Jeffrey Tanenhaus’s architecture walking tour in Tulsa, Okla., is only a mile long, but it takes two hours. He stops frequently to point out neoclassical and art deco flourishes. You’d never know he only arrived in Tulsa, a city of about 415,000 people, in 2020. On his tours, Tanenhaus dives into Tulsa’s past as an oil boomtown, when ambitious types from across the country descended on the city and changed it in the process. On a recent trip, I saw a different kind of transformation taking place. 

Charles Kirchhoff and T. Leslie Rose designed this Romanesque Revival saloon for the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company and it was built in 1903

The 767 was originally designed as a three-crew cockpit. A few airplanes were produced in this configuration. After the FAA approved operation by two-person crews, Boeing had to change these airplanes from three- to two-person cockpits and change those in production.

New Orleans is heroin. The aesthetic is decay. The city looks black and blue, a bruise that can’t heal. I lived there for three years and I could feel the darkness not just on the streets but encroaching and enrapturing my soul pulling it downward into nothingness. During that period I suffered debilitating insomnia and sleep paralysis, which left me unable to perform as my brain was clouded with exhaustion during the days.

Changes in Nonprofit Hospitals’ Finances, Operations, and Quality of Care After Using Management Consultants

FAULKNER: Not long after I bought it. I’d be going home, it was hilly. I’d put it into auto-drive. I would be at 35 miles an hour, would quickly go to 60, cross that double yellow line and go straight at the cars. I think what it was trying to do is, because it was hilly, it thought that maybe the road was going to end so it was going to save me by going into the other lane. I don’t know what it was thinking. I called them about it. They sent someone to ride in the car with me and saw that that’s indeed what happened. Then they brought another car to see if it happened on that car too, and it did. Same thing happened. So it was the software and not the car.

Caslon type is considered the first Anglo Saxon expression of roman type, which arose during the Renaissance out of humanist scholars’ veneration and imitation of ancient Roman culture and letters. These embedded ideals mirror the Diplomatic Reception Rooms’ logo mark itself, which shares this origin in Renaissance humanism, and relates to ideas of both literacy and the value of the individual.

Welcome to the world’s most extensive apples (pommes) database Information on over 7,000 apples is available here, all carefully researched and provided in a way that is easy to navigate.

The photograph captured something people had been watching develop in fragments (a feature added here, a terms-of-service update there) but hadn’t yet seen stated plainly. Dube’s Jeep had not been hacked. Nothing had gone wrong. The advertisement came from Stellantis, the company that built the truck, over the truck’s own cellular connection, to a screen in a vehicle the owner had paid for outright. To turn it off permanently, Stellantis directed owners to call the Brand Connectcustomer service line at 800-777-3600 during business hours.

It is not necessarily news that there will always be a tradeoff between doing the novel risky thing – and dying by science failure; and doing the validated incremental bet – and dying by competition. However, with acquisition demand being more or less constant for a particular target-modality pair (there are only so many pharmas in the world!) and the supply curve shifting far to the right by China printing more early-stage assets for known targets with known modalities – I think the next few years will be the first time we see Western biotech companies unable to exit despite having promising data on me-too or me-better. I suspect exits for GalNAc siRNAs (including multitargeting siRNAs) and antibodies (including bispecifics and trispecifics) will become a bloodbath. In other words, if something is incremental or obvious, it is no longer worth doing – and the competition penalty is much higher than before.

Elsewhere in The Washington Post today, there’s “A $20,000 model trash can is a showcase of city dysfunction/Why can’t San Francisco’s officials competently replace its trash cans?” It does concede: “Politically, the city has self-corrected a bit, as voters replaced the mayor, district attorney and school board with reformist challengers. But why can’t the city’s government get anything done?”

Boeing and most airline customers badly wanted the two-crew configuration. The financial savings from eliminating a flight engineer on every flight were substantial. Over thousands of annual flight hours per aircraft, the labor cost differential between a two-crew and three-crew operation compounded into millions of dollars per jet per year across a fleet. Furthermore, a common two-crew type rating shared with the narrowbody 757, being designed concurrently, would give airlines enormous scheduling flexibility and reduce transition training costs. Every major airline customer had powerful economic incentives to push for two-crew operations.

We’ve made significant progress utilizing static QR codes with SMART Health Links. Wrapping those capabilities into an interactive, end-to-end check-in protocol is the necessary next step to finally kill the clipboard.

Our main product corn heads,corn picker,the features and design of Tianren corn head revolutionized corn harvesting work when introduced in China in 2004 and its legendary performance still out yields all others.

LA has over 40K drug addicts holding Angelenos hostage. All it takes is one to make moms feel too nervous to let their kids just go be kids and explore the quiet streets of their beautiful neighborhood. ENOUGH. We are done being held hostage in our own homes. Vote PRATT today! More.

Well, we paid Duffy’s salary during this time, of course. But the Department of Transportation has a list of sponsors that paid the expenses of these excursions through a non-profit that was set up for this purpose.

In my current school, we inherited a curriculum and morphed it for our pupils in our school. Our Do Nows became centralised. All lessons contain the same I Do, We Do, You Do format. Regular checks for understanding are scattered throughout, answers to questions found in our booklets. Even our models and scaffolding became centralised to ensure that the baseline for each lesson was a bloody good one.

And here is the deeper problem: that patient is not subsidizing the hospital only once. She is subsidizing it over and over again. She pays taxes for Medicare and Medicaid. Pollack’s testimony explicitly argues that those programs underpay hospitals and that this underpayment must be absorbed somewhere else.

Collection of 100 colourized photos from the Warsaw Rising

Downtown St. Louis is in bad shape. We can’t afford to do nothing about it.

The risk: A drop in the share price could lead lenders to sell some of an executive’s stake to keep debts in line with the value of the underlying collateral. That could drive the share price down further, especially where an executive owns a significant chunk of the company. 

In the US and Europe, weapons systems move from concept to deployment over five, ten, sometimes fifteen years. A major capability iteration of the flagship F-35 Lightning II fighter jet can take close to a decade. That gap – one week versus seven years – is not just down to the exceptional engineering talent in Ukraine. It is the product of how work is organized, how quickly information reaches the people who can act on it and how much authority those people hold.

This experiment showed GPT-5.5 can reverse engineer with great success if you give it the ability to run probes, validate against ground truth, and revise. It identifies when public documentation is enough versus when it has to read source. It builds the diagnostic infrastructure that makes hard problems debuggable rather than only writing code that hopes to work.

One final note, I’m convinced the greatest Master of the art of a measured tongue was our Lord, Jesus – if you get a chance read Jesus’ conversation with Pilate (John 18:33-38). Jesus put on a masterclass of this skillset.

…. including a plan for establishing a state-run public bank that would serve the public interest rather than enabling bottom-line profiteering by private banks.

This is the greatest single question I’ve ever seen asked in Congress.

95% of over a million babies a year are killed out of SELFISH reasons or “convenience”

Notably, Apple CMF 2026 is only used on the Apple XDR Display (P3-2000 nits, and P3 + Adobe RGB-2000 nits) modes.  All other reference modes are based entirely on the CIE 1931 calibration space, maintaining comparability to non-Studio Displays and their calibrations.

Faury outlined a series of issues plaguing the company, calling it a “desynchronization between production and delivery….. However, this is hardly a “It’s time to sell the silverware” moment.

“Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.”  

— St. Francis de Sales

Minnesota’s report card under @GovTimWalz is in:

The single biggest secret of Ryanair has nothing to do with marketing. It is a 25-minute turnaround. Once a Ryanair plane lands, the crew has it cleaned, refueled, reboarded, and back in the air in 25 minutes. Aer Lingus needs about an hour to do the same thing. After three flights in a day, Ryanair has banked two hours, which is enough time to fit in two extra flights. Every single Ryanair plane flies more flights per day than every single Aer Lingus plane. That gap is where the entire profit margin of European cheap flying comes from. Long flights to other continents don’t work the same way. A faster turnaround at JFK doesn’t let you squeeze another flight to America into the day, so the saved time gets wasted. This is why O’Leary thinks Ryanair will never fly across the Atlantic but will dominate short flights inside Europe for decades.

I think everyone should have a draft email ready to go. If you’re laid off, you can quickly add the date and send it to leadership and HR, and copy the Department of Labor’s H-1B and Wage and Hour Division. In it, state that you want to be considered for any roles that match your background, skills, and duties, regardless of job title, before the company hires H-1B workers or proceeds with PERM roles. You can also request copies of LCAs filed over the past year, including both primary and secondary worksites.

Fifteen Comms Observations from Musk v. Altman

Every public listing in Inside Airbnb’s open dump, 119 cities, 4 quarterly snapshots. We scored 1.7M photos with CLIP (a model that turns an image into a vector you can compare to a text prompt), shortlisted the most suspicious ones, and had Claude Haiku Vision double-check each shortlist. We also scored every review and reranked the weirdest 12K with Haiku. Everything was parallelized on Burla, on a single dynamic cluster that scaled to ~1.7K CPU workers for photo download and CLIP, with 20 A100 GPUs running embedding clusters in parallel on the same cluster.

Wherein Wisconsin’s unelected Secretary of State insults the Supreme Court for being unelected. Can’t make this stuff up.

“Taylor Swift” Art Filter On Olympus Camera Is Awesome!

There have been previous papers which suggested this, also with randomised placebo/treatment trials, but this 10-year followup suggests that a lot of surgery is just pointless. (Apart from enriching surgeons.) As my GP said to me when I was discussing various pains, “surgeons like doing surgery”. It’s something to bear in mind, and to research carefully before going under any knife.

The first hint of efficiency as strategy. Already there in a teenager doing scissor-kicks across Erie Bay.

XFundamentally, I find that MapKit is great for basic uses, but doesn’t provide nearly the level of configurability and utility which I want Pedometer++ to offer. For example:

Something big is happening in the marsh south of Abbeville and almost no one is talking about it on the record. Over the last few weeks I’ve fielded dozens of phone calls from clients, friends, and fellow sportsmen asking the same question: did SpaceX really buy 136,000 acres in Pecan Island and Freshwater City? I’ve called everyone I could think of who might know — government officials, longtime Pecan Island locals, energy insiders, hunting-lease holders. No one is denying it. A few are quietly confirming it. But not a single official document has surfaced. So I went down the rabbit hole myself. Here is everything I’ve learned about the rumor, what makes it credible, what it would mean for property owners and investors across Acadiana, and what I think you should do about it right now. More.

The greatest problem in healthcare ? Hospitals, even market dominant hospitals, won’t walk away from the big ins companies that underpay, late pay, clawback, deny claims, waste their time in denial appeals, and require them to pay up to 8 pct of revenue to RCM consultants so they think they are getting what they are owed.

To commemorate Apple’s AAPL 1.54%increase; green up pointing triangle 50th anniversary, CEO Tim Cook shared previously unseen archival materials with WSJ’s Ben Cohen and told the story of Apple through prototypes of its most successful products, including the iPod and iPhone.

“They do not mean any harm. They simply have no appetite for the sort of judgment that cannot be graphed. This is how a great company becomes infested with MBAs. Not because every MBA is a philistine, though the percentages are hardly encouraging,”

Critics, including the hospital lobby, argue that POHs “cherry-pick” healthier, more profitable patients, admitting far fewer Medicaid or medically complex cases than full-service community hospitals. The reality is that all hospitals prioritize commercially insured patients, but a 2015 study found that physician-owned and traditional hospitals served virtually identical proportions of Medicaid patients and racial minorities.

I have always been a big fan of Tim Cook, and likewise, Steve Jobs, but if Steve was not taken from the Planet Earth so young, and ran the company instead of Tim, the company would have done well, but nowhere near as well as it has under Tim. For me it began with a phone call from Tim at the beginning of my First Term. He had a fairly large problem that only I, as President, could fix.

By patenting both layers, Apple created a double-lock: Competitors couldn’t copy the product design, and Apple’s suppliers couldn’t repurpose the processes for other clients. (The irony, though, is that it then consolidated operations in a country not exactly known for its IP protections…)

After the study, we became certain that it was possible to track a sword tip by placing a marker onto it, even with technologies accessible in 2012. We created video footage visualizing the trajectory of a sword tip using AR technology, which was included in a video for Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.

And yet those, too, were just footnotes to the even larger problem. Already, Florida had lost about three-quarters of its citrus growers. The last of them, these spent survivors, these hangers-on, had trudged to the Citrus Show to talk about the real problem, which was the disease.

Tim Cook remains one of the few tech leaders able to maintain working relationships with both the U.S. and Chinese governments. Apple will likely still need to rely on him on the geopolitical front in the foreseeable future.

Aging will go much further toward happiness and satisfaction if the more farsighted among them will begin to organize societies for self-help and self-direction, rather than for the promotion of economic experiments of unknown dimensions and unforeseeable consequences. The object of such societies could be both social and economic, to provide companionship among the aging, who are apt to have lost a good deal of it, as well independence for those who cannot continue in some form of their old employment.

Amtrak train ticket data.

Surveillance pricing is not new. American capitalism has a long tradition of consumer exploitation, including targeted advertising, behavioral advertising, price discrimination, and algorithmic pricing. All of these tactics make it easier for corporations to extract more consumer surplus; that is, to close the gap between what consumers are willing to pay and what they actually pay.

Every 2025 FBS player, mapped by hometown. Pick a team, conference, state, or position to see who’s from where — or hit + Compare to put two side-by-side.

Ursa Ag’s dealer network remains tiny, and the company sells direct. Wilson admitted they haven’t scaled up distribution because they can’t keep shelves stocked as it stands. He says 2026 production will exceed the company’s entire cumulative output, which is a bold claim from a small operation, and whether they can actually deliver is the single biggest question hanging over this story.

But short-term rental owners say their businesses are boosting the local economy. From 2018 to 2025, gross tourist rooming house sales provided about $52,000 in room tax revenues, according to village figures. Those stays, which average 3.2 days according to rental property owners, ripple into the village economy with no conventional large hotel in McFarland.

The Arkansas men’s and women’s tennis programs spent a combined $2.5 million and brought in $3,284 in revenue for the 2024-25 reporting year, according to the school’s NCAA Membership Financial Reporting Survey.

This paragraph by Richard Feynman hits so hard:

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.”

Toronto police seize ‘SMS blasters,’ a cybercrime weapon never before seen in Canada. Police believe tens of thousands of devices were connected to the blaster over several months, and identified more than 13 million network disruptions.

Stability is an illusion. Fragility hides inside everything that looks too smooth.

The passage is the first question and answer of the Heidelberg Catechism, published in 1563 and taught to children and grieving adults ever since, especially in the Reformed tradition Ben comes out of. Most catechisms start with God’s attributes, or the purpose of humanity, or the nature of Scripture. Heidelberg starts somewhere else. It starts with comfort.

Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death?

A. That I am not my own, but belong—body and soul, in life and in death—to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil. He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven; in fact, all things must work together for my salvation. Because I belong to him, Christ, by his Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him.

“It is impossible to get a man to acknowledge truth when his salary, status, or beliefs depend upon not accepting it.”

Most important is to be more intentional in your digital media consumption. Do not let the algorithm decide what you should indulge. Choose consciously what enters your mind. Understand that you are not bored, you are being processed. It is not that you are lacking discipline that makes you easily distracted, it is because you are in the machine optimised for brainrot.

First, Amazon has to prove that people want to buy their cars not only online, but from the same place they buy toothpaste. 

I’ve been writing the following since image stabilization first appeared: in situations where you don’t need it—e.g. when you’ve got a shutter speed that should freeze even that fast moving plane—stabilization is best turned off. While best case is that stabilization corrects all problems, the worst case is that it introduces new flaws. A likely case is that you get some edge aliasing. 

Now the English huddle by the radiator, sucking up CO2 and mould spores. The houses struggle to feel warm because it’s 80% humidity inside.

The issue is the docks and loading facilities. They can only load about 4.5 Mbpd.

For decades, state and city leaders, many of whom have no private-sector experience themselves, have prioritized political agendas, pet projects and ideological experiments over practical prosperity. Consider the fate of Nicollet Mall.

New York Times dashboard: 2000 onward.

Christianity as we know it—the all-are-welcome Church, with fairly undemanding required rituals, no daily prostrations, no rules for separating cheese blintzes from corned beef, just confession, Communion, and prayer—owes more to Paul than to anyone else, perhaps even more than to the narrowly parochial and Jerusalem-centered Jesus. It was Paul, almost single-handed, and against the suspicions of Jesus’ original disciples, who journeyed and pleaded and made the faith portable. Quite a character! So much so that, in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, the director Frank Capra was eager to make a movie of Paul’s life starring Frank Sinatra. And though it sounds ridiculous when you say it, the casting actually makes sense. Whoever Paul was, he must have had charm, energy, and intensity, and been equally popular with the first-century equivalent of bobby-soxers and of made men. Raphael’s great image of Paul preaching in Athens, arms outstretched, crowd rapt, could be the Chairman on tour in Greece.

Jernmarker, or iron fields, was chosen as the Danish word of the year in December after the solar backlash swayed municipal elections and prompted some councils to pull projects. The spectre of barren metal landscapes has since returned to the campaign trail as Danes prepare to vote in national elections on Tuesday. “We need more common sense in the green transition,” Støjberg said in the first televised debate between party leaders last month.

MN has become a consumer, not creator, culture.

The clearest illustration of this dynamic came in January 2024, when Sullivan flew to Bangkok to meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and asked Beijing to use its “substantial leverage with Iran” to restrain the Houthis. The White House said it would “wait to see results.”. The results came quickly. According to Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, Beijing not only refused the request but also encouraged the Houthis to target other nations’ shipping. As Red Sea traffic collapsed, China-linked ships increased their transits and gained a commercial advantage. Sullivan had asked China to shut down an operation that was serving Chinese interests. Instead, it increased its mischief.

Minnesota Mao — a new documentary from the team that brought you The Fall of Minneapolis. Coming June 4.

Alcorn tapped into the paper’s public API to create a dashboard that provides some extraordinary insights.

Kelda Roys (state senator and running for gov.) a village resident calls in and says she is dismayed how Pres Imes is targeting Lotfi.Says she has known Lotfi for more than 10 years and has appreciate “the care she puts into things.” She’s also concerned about how village is portrayed in the news.

So the question is not whether to use files. You’re always using files. The question is whether to use a database’s files or your own. And for a lot of applications, especially early-stage ones, the answer might be: your own.

“Mr. Biden lives abroad.” Those four words in a filing from Barry Coburn confirmed what had long been rumored about his client: Hunter Biden has left the country as his former lawyers and creditors seek millions in unpaid debts. He added, “He cannot pay his current lawyers.”

But now, Microsoft is stepping back from the industry it helped create, telling some companies that it is pausing future purchases of carbon removal credits, according to two people familiar with the matter who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The news was first reported by Heatmap.

Dems have been playing this same simple game for years with their gullible followers. They pretend to want something their “base” wants, but always manage to fall a few votes short. Gosh darn! Vote Dem next time and we’ll get it for you! I wrote in 2010:

Only guy who kept his cool, until the very end, was the dude who had been riding for 6 days straight from California, where he’d just been released from serving 10.

There’s an old, bad idea that’s been trying to resurrect itself on X in the last couple of days. Which makes it time for me to explain exactly why, in the age of LLMs, open-sourcing your code is an even more important security measure than it was before we had robot friends. The underlying principle was discovered in the 1880s by an expert on military cryptography, a man named August Kerckhoffs, writing long before computers were a thing.

The largest municipal embezzlement in American history ran through one account with one signer. Every small-town government in America has the same setup.

Ex-UT football coach Darrell Royal had a saying that captures this moment for America: “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” Natural gas – abundant, affordable, powerful – was both the opportunity and the preparation in this instance.

Enriching uranium is an American cultural practice, anyone else doing it is appropriating our culture.

One of Murphy’s trick plays might actually work. 

It’s become a Schrödinger’s Strait, open and closed simultaneously- depending on the observer. Iran declares it open, the US blockades it, then vice versa. We have satellites than can read newspaper headlines but the public lacks hard data on ship movements.

“If My people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

The “YIMBY” (“Yes in my backyard”) voting scale is intended to be an objective measure of the pro-housing alignment of Madison Common Council Members. However, you should be highly skeptical of any measure that purports to be “objective,” because every measure of attitudes requires some value judgement. Our measure is no different! 

Your home is photographed and publicly visible on at least 5 websites right now.

Google Maps. Apple Maps. Bing Maps. Zillow. Redfin.

You can blur or remove it from all of them. Free. Takes 15 minutes.

In 1970, the UCC reported its highest ratio of members to churches: 291 to one. That’s actually a really healthy number. But now the figure has dropped to only 152 members per congregation. In other words, they aren’t closing churches fast enough to keep that ratio up. To maintain a ratio of 291, it would require the UCC to have only 2,350 churches. That would mean shutting the doors of over 2,000 congregations.

Dan O’Donnell:

“DPI cannot lower academic standards in secret and simply expect parents and students to accept the outcome,” IRG General Counsel Jake Curtis said in a statement. “Working groups created by DPI are not exempt from Wisconsin’s Open Meetings Laws. Taxpayers funded this process, but DPI shut them out. A state agency doesn’t get to spend public dollars, make consequential decisions, and then hide the process from public scrutiny.”

The Department of Public Instruction invited 88 education professionals to the session to review and adjust cut scores for the state’s standardized tests. It later adopted lower standards for proficiency in reading and math.

IRG has long maintained that the changes were designed to mask persistently low student performance in Wisconsin public schools. Its complaint does not seek damages but asks the court to invalidate the standards if violations are confirmed. The Department of Public Instruction did not immediately respond to the complaint.

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More on the taxpayer funded Wisconsin DPI.

The uproar centres on a citizens’ initiative to restrict, but not ban, motorised traffic in the city centre — a deeply divisive policy that has become a culture war flashpoint in many countries, pitting environmentally minded urban residents against suburban commuters.

This is what happens when you let natural monopolies operate without oversight. They don’t compete on price or quality. They extract rent.

But new research from UCLA has found that, in several specific cases, sections of the building code – which is written and updated by the International Code Council (ICC) – are either outdated, or are not grounded in sound building science. The result: Buildings that are both more costly to build and give builders less flexibility in the use of modern technologies and techniques.

Apollo Housing Deck.

If David Foster Wallace were alive today, he’d be reporting from the bar in a beachside town on the Omani coast– taking notes on a napkin about the particular quality of silence in a hundred-room hotel with three guests, watching tankers drift towards, but never quite reach, the Strait of Hormuz. That’s our inspiration here, if DFW was also concerned with finding alpha.

…In mid-2025, Hyppönen pivoted from cybersecurity to a different kind of defensive work. He became the chief research officer at Sensofusion, a Helsinki-based company that develops an anti-drone system for law enforcement agencies and the military.

You might have heard about “China Speed” and how local automakers can develop a brand-new model in two years or less. By comparison, legacy brands often need twice as long, and sometimes even more, to engineer a new product. With an astronomical number of companies developing vehicles at a record pace, it’s no wonder it feels like China is launching a new car every other day.

The risk is that teams everywhere start using AI to produce products that are globally polished but contextually shallow. A fintech interface can sound sophisticated while still failing to explain timing, settlement behavior, or support expectations clearly. A B2B SaaS site can look world-class while saying almost nothing a real buyer would recognize as grounded. A devtool can have excellent marketing language and still ignore the practical pains of understaffed teams dealing with on-call load, compliance pressure, and cost constraints.

The best tools for sending an email if you go silent.

Welcome to the Atlas of Arda, a project aimed at celebrating Tolkien’s incredible work through hand-drawn cartography, artwork and illustrations that act as a reference to dive deeper into the beautiful world Tolkien created.

The settlement also includes an agreement by Deere to provide “the digital tools required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair” of tractors, combines, and other machinery for 10 years. That part is crucial, as farmers previously resorted to hacking their own equipment’s software just to get it up and running again. John Deere signed a memorandum of understanding in 2023 that partially addressed those concerns, providing third parties with the technology to diagnose and repair, as long as its intellectual property was safeguarded. Monday’s settlement seems to represent a much stronger (and legally binding) step forward.

This project reverse-engineers Google’s SynthID watermarking system – the invisible watermark embedded into every image generated by Google Gemini. Using only signal processing and spectral analysis (no access to the proprietary encoder/decoder), we:

As part of the event, interoperable digital tools were introduced intended to streamline care and improve the patient experience. Highlights included:

• Digital data access and check?in (“Kill the Clipboard”), allowing patients to securely share information with a simple scan on their phone.
• Personalized health applications, offering tailored guidance on nutrition, wellness, and chronic disease management—extending care beyond clinic walls.

The BWB, due to its very dominant parasitic drag, about 2/3 of total drag between 30,000ft and 40,000ft, needs to initiate the cruise above 40,000ft, where the parasitic drag has declined below 60% of total drag. If the cruise is done below 40,000ft, the BWB has a higher total drag, which means it consumes more fuel than the NMA.

Since 2019, the Michelin Guide has rapidly expanded its portfolio of American guides thanks in part to the sponsorship of local tourism boards, or destination marketing organizations (DMOs), as they’re often called. 

Those contributions have ranged from $300,000 from Colorado’s state tourism board to $2.7 million from Texas’ state and local tourism boards.   

Williams-Smith confirmed that Visit Milwaukee will contribute $450,000 ($150,000 per year) for its three-year contract with the Michelin Guide, which runs from 2027 to 2029. 

Destination Cleveland is also paying $450,000 for the three-year contract. Meet Minneapolis will pay $750,000 over the three years. 

Other American Great Lakes DMOs did not immediately disclose their contributions. 

Earlier this month, Carter Bank sold the (Greenbriar) loans to “an unaffiliated third party,” according to a filing last week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The loan principal was $209.48 million, and Carter received $289.48 million in cash in the transaction. The company that bought the debt was TRT Holdings, owned and operated by Dallas billionaire Robert Rowling and his son Blake.

This city and its beaches, with their pacific blue waters during the summer months (which has earned us the moniker “Malibu of the Midwest”) and tempestuous, Gordon Lightfoot-inspiring gray deeps during winter, is forever home. This attachment, already firm for me as a teen (when a good number of classmates wanted nothing more than to be gone), became concrete during my years away. Charleston and Coronado are fine places to live, both effortlessly beautiful, and the 250,000 nautical miles in the U.S. Navy’s bilges and maintenance shops were certainly an experience for which I remain grateful, but the snatches of days home on leave had more life and light in them than the months away. 

The FAA counted 370,286 active student pilots at the end of 2025, up from 345,495 in 2024 and 222,629 in 2020. Total active pilots also rose to 887,519, compared with 848,770 a year earlier.

Aadam Jacobs has secretly recorded over 10,000 local concerts since 1989. Now, they are cleaned up and ready to listen to for free online.

Instead, the way Anthropic built that kernel is straight out of classical symbolic AI. For example, it is in large part a big IF-THEN conditional, with 486 branch points and 12 levels of nesting — all inside a deterministic, symbolic loop that the real godfathers of AI, people like John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky and Herb Simon, would have instantly recognized.*

The pilots had never been trained on it because Boeing determined that disclosing MCAS would require simulator training, which would make the MAX less competitive against the Airbus A320neo. Southwest Airlines, for example, which ordered hundreds of MAXes, required Boeing to pay $1m per airplane if simulator training was required.

Had the world spent the past decade building the oil, gas, LNG, pipeline, and fertilizer infrastructure that engineers designed and companies proposed, the Hormuz crisis would still be a serious geopolitical event, but it would not threaten to cause a recession.

So I was surprised when, in early 2024, Chalker sent me an e-mail introducing himself. He had read an article I wrote for this magazine about an innocent American caught up in spy-vs.-spy battles among Persian Gulf monarchies, and he wanted to talk. We arranged to meet at his office, high in the World Trade Center. Now fifty-four, Chalker is nearly six feet tall and barrel-chested, with short brown hair and a thick, graying red beard. His suite in the World Trade Center is cavernous, with a view that sweeps from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Statue of Liberty. A collection of historic encryption machines is displayed in vitrines in the main room, and in his corner office he keeps half-empty bottles of obscure liquors from around the world. The whole place could have accommodated dozens of people. But, aside from a receptionist, he appeared to be alone.

If implemented, FAA’s plan will increase airline costs and reduce airline quality. In fact, airlines and FAA need to switch this around to where airlines/users do the telling and FAA/ATC does the listening. Next, the FAA’s $31.5 Billion Brand New ATC System (BNATCS) will not reduce airline delays since it fails to focus on the root cause of delays (random Point Overloads). That said, BNATCS is a positive for equipment replacement, which is needed.

Frankie slathered a plain Italian roll with Cheez Whiz, just like his father liked to do. Then he layered on a few thin slices of rib-eye with a sprinkling of sautéed onions. No mushrooms, no sesame seeds. Just a splash of bell pepper juice, which had always been his thing.

Once the enemy’s center of gravity is identified, Clausewitz advised that this source of power should be struck with concentration. He emphasized focusing strength against the decisive point, not spreading effort across every available target. Speed, mass, and concentration matter. But they only matter if applied against the thing that actually holds the system together.

Wisconsin boasts the company’s top performer, though, with at least one store seeing $9 million in sales.

El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson held a news conference that Wednesday morning, where he challenged how the FAA had handled the situation. “I want to be very, very clear that this should’ve never happened,” he said. “You cannot restrict airspace over a major city without coordinating with the city, the airport, the hospitals, and the community leadership.”

“It’s all fluff and marketing,” he said.

“In the months that followed, US tariff policy changed more than 50 times, spanning rate increases, rate decreases, new product exemptions, and new product inclusions.”

Crafts an immersive reading experience. This could mean high-quality printing, aesthetic fonts and cover designs, and even digital companions to the physical book. For example, this version of the Bhagavad Gita has a speaker pen that orates verses while reading them. And Tyler Cowen has written this AI-native book about the marginal revolution in economics.

In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

In 1903, Wright received a commission to design a house in Oak Park in Illinois for Edwin Cheney and Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The two families became close. Mamah was highly educated, fluent in several languages, restless within the constraints of middle-class respectability. She and Wright eventually fell in love. Both left their spouses; Wright abandoned his wife Catherine and their six children, and Mamah left her husband and her own children. The scandal was immediate and vicious. Newspapers branded them adulterers and deserters. Wright lost clients. He fled to Europe with Mamah for a time, then returned to Wisconsin to build a home for them on a hill above the Wisconsin River – Taliesin, ‘shining brow’, a house meant to rest on the land like a crown. It was conceived as refuge: a place where he could work, love and live according to his own sense of integrity rather than the judgments of Oak Park.

That is why The Art of War endures. It is not a guide to battle. It is a framework for thinking about war as a contest of wills, shaped by political purpose, constrained by cost, and decided not by destruction, but by decisions.

“As in every sport, it’s always first the coach that has to go. At the highest level in sports, this is part of the job. You have to accept that.”

LKY watched in disbelief as the superpower that had promised to hold the line simply walked away.

I have lived in Europe and traveled there extensively. This is deadly accurate.

German men need military permit for extended stays abroad

I am often mocked by my Wall Street friends when I tell the story of the “collapse of American medicine”. It is a direct result of two laws: 1. HITECH act of 2009 that implemented excessive cost and regulations on private practices and 2. ACA “Obamacare” law implemented in 2010. The cumulative effect of these laws was:

DHS asks for detainer of criminal illegal migrant Jose Medina-Medina accused of murdering Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman

Frederick Brooks identified the same dynamic in software development in 1975, watching IBM’s System/360 project illustrate his emerging thesis that adding people to a late project makes it later. Communication overhead grows faster than headcount, coordination costs compound, and every new person contributes their capacity along with their relationships to everyone else. Those relationships require maintenance and produce misalignment and generate the need for more meetings to address the misalignment those meetings created.

Kwon was pregnant when she was killed.  Prosecutors said state law does not allow a homicide charge for an unborn child unless the child was born alive. They also said there was insufficient evidence to file a manslaughter charge because there was no indication Goosby knew Kwon was pregnant.

To operate in Madison, the city’s street vending coordinator Meghan Blake-Horst said, the owners needed a street vending license, and they cannot vend in any of the city’s high-density vending locations. The owners also must follow city vending rules, she said.

Smith said he and Goeman go wherever they’re wanted and get new requests daily. Both trucks are already booked through June, with the locations listed on the Milwaukee truck’s Facebook events page.

To keep track of the money, Darling created a spreadsheet that listed the names of writers, the payoffs they received, and the articles that resulted from those payoffs.

The airport perks for Congress may be drying up, not a minute too soon

Over 11,000 munitions in 16 Days of the Iran War: ‘Command of the Reload’ Governs Endurance.

The White House during the Biden administration edited federal health officials’ messaging on stroke after COVID-19 vaccination, newly released records show.

Since 2020, the Schustermans have donated $3.29 million to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, Governor Tony Evers, Attorney General Josh Kaul, and Supreme Court Justice Susan Crawford.

The 83-year-old US Air Force veteran who was randomly shoved onto the subway tracks by an illegal migrant on the Upper East Side has died from his injuries — and his alleged killer has been charged with murder. Grandfather Richard Williams succumbed to his injuries after he was allegedly pushed onto the tracks with another man while waiting for a train at the Lexington Avenue-63rd Station just before noon March 8.

On March 23, 2026, the Hong Kong government changed the implementing rules relating to the National Security Law. It is now a criminal offense to refuse to give the Hong Kong police the passwords or decryption assistance to access all personal electronic devices including cellphones and laptops. This legal change applies to everyone, including U.S. citizens, in Hong Kong, arriving or just transiting Hong Kong International Airport. In addition, the Hong Kong government also has more authority to take and keep any personal devices, as evidence, that they claim are linked to national security offenses

The central idea is that it mimics physical gearshifts, despite the powertrain not having any ratios. It does this by interrupting the torque from the motor, to give the effect of dipping the clutch and interrupting drive; this is accompanied by the car’s electronic brain revving the petrol engine to match a simulated gearchange – and its repertoire includes regular or rushed cog-swaps, up and down the ’box. The blipping and rev-matching on downshifts is a thing of aural beauty, each tug on a steering wheel paddle eliciting a crescendo of revs and a jolt your body can feel. It’s a feeling amplified by the S+ Shift’s rev counter, showing the engine speed rising and falling.

One story Bevil Hogg told in the new documentary, “The Journey: The Untold Story of Trek,” was how he and his co-founder Dick Burke came up with the name “Trek” at the Pine Knoll Supper Club in Lake Mills. 

Why do the BWBs have such large wetted areas when they lack a fuselage and empennage? It’s because they lack a tailplane! Why does a lack of a tailplane force a larger BWB wing?

The truth. In the mainstream media. By a professor. And written well. Four things I thought I’d never see again in my lifetime.

KitKat, owned by Swiss food giant Nestle, told AFP on Saturday that “a truck transporting 413,793 units of its new chocolate range has been stolen during transit in Europe.” The shipment disappeared last week while heading between production and distribution locations, the company said.

The Ferrero Group is owned by Italy’s richest family and built a $36B confectionary empire on Nutella, Ferrero Rocher, TicTac and more.

One or two health systems controlled the entire market for inpatient hospital care in nearly half (47%) of metropolitan areas in 2024.

This just may be the GREATEST campaign video of all time. Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) is a GENIUS. He’s taking out the trash.

Forgotten in the din of war is the small, multi-hued island called Hormuz that sits outside the port city of Bandar Abbas. There must be a sense of déjà vu as the island squirms in the glare of international media and braces for yet another joust amongst suitors vying for control over one of the world’s most strategic maritime routes. It may also be looking wistfully towards India as it recalls its ancient ties with merchants from Gujarat and the Malabar coast and the subsequent protection provided by Bombay.

In search of Banksy, Reuters found the artist took on a new identity. “It appears that if people find a Banksy added to their wall, most of them call Sotheby’s rather than the police,”

So apparently we had a full-fledged Dreyfus Affair involving a billion dollar naval vessel getting torched and nobody acknowledges it.

As air power collides with geopolitical reality, the only certainty is that this conflict will permanently scar the Middle East. How did we get here and what happens next?

Welcome to The Uncomfortable, the brilliantly named brainchild of a Greek architect named Katerina Kamprani, who specializes in designing “deliberately inconvenient everyday objects.” My favorite is a fork with a chain handle (shown above), but almost all of her creations are clever, funny, and thought-provoking. Sometimes you have to see examples of bad design to make you appreciate how much we take for granted about gooddesign.

“Handbook on Guided Missiles” 1946 War Department report on German & Japanese rocket powered missiles & aircraft. This rarely-seen classic (scanned from a photocopy) provides a vast pile of information, including a great many diagrams. Air Doc 26 here. More.

Tom Patterson’s Map Gallery. Europe.

Physician incomes are highest in the United States, and a decomposition shows that this mainly reflects differences in overall income distributions, rather than physicians’ locations in those distributions. This suggests that broader labor market differences, and thus physicians’ outside options, drive absolute incomes. Shifting US physicians’ incomes to match relative positions in other countries’ distributions would only marginally reduce healthcare spending.

Epic uses this to frame the entire suit as litigation-as-leverage rather than a genuine legal dispute. Perhaps that’s telling in some ways about respective company cultures- one saw it as an olive branch, the other saw a weapon. In any case, the optics intended could backfire, as judges generally do like seeing that a plaintiff tried to resolve things privately before burning judicial resources

Free SVG Backgrounds and Patterns.

The method is simple: set a goal, measure progress, verify against real records, repeat. The AI searches public archives, cross-references birth certificates against cemetery records against church books, and logs everything it finds (and everything it doesn’t).

The most incisive feedback from the docket argues that ONC’s historical focus on EHRs has created a structural failure in imaging interoperability. Because EHRs generally store only textual metadata or web links—not the multi-gigabyte DICOM files themselves—certifying the EHR accomplishes very little if the underlying PACS remains a proprietary, closed system Epic,

Awlaki, the New Mexico-born al-Qaeda cleric, was the first American citizen to be targeted and assassinated by a US government drone strike, in Yemen. Awlaki’s killing became a potent tool for radicalisation and inspired attacks by followers in the West.

I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why every sane tech person has an adblocker installed on systems of all their loved ones.

A Mexican athlete said he was kidnapped and forced to compete for his life in a tournament of gangs. But was he actually playing a different game?

The math is simple and devastating. The United States has roughly 15 billion cubic feet per day of operational LNG capacity. Another 17 bcf/d is under construction. Another 19 bcf/d has been approved but hasn’t broken ground… the capacity Biden froze. If those frozen terminals had been approved on schedule in early 2024 and broken ground immediately, some would be approaching operational status in 2027-2028. Instead, they’re just now restarting the approval process after fourteen months of lost time.

The Globe and Mail sparked a debate when it reported that Canada’s GDP per capita has fallen behind Alabama’s. The comparison rattled Canadians and triggered a wave of criticism about the validity of using GDP per capita as a measure of national prosperity. Critics argue that GDP is a flawed metric, pointing to legitimate measurement challenges. But these measurement issues affect every country. The question is not whether GDP per capita is perfect but whether Canada’s trend relative to our peers signals deeper 

In five or ten years, we may see almost no lending practices that resemble what is happening in this era. We will look back and say: that was a really bad way of conducting business. The question is whether we learn that lesson the clean way or the hard way.

William Faulkner once said, “To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.” This week I had a chance to test that principle for myself, including a visit to Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Mississippi. I spoke at the University of Mississippi’s The Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom about my book, “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”  As I often do, I decided to take some pictures as I explored the campus and the nearby environs of Ole Miss. This is an extraordinary place filled with the nicest people you could even hope to meet. I could not recommend a visit more highly.

The circuit didn’t change. The contract between software and hardware did.

The AI ecosystem is fragmented. Developers often re-invent tool definitions, system prompts, and safety rules for every project. Skillware supplies a standard to package capabilities into self-contained units that work across Gemini, Claude, GPT, and Llama.

Traces of Evil aims to serve as a comprehensive digital archive designed to visualise the geography of the Third Reich for students, educators, and historians through innovative then and now photography and animated GIFs, mostly resulting from actually cycling to the locations. Established nearly two decades ago, the site juxtaposes modern photographs of obscure and prominent historic sites against their archival counterparts to render the past tangible and illustrate the physical evolution not just of locations associated with the Nazi Party and the Holocaust, but going back into time from ancient history and place.

Nations are increasingly weaponizing economic strengths. Edward Fishman’s 2025 bestseller, “Chokepoints: How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War,” catalogues how governments increasingly leverage tools such as sanctions, control over critical technologies and financial restrictions to advance foreign policy goals. The U.S. exploits its dominant chokepoints (e.g. dollar-based global financial networks, advanced semiconductor technologies, maritime insurance & trade finance, access to western markets, sovereign assets held in dollars) to pressure Iran, Russia & China, among others. China has followed suit, leveraging its own asymmetric advantages (rare earth elements & critical mineral production, pharmaceuticals & medical supply chains, electronics manufacturing, EV batteries & green energy materials) to counter U.S. pressure and “punish countries who offend it.”

As Edward Coristine (aka Big Balls) told Jesse Watters last year, this was the “least peaceful” of all the agencies to deal with, and that it used taxpayer funds for private jets, an armory filled with weapons, and contracts with the former members of the Taliban (!!)

And the official Microsoft support page for “Outlook search not working” tells users to open the Windows Registry Editor and manually create DWORD values.

Apple also benefited from earlier foundational shifts. Building a $599 laptop under the constraints of Intel processors would have been extremely difficult. The transition to Apple’s own silicon — combined with macOS being overhauled to run on Arm-based processors — ultimately made the MacBook Neo possible.

• Average cost in the U.S. to fully charge a Tesla Model Y Premium: $14.22 (up to 357 miles of range).
• Average cost in the U.S. to fill up a Honda CR-V Hybrid: $48.30 (about 518 miles per tank).

Provider Taxes Do Not Save Rural Hospitals

The New York Times has now amended its “Smoking Jars of Metal and Fuses” headline, but it’s too late. Even in a world drowning in fake news, this particular masterpiece will live on in infamy.

The command structure is in freefall. After they killed a senior Hezbollah commander, the IRGC was so short on qualified personnel that they had to pull a retired general out of retirement, but the poor guy got killed almost immediately. You can’t make this stuff up.

Exxon, which has been incorporated in New Jersey since 1882, plans to ask its shareholders to vote on a proposal to redomicile in Texas. If successful, Exxon will follow Tesla, Coinbase Global and others that have reincorporated in Texas.”

Middle Eastern airlines and lessors have 1,710 airplanes on order. The Mideast represents 9% of Airbus’ backlog. It represents 14% of Boeing’s backlog. Airbus has a 43% share of the Mideast backlog, while Boeing has a 57% share. Embraer is a fractional player.

That, of course, was when he moved into the next phase of the attack. He texted me a link to review and cancel the “pending request.” The site, audit-apple.com, was a pixel-perfect Apple replica, and displayed the exact case ID from the real emails I’d just received. There was even a fake chat transcript of the scammers’ actual conversation with Apple, presented back to me as evidence of the attack against my account. At the bottom of the page was a Sign in with Apple button that he told me to use.

This is the lead “reporter” of that ridiculous CNN story. You will not be surprised to learn she uses “they/them” pronouns and graduated from Columbia’s journalism program.

The CBS News analysis reveals that over 700 of the roughly 1,800 hospices in LA County, trigger multiple red flags for fraud as defined by the state.

Junior and mid-level engineers can no longer push AI-assisted code without a senior signing off at AWS.

Yamaha Motor Corporation, known for creating motorized vehicles like motorcycles and WaveRunners, is set to relocate its headquarters to Kennesaw, Georgia, after more than 45 years in Cypress, California, where it first opened an office in 1979. 

The hack occurred after a server at the Child Exploitation Forensic Lab in the FBI’s New York Field Office was inadvertently left vulnerable by Special Agent Aaron Spivack, who was trying to navigate the bureau’s complex procedures for handling digital evidence, according to the source and the documents.

Congratulations Apple on another insanely great product 50 years in the making.

People should be aware of these risks. I refused to run MDM software on any of my personal devices. The company needs to provide me with hardware if they want that. I personally isolate all corp devices to their own network too. If an adversary can get into the corp laptop, then can then get inside my network… there have been cases of it happening in the past.

Can Your Electrical Panel Support an EV Charger?

The Chicago Transit Authority is deploying sheriff’s deputies on its trains, installing high-barrier entry gates to deter fare evasion, and starting “farecard inspection missions” after the agency’s federal funding was threatened.

The DfT has also allegedly attempted to conceal the document’s existence, despite requests made under Freedom of Information laws explicitly seeking its release. Ian Hudson is one of the few drone experts committed to uncovering further details about the Gatwick incident, and he has filed hundreds of these requests since 2018, including those that revealed the document’s existence.

After Schnur’s implosion with the revelation of his Stasi ties, the neophyte Merkel quickly accepted the patronage of Lothar de Maizière, member of a prominent family and the leader of the East German CDU. A respected figure, de Maizière headed East Germany for a few months in 1990 after the SED’s fall, in the run-up to national re-unification on Oct. 3 of that year. However, de Maizière’s cabinet post in Chancellor Kohl’s united government, a concession to German unity, collapsed a few weeks later when it was revealed from Stasi files that de Maizière, too, had informed for the MfS for decades as IM Czerny.

On the media landscape.

Former Secretary of State John Kerry, who once rhapsodized about geothermal and tidal power, has switched gears and endorsed nuclear.

I should be precise. They did not hack us. They logged in.

With patient, aligned capital and operators who understand both the problem and the business, we can build companies that the current financial market has decided not to fund. We can do it without losing money – in fact, we can generate real, compounding returns.

Reeling, Iqbal checked the news, where the shooting was being called an act of terrorism. The authorities had identified the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, as an Afghan refugee who had been part of the Zero Units — the shadow army of Afghan soldiers, funded and directed by America’s Central Intelligence Agency, that Iqbal himself had fought with for more than four years. Iqbal called his former intelligence chief, also now living in the United States, and asked him if Lakanwal had been part of their unit. The officer confirmed that he had, and so had his brother Ismail.

“The death of young Chadi Ammar grieves us deeply. He was part of our great family, who serve the most vulnerable with dedication and courage every day. His commitment and spirit of service will remain an example to us,” declared Grand Master Fra’ John Dunlap, expressing his sincere closeness to the family and all members of the Order of Malta in Lebanon.

Asked whether he feels compelled to follow the law on these matters, Fr. Rolland responded, “Yes, as long as the laws align with God’s laws, then it’s fine. It has been known in law from the very beginning that when the laws of the land and God’s laws conflict, God’s laws apply.”

Ryanair Refused To Pay A Delayed Passenger $1,182 — So A Bailiff Boarded Its Boeing 737 And Seized The Plane

In this piece, two researchers from PLA-affiliated National University of Defense Technology argue that Starlink will negatively impact global stability, in light of its clear military applications, increased risks of accidents and collisions in space, and SpaceX’s close relationship with the U.S. military. The authors foresee a worsening security dilemma as other countries react to broad U.S. deployment of Starlink, thereby impacting strategic stability in space.

“This story is fantastical and relies on false, unverified, anonymous claims.”

“T“You’re hiring a middleman to deal with the middleman to make the middleman more efficient”