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A New York Times news analysis by Carl Hulse asserts that both sides are equally to blame if the debt ceiling is breached, even though Democrats have never threatened default under a Republican president.

Honest Answers for Honest Concerns

Writer E. Jean Carroll on Monday asked a judge to update her still pending original defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump to add a new claim after he trashed her as a "whack job" during his CNN town hall earlier this month.

Dobbs will throw many lives into disarray. Lationna Halbert’s is one of the first.

“I was told that if I tried to discharge myself, or seek care elsewhere, that I could be arrested for trying to kill my child”

Some Twitter users are reporting that tweets and retweets they deleted in mass from their profiles are being restored without warning. It’s another example of Twitter’s crumbling infrastructure under the leadership of Elon Musk.

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Building a Block-Based Microblog by Jan Boddez

So, as promised, a blog post on how to—or rather, one way to—set up IndieBlocks. (I will eventually move this site to WordPress proper, and a block theme, and so on. Maybe I should’ve done that instead. Anyway, this is quicker.) Configuring WordPress Okay, so I’ve set up the build.boddez.net...

Biden nominates US official Anna Gomez after Senate refused to confirm Gigi Sohn.

Be Careful Using ‘Menu’ by Adrian Roselli

TL;DR: Be careful when using the word menu. Be certain you have chosen the term that accurately describes the control you want. If this post looks familiar to you, that is because it is essentially a redress of my 2020 post Stop Using ‘Drop-down’. It is not as divergent as…

IN THE EARLY Reagan years, religious right movement leaders Paul Weyrich and Jerry Falwell knew that they could not solely rely on fickle politicians to implement their plan on a national scale. They didn’t have public opinion on their side — certainly not on legal abortion, nor on other elements of their plan to maintain their privilege and power. In order to implement their anti-democratic policy agenda and political philosophy, they needed the influence and power of a court system impervious to the will of voters. In that pursuit, an institution named the Federalist Society became their main vehicle.

Plus: Slouching toward a debt disaster.

Prompts are wholly insecure. They are holding back every attempt at turning language models into safe and reliable tools. Language models are not fit for purpose and should not be integrated into public-facing products unless the industry finds a new way to control them.

The rapidly growing field of "canine cognition" is revealing new insights about the often-enigmatic behaviors of our fabulous furry four-legged friends.

Rudy Giuliani, Timothy McVeigh, and Sexual Abuse by Teri Kanefield

Homegrown by Jeffrey Toobin, opens by comparing the January 6 attack on the Capitol to McVeigh’s attack on Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. (Notice the small “No Trespassing” sign on the book’s cover. Perfect.) As recounted in Homegrown, McVeigh was calm when his lawyer visited him in prison. He was certain that the attack …

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The state can now kidnap kids in Florida.

The bill proposes a fine of $1500.

I continue to work through my worries about where whe are. I’m still thinking about where I stand in an industry that no longer seems to care about what it makes.

A wider lens on the American College of Pediatricians. Recent subpoenas by Republican state governments against trans-supportive professional and medical organizations In 2022 and 2023, professional organizations endorsing gender-affirming care received extensive subpoenas from the states of Alabama and Florida … Continue reading →