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According to a brutal new report from Punchbowl News, when it comes to the subject of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's potential impeachment, it is no longer a matter of "if," but of "when." As midterms grow closer and Democrats' chances of seizing control of the lower cham...

Amanda Smith spent three nights in jail after a Facebook Marketplace scam led to a CashApp account in her name. She says she didn't make it.

An endangered American chestnut grove faces a new threat: A massive data center.

A small grove of historic American chestnut trees has become the site of resistance against an AI data center in West Virginia.

Hackers around the world are all-in on using agentic AI to wage attacks—and manipulating tools like Anthropic’s Claude to help them carry out their crimes.

Get ready for winter: Darn Tough socks are on sale at REI.

NEW: After wildfires scarred the Sacramento Mountains above Ruidoso, New Mexico, the community was under heightened threat of catastrophic flooding.

Officials were aware but continued to promote the town to tourists who were oblivious to the danger.
https://www.propublica.org/article/wildfire-flood-risk-ruidoso-new-mexico?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #NewMexico #Wildfire #Flood #Disasters #Safety #Emergency

August in the City, 1945 #socialrealism #hopper

Christ Carrying the Cross, 1510 #bosch #northernrenaissance

Students are arriving at college less ready to write, and AI will now write for them. What happens to writing — and the thinking it is meant to teach?

We watched 11 hours of Silicon Valley movies so you don’t have to.

A bar that opened last year has become the main gathering spot for Valkyries fans who want to watch their team on the road.

NBA roster building is a game of chess, and Golden State is set up with its queen, a couple of rooks, a bishop, and a knight.

Golden State’s general manager’s strength is his practicality, and this franchise needs it right now.

One food writer makes the argument for buying your own groceries and cooking your own dinner. It’s a lonely proposition.

Joanna Stern reviews the Duo, finding “bugs and general wonkiness throughout iOS on the Duo”, but overall sees the potential in it. Also a cool machine to test durability by folding it thousands of times.

The Bookmarks → Links tab in Micro.blog Premium is practically unknown, but so useful. It archives a copy of everything you link to! HTML, CSS, everything. Really useful to find things later. Here’s a screenshot from my account.

I missed that Foursquare was sold recently. Former CEO Dennis Crowley has a good blog post reflecting on the company:

I was heartbroken by this ending. There are so many people who put so much time and energy and passion and love into building Foursquare – the company, the products, the brand, the culture.

I’m still using Swarm. Micro.blog can import Foursquare data into your blog, but Swarm export barely works. Time to rebuild all of this on open standards.

Volkswagen issued a recall affecting nearly 73,000 EVs globally. Until a remedy is available, VW will limit charging on impacted vehicles to 80% of their maximum battery capacity.

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Private Contractors Are Set to Cash In As Millions of Americans Lose Health Care.