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The Hottest New Side Hustle Is Stripping Copper Wire and Posting About It

Copper prices are at record highs, but for TikTok creators, the real money may be in teaching others how to strip wire—and selling them the tools to do it.

Longreads
Text • Seyward Darby

Vocal Accords

"Eurovision faces the music."

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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New Police Device Used to End 30-Minute Pursuit in Putnam County

A first for New York State! Putnam County Sheriff's deputies successfully deployed a police Grappler device to bring a 30-minute pursuit to an end. See the video of the device in action. Continue reading…

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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100+ Cats Found Inside Small Upstate New York Apartment

Police have discovered more than 100 cats living inside an apartment in Catskill, NY, where conditions were described as "extremely unsanitary and unsafe." Continue reading…

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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What is Happening to the Former Cafe Maya in Wappingers?

Now that Maya Cafe has reopened in Fishkill, what's happening to its Wappingers Falls location? Continue reading…

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Bigger plans for 3rd Avenue: 2 buildings, 17 stories and 184 apartments

Top two photos by William Klayer Foundation work continues at the proposed residential development on Third Avenue between 10th Street and 11th Street, which is also growing considerably. Developers Kinsmen Property Group and SK Development are now proposing two adjoin...

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Topping out at 9th Street and 4th Avenue

The new residential building at 57 Fourth Ave. (aka 101 E. Ninth St.) reached its full height earlier this month, with workers marking the occasion by planting an American flag atop the structure.  BKSK Architects confirmed the topping-out milestone on Oct. 6.  ...

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Barnes & Noble's build-out continues on Avenue A

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy  Work continues inside the incoming Barnes & Noble at 181 Avenue A between 11th Street and 12th Street.  We spotted plenty of shelving during a recent look inside the space, and the build-out appears well underway... ...

Ars Technica
Text • Nick Indge

From impulse purchase to pocket studio: The M-Vave FM-1

From impulse purchase to pocket studio: The M-Vave FM-1

M-Vave's cheap FM-1 pocket synth has exploded as a community firmware playground.

Poynter
Text • Tom Jones

With one week until the midterms, PolitiFact is on the lookout for ‘mischief’

We are just one week away from the most consequential midterm election in recent history. At stake? Control of the House and the Senate during one of the most divisive […]

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Poynter
Text • Katie Campbell

I interview authors for KUOW. Now scammers are pretending to be me.

On Aug. 31, a woman called me for the details of an interview scheduled for 1:30 that afternoon. She’d been preparing all morning but was confused about the format the […]

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Greg Leffler

The AI observability race will be won on interoperability

Glowing abstract digital mesh and scattered data points illustrating telemetry and AI observability.

The AI race is often measured by model quality, speed, and token cost. For business leaders, those measures contribute to

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Text • Andrea Thompson

Trump Appointees Torch DOJ In Appeals Court

Midterm elections are rapidly closing in, and the Trump Administration's desperation to save its own ass is undeniably reaching a dangerous fever pitch -- but it seems that a federal appeals court, complete with a couple of Trump-appointed judges, is less than eager to help...

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Republicans' Desperation Oozing In Wisconsin Governor Race

One of the most recent examples of the desperation that MAGA Republicans are feeling about the midterms comes from Wisconsin, where one of Trump's little bitches, Tom Tiffany, is running against Democrat David Crowley, who is currently the Milwaukee County Executive. The MA...

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Text • Karoli Kuns

J6 Insurrectionist Has The Nerve To Label El-Sayed 'Jihadist'

These days Donald Trump's press pool is just the MAGA faithful outlets, who lob him safe and loaded questions so he can toss out today's talking points, which all them have received earlier in the day. Today was no exception. While yapping at Joint Base Andrews before board...

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Mike’s Blog Round-Up

Above, Joe Cocker performs, The Letter. On this day in 1861 The Pony Express (Missouri to California) ended after 19 months. Today, our bloggers are sending Hair Füror a postage-due message.

ProPublica reports that ballot rejections are soaring... in rural counties.

Kitchen Bitches might not be able to afford to mail Christmas cookies this year.

Can We Still Govern notes that Hair Füror's bribery automation is making social programs inaccessible.

Electoral-Vote answers questions about polling. This is required reading: the more you know.

Bonus Track: Sprudge —the coffee blog— says that the gubmint wants you to spend those "Orange Clown coins" at a liberal coffee shop.

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Text • Cliff Schecter

'Lazy Bond Villains': Malcolm Nance On The New 'Globigarchy'

Malcolm Nance—former Navy intel officer and author of "The Plot to Hack America" and two other NY Times bestsellers on the Trump/Putin nexus of global corruption and autocracy—had Cliff on a surprise "Black Man Spy" Live to discuss corruption of U.S. foreign policy. The kin...

Electrek Valid
Text • Jameson Dow

Range Energy shows how its eTrailer saves almost as much as a Tesla Semi

Range Energy, a company working to electrify trucking through the use of a trailer with its own battery and motors, has published an analysis showing how much fleets can save through electrification – and just at the right time, with diesel at record highs.

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All aboard! Massachusetts is getting 10 new electric transit trains

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) board of directors voted unanimously Thursday to approve the purchase of a new generation of battery-powered public transit trains – and they can’t arrive soon enough.

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Backdrop for 'Don Juan Tenorio', 1950 #salvadordali #dali