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Q&A: I Sat Down With a Corrections Lieutenant To Discuss the California Model

Is change really possible for the state’s prisons?
https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2026/07/09/qa-i-sat-down-with-a-correctional-lieutenant-to-discuss-the-california-model/

@factpostnews.bsky.social - FactPost
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Q: What policies will you put in place to lower prices, and what is the timeline?

Trump: The prices have been coming down substantially

Ars Technica
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Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand

Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand

Low costs and offline security mean magnetic tape still has a job.

Mitch's Blog Supports Webmention
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I am tempted by the new iPad mini, but I cannot justify the expense after all the money we’ve dropped for vet bills recently. So it’s appropriate that the dog is named Minnie.

Mitch's Blog Supports Webmention
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My employer is rolling out a new HR system and they are asking us to provide selfies for the company directory. I couldn’t find a recent selfie that I like and I did not want to spend a lot of time looking so I just used this. I am entirely satisfied.

Auto-generated description: A dog with a black and tan coat is running toward the camera with a happy expression and wagging tail.

TPM – Talking Points Memo
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Poll-mageddon—Kansas Edition!

WaPo published a fascinating piece this morning tied to their latest poll of Kansas. The headline, figurative if not literal,...

@factpostnews.bsky.social - FactPost
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Host: The Trump DOJ preemptively trying to decertify results in Alaska is very troubling.

Amazon News Valid
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Q3 Earnings: Andy Jassy on why demand for Amazon’s custom chips keeps growing

Amazon’s chips business continues to grow triple-digit percentages year over year, and revenue commitments for Graviton and Trainium have each increased more than 20x year over year.

Amazon News Valid
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Q3 Earnings: Andy Jassy on faster delivery, lowering cost to serve, groceries, pharmacy, and AI shopping

Year to date, units have grown nearly 15% year over year, having sold more than 30 billion items last year.

Amazon News Valid
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Q3 Earnings: Andy Jassy on why AWS growth keeps accelerating

AWS grew 39.3% year over year, accelerating for the sixth straight quarter—its fastest growth in nearly five years—as enterprises run more of their Core and AI workloads in AWS.

@factpostnews.bsky.social - FactPost
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Elon Musk's super PAC is sending pro-Susan Collins mailers stating she will "keep putting conservatives on the Supreme Court."

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Kubernetes just formed a workload conformance group. Here’s why it matters for AI teams.

Three glowing Rubik's cubes rising through purple clouds against an orange sky, a metaphor for Kubernetes workload puzzles

Welcome to the final edition of Road to KubeCon, where we track the Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem each week on

The post Kubernetes just formed a workload conformance group. Here’s why it matters for AI teams. appeared first on The New Stack.

daveverse
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New header graphic for scripting.com. Did this one with ChatGPT, asked it to make a Burma-Shave sign sequence and gave it a few examples, and now it knows how to do another one of these for me in the future. I’ve been using it that way to come up with desktop icons for my apps.

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James Bridle on making chairs with LLMs. “What we have...

James Bridle on making chairs with LLMs. “What we have here is, quite literally, a chair designed by someone who has read a lot about chairs but never actually sat in one.”

Ars Technica
Text • Ashley Belanger

Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says

Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says

Applying for FAFSA may get messy as DOJ “ghost student” crackdown ramps up.

emptywheel
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Mike Rogers’ Questionable Loyalties

Rogers is and has been compromised by his business activities after leaving the House in 2015; we can’t trust him to serve our nation’s security interests.

The post Mike Rogers’ Questionable Loyalties appeared first on emptywheel.

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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Hudson Valley Drivers Face Lane Closure Until Summer 2027

If you commute through this part of the Hudson Valley, there's a lane closure now in place that could be part of your drive until next summer! Continue reading…

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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NYSP Tackle Assaults at Cornell Per Governor's Order

Cornell University's handling of a sexual assault case sparked state intervention, bringing New York State Police into the investigation process. Continue reading…

Citation Needed Supports Webmention
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It’s always North Korea

It’s always North Korea

Answering your questions about who was behind the Binance hack, how they launder the money, and where it goes

The City Reporter
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The High School Hunt: A Guide to NYC’s Complex Admissions Process

Students attend the first day of school at the Historically Black Colleges Universities Early College Prep High School in Queens

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters Applying to high school in New York City is daunting: Eighth graders can choose from 700 programs in 400 schools across the five boroughs. Last year, of roughly 68,000 eighth graders who submitted applications, 58% of those were offered a seat […]

The post The High School Hunt: A Guide to NYC’s Complex Admissions Process appeared first on The City Reporter.