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Three Laws of Robotics. I realize a lot of people may not know of these laws. Probably would be a good idea to get buy-in from the major vendors.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

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This Year's Google I/O Was the Most Boring Ever.

https://gizmodo.com/google-io-boring-gemini-ai-1851485806

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An 'epic fart' helped get Knicks ready for Game 5 rout of Pacers.

https://nypost.com/2024/05/16/sports/an-epic-fart-helped-get-knicks-ready-for-game-5-rout-of-pacers/

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More than half of US Black women aged 15-49 live under abortion bans.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/black-women-abortion-bans?CMP=twt_b-gdnnews

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Jalen Brunson drops 44 as Knicks blow out Pacers in Game 5.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/40149244/jalen-brunson-drops-44-knicks-blow-pacers-game-5

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Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn’t Realize It.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/13/bluesky-is-building-the-decentralized-social-media-jack-dorsey-wants-even-if-he-doesnt-realize-it/

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David Sanborn, Saxophonist Who Defied Pigeonholing, Dies at 78

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/arts/music/david-sanborn-dead.html

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Is WordPress As Easy As We Think?

https://neliosoftware.com/blog/is-wordpress-as-easy-as-we-think/

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Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter.

https://www.engadget.com/jack-dorsey-claims-bluesky-is-repeating-all-the-mistakes-he-made-at-twitter-234326121.html

dave,
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@J_aa_p

you seem like a nice person but please don't do that again. i don't like turds like that being dumped in my space and i do block people.

dave,
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@J_aa_p

you called jack a "dangerous idiot" -- and i found that offensive. that's all i have to say about that.

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This is a hard idea to get across, but there's nothing wrong with a news organization favoring things they depend on to exist.

For example, a news org that covers San Jose, CA is entitled to favor San Jose. It's okay for them to do things that help San Jose in competition with other cities. They could sponsor a food drive for the neediest in their community. It wouldn't be a conflict of interest, because it's understood that they have an interest in the success of San Jose.

A columnist that covers the NY Mets can be happy when the Mets win the World Series, and sad when they don't. This is not an integrity issue, or something they need to disclose, unless it's not obvious that they cover the Mets.

In that sense, every news org in the United States depends on the First Amendment, so it can be assumed they're in favor of democracy, because without it they couldn't exist.

This is why the editor of the NYT's statement about not favoring democracy is so ridiculous. He can't be objective about that, because the existence of his organization depends on the continuation of democracy in the US.

Whether he knows it or not, he's against Trump and in favor of the Democrats in the upcoming election.

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Bridge for cyclists, pedestrians to open at Gilman Interchange.

https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2024/05/08/traffic-safety/berkeley-gilman-bridge-cyclists-pedestrians-opening/

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New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act and he won’t do it.

https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/new-york-times-editor-joe-kahn-says-defending-democracy-is-a-partisan-act-and-he-wont-do-it/

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Development notes from xkcd's "Machine."

https://chromakode.com/post/xkcd-machine/

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Steve Albini, Storied Producer and Icon of the Rock Underground, Dies at 61. We learned a lot from him in Napster days about how little money actually gets to music performers.

https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/

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When Trump Attacks Our Elections, We Will Have No Excuse.

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/when-trump-attacks-our-elections-we-will-have-no-excuse/

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After 17 years of stagnation with Twitter, the new tweet-alikes continue the no new features tradition. When will one of them break out and try something new?

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/08/bluesky-to-add-dms-video-support-and-in-app-custom-feed-curation/

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Ben Smith asks the editor of the NYT an easy question: "Why doesn’t the executive editor see it as his job to help Joe Biden win?" Because it's not my job, he might say.

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/05/2024/joe-kahn-the-newsroom-is-not-a-safe-space

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Amazing the issues Republicans bring to elections. Now we’re debating what to do when you hate your dog.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/05/us/politics/kristi-noem-biden-dog.html

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I support the students

As a boomer who marched on Washington as a high school student, who started an underground newspaper, and organized student strikes, I support today's students making their political opinions heard.

I also see journalists doing what they did in the 60s and 70s, reporting on violence as if it were caused by the protestors, which wasn't true then and I'm pretty sure it isn't true now.

And they describe them as Palestinians, when that also is certainly not what's really going on. My guess is that 99% of them are American students, who, growing up were taught that America had great values, only to discover that America often has taken the wrong side in a war, as we are now in the war between Hamas and Israel.

We shouldn't have taken a side in that war, as long as Israel insists on killing massive numbers of civilians in Gaza. Yes, what Hamas did was unsupportable, and provocative, and just plain wrong, but Israel is killing far more people than Hamas did, and further, it's exactly what Israel, which pretends to represent Holocaust survivors, should not be doing, perpetrating a new Holocaust.

As Americans we have a responsibility to think for ourselves, and that's why I support the students. They aren't right or wrong, but they are continuing the legacy of free speech in the US, and our government and journalists are lining up against them, which to me is as tragic in the 2020s as it was in the 1970s.

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The first ad we ran for ThinkTank outliner in 1983.

http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2014/02/18/uglyThinkTankAd.jpg

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Francis Ford Coppola's Epic ‘Megalopolis’ Drops First Trailer.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/francis-ford-coppola-megalopolis-trailer

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Noem’s dog killing was bad, but to really understand her, consider the goat

https://kansasreflector.com/2024/05/04/noems-dog-killing-was-bad-but-to-really-understand-her-consider-the-goat/

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The worst thing about horse race reporting is that the election isn’t a horse race. The race actually won’t start until six months at which point the votes will be cast by mail and in person and then once you...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/opinion/biden-trump-election.html

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