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The high-profile Cornell University sexual assault case is coming to the Hudson Valley. Continue reading…

Lighthouse in Westkapelle, 1909 #postimpressionism #mondrian

Three Dancers behind the Scenes, 1885 #edgardegas #impressionism

Didn’t the Trump administration have a whole campaign against antisemitism? Then last night in Kansas, Trump used an antisemitic slur while defending Sen. Roger Marshall, saying the reporting made him out to be “some kind of a shylock-type guy.”

No matter what I was doing while working for Senator John McCain I always had time for a phone call from Bob Dole, who loved to know what was happening in the campaign, and how is old friend was doing.

Amid Trump's transparent excuses and lies, one thing is clear: Donald Trump is betraying Ukraine and the western order because he's afraid Putin will deal him even bigger losses in Iran.

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These are dark times. It’s easy to feel like you can work and work and work and still not get ahead, but that’s only because that happens to be true. Fortunately, the American Dream is not fully dead. There’s one way you can still make it in this country: online prediction m...

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Decompiled, cloned, and modified software is going viral and might slopify everything.

Why is the universe the way it is? A long-overlooked particle might have given matter an edge over antimatter in the split-seconds after the Big Bang, which researchers say “could transform our understanding of cosmic evolution and the fundamental laws of physics.” 

And what Ukraine is giving to us

Video shows a moose hanging out near I-684 in Brewster, and it's reportedly the first sighting in the area since 2022. Have you ever spotted a moose in the Hudson Valley? Continue reading…

Ben Thompson’s daily update today about “thin vs. thick” AI continues to sound right to me:

… you can envision a world where compute is no longer scarce, and very cheap models in the cloud are also good enough; it’s hard even then to see local inference penciling out economically. That’s why the true case for this setup may ultimately depend not on free as in beer but free as in speech…

Cloud AI is going to be best for most people. Local AI is great not because of cost but for control.

The columnist’s take on the races and measures worth his time — and a few he's voting on with a clothespin on his nose.

The AI boom is changing how billionaires give away their money, with unconventional donation methods, huge pools of money, and more blatant political motives.