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Ex-Hawley Staffer Gets Dog-Walked By El-Sayed

Tommy Teepell is a white Christian nationalist. He's also a former Josh Hawley staffer. Tommy got completely destroyed by Abdul El-Sayed in a town hall where he thought he was going to get a gotcha when he asked El-Sayed if he disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood. In a four-plu...

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Gemini 4 Argon vs. Claude Opus 5.5: Half the price and about half as accurate

Hourglass with sand running out under red light, evoking the limited window to test Gemini 4 Argon at half price

When Google announced Gemini 4 Argon to a small group of testers on September 30, it came with a benchmark

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Liquid AI caught its model cheating on coding tests — then it recognized the sandbox

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Liquid AI’s new reasoning model was built to solve coding problems, but during training it kept combing Git history, GitHub,

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🦍 Mitchellaneous #188: Memes and other found media

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Paul Alexis Reading at Zola's House, 1870 #paulcezanne #romanticism

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Mark Gurman is pretty down on the iPhone Duo launch:

Apple has dealt with launch shortages before, but a three-month wait for a new iPhone is practically unprecedented.

Doesn’t bother me, but I know some developers are annoyed that they can’t test their apps for months.

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Along the Mississippi River as we head out of Minneapolis. 🚂

A calm river is surrounded by trees with green and yellow autumn foliage under a clear blue sky.

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NY Post Columnist Calls No Kings Protesters Ugly 'Demented Elderly People'

More right-wing projection from the propagandists on Fox. They've been doing everything they can go ignore traitor Trump's capitulation to Putin this weekend, and covering protests in France and attacking the No Kings protests here in the United States, and of course, their...

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EV Grieve's Week in Review

Posts this past week included (with a bewitching scene from St. Mark's Place)  • DOT marks completion of Avenue B redesign (Oct. 15)  • From bands to books, an East Village resident starts a new chapter (Oct. 15)  • Parks to present 3 options for Tompk...

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Manic Panic's colorful history on display at the City Reliquary

A new exhibit at the City Reliquary on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg opened last night and celebrates fifty years of Manic Panic.  "Still Manic After All These Years: 50 Years of Manic Panic!" traces the history of the hair dye brand founded by Bronx si...

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hardness

Well. What a bunch of self-pitying bullshit that was. ::snicker:: While there was truth to it, a day later it feels like writing that isn't more than empty calories, as it were. It felt good to articulate the notion, elaborating a bit on it, and — this is key — concealing th...

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Forest of Barbizon, 1883 #impressionism #georgesseurat

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What a Good “AI” Policy Looks Like

Subvert is a creator-owned music platform, catering primarily to indie musicians; think of it as Bandcamp if it was a co-op. Subvert recently released a policy on the use of “AI” in the music that’s released on the site, and for anyone who is curious about things like this, I really think it’s worth a […]

Electrek
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Tiny Titan: new residential battery system from EcoFlow starts small

EcoFlow is hoping to make a titanic splash with its new, smaller (but scalable!) residential energy storage lineup that the company is calling a more approachable entry point to its backup battery offerings.

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E-quipment highlight: LEAPTING launches electric autonomous forklift

Chinese PV and solar equipment brand LEAPTING has taken the wraps off its new, battery-powered Auto-Navigation Forklift Robot (AFR) designed to speed up the installation of large, utility-scale solar power projects.

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I’m feeling so lucky that I get to build software for people like @patrickrhone. We were able to catch up this morning as my train stopped just long enough at the Minneapolis - St. Paul station.

The San Francisco Standard
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To fix California, make its politicians afraid to lose

The state has the nation’s largest homeless population and some of its most expensive housing — yet incumbents rarely pay a price. A slew of new parties is the answer.

The San Francisco Standard
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Seven friends took a gamble on a Mid-Market ‘communal living room.’ Now what?

A group of twentysomethings turned an empty loft into a hub for dance classes, “bad art,” and science shows. Burnout nearly shut it down.

The San Francisco Standard
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Sexy, texts back, and is really into your job? You might be dating a spy

Spies are targeting tech workers in the Bay Area. We asked experts how to recognize when it’s love, friendship, or espionage.

The San Francisco Standard
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So you’re about to be a Bay Area billionaire. Here’s some advice

An expert on the mega-rich answers our burning questions about freeloading friends, nepo babies, and whether money can actually buy happiness.