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Just a couple of weeks before the Gubernatorial Election in Massachusetts, this was probably the last thing Mike Minogue wanted to hear, his running mate going on a bender and ending up in a jail cell. Oh well. Source: Boston Herald Republican Lt. Gov. candidate Shawn Oliv...

Alicublog: Commies and Muslims, who cares, oh my.

The Rectification of Names: What the chatbot doesn't know won't hurt it.

Just an Earth-Bound Misfit: Trump and Putin.

The Conversation: The importance of secretary of state races.

Alas, a Blog: Adorable AI puppies.

This installment by Batocchio. E-mail tips to mbru AT crooksandliars DOT com.

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Cliff and David open with how Fox is now projecting Dems take the House, then bring in Joe Trippi—manager of Howard Dean’s 2004 campaign, strategist behind Doug Jones’s 2017 Alabama win, veteran of 9 presidential races—to ask how big it gets. Trippi’s answer: “It’ll be a wipeout if we all do our job and get out the vote.”

He walks thru early-vote data (Dems and indies voting at higher rates than '22, Latino early turnout 54 percent above the '24 presidential pace), explains why Texas redistricting built on Trump’s '24 numbers with Latinos and indies is “collapsing around them,” and says the year this election most resembles isn't 1994, but 1980. When Dems woke up to a 12-seat Senate wipeout nobody saw coming.

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Over the weekend, CNN was once again blocked from traveling with President Donald Trump on Air Force One as part of the White House pool. And once again, conservative network […]

The post The White House has a workaround when networks refuse to replace CNN appeared first on Poynter.

The word “alien” or “aliens” appeared dozens of times in the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict birthright citizenship. Many of the references […]

The post When public officials use offensive language, should journalists repeat it? appeared first on Poynter.

Photos by Stacie Joy Tonight's October meeting of Community Board 3's SLA committee includes the following applicants (find the full list here)...  • Three Cherries Hospitality LLC, 15 1st Ave (op) (tavern)  Three Cherries Hospitality LLC seeks to take over the ...

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy  A notable milestone on Rivington Street: the construction netting has come down, revealing the full exterior of the new ABC No Rio.  The four-story, roughly 8,800-square-foot building, designed by local architect Paul Castrucci...

Both Shira and her husband Josh are owned by the Y-S corporation, so it is the corporation that decides to award sole custody of their son, Ari, to Josh when they split.

Hans Holbein the Younger, The Count, 16th century #hansholbeintheyounger

With temps starting to plummet, Hudson Valley homeowners are turning up the thermostat while facing a much bigger heating oil bill than they did last year. Continue reading…

Customers who shop at Stop & Shop in the Hudson Valley are getting a little something back for their patience as the grocery chain continues dealing with a cybersecurity incident that has knocked its website and mobile app offline. Continue reading…

A popular Hudson Valley music and event venue is part of a multimillion-dollar property sale that includes several buildings and more than two acres of land. Continue reading…

We want to send you and a guest to experience Kenny Chesney LIVE in the Music City! Continue reading…

Fund your holiday fun with a $500 Target gift card! Continue reading…

Interesting research: Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) can solve visual CAPTCHAs without task-specific training, but the agents built on them approach every challenge from scratch. For such an agent, the hundredth instance of a familiar puzzle costs as much time and c...

It never to late to get a good night's sleep.

The post The Middle-of-the-Night Heller: An Insomniac’s Wake-Up Call appeared first on PRINT Magazine.

This summer, I built a small experiment called ContextCue. The idea came from something I kept seeing during my internship. The engineers around me were using AI everywhere in the software development process. GitHub Copilot and Claude models helped with specs, code, reviews, and tests. The team also maintained reusable skills that taught coding agents […]

In tech, speed can make all the difference. One topic that doesn’t get enough attention is just how much faster AI inference is changing the way developers work. Training AI models still grabs the headlines with all the talk about big clusters and huge data sets, but the real impact for most developers happens when […]

What will he do when he has nothing left to lose?

Microsoft is letting players digitize their game discs for free, but don't sell your physical collection just yet.