Nice day in the #OakWoodlands of Golden Gate Park where along with oaks I saw bush monkeyflower, California sagebrush, hummingbird sage, coast buckwheat, beach strawberry, common yarrow, Hooker's evening primrose, and even a little rooreh by the path.
As Christians around the world celebrate Easter Sunday,
we go to Palestine to speak to Reverend Munther Isaac,
pastor of the Lutheran Church in Ramallah and director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice,
located in the city of Jesus Christ’s birth.
This year’s Easter preparations come against the backdrop of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran,
which many Christian nationalists in the U.S., including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
are framing in ext…
heise | Brennende E-Autos: So löscht die Feuerwehr wirklich
Ein Feuerwehrmann erklärt im Video, warum E-Autos anders, aber nicht gefährlicher brennen als Verbrenner und wie die Profis sie wirklich löschen.
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Sontag’s Two Doors, Campbell’s Underworld
In a television interview that has circulated for years, Susan Sontag offers a small theory of storytelling. She points out that the English word "story" carries a double valence. We say "tell me the real story" to demand truth, and we say "that's only a story" to dismiss invention. Stories, she argues, face two directions at once, toward fact and toward fantasy, and this doubleness sits at the center of what s…
A look at AMD CEO Lisa Su's and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's contrasting China playbooks, with Su keeping a lower profile; China accounts for ~20% of AMD's revenue (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-
At Luigi Mangione's hearing this AM,
the feds indicated they were eager to show their evidence to people who think he's a hero
“Your honor need only look out the window to see the people who follow this defendant and believe that what he did was right,” AUSA Dominic Gentile said
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Was wäre, wenn wir unsere heutigen Möglichkeiten zur Erdbeobachtung schon vor Jahrzehnten gehabt hätten? 🌍 Genau diese Frage hat sich ein Forschungsteam um die MIT-Wissenschaftlerin Susan Solomon gestellt und ist dabei auf überraschende Erkenntnisse gestoßen.
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Musk v. Altman: the judge told Musk's lawyer she did not want talk of AI's existential threat seeping into the trial, focusing instead on OpenAI's founding (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/technology/openai-trial-elon-musk-…
Mary Trump pointed to Alex Vindman's history of confronting the president directly.
The candidate, a retired Army officer,
"has stood up to my uncle before,
and he's ready to do it again in the United States Senate," she wrote,
referencing Vindman's role as a key figure in Trump's first impeachment.
She closed by casting the contest as a chance to
"hold the Trump administration accountable"
— a phrase that, coming…
It’s Jasmine Crockett with an urgent request.
Can you rush even just $1 right now to back Lauren Babb Tomlinson’s campaign in California’s 6th Congressional District?
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Lauren is a fearless fighter for worki…