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Rivian’s point-to-point driving feature will first reach owners through an invitation-only “Autonomy Early Access Program,” and the owners it picks will have to sign a non-disclosure agreement to get in.

The program, laid out on a new Rivian support page, covers US R1 Gen 2 and R2 owners who pay for Autonomy+. Rivian says point-to-point launches to that group in late 2026 and won’t expand broadly until 2027.

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Here is a compilation of Katie Zacharia referring to herself as a lawyer

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Posobiec: Who would you like to play you on Saturday Night Live?

Zacharia: Maybe Scarlett Johansson

Zacharia: I never came across as someone who was an attorney at law

Katie Zacharia on why she failed the bar exam:

We knew we would be moving out to China. And I was distracted and overwhelmed with being married

We’re in the wild west of cyberspace. It is a man-made ecosystem, this cyberspace, where man-made AI lives and flourishes, but we’re coming to know that it’s a dangerous place, crawling with bullies and predators, ...

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According to the audio from the 911 call, Zach Hickerson made every attempt to save Hayden Panettiere's life. Continue reading…

The late televangelist Jim Bakker had a difficult relationship with his son, Jay Bakker. Continue reading…

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News that the Pentagon would livestream the killer’s execution turned him into a celebrity in Islamist and extremist circles.

Katie Zacharia defends her disastrous press briefing:

"Typically press briefings are in the afternoon where the press secretary has time to get all the information"

Zacharia: If Trump sees me on TV and he likes me, then I will be recruited for the job. So I tracked every news hit to be in accordance with what he was pushing forward on Truth Social.

Katie Zacharia: I lived in China, so I can give context on how to do business in China. By being deferential to Xi Jinping, Trump was able to get that deal

Fishdraw is a single JavaScript file that generates drawings of fish. There’s an option to slow the animation down so you can watch it draw the fish line-by-line.

  When I don’t post for a while, I start to get antsy. There’s so much to talk about in the world I usually cover, but in the past few weeks, I’ve had precious little time to sit with it and think. There’s a good reason for my lack of posting: The third annual DOC … Continue reading "DOC Is Next Week!"

Matt Birchler asks, as a Mastodon advocate (as we are too), “what makes it so that almost everyone who joins Mastodon gives up on it?”

I bring all this up because when well known individuals make a choice to post on X again, or to leave Mastodon, we hear about it and it becomes The Discourse for a bit. I think the more worrying thing is that these are not outliers, they’re doing the same thing 90% (or more!) of people who join Mastodon do. What makes Mastodon a place most people come to and go, “no thanks”?

Eight in 10 Americans opposed the Pentagon's plans, a Thursday poll showed.

Hudson River Housing's Evening by the Hudson is tomorrow night, celebrating how transitional housing changes lives right here in our valley. Continue reading…