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A developer's perspective on why business isn't seeing appreciable productivity gains from AI despite it quickly being embraced by developers and their companies...

I've been predicting this will happen to the US after the midterms. The markets have been irrationally optimistic about Trumpism for the past couple years and are doing all they can to aid the GOP ahead of Election Day. Immediately afterwards they'll turn pessimistic.

anyone ever notice how republicans don't run on half the evil shit that they do? ever notice how that works?

Pretty grim footnote to West's career that he ended up serving the richest man in the world's successful attempt to restore white nationalism to the US government.

"In a series of interviews with Democratic staff on the House Judiciary Committee, Beatrice Keul said Trump raped her that year in 'brutal' fashion in a hotel room at Trump’s Plaza Hotel in Atlantic City after the pair spent time with Jeffrey Epstein ..."

Really worth remembering that the 2010 midterms are what really cemented Republican control for the past 16 years. 2026 has a shot of not just undoing that, but locking Republicans out of power for another decade

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

This headline structure is literally the joke format we use to make fun of people like this

A pretty straight choice here: regulate your billionaires, or billionaires will end democracy.

I can’t believe a four hour documentary about a universally hated guy we already have to hear about every single day only spent a week in the place you have to spend your free time and money to visit

If I was playing for Tampa Bay, the first thing I’d do to shift the momentum in this series would be to change out of those ugly uniforms. Go back to the classic Tampa Bay design

Tampa Bay’s got the yips

Do ZipCars still exist?

Turnstile at the Washington Monument today, a benefit show raising money for humanitarian aid in Palestine, Sudan, and Lebanon [📹: Ayman Abdeldayem]

VP Kamala Harris: For the last year and a half, we have been pissed. We've been depressed, angry, frustrated, feeling alone, hopeless, powerless. That phase where we felt hopeless and powerless is over.

Acton only up by 1? Never underestimate how much we hate women in this country

Bad News Travels Fast, 2009 by Adam Neate www.instagram.com/adam_neate

Amin, Hamas, whatevs

Meta is "betting on people" only after their bet that their AI would replace all our jobs failed. What loser shit. You took your best shot and we're still standing.

I fear this administration has been holding back, and so much shit is poised to go down as soon as the midterms are over.

New & Notable: The beloved Estonian group is back -just in time for Halloween, 10 tracks full of shadow, mystery, and gorgeous ghostly vocals.

I would pay $20 a month for an AI and gambling free broadcast of every game.

BWA HAHA WOMP WOMP

tldr: it's david smith

Though I’m a Sixers fan, I kinda wish LeBron landed with the Wizards. If Lebron can get under Trump’s skin from Philly, imagine the conniption fits Trump would have when LeBron dominated the news in DC. He’d practically be a shadow president

One of the effects of Trump’s cuts to SNAP and food assistance: Kids aren’t getting the healthy food they need to focus and learn. These cuts are hurting our most vulnerable students & families. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

I know he’s been an arch conservative for a while, but it’s still so disappointing to see Lou Ferrigno schilling for the Department of Health and Human Services.

Skerrit is one of those Hollywood guys that seemed really under utilized by Hollywood. He was too much of a movie star for the gritty 70s, and not movie star enough for the 80s. I'm glad he got some really good roles in, but he was capable of more.

It'd be far better to present this data in a way that highlights the substantial fraction of professional athletes who aren't citizens and can't vote in the US. 👇 For NHL in particular, US-citizen players are a MINORITY, and may not be not politically or ideologically representative of the whole.

Aw man... I went hard into Plex the past couple years. Their streaming app has a good free channel selection too.

oh no

🇺🇦 Zelensky: When our guys hit their tanks, we found parade uniforms. It's true. They were literally marching to a parade. They wanted to capture Kyiv in three days and symbolically hold some kind of spectacle of pseudo-victory on Independence Square.

Ichikawa Danjūrō V as a Skeleton, Spirit of the Renegade Monk Seigen, and Iwai Hanshirō IV as the Cherry Princess, in “Flower of Edo: An Ichikawa Saga” (Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga), c.1783 by Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章

Not for nothing but PBS does election night coverage and we work really really really hard on it. Union shop as well!

The U.S. Supreme Court is blocking the Trump administration from enforcing new restrictions on gender-affirming care for transgender prisoners.

Flint: a brand new, from scratch, small LLM that’s a heck of a lot faster than Qwen3.8-27B and basically as good recursive.com/updates/intr...

When you’ve won the war on day 1

The cool thing about voting early is that it makes you better than everyone else. Remember that

Something I was listening to–Decoder maybe?–posited that video games may just be a Gen-X/Millennial phenomenon and with the industry collapsing under its own weight and private finance greed, maybe they’re going to be proven right