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Me trying to remember the word "bluegrass"

Finally a single place to see Casablanca, 2 Casa 2 Blanca, Casablanca Tokyo Drift, and the rest of this great franchise.

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FINALLY.

A quote from an Axios story about a raccoon that got trashed at a North Carolina store that reads: "Why it matters: The intoxicated suspect was a raccoon."

Why it matters

Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders joined the @sbworkersunited.org picket line in Brooklyn today. Mamdani said he would keep joining picket lines even after he is sworn in as mayor.

They’re burying the weirdest part of this story, which is that this congressman’s twin brother keeps trying and failing to replace him in various jobs and is now hoping to replace him in this one

Went to see a play with nudity yesterday and they had the entire audience lock up their phones in those Yondr magnetic pouches that schools are using now. It worked really well, and now I'm wondering how long before movie theaters start doing this.

Obama speaking from personal experience as a huge disappointment

me waking up and opening this app

this is depressing as hell

Come on man.

Bangladesh sentences former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death Ex-leader was tried in absentia after fleeing to India in wake of popular uprising

Bangladesh sentences former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death on.ft.com/3XxAvcx

There are no words for how evil this is

It'd be great if these people would just skip this bullshit and get the calipers out. They're doing phrenology. That's all it is.

Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

BREAKING: The Minneapolis mayor's race advances to ranked choice voting after no candidate receives the majority of the vote.

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overall, one of the most pathetic campaigns I've ever seen but at least we got some gems

He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies. “I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida. “I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor Wednesday evening. “So I just gave him my opinion.”

I’m crying

www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week

by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

Every vote this could possibly swing for Cuomo would just be undone by people put off by the endorsement.

"Andrew Cuomo is a snake and a liar — and that's great!"

???

"I don't even know what parade doesn't exist" is also very funny

it reminds me of the mid-2010s mania for MOOCs, when all education was going to be online

U.S. files reveal Israeli-Arab military cooperation, even as Gaza war raged Documents from U.S. Central Command show a series of meetings over the past three years between Israeli and Arab military officials to coordinate on regional threats.

Leaked U.S. docs show that Arab states have been quietly expanding security cooperation with Israel during its war on Gaza.

The effort includes Israel, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. (Kuwait and Oman also participated.)

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Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

I love reading the news