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Opinion | Don’t Be a Haley Stevens (Gift Article)
History doesn’t give us second chances.
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Jay Nichols
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Comms pro for B2B tech including #5G, #IoT, #cloud, networking, telecom, #AI, #datacenter, #cybersecurity, #opensource, and #DevOps. Lover of music, wine, and thou.
Nods. Ambition is also outpacing CapEx budgets and available power for all those data centers.
SSean Michael Kerner@techjournalist.bsky.social · 3d ago
Enterprise AI infrastructure spending is surging as analysts warn network automation, infrastructure maturity, and skills aren’t keeping pace. www.networkworld.com/article/4242...
Bon Voyage, Captain. You were a real one - Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/a...
Patrick Stewart, Captain Picard on ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation,’ Dies (Gift Article)
The British actor was 86. He achieved pop-culture stardom as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard on “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”
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There is a common denominator for all of this misery: greedy landlords allowed to prey on the weak. From @sfgate.com - Desperate SF renters are going viral. Their stories reveal a city at its limit. www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
Desperate SF renters are going viral. Their stories reveal a city at its limit.
SF's rising rents are leaving nurses, scientists and teachers behind.
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$137 Million Has Been Spent on AI-Generated Ads Ahead of Midterms. Only 27% Included a Disclaimer https://gizmodo.com/137-million-has-been-spent-on-ai-generated-ads-ahead-of-midterms-only-27-included-a-disclaimer-2000827138
$137 Million Has Been Spent on AI-Generated Ads Ahead of Midterms. Only 27% Included a Disclaimer
Republicans are leading the spending on AI-generated political ads, while Democrats are more wary of potential backlash.
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My prediction for the next clown candidate - a #Tesla Optimus named "Freedom" that eerily resembles Kid Rock, but is clearly being remotely operated by Natalie Harp (while Stephen Miller screams instructions at her). www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...
Katie Zacharia, Trump’s New Press Secretary, Is Fired After 5 Days (Gift Article)
The ouster came as Ms. Zacharia was shadowed by questions about how she had presented her legal career and handled her first press briefing.
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The scumbaggery just gets worse and worse ... apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump says US to get diesel from Russia, relaxing pressure on Moscow to ease prices before midterms
Trump says the U.S. will obtain diesel from Russia, relaxing years of US pressure on Moscow to combat prices ahead of midterms.
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LangGrant Launches Initiative to Create #AI Reasoning Standards techstrong.ai/features/lan...
LangGrant Launches Initiative to Create AI Reasoning Standards
AI governance gets much harder when enterprises can see the answer but not the reasoning that produced it.LangGrant’s new Enterprise Reasoning Initiative is proposing a shared, human-readable model fo...
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I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-bomb
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Russian Businessman With Putin Ties Paid for Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Party (Gift Article)
The payments, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, represented an extraordinary flouting of ethical norms for an American president’s family member.
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Trump has never been more unpopular, even with GOP voters. No wonder the vibes are off at his Dallas midterms convention: https://bit.ly/46VdRzm
The Embarrassment of Trump’s Midterms Convention
Many GOP candidates in competitive House and Senate races are steering clear of the Dallas event.
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Great article on the intersection of #opensource and #AI - venturebeat.com/infrastructu... via @venturebeat.com
Nvidia acquires Hugging Face after Stripe nabs OpenRouter: here's what open source AI builders should do
The infrastructure surrounding open AI may ultimately be more commercially valuable than many of the individual models flowing through it.
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These Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ as the Threat. (Gift Article)
A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with government support. “Once a society b...
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Many of favorite SF haunts are included here ... San Francisco is getting organ-ized missionlocal.org/2026/08/san-...
San Francisco is getting organ-ized
The Hammond B3 organ: a resurgence that speaks to the enduring appeal of a sound rooted in the Black church, neighborhood joints, and juke boxes.
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Hegseth’s Purge of Top Generals Leaves the Army Rudderless (Gift Article)
The leadership vacuum comes as the Army is trying to adapt to a new kind of war dominated by deadly drones.
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80-year-old celebrities right now ...
Meganleigh: I'm Not Paranoid...
ALT: Meganleigh: I'm Not Paranoid...
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Grahame Lesh plans to perform a free concert for San Francisco Deadheads this fall to commemorate the debut of a new Grateful Dead exhibition at Golden Gate Park.
Grahame Lesh sets free S.F. concert to celebrate new Grateful Dead exhibition
“Forever Grateful, Golden Gate Park” is set to open at the County Fair Building, honoring the Grateful Dead’s music, legacy and community.
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Jed York’s arrest doesn’t just embarrass 49ers. It signals a major leadership void www.sfchronicle.com/sports/annki...
Jed York’s arrest doesn’t just embarrass 49ers. It signals major leadership void
The San Francisco 49ers’ woeful offseason has a belated, ugly new chapter with the arrest of owner Jed York on prostitution charges. Can the team or the NFL abide this misconduct?
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Instagram Is Still Drowned in Creepy Smart Glasses Content https://gizmodo.com/instagram-is-still-drowned-in-creepy-smart-glasses-content-2000799347
Instagram Is Still Drowned in Creepy Smart Glasses Content
A new report found dozens of videos promoting "pickup artist" and prank content despite a promise to remove people who violate the platform's harassment policies.
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Siding with the enemy over one of our longtime allies. AGAIN. He is unquestionably an existential threat to our Democracy. #Impeach-Convict-REMOVE
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Opinion | Trump’s Economic Record Doesn’t Come Close to His Campaign Promises (Gift Article)
The president likes to boast about the “greatest economy we’ve ever had.” His record falls far short.
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If you're interested in #opensource, #AI-driven #cybersecurity, or #digitalsovereignty, you should watch this interview with Mike Milinkovich of the @eclipse.org - techstrong.tv/videos/inter...
Global Open Source Security: The Federated Path
Mike Milinkovich on global open source security, the CRA, Mythos vulnerabilities and why the next chapter must be a federated global effort.
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#Earthquake in #SanFrancisco! Well, 4.0 in San Leandro, but I felt it.
If you're at all interested in #physicalAI and/or #AI in #wireless #5G, you should take a look at this video from SiliconANGLE and TheCUBE - www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnv5... @einoai.bsky.social
Parm Sandhu, NTT DATA & Payman Samadi, eino.ai | CUBE Conversation
YouTube video by SiliconANGLE theCUBE
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This schmuck needs to be gone yesterday. The stakes are too high. Ken Martin and those who installed him (old guard Dems like Schumer, Pelosi, etc.) are so out of touch and incompetent that they lost to a clown like Trump. It's time for someone who knows how to win - www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...
Inside the Phone-Throwing Drama at the Troubled, Broke Democratic Party (Gift Article)
The Democrats should be well positioned to make gains in this year’s midterms. But inside party headquarters, every week brings paranoia, worries about money and, on occasion, emotional eruptions.
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Remember the big (second) investigation of the January 6th committee that was going to happen? Ya? Well… guess you can’t cover up the truth.
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Ken Bazinet@kenbazinet.bsky.social · 3mo agoLike Oracle, the mountain of cash Alphabet and Tesla are burning through is spooking investors. They don't see a path to recovering the money AI is spending -- too big of a gamble. They see a rapidly growing bipartisan grassroots movement of people, communities and states that opposes data centers.