If you don't have a quarter to spare, put some ice cubes in a cup or on a plate. If they change shape, they defrosted at some point. Toss your food and call your home insurance. A lot of home owner's insurance will cover the cost of replacing food due to disasters or outages.
So no joke: the dictatorship in 1970s Argentina once banned Venn diagrams. Because they could be seen as finding common ground between two (apparently) different groups, and if you’re a dictator, unity is a threat. There’s an artist whose work revolves around this!
Andrew is saying what a lot of natsec people have been saying with rising alarm: Elon Musk is a national security threat
NEW: I wrote about Musk's Very Bad Tweet www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Musk’s now-deleted post questioning why no one has attempted to assassinate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris renews concerns over his work for the US government—and potential to inspire extremist violence.
A lake ringed with mansions one of which hosts a pencil sharpening party for their giant pencil sculpture occasionally
As someone with Wisconsin family, we always had Penzey’s sent as gifts. One wing of the family was recently horrified, the other ramped up the spice exchange.
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Nevada will use a Google generative AI model to recommend whether people appealing unemployment denials should recieve benefits or not. It'll be the first state to experiment with the technology to make such a high-stakes government decision. gizmodo.com/googles-ai-w...
The state is working with Google on a first-of-its-kind generative AI system that will analyze transcripts from appeals hearings and issue a recommended decision in an effort to clear a stubborn backl...
Having been the primary person making end-of-life decisions for a loved one (my grandmother), let me just say, there is simply no substitute for honest conversations, both with your loved one and with health care providers, and there never will be.
I love “things were better in the olden days” stuff from the year my grandmother was born. From “49-17.” A film from 1917 looking back on 1849. It’s obvious when you write it out, but it’s striking to realize that 1849 was no more distant to the people making/watching this than 1956 is to us.