Texas parents frantically posted photos of their young daughters on social media with pleas for information as more than 20 campers from an all-girls summer camp were unaccounted for Friday after floods tore through the state’s south-central region.
At least 13 people were dead Friday and dozens missing after months worth of heavy rain fell in a matter of hours on Texas Hill Country, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said.
The flood-prone region is dotted with century-old summer …
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Incidentally, just after you posted, author Greg Egan posted a conversation a different author had with an AI that is stunningly impressive until the end, which reveals that the AI text was thoroughly and fatally flawed in a horrible way, and it just lied.
It's long, but you could skim the beginning and then skim the end if you are time-limit…
Analysis: since his inauguration, President Trump posted 2,262 times on Truth Social in 132 days, 3x the volume of tweets in the same period of his first term (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/03/trump-truth-socia…
This is from a blog entry posted in 2014. Plus ça change…. People make a lot of noise about the 2nd Amendment, and still some noise about the 1st, but it’s the 4th we should be making noise about, lately, and the other 7 are worth taking a look at today, too, while you’re enjoying your beers and brats on the bbq.
Posted some more photos from Central Park: #Photography #LandscapePhotography …
Deep punches the ball back into the stumps at the non-striker's end but Tongue is unable to get any skin on it. It looked like Gill had got his bat behind the line regardless.
#Cricket #SecondTest
ok, I can't find the original, I think it was someone's scrobble stream in my feed. Anyways, one you brilliant bastards posted #assassing by #Marillion. I'd heard of Marillion before but never really _listened_. Damn, how have I been listening to
The Army has posted thousands of the warnings in New Mexico and western Texas, declaring a “restricted area by authority of the commander.”
It’s part of a major shift that has thrust the military into border enforcement with Mexico like never before.
The move places long stretches of the border under the supervision of nearby military bases,
-- empowering U.S. troops to detain people who enter the country illegally
-- and sidestep a law prohibiting military involvemen…
In the spring and summer of 2008, when Donald Trump was still a registered Democrat,
an anonymous blogger known as Mencius Moldbug posted a serial manifesto under the heading
“An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives.”
Written with the sneering disaffection of an ex-believer,
the hundred-and-twenty-thousand-word letter argued that egalitarianism,
far from improving the world,
was actually responsible for most of its ills.
That his bien-pensant re…