Tim Evanson
@timinthecle.bsky.social
Writer, political scientist, historian, photographer. My treeing Walker coonhound is Ellie Mae. I live in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. I'm from Montana.
El-Sayed won by 14,893 votes out of more than 1.5 million ballots counted. His win represents a significant shift for the Democratic Party; in 2018 he lost the gubernatorial primary to now-Gov. Gretchen Whitmer by 21 percentage points. apnews.com/article/mich...
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary in major victory for Democrats’ progressive wing
Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in a victory for the party’s progressive wing in a battleground state.
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"By complete accident, our AI tried to insert malicious code into someone else's software. When that failed, our AI stole the identities of real-life people and tried to use them to get the software developer to accept the code.* "But it's just a glitch!" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI models shock UK testers by using fake identities to try to trick developers
AI Security Institute says models by OpenAI and Anthropic went rogue during a cybersecurity test and showed a new type of risk
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President Joe Biden secured $184 billion over five years for transportation infrastructure projects. Trump spent none so far. The Republican stopgap budget bill -- which keeps the government open through December 11 -- DEFUNDS $38.6 billion for next year. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/05/r...
US Senate stopgap fails to renew more than $38B a year in state transportation funding • Ohio Capital Journal
WASHINGTON — The stopgap spending bill supported by an overwhelming majority of U.S. senators does not address tens of billions in expiring transportation funding, leaving states facing a massive effe...
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Lawrence, a left-wing Democrat, defeated two moderates. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
William Lawrence Wins Primary in Battleground Michigan House District
William Lawrence defeated two moderate candidates to challenge a vulnerable Republican incumbent, but some worry his views could hurt his chances in November.
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5 August 1955 – Journey to the Beginning of Time premieres. Karel Zeman was Czechoslovakia's Ray Harryhausen. Except he was better. And almost unknown in the West.
August 5, 1960 – 13 Ghosts premieres. Much, much better than the James Gunn version.
HAPPY 60TH ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!!!!! 5 August 1966 – Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. premieres in the UK.
In #TheGriffinIncident, I love the way Rose Harper's personal log videos are the same. The pillows and sheets on her bed are disarranged in EXACTLY the same way in each video -- even though they were allegedly filmed days apart. more....
HAPPY 55TH ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!!!! August 4, 1971 - Night of Dark Shadows premieres. That poster is fucking fantastic.
A.I. Washing: Company says it needs fewer people because A.I. makes it more efficient. (It's really about freeing up cash to spend more on A.I.) Positions are eliminated before work is redesigned, so the work shifts onto the people who remain. 1/3
44 percent of Gen Z workers and roughly 33% of the broader work force say they actively sabotage their company's A.I. rollout because they fear they will lose their job.
95 percent of enterprise generative A.I. pilots never deliver real results. 75% of executives admit their A.I. strategy is "more for show", because A.I. doesn't work.
August 3, 1951 – Tales of Tomorrow premieres. This was the first science fiction TV show in the U.S.
2 August 1986 – Castle in the Sky, the first film ever to be released by Studio Ghibli, premieres in Japan.
Former Ohio Supreme Court Justice Mike Donnelly has a big op-ed in "The Guardian"! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As retired US judges, we’re not used to speaking out. But we cannot be silent | Michael P Donnelly and Robert F Orr
We joined a recent bus tour of 30 judges, lawyers and advocates fighting not for any partisan aim, but for the rule of law itself
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Remember how Republicans once screamed "UNETHICAL!" when Bill Clinton offered guests a night in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House in return for big-money donations? Or how they writhed in moral agony when Barack Obama had coffee with big-money donors? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump offering early access to online posts in move seen as corruption
Truth Social, where Trump’s account is by far the largest, to offer users early access for up to $100,000 per month
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#FightBack apnews.com/article/germ...
Hamburg Pride draws 300,000 with increased security, a week after a fatal attack in Berlin
Hamburg’s Pride parade, one of Germany’s biggest, has made its way through the port city with increased security a week after a fatal extremist attack near its counterpart in Berlin.
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Grandpa seems to think he is in control of whether this fund exists or not, but it's really the court that has to sign off. Next, he'll start shouting at clouds and wearing an onion on his belt. apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump's threat to push ahead on settlement fund injects new uncertainty into attorney general talks
President Donald Trump is threatening to push forward with a fund to compensate his allies if two Republican holdouts won’t support his nominee for attorney general.
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Did anyone else notice in "The Griffin Incident"? The shuttle Alvarez is assigned the number 13.
How many "ghosts"/"things moving in the background" did you count in the Strange New Worlds episode "The Griffin Incident"? I have seven.
August 1, 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting. MTV's logo was designed by Manhattan Design. Fred Seibert came up with the concept for the "launch of MTV". The MTV theme song was composed by Jonathan Elias and John Petersen. John Lack spoke the words, "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll."
August 1, 1893 – Henry Perky patents shredded wheat. Henry Perky was not interested in making a new breakfast cereal. He was interested in ways to crack, toast, puff, mill, grind, and otherwise mangle wheat into edible forms. Shredded wheat made its debut at Chicago's World Columbian Exposition.
