America's military footprint in the Middle East is shrinking, as the U.S. assesses its role in Gulf conflicts following extensive base damage during the Iran war.
Thou shalt love the datacenter! Verily, thou shalt rejoice in the house of the datacenter!
An OpenAI employee focused on AI safety has quit the company and warned that top artificial intelligence firms aren't doing enough to mitigate the technology's risks, joining a growing chorus of employees raising alarms from within the industry.
Actors with makeup and fake symptoms staggered into 73 healthcare facilities.
As a gubernatorial candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy wants to talk about tax cuts and data centers. But questions about where his party is headed -- and how candidates like him may fit into that future -- linger over his Ohio campaign. read more
Blind Faith - Had To Cry Today (1969)
www.youtube.com
Blind Faith
en.wikipedia.org
... Blind Faith were an English rock supergroup that consisted of Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Ric Grech.
They followed the success of the members' former bands, including Clapton and Baker's former group Cream and Winwood's former group Traffic, but they split after a few months, producing only one album and a three-month summer tour. ...
Speaking of Screaming Abdabs ...
The Dark Side of the Moo
en.wikipedia.org
...The Dark Side of the Moo is a 1986 unofficial compilation of early recordings by the English rock group Pink Floyd, featuring recordings not available on albums released in the US. Unlike other bootlegs containing previously unheard material (bootleg recordings), the album is made up of recordings that had at least one commercial release.[1]
The name parodies The Dark Side of the Moon, the band's most commercially successful album, and the front cover of Atom Heart Mother, which featured a cow.[2][3]
Background
The album was created by an anonymous label known as "Trixie Records" by a bootlegger known as "Richard",[3][4] and to avoid detection by authorities, used an early name for the group, "The Screaming Abdabs" on the record label. ...
The word "twunt" is a new one for me.
So I explored, and found this ...
twunt
www.wordnik.com
...
noun UK, slang
A fool; an extremely objectionable person.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Blend of twat and cunt
...
OK, now I understand. :)
... including Agron Berani, whom the Journal documented paying $944.44 to fill up his 18-wheeler with diesel fuel, which the Journal noted would have cost around $500 a year ago ...
Related ...
Truckers Are 'Just Trying to Hang On' When a Fill-Up Tops $1,000
www.nytimes.com
... Truckers are among the hardest hit by the soaring cost of diesel fuel. High prices are forcing some to stay on the road for months and others to park their rigs.
When Sean Howarth started his independent trucking business last year, he made sure to reserve one week a month for his family -- a girlfriend and her two children -- at home in Miami between three weeks on the road.
Then came the war in Iran, which sent the price of diesel fuel skyrocketing and turned a fill-up into an $1,000-a-tank ordeal.
For now, the only way to make ends meet, Mr. Howarth said, is to get on the road and stay there. He has not been home since mid-August.
He sleeps in his truck and has missed birthdays, volleyball games and date nights salsa dancing at a local club. He does not plan to return home until the holidays unless diesel prices fall sharply.
"I am just trying to hang on," he said. ...
The GOP does not even seem to want to back their GOP candidate ...
The price tag on the Ken Paxton rescue mission has Republicans panicking
www.politico.com
... Republicans know they have to spend big to save Ken Paxton. They're increasingly worried MAGA Inc. won't throw down in time.
In private conversations over recent weeks, senior Hill Republicans and GOP officials have nudged President Donald Trump's team to start spending more on the Texas Senate race before it's too late, according to three people with direct knowledge of those conversations, who were granted anonymity to discuss them.
Those fears escalated after audio leaked of Paxton privately trashing Trump's midterm convention, with some worrying it could impact whether MAGA Inc. continues spending after a current wave of GOP ad bookings run out Oct. 12.
A Trump operative told POLITICO that MAGA Inc. and its affiliates are expected to spend near $45 million on direct mail, TV, and digital advertising in Texas through Oct. 12, an increase from its previous $20 million to boost Paxton. But they said the team is still assessing how much more money to send in the final weeks, in consultation with Senate Republicans and their top super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund. ...
Another view ...
Pink Floyd performing Echoes live on BBC radio. This was the time when Pink Floyd used the appellation "Screaming Abdabs" for their, I'll say, less than official albums.
Pink Floyd - Echoes (live) (1971)
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Then there are things like this ...
Ken Griffin's Miami neighbors fight his private heliport plan after his $238M NYC penthouse sparked a pied--terre tax
finance.yahoo.com
... Last April, hedge fund manager Ken Griffin was called out by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for his New York home. Now, his Miami neighbors are upset with him.
Back in April, Mamdani announced a pied--terre tax on second homes worth at least $5 million in the city, naming Griffin personally for his $238 million penthouse. In response, Griffin threatened to move his company's focus from NYC to Miami ...
"We will add far more jobs in Miami over the next decade as an immediate and direct consequence of the Mayor's poor decision here," said Griffin to CNBC.
Perhaps because of that, Griffin has announced plans to build a personal heliport near his home in Miami beach. His neighbors aren't happy.
"He's saying that his helicopter is the quietest model, that noise won't be an issue for us," said John Stimmel, president of a luxury condo group near the proposed helipad site, to Bloomberg. "I asked ChatGPT if landing helicopters that close will be noisy, and guess what? It will be noisy." ...
And then there's things like this ...
Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
www.404media.co
... As Flock continues to be the center of a nationwide conversation about automatic license plate reading cameras, the company has said that it doesn't, and won't, do facial recognition: "We will not add facial recognition to our devices," Flock CEO Garrett Langley said in a recent video. But other, third-party companies are telling cops that they are willing to add facial recognition to data gathered by Flock cameras in order to "close that gap."
A company called VIDIZMO is advertising the capability to export footage from FlockOS to its own platforms that do facial recognition, behavior prediction, and racial and gender analysis on live camera feeds. VIDIZMO is a several decades-old video analysis and database company that has started offering facial recognition technology to cops within the last six months. In a May email to Johnson City, Tennessee, deputy police chief Michael Adams, a salesperson from VIDIZMO wrote that the company's product could do facial recognition on both Flock and Axon data in "one searchable platform." ...
@#13
... and that only one album originally had a, I'll say, less than PG album cover photo.