But here’s the best reason the $430,000 doesn’t make sense. Walz served in Congress from 2007 to 2019. He was on countless committees and commissions. He held congressional hearings. Walz could walk through the nation’s Capitol building blindfolded. He not only knows all the nooks and crannies, he knowns all the tricks, the deflections, the stunts, the BS, you name it. And we’re supposed to believe that Walz needed highly specialized and outrageously expensive coaching for two months so he could handle those evil attack dogs, of whom he once was one. JB Pritzker of Illinois was also summoned to appear the same day as Walz. Pritzker isn’t much of a governor, either, but it should be noted that he personally paid for his legal prep.
I am a Singapore-controlling-Michigan’s-Upper-Peninsula accelerationist. Not only should they own the land, but they should institute SIngaporean law there and build a hyperfuturist Great Lakes megalopolis-thalassocracy.
Getting ready…just one week until @EAA Oshkosh–one of the largest airshows in the world??. I asked Grok4 to analyze MiG-29 from brake release at SLF to a Falcon 9 from ignition. The Falcon 9 overtakes the MiG at ~T+77 seconds at ~50,000 feet. Does Grok math checkout @DJSnM?
Insurers call this type of screw-up “mortality slippage.” Mortality slippage means accidentally classifying someone as lower-risk than they actually are. It’s ridiculously expensive. A single mistaken classification can cost insurers millions in unexpected payouts over the life of a policy.
Kirk also has a gigantic database of each guest — about 115,000 people — and knows how many times they’ve dined at Lazy Bear since it first opened as a supper club in 2009. She then dives into social media and finds extra information that is publicly available to get a sense of who the guests are before they come in. Finally, she puts all the data she’s gathered into a color-coded Google document that every member of the team, front and back of house, studies.
Car Magazine’s 2003 take on the Toyota Prius is epic to this day ??. “the Prius is such an insipid driving device that all the emission-trimming cleverness gets effectively forgotten. Zero dynamic reward, identical fuel economy to the rather fun WW Golf TDI 130. Why?”
Just in: Stanford shows that virtual reality lectures outperform in-person lectures from PHD professors.
To aid the Port Washington and Beaver Dam projects, Gov. Tony Evers last week signed a bipartisan bill that creates exceptions for tax increment districts in the two communities. It’s unclear what if any type of tax incentives could be part of the proposed data center in the town of Vienna.
Remember when Democrats would look at those who did build things and assert that they didn’t build that? Now, that was ideology! Remember “You didn’t build that”? Who said that? Was it Elizabeth Warren or… oh!
It’s that unelected people exploited it to run the country in secret in Biden’s name.
New documents show an officer known only as Howard managed a Cuban group that interacted with Oswald in the months before the JFK assassination.
In selling law enforcement agencies bulk access to such sensitive information, these airlines—through their data broker—are putting their own profits over travelers’ privacy. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently detailed its own purchase of personal data from ARC. In the current climate, this can have a detrimental impact on people’s lives.
That’s the takeaway for any brand. Clarity isn’t something you’ll find on an explore page – it’s an ongoing discipline. It’s a refusal to do everything just because you can. It’s knowing which moments are yours to own – and which to let pass. It’s constantly asking: is this what we’re here to do? If the answer is no, then just don’t. And if there isn’t a bit of tension in your choices, you probably aren’t saying no enough. Clarity is the best constraint.
Generally, doing less is faster and easier! Depending on the task, you may be able to soften the requirements.
Some example questions to ask:
- Could I combine multiple screens into one?
- Is it okay if we don’t handle a particularly tricky edge case?
- Instead of an API supporting 1000 inputs, what if it just supported 10?
- Is it okay to build a prototype instead of a full version?
- What if we didn’t do this at all?
Was this the saltiest press conference ever?
Washington state spent about $80 billion in the 2013-15 budget but is set to spend more than $173 billion in 2025-27, a more than 116% increase over that time. U.S. inflation since 2015 has risen just 35.63%.
CureIS may not have Epic cornered, but they’ve probably earned their day in court.
Dr. Jay Greene and Dr. Ian Kingsbury show that members of “The Squad” receive an extraordinary amount of their campaign donations from foreign-trained doctors.
Benjamin Franklin first discovered the Incentive Flywheel, when fires threatened Philadelphia’s growth. He gathered neighbors and founded America’s first fire insurance company. They created volunteer fire departments and established the first building safety standards.
Of course, everything breaks when you scale that quickly: how to communicate as a company, the reporting structures, how to ship product, how to manage and organize people, the hiring processes, etc. Teams vary significantly in culture: some are sprinting flat-out all the time, others are babysitting big runs, some are moving along at a much more consistent pace. There’s no single OpenAI experience, and research, applied, and GTM operate on very different time horizons.
The final chip challenge: Can China build its own ASML?
Beijing and SMIC lead effort to replicate the world’s top chipmaking machines.
This is a whole series of decisions on the part of the city to eliminate citizen participation in government.”
“The point is that we have been doing it for 30 years, and they (Huawei) have been doing it for a few years, and Huawei can already tell everyone how powerful they are. Now no one has put more effort into building (the AI ecosystem) than me. I have been (doing this) at an extremely high level and at a scale that is difficult to execute, and Huawei can already be compared with us, which explains something.”
But their refusal to acknowledge the violence that some residents were seeing with their own eyes came off not as reassurance but as erasure. At the rally, Romero described herself as a “former lifelong Democrat,” explaining that the denials had turned her against the party. She thanked Trump first and foremost “for believing me.” Mike Coffman, Aurora’s Republican mayor, found himself caught between dueling narratives as the city became a flashpoint in national politics. “There’s one side that said there’s never been a problem,” he said at a town hall in October. “There’s another side that says, yeah, the whole city is overrun. And I think that the truth lies in the middle.”
A big shocker since working in Gov: Most agencies don’t know how many people work there, or even have org charts. It’s not only State Dept. And good luck trying to tally up how many contractors are employed. No one would ever run a company this way.
Marco Pizzi, a sociologist who has conducted extensive research into the impacts of the €1 house campaigns in Umbria, told me that though he was sceptical when he began his research, he’s come to see the programme as an innovative local approach to economic redevelopment. The foreign investment may, in fact, be what allows some of these towns to survive – and the very fact of their survival would allow their traditions to continue. Almost everyone I spoke with in Italy with first-hand experience of €1 house initiatives agreed: these schemes were a form of revival and had drawn people from abroad who were curious to learn about and participate in local ways of life.
As an indication of Twitter’s tendency to expose people to more news, a simple breakdown of our data shows how a higher proportion of Twitter users (28% of them) accessed seven or more online news sources in the last week, compared to users of other platforms, those who don’t use social media, and the total sample in general. This is perhaps again a reflection of how Twitter has been seen as a destination for news.
His first solo exhibition, underwritten by the communications department of the Michelin Corporation, caused a stir in the Paris art world.
The entrance to the hall was barred by a big panel, leaving two-meters-wide passageways at either side, on which Jed had displayed a satellite photo taken around the mountain of Guebwiller next to an enlargement of a Michelin Departments map of the same zone. The contrast was striking: while the photograph showed only a soup of more or less uniform green sprinkled with vague blue spots, the map developed a fascinating maze of departmental and scenic roads, viewpoints, forests, lakes, and cols. Above the two enlargements, in black capital letters, was the title of the exhibition: THE MAP IS MORE INTERESTING THAN THE TERRITORY.
The review in Le Monde was “ecstatic in its praise.”
In recent days, there has been a rush for bottled water at the Aldi supermarket in Blagny, in the Ardennes region of eastern France. “I sold an entire pallet in two hours this morning, 786 liters. That’s up 120% in sales,” said Gauthier Denis, manager of the store. In the parking lot of the Carrefour Market directly across the street, a customer loaded her car trunk with six packs of six bottles. “That should last us four days, no more,” said Sandrine Bouvet, 46, who lives with her husband and stepson in the neighboring village of Malandry. “We were told we can’t drink tap water anymore because of ‘pfffasses’ – I can’t remember how to say it – so we’re buying bottled water.”
The enhanced subsidies started during the COVID-19 pandemic under the Biden administration and helped dramatically decrease the cost of premiums for these plans. It turns out that people liked those lower premiums. “The number of people signing up for coverage has more than doubled,” says Cox, who directs the Program on the Affordable Care Act at KFF. In January, enrollment hit a record 24 million. That high enrollment helped drive the uninsured rate to its lowest level ever.
The irony is that history will prove @epochtimes to be the true journalists in one of the most epic betrayal stories in American history. Meanwhile the New York Times will cling to its debunked Pulitzer “Prize” like a rejected sweetheart clutching old love letters.