Ian in 314

Well, that was quick. I am being told former SLMPD police chief John Hayden is now interim sheriff.

Nala loves a sun puddle

Nala is so serene and beautiful for being 19 years old.

Schweitzer JUST had her baby

😍😍😍😻😻😻 #NalaPie

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

USDA says it can’t shuffle funds to extend food assistance during shutdown WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a memo Friday the agency’s contingency fund cannot legally be used to provide food assistance benefits for more than 42 million people in Novemb...

SCOOP: USDA says it can’t shuffle funds to extend food assistance during shutdown--but its own plan dated Sept. 30 and since deleted -- says the department would use its multi-year contingency fund to continue paying SNAP during the shutdown www.newsfromthestates.com/article/usda...

WashU won't sign Trump's preferential funding compact, chancellor says Chancellor Andrew Martin confirmed that the private university won't sign the Compat for Academic Excellence in Higher Education in an email sent to faculty senate members on Wednesday.

Chancellor Andrew Martin confirmed that the private university won't sign the Compat for Academic Excellence in Higher Education in an email sent to faculty senate members on Wednesday.

It's a "national security threat" only if you're a white nationalist. I mean, this whole press conference is totally insane.

They are terrified. They are losing. We have a fundamental right to gather. That’s as American as it gets.

Happy Sunday Scaries!

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

100% agree Jason

My Nala being so cute

Hey #STL drivers: Stop blocking curbcuts and sidewalks with your vehicles, please. Yes I realize this might mean walking 50 feet here and there. But on the bright side, you won't be forcing people into the street!

❤️🥳🎉

Saw this update. Just at the end of my block. Absolutely disgusting someone would do this.

More people should be talking about this.

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I had some business to take care of at the DMV and I was in and out of S. Kingshighway DMV in under 15 minutes. It’s a good day today.

it's so convenient to call the data center "infrastructure" when we're ignoring all the people infrastructure - public transit, public housing, public education can all shit - we need data and it's not a bubble!

Oh my god lol

This Dutch late night host absolutely eviscerates Trump and Disney- you gotta watch how

"Because someone died, we have to take away your rights" -- the same pretextual rationale that authoritarians always use

Trump's moves against media outlets mirror authoritarian approaches to silencing dissent Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has waged an aggressive campaign against the media unlike any in modern U.S. history, making moves similar to those of authoritarian leaders that...

Biggest story in the world, told in the mainstream press perfectly well:

AP/PBS headline: TRUMP'S MOVES AGAINST MEDIA OUTLETS MIRROR AUTHORITARIAN APPROACHES TO SILENCING DISSENT

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

An everything bagel is the superior bagel. No other bagel can compare to the excellence of a perfect everything bagel.

St. Louis-based grocery chain will acquire Wisconsin-based Festival Foods A Missouri-based grocery chain is purchasing Wisconsin-based Festival Foods, which has long branded itself as family and employee-owned.

So….Schnucks is expanding into the Wisconsin market. www.wpr.org/news/st-loui...