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A patriot speaks out on behalf of all of us.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

*ANTHROPIC WARNS OF CATASTROPHIC, EXISTENTIAL RISKS TO HUMANITY

ANTHROPIC IPO FILING: ECONOMIC VALUE OF AI MAY COME WITH ECONOMIC DISRUPTION GREATER IN MAGNITUDE THAN PREVIOUS TECHNOLOGIES

ANTHROPIC IPO FILING: AI MAY BEHAVE AUTONOMOUSLY IN UNINTENDED WAYS

NEWS: Robert De Niro delivers a blistering rebuke of Trump and the Supreme Court in a new video condemning threats to voting rights. “I’ve got a message for them: no f**king way.” He urges Americans to vote early and protect their right to vote. Watch.

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Alice Weidel is saying that Zelenskyy “is not interested in peace,” and that in order to have peace in Ukraine, “we need to take Russia’s security interests into account.” She is a straight-out Russian asset. Note how Alice recoils and refuses to acknowledge that Russia rejects making peace

Midterms are around the corner. Let’s all be this lady when we show up to vote the MAGAts out of office and take back both the House and the Senate. #fucktrump #fuckmaga

Mike Ditka, known for his sweaters and aviator sunglasses, won championships as a game-changing tight end before leading one of the most memorable teams in NFL history. He died at the age of 86. on.wsj.com/4dvaAL2

All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.

“Marathon Man” turns 50 today. 🎂 It’s true: Hoffman really did stay up all night to look "out-of-it during the dental scenes," director John Schlesinger said. It didn't work. "I had to completely reshoot.. That’s when Olivier said to me 'Why doesn’t he just try acting?'"

De Niro: When that coward, that fucking piece of shit, Donald Trump, tries to take our voice and power away, what do we tell him? Keep your fucking hands off our vote.

This K is alive and well! Labor compensation vs. corporate profits JPMAM

Reading has become an endangered species. Which is half the problem with American political life. Maybe more than half. If you can't read, you can't think. Then you can fall for anything. The idea, for instance, that the truth is fake news.

This whole AI plan - all of it, from shoving it down people's throats, embedding it in every corner & human endeavor, to having it commit cyber crimes in a desperate attempt at corporate capture + regulatory subsidy - seems not particularly well-conceived. Maybe there's no plan?

9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."

Today on 9/11, we remember and honor the lives that were taken from us in a terrible act of terrorism. Nothing can justify the murder of innocent civilians. Nothing. 1/

25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.

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New in PN: @ninajankowicz.com on the golden age of disinformation “I’m not optimistic about us clawing back from this unless there’s serious rethinking of our systems, and frankly, regulation of these social media platforms that are making us such passive and uncurious consumers of information."

The biggest streaming platform having a staggering 14 pre-80s films is such a sad state of affairs. My media server has more pre 1910s films than this, my 70s collection alone is ~1600 films. Netflix is an embarassment for cinephiles.

1. Rick Steves has spent $2 million of his own money to rescue a single-screen theater in Edmonds, WA. This is part of a multi-million-dollar effort he has made to invest in community properties in order to preserve local institutions and keep them serving the communities they were built for.

Kudos to the @theguardian.com for keeping climate change news high priority. You would hardly have noticed any of it from U.S. media which seems to keep the top stories on all the weather disasters happening and not the source of it. Guardian published the UN warning on breeching 1.5 degrees.

I hereby declare the "learn to code" era officially dead: Big declines in the number of people studying computer science in the last year or two 📉 Chart from this week’s edition of our newsletter on AI and the labour market www.ft.com/content/9183...

This is my reply to this post from Rick Kogan. Read the article below which came out 10 years ago from the late great Kris Vire. www.timeout.com/chicago/thea...

Cuban: I've given money to end Citizens United. I know my next dollar isn't going to change my life. But it can sure change a lot of other people's lives, and that's the way I try to live

"Look at the last 3 GOP presidents. One oversaw a double-dip recession with a savings & loans scandal that looted the Treasury. That was Bush I. Another oversaw near meltdown of the whole capitalist system. That was Bush II. Then the next presided over a pandemic-driven collapse. That was Trump I."

We’re not changing it.

The wrong 80 year olds!

Tim Curry (1946—2026)

And now Tim Curry - 2026 can F off. RIP to a legend. www.tmz.com/2026/08/26/t...

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Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

Paul Simon’s GRACELAND turns 40 today featuring the brilliant Boyoyo Boys.

www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-ml-... If it sounds like genocide and acts like genocide. It’s genocide.

While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings.

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President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Hunter Biden: “As it relates to Donald Trump, fuck him. Fuck his son. Fuck his daughter. I mean it. All of them. The whole family, down to the grandchildren. I hope that, for the rest of time, their names will live in ignominy. They have done the most awful things to my family and to me.”

This.

Glen Hansard gone at 56. Motorcycle crash in Dublin. Shocking stuff. Street busker-turned-Oscar winner. As a songwriter, he had a way of capturing the bittersweet moments of life, and our interviews inevitably circled back to how his approach to songwriting evolved. Link in comments.