As far as I know, WABC in NY is not owned by Sinclair or Nexstar. So that makes sense.

"College age"?? And you just used that term instead of translating it to "late teens/early twenties"?

They used that term to imply the 'person' was left-leaning and you fell for it, FT.

You don't know?? Idiot.

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Claude Sonnet 4 is lit. Anthropic figured out that coding is the killer app for AI and they've mastered it.

Poor image gens and text slop get a lot of media airtime but that isn't AI's strength. Creating completely NEW stuff is the jam, and Claude keeps delivering the goods.

Tesla stock is up today despite disastrous quarterly sales and dying sentiment for the brand.

Rumors are the spike in price is due to Elon possibly leaving DOGE, as if that's the only reason Tesla's brand has taken a beating.

Truth is Tesla cars are getting outcompeted in nearly every country.

For all the benchmark wins, Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro is still inferior to Claude 3.7 in real life coding. I've thrown so much stuff at it and it failed to live up to Claude's abilities every time.

I truly don't think the left understands what a gift AI is to the underprivileged. You can now literally write software (and sell it) without any programming knowledge, for $20/mo.

It's an absolute gamechanger and I sure hope all these lefty orgs are putting this out there. DM me if you need help.

Tesla stock has lost 25% of its value since Elon joined the Trump administration. Each day more investors see the damage his disastrous "DOGE" thing is doing to $TSLA's brand image.

Money talks.

Anthropic just released its latest version of its flagship AI, Claude 3.7. While many on this app decry AI for its artistic uses, its coding abilities bring the ability to create software to the masses - you no longer have to have any idea how to program to make genuine legit software. 🤯

I one of those who strongly believes training AI on copyrighted works is completely protected by fair use (provided the works are legally purchased) so it's funny that OpenAI thinks they can train on existing work but DeepSeek can't?

8B-F16

14B-Q8

32B-Q4

32B-Q6

I tested out 4 different flavors of the open source DeepSeek R1. I had each model design a basic homepage with a hero section, 3 columns about features, and a footer.

IMO 14B-Q8 and 32B-Q4 are neck and neck...

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Electromagnetic Pinball Museum celebrates the game’s history and visceral joy - TPR: The Public's Radio The Electromagnetic Pinball Museum is home to over 100 pinball machines, from the 1940s to today. Emily Rose and Michael Pare are two of the co-founders who started the museum when they found that the...

Fun story -->>> Electromagnetic Pinball Museum celebrates the game’s history and visceral joy thepublicsradio.org/artscape/ele...

I often read posts from people outside the tech industry who say AI is just a big money grab for the providers. But Meta, Microsoft, and countless others have released totally free powerful open-source models for anyone to use. You can run them on your own PC w/full privacy. Hard to say this is bad.

One year ago, we debuted BillBuddy, a groundbreaking tool to learn about new laws making their way through the RI State House and an easy way to give feedback on those bills to your legislator.

Next month we're at it again. Coming in Feb: MoneyTrail, the ultimate campaign money tracker. 💰🤝🏻😲

State of the software industry.

if you're a young reporter, strongly recommend going independent - way too time consuming to get stories through the great wall of management

Similarities between 90s Microsoft and today's Google are uncanny. Like Microsoft in the 90s, nearly all of Google's core products now have functionality issues. Google's inability to break through in AI is reminiscent of MS's inability to gain traction with Internet Explorer. Antitrust cases...

My wife has gone from "Die Hard is not a Christmas movie!" 3 years ago to this year: "Let's watch a Christmas movie. Wanna watch Die Hard?" 😁

Poor AI implementations are one of the big reasons why ordinary people think AI is lame, slop, etc. It certainly is when inexperienced businesses deploy these chatbots.

Here, Chevrolet's chatbot easily got turned into a Tesla sales rep.

www.reddit.com/gallery/18kv...

Teachers are coming up with all sorts of innovative ways to catch students who cheat with AI. One idea I love is adding a weird instruction in white text (so it's not visible but gets copy/pasted) to the essay instructions.

Those whose papers include the weird instruction get got. 😁

Codebuff Codebuff is a tool for editing codebases via natural language instruction to Buffy, an expert AI programming assistant.

Absolutely blown away by CodeBuff, a new AI coding assistant that makes coding so much easier and faster. Just explain what you want it in natural language and it delivers (most of the time). Exceeds Aider, Cline, etc. IMO.

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First time back to Sunshine Laundromat in a while. Great beer and great game selection. Got to play an X-Men LE for the first time. Great game. #pinball @deadflip.bsky.social @rnaegele.bsky.social

My other popular opinion is that in-app purchases fucked mobile gaming.

Yes, there are exceptions; I know them. But the whole “our game gets unplayable after a point unless you buy coins” thing just means that games are no longer fun and developers aren’t trying to balance playability any longer.

Senator introduces bill to compel more transparency from AI developers The legislation, if passed, would allow copyright holders to subpoena AI training data when trying to prove that their work was used without their consent.

I'm afraid the copyright lobby is never going to win this thing they're trying to do here. Fair Use law means anyone can train whatever they want, be it students, animals, a computer, or AI, on legally purchased copyrighted material.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/senate-...

Who would have guessed that Rhode Island would be a solar electricity powerhouse, now ranking #4 in the U.S. after Nevada, California, and Hawaii in terms of the percent of its yearly-averaged grid plus behind-the-meter electricity demand met solely by solar.

I measured the specs of every Rhode Island high school home baseball field. Here are, in my opinion, four of the weirdest fields you can play on in an official Rhode Island high school baseball game.

Photo of the playfield of Total Nuclear Annihilation.

I considered re-adding TNA to the lineup but seller wanted a bit too much. Someday though...

Game has IMO the 2nd best pinball soundtrack of all-time (behind Deadpool) and a great lighting package.