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Trump pardons Nevada politician who paid for cosmetic surgery with funds to honor a slain officer
Trump pardoned Michele Fiore, a Nevada Republican who raised money to build a statue to honor a police officer killed in the line of duty, and used some of that money to pay personal costs, including plastic surgery.
Trump also pardoned Jan. 6 rioters who tried to murder police.
I hope the police remember these incidents when deciding whether to continue to support Republicans.
Pedro Pascal supports LGBTQ+ rights, calls psycho transphobe JK Rowling a ‘heinous loser’.
Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia — Latest in a trend of the right going after Wikipedia. Targeting Wikipedia is one of Project 2025’s explicit goals.
Here's someone I saw while walking the dog
I’m trying out a new stealth photography trick, where I just hold my phone at my hip with the camera open and shoot a lot of images in burst mode, without bothering to aim precisely. Then I review the photos to see if any are good.
I like the way this one came out.
I’m not sure I feel right about posting a photo of a stranger publicly without their permission, but I’m doing it today.
AI assisted search-based research actually works now. Simon Willison:
I’ve been throwing all kinds of questions at ChatGPT (in o3 or o4-mini mode) and getting back genuinely useful answers grounded in search results. I haven’t spotted a hallucination yet, and unlike prior systems I rarely find myself shouting “no, don’t search for that!” at the screen when I see what they’re doing.
The Techno-Utopian Seasteaders Who Want to Colonize the Ocean. By Mark Yarm at the New York Times.