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Medical Startup Selling Prescription Kit for Nuclear Disaster
Amble's 'Oh Sh*t Kit' promises to help patients endure the effects of radiation. Experts aren't convinced.
G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost . “G.P.S....
G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost . “G.P.S. has also led us to outsource existential skills: locating yourself in space, parsing out your surroundings, staying calm when you…
Karoline Leavitt at Her Worst: Lies and Abuse From the Podium
Watch this short lowlights video rounding up the outgoing press secretary’s most outrageous moments as the megaphone of the Trump administration.
Do It Like Darwin
A stated goal of many of the frontier AI labs is to automate science, or at least large portions of it. AlphaFold’s architects won the Nobel Prize in 2024 for enormous advances in…
PBS Station Fears Losing 50TB of Data After Being Ghosted By Cloud Provider
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to…
Mike Lindell Revives Election Fraud Rhetoric After Losing MN GOP Primary
“I'm very good at looking at elections,” said Lindell, who for years has peddled election fraud conspiracy theories.
Francesca Hong’s Loss in Wisconsin Is a Win for AI Data Centers — for Now
Though the democratic socialist was defeated, the fight against the data centers she opposed isn’t going anywhere. The post Francesca Hong’s Loss in Wisconsin Is a Win for AI Data…
Rivian's 2027 changes include its No. 1 most-requested feature
Pricing hasn't changed, and now you can get captain's chairs for the R1S.
Fox argues the Trump economy is “booming” as many indicators show otherwise
Many on Fox News and Fox Business are arguing that the economy under President Donald Trump is “booming” and “going gangbusters,” even though many months of the Trump…
Craig Mod wrote about his recent adventures using LLMs:...
Craig Mod wrote about his recent adventures using LLMs: A Swarm of Blood Robots . “I now have a comprehensive family tree, naming the very boats my Italian and Polish ancestors…
John Oliver Doubles Down After Latest Buc-ee’s Trademark Bullying Lawsuit
The Buc-ee’s trademark bullying saga continues! The company, once best known for building ridiculously enormous gas station and convenience store combinations has more recently…
Trump Is Now Openly Flirting With Attacking the Midterms
Speaking to a far-right conspiracy theorist who advocated seizing control of the polls, the president said merely, 'Stranger things have happened.' In actual elections,…
Empty Chambers, Missing Stairs
tw: guns, weird shitty behavior, inadequate responses to weird shitty behavior So say you’re out on the street, not in any kind of rush, just steadily making your way somewhere.…