit.

So we took it upon ourselves to investigate. Listen to the full episode:
https://www.propublica.org/podcast/susan-collins-bribery-allegations-fbi-martin-kao?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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Trump: Most politicians say, "promises made, promises kept." We did much more than we promised.

Trump: I have some very severe problems

Trump: She loves working remote control. You know, a lot of people call that remote control

Trump on AG Todd Blanche: Where's my Todd?

Recent proposed changes to the census collection process threaten the integrity of the data, and therefore all subsequent projects, funding mechanisms, and infrastructures that rely on accurate counting of the American people.

As partners of the Hands Off Our Census project, DRP Director Lynda Kellam recently co-authored a post

After almost 80 years, remains of a missing soldier from the Hudson Valley returned home in October 2026. Continue reading…

A tractor pulling a hay wagon with 12 people aboard overturned in Upstate New York. Continue reading…

We have now reached a point where the sitting president of the United States of America is standing on a stage and openly, proudly declaring his fantasies about shooting people whom he feels have wronged him by leaking secret information to the press. The deeply disturbing...

Rocket Lab announced the Neutron rocket in 2021, aiming for a first flight in 2024.

FTC may fine AI firms on par with companies that delay data breach reports.

The AI music labels are rolling out now in YouTube Music and will come to YouTube soon.

Seabirds, native plants, and healthy reefs can help atolls build as seas rise.

Trump's newly installed press secretary tells WIRED that in the early 2010s, she promoted a product for a company then called Beachbody, which she described as “sort of a pyramid scheme.”

Trump: Ken Paxton is a guy... whether you like Ken or not, honestly, I understand some people are controversial. I don't happen to be a controversial person

Trump on Abdul El Sayed: I call him Mohammed Al-Fayed. He's a Muslim brotherhood guy, 100%

Trump: Yeah... I didn't get too much sleep. I'm supposed to be sleeping now. But I'm not a big sleeper

Trump: You could maybe get one of those beautiful robots that they make nowadays and make them look just like me. And you wouldn't know the difference. They make them pretty good. Send them out on the trail. I can sit home and watch them on television.