i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten
David Ingram
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Tech reporter at NBC News. Based in San Francisco. Read my latest work here: https://www.nbcnews.com/author/david-ingram-ncpn890161 On Signal: davidingram.77
@streetsforall.org All Hits Newsom Where It Hurts: His Presidential Ambitions If Gov. won't listen to advocates in CA about the damage the Air Resource's Board's cuts will mean for transit around the state, maybe he will listen to them in early primary states. cal.streetsblog.org/2026/08/03/s...
Streets for All Hits Newsom Where It Hurts: His Presidential Ambitions - Streetsblog California
If Newsom won't listen to advocates in California, maybe he will listen to advocates in early primary states.
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oof: "prediction market sites run the risk of encouraging people to influence fires that have already started"
Cyrus Farivar@cfarivar.bsky.social · 19h agoSenators demand crackdown on wildfire “prediction markets” (by @cfarivar.bsky.social) arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Senators demand crackdown on wildfire “prediction markets” (by @cfarivar.bsky.social) arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction markets"
Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.
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When is a voluntary AI safety framework not voluntary after all? www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
White House meets with AI companies on ‘voluntary’ rules after forcing models offline
The meeting produced no public commitments, and the White House has not said whether it would again use the power that knocked two Anthropic models offline in June.
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New bill would stop Trump Media from selling speedy access to the president’s posts www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
New bill would stop Trump Media from selling speedy access to president’s posts
Legislation from Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., takes aim at a new paid service from Trump Media promising faster alerts to posts from President Donald Trump and others.
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NEW: Judge denies request by Elon Musk’s xAI to pause Minnesota nudification ban www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Judge denies request by Elon Musk’s xAI to pause Minnesota nudification ban
The ruling clears the way for the first-in-the-nation law to go into effect on Saturday.
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NEW: Judge denies request by Elon Musk’s xAI to pause Minnesota nudification ban www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Judge denies request by Elon Musk’s xAI to pause Minnesota nudification ban
The ruling clears the way for the first-in-the-nation law to go into effect on Saturday.
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Tinder tested an AI tool on real users that unintentionally altered people’s photos, adding smiles, tattoos, and other traits to photos that weren’t real. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Tinder pauses AI tool after it gave some daters unsolicited makeovers
An in-app “Photo Enhance” tool altered some users’ appearances without their permission. Tinder told NBC News that the unintended changes affected a small number of users.
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I would read a long @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social piece about "O Brother": what she liked, what she didn't, what the ancient Greeks would think of the banjo, etc.
My favorite Odyssey adaptation remains this one
Pater Familias
Alt: George Clooney in "O Brother, Where Art Thou" saying, "I am the damn pater familias!"
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Kids are watching Mrs. Doubtfire, first time I’ve seen it since the 90s. I don’t want to alarm anyone but I think there may be some gender going on in this movie
140 soldiers wounded just last week seems like kind of a big deal.
"FIFA’s own Integrity Task Force, however, doesn’t see any signs of nefarious activity." futurism.com/future-socie...
Suspicious Bets on Polymarket Suggest Something Fishy Was Happening During the World Cup
An international sports integrity body has flagged several suspicious bets on Polymarket related to the World Cup.
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It seems that Trump has done the impossible: negatively polarizing people in California into defending PG&E.
Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 2w agoAs a resident of California I can say... what the fuck is he talking about?
New bill takes aim at Chinese AI companies accused of copying American tech www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
New bill takes aim at Chinese AI companies accused of copying American tech
The bipartisan effort addresses claims from American tech companies and officials that Chinese companies are “distilling” frontier U.S. models.
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NEW at @nbcnews.com: China responds to the drum beat of Trump administration officials and U.S. tech companies alleging trade secret theft by Chinese AI firms. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
China fires back at Trump administration claims that its AI companies steal U.S. tech
A government spokesperson told NBC News that the allegations were an unfounded “smear” resulting from prejudice.
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the mens world cup is over but the hydration breaks continue keep drinking my friends
Update from Tesla on their humanoid robot project: It seems to be slow-going. Like, they're still doing "training data collection" -- which sounds a long way from commercialization? We'll see.
extremely funny to me that analysts whose entire job is to think about these possibilities are only now catching up to Bluesky Consensus
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w agoRAPIDAN: We “no longer assume a near-term return to freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz. Instead, we expect ongoing military risks to constrain vessel transits .. well into next year ..” 👀
Huh. news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-tel...
Big Tech AI Spree Revives Accounting Devices That Toppled Enron
Accounting rules for off-balance-sheet entities, like the ones Big Tech giants are using to finance AI data centers, have evolved since Enron's collapse 25 years ago. But they still run the risk of pr...
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New from me: There are around 68 companies that are now building large data centers in the United States, not even counting the Big Tech firms like Google and Amazon. They have names like EdgeConneX, EdgeCore and Edged. I wrote about their explosive growth. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Meet the little-known companies behind America’s data center boom
AI demand has brought billions in financing to little-known developers, while putting them at the center of fights over electricity, pollution and land.
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Just learned/remembered where the World Cup will be in 2034. Saudi Arabia.