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Notorious San Francisco eyesore may finally be demolished — despite years-long NIMBY revolt
A burned-out structure that has been an eyesore for San Francisco’s iconic North Beach neighborhood is set to be demolished — even after a tenant rights group blocked that effort at the last minute, trying to extend the years-long saga to fix the blighted property. Still, the saga is not fully over yet, the building’s…
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Scientists Spot What Appears to Be a Ring-Shaped “Planet Factory” Deep Out in Space
Astronomers have spotted a “planet factory” in space that could explain the origins of bizarre meteorites scattered across the Earth. Lurking beyond Jupiter’s orbit, the ring-shaped region is packed with gas and dust that may have allowed it to serve as a breeding ground for so-called planetesimals, mile-length solid masses that can become the building…
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Fox’s Bartiromo mocked by both sides for getting Kennedy Center case wrong: ‘Full-time PR’
Fox’s Maria Bartiromo drew ridicule from journalists and conservatives alike after posting a lengthy defense of Donald Trump’s Kennedy Center name change that got the basic legal facts wrong — and appeared to pass along opposition research from Laura Loomer targeting the judge’s wife. Bartiromo claimed the Kennedy Center board had already approved adding Trump’s…
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Trump barreling toward disaster with just ’30 days to turn this ship’: GOP strategists
With President Donald Trump’s favorability at historically low levels as his policies continue to economically ravage Americans, GOP strategist Brad Todd issued the president a tight deadline to turn things around, or risk a devastating collapse of power. Trump’s tariffs and his decision to launch a war against Iran have sent prices for a number…
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Ex-NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg set to march in Israel Day Parade: ‘Sticking it to Mamdani’
Former Mayor Mike Bloomberg plans to march in the Israel Day Parade on Fifth Avenue in New York today, the Post has learned. Billionaire Bloomberg is a staunch supporter of Israel and has long donated to Jewish causes. Former Mayor Mike Bloomberg plans to march in NYC’s Israel Day Parade Sunday. Europa Press via Getty…
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Take-No-Prisoners Professor Will Fail Any Student Who Uses AI
When it comes to AI’s place in the classroom — and its role in education broadly — some professors are at the end of their rope. The not quite all-knowing but incredibly adept at bullsh*tting chatbots let lazy students churn out entire essays, solve math problems, and cobble together passable answers for most questions. Needless…
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Mike Pence breaks with Trump over ‘deeply offensive’ and ‘bad idea’ for DOJ
Former Vice President Mike Pence broke with the Trump administration Sunday over the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, calling it a “deeply offensive” and a “bad idea” and urging the White House to abandon it entirely. Pence made the remarks in an interview with NBC News’ Meet the Press, where he said he would encourage the…
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Even amidst all the chaos in Iran, an exile feels great hope for the country he left
I grew up in Tehran during war. As a child, I slept under a wooden bed propped up by my mother’s medical textbooks, hoping they might shield me if the windows shattered from Iraqi bombs. Explosions became part of daily life. Anyone who has lived through that kind of fear does not romanticize war. It…
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Doctor raises prospect of ‘underlying condition’ as Trump faces non-routine cognitive test
A physician who appeared on MS NOW Sunday morning pushed back on Donald Trump’s early morning boast about acing a cognitive screening test, warning that the frequency with which Trump appears to be taking the exam raises questions rather than answering them — because the test is typically administered when doctors are already concerned about…
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AI Company Paying Random People $2,000 Per Month to Crank the Hog
AI companies have long relied on armies of data labelers, whose job it is to annotate, tag and classify text, images and videos to train AI models. It’s not exactly a flashy occupation, with some saying they’re forced to watch privacy-invading footage. Others argue they’re being forced to dig their own graves by training models…