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"Technical debt isn’t just for software engineers—it’s baked into the very foundation of American democracy."

"Jules Feiffer, the cartoonist and playwright whose syndicated comic strip ran for four decades, has died. The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner was 95."

Because who needs health, right?

"Try to imagine how Americans would have reacted last fall — after Hurricane Helene slammed Florida’s Big Bend region, killing dozens of people — if then-President Biden had threatened to withhold federal aid for purely political reasons."
(Minor quibble: Republicans have made it clear for ages that they consider us the enemy, so I'm not sure "betrayed" is the right word here, though they've *certainly* betrayed their responsibilities.)

"Here’s a step-by-step guide."

"Wine 10.0 brings Arm Windows apps to Linux, still is not an emulator"

Short version: it's trained on decades-worth of advertisements that use that time because the clock hands are symmetrical and pointing upward.

"Westinghouse and Radiant are developing some of the world’s smallest reactors"

Proposed fourth law for AI/robot ethics discussions: "A robot or AI must not deceive a human by impersonating a human being."