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Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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Ban from every ballpark imo

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Video captured the moment a road buckled and sent a car flying as a heatwave impacted Missouri on Sunday.

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Some thoughts on the current situation with Iran. Screenshot from the bad place.

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'Come to the game. Boo the Cubs. Get in their head': What Cardinals starter Miles Mikolas had to say about this week's series vs. the Cubs.

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fact check.

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this is bananas

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The roommate of Minnesota shooter Vance Boelter, responding to MAGA lies that he’s a Democrat: “He would be offended if people called him a Democrat,” he told CBS News, adding that Boelter “was a Trump supporter, voted for Trump,” and was happy Trump won the 2024 election.

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political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

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Saw this on Instagram and dug it. #NoKings

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We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

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I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.

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If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

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Thing is, if most Americans well and truly want Trump to be an authoritarian dictator, we are well and truly doomed. The only hope for the country is if most people don’t want that. Therefore, reasonable people should proceed on the assumption that authoritarianism is not popular.

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There's a lot of big news today/this week, but Apple just dropped a nuke of a paper about LLMs & LRMs, specially around "high-complexity tasks where both models experience complete collapse." This is the biggest sign yet that if AI ever lives up the hype, it won't be via those approaches:

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Who said it: Anne Frank or someone in America this year?

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How long until the headline is Deadly infectious diseases making a comeback? www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

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LAPD when they think nobody is watching

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Just gonna leave this here...

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13-yr-old Camarria Williams made a remarkable discovery when she found a compound with potential cancer-fighting properties in goose poop from Garfield Park, Chicago. This surprising find happened while participating in the Chicago Antibiotic Discovery Lab, a STEM program in collaboration with the

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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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Also holy shit the Mariners Pride Month video is SO good

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Unplug it. Independent Editor, whom do I pitch to write the column. I solved your problem.

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@seanmcarroll.bsky.social

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The singer canceled his summer tour dates and revealed he has a brain condition called normal pressure hydrocephalus. It's treatable but tricky to diagnose, doctors say.

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Sooo. Apparently that asshole has been using the threat of tariffs to extort countries into cutting massive deals with Felon’s companies. And why not? He got away with extortion last time thanks to Mitch McConnell and Merrick Garland.

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One of the great under-reported stories of Trump’s ignorance (insanity?) is that for years he has made repeated comments about stealth fighters which suggest he believes they are literally invisible in the sky. His weirdness cannot be overstated.

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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

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If you're wondering why they've been defunding education for so long, it's because they're stupid and don't like the idea that someone could possibly know more than them and the stupid should rule the country because there are a lot more of them. Then the evil smart cash in on the stupid.

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ARod was roughly twice the player as Jeter

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George Wendt, who played the affable Norm on the hit 1980s TV comedy “Cheers” and later crafted a stage career that took him to Broadway in “Art,” “Hairspray,” and “Elf,” has died.

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NYT: “.. People making between about $51,000 and $17,000 could lose about $700 on average in after-tax income .. “By contrast, the top 0.1 percent, including those with incomes over $4.3 million, would gain on average more than $389,000 ..” @tonyromm.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

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Can someone devise a system in which 0.1 percent of the population has all the money. My country is dying.

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Footage of Plasma ejected from the Sun (11/2024) captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory Source: sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov

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“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands

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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...