Becoming pretty clear that either DC officialdom needs to give up the helicopters or DCA needs to close.
Politico@politico.com · 1h agoNTSB opens probe into Marine One incident near Reagan National airport
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Examining how we make passenger rail better (electric/modern) for NYU-Marron. Prev: NY Mag, NY Post-Metro, NYDN. Hook’em🤘. 🏳️🌈. Tips? bynolanhicks@gmail.com; Signal/WhatsApp.
Politico@politico.com · 1h ago
Trump will display an old Air Force One at his library, his son says, leaving Qatari jet’s fate unclear www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Trump will display an old Air Force One at his library, his son says, leaving Qatari jet’s fate unclear
President Donald Trump said he would display the aircraft gifted to him by Qatar in Miami after leaving the White House, but Eric Trump told NBC News there’s a different plan.
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I think it got about a week's play on Radio One, fwiw
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4h agoDemise of the monoculture: why so many have never heard UK’s record-breaking No 1 single
"Microsoft’s AI Sales Mostly Come From OpenAI, Disclosures Show" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Microsoft’s AI Sales Mostly Come From OpenAI, Disclosures Show
Microsoft Corp. generates most of its artificial intelligence revenue from OpenAI, according to new disclosures from the company.
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Okay, who do we bully in the Disney front office to finally get the full Andor series on Bluray
"What is ultimately most striking about it, as Rodgers toggles back and forth through his various gripes, is how imprecise it all is. He won't or maybe can't say what he's mad about, and doesn't bother demanding answers. He just asks and asks," defector.com/were-just-go...
We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector
In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...
defector.com
Climate change, doing to Europe what it's been doing to the American west.
CNN@cnn.com · 5h agoRelentless heat and a dearth of rain are having a punishing effect on some of Europe’s most vital rivers. The waterways have tumbled to record lows in places, in a crisis so severe it can be seen from space. https://cnn.it/3TXXwqu
Patrick Ball was great on Broadway too in 'Becky Shaw.'
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 5h ago'The Pitt' threw these actors 'into the deep end.' How they learned to go with the flow
Not me making paper proofs for marking up to show to The Youths that The Old Ways Have Value^tm
Something that’s gotten way too little attention in the craziness of the WI gov race is that basically none of the D candidates have spent much on TV, but conservative SuperPac has spent millions boosting Hong. www.wpr.org/news/gop-ads...
GOP-funded ads attack Hong as too liberal. Dems say they're trying to boost her profile.
Some Democrats, including Francesca Hong's opponents, say the GOP's $2.2 million ad buy is aimed not at tearing Hong down but at building her up with the Democratic primary electorate.
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large, well-designed study showing that adding social/emotional conversations with a chatbot into a person's life is objectively harmful across multiple psychological axes t.co/VTcTwfK3ky
"The fractal millions of incoherent & inconclusive personal counter-narratives are all the same in their shared inability to acknowledge that any disease that didn't kill the person with those beliefs, each one the heroic protagonist of reality, couldn't really have been as bad as They said it was."
We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector
In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...
defector.com
I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...
We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector
In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...
defector.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abdul El-Sayed wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan.
Detroit/Wayne always counts slow so going early runs this risk of ... this happening.
Aman Batheja@amanbatheja.bsky.social · 9h agoPer Playbook: "One Democratic operative close to El-Sayed was so confident earlier on Tuesday that they predicted the race would be called 'almost immediately.'" NBC has called the race and El-Sayed declared victory. But AP—widely seen as the gold standard for election calling—has not done so yet.
"After All That, Ken Griffin Is Not Leaving New York" -- www.curbed.com/article/ken-...
After All That, Ken Griffin Is Not Leaving New York
The hedge-fund CEO made a big to-do about Mamdani’s pied-à-terre message but in the end is sticking to his 350 Park headquarters.
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From extremely reported non-travel (when he had a plane ticket to New York to be named chancellor) to unreported travel
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · yesterdayAn LAUSD letter alleges former Supt. Alberto Carvalho received unreported gifts and outside income, accepted donor-funded travel and misused a car and driver intended for work-related tasks. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Ah, yes, the plot from literally the worst James Bond movie
Bloomberg Opinion@opinion.bloomberg.com · yesterdayRead Lara's column bloom.bg/4fBazqq
The thing about Ellison is that it's not his politics, it's the meddling. IMO: Things would have turned out better if Rupert Murdoch bought CBS and '60 Minutes' because Murdoch knows what the value is -- its prestige and its ability to break stories and land exclusives -- and values it.
