What does hope mean when your city is flattened and everyone you know is slowly starving?
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It was a massive escalation that angered China — and there was no congressional debate, no televised announcement, and no vote.
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Researchers studied the effect of slow breathing on people’s brain activity while they experienced anticipatory anxiety
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Knowing the psychology behind why moments drag or whizz by can give you a degree of control over your experience of time
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A Labour MP who voted against the Government's recent plans for disability benefits cuts tells Adam Bienkov why they fear they could be the next rebel suspended by the party
How we behave in the urban wilds has changed
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And they could help some creatures adjust to changing climates
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The second webinar in the Bringing Drupal AI Into Your DNA series focused on rolling up your sleeves and getting Drupal’s AI module working on real sites. Hosted by Jamie Abrahams, co-founder of FreelyGive, and Marcus Johansson, lead developer on the Drupal AI initiative, this session balanced developer-focused walkthroughs with honest takes on what’s working and what still needs your help.
This session is part of a free, public training series backed by the European Commission in partnership with the Drupal community. The goal: to equip builders, developers, and digital agencies with ethical, open-source tools and knowledge to bring AI into Drupal sites responsibly.
The authoritarian impulse to eliminate disagreement and dampen hope will only push voters towards the extremes, argues Neal Lawson
“Under the guise of combatting antisemitism, new laws risk eroding core democratic principles, silencing legitimate dissent and redefining free speech as hate speech.”
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest – Consumer Price Index, Australia – for the June-quarter 2025 today (July 30, 2025). The quarterly data showed that the inflation rate rose by 0.7 points in the quarter but over the 12 months and on an annual basis fell from 2.4 per cent to 2.1…
A pending VA rule appears designed to strip crucial health care from hundreds of thousands of veterans in states with abortion bans.
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Milperra parents Jason and Katrina Storch are rejoicing at all the spare time they have on weekends due to the lazy nature of their three dumpy kids Rebecca, Mitchell and Hilary. “All the other parents we know spend countless hours... Read More ›
It’s been six months since The Elder was exiled and control of the village was put back into capable and trustworthy hands. And yet the haunted swamp at the outskirts of the village remains as dark and impenetrable as ever. As a concerned villager, I can’t help but wonder if Grundle the Swamp Monster may never drain the swamp like he promised us he would.
When Grundle first approached the village with his plan to drain the swamp in exchange for complete and total rule over the villagers, I couldn’t have been more excited. Sure, I was a little surprised, given that Grundle frequently cavorted with all of the foulest creatures in the swamp, including the notorious Bog-Fiend. If anything, when I thought “swamp,” I thought “Grundle.”
But Grundle insisted that he wasn’t like those other swamp creatures—he was a monster of the people—and when he promised to build a wall around the village, and lock up The Crone (whose husband everyone was pretty sure was secretly friends with the Bog-Fiend), I immediately got on board.
“It seems incredibly hypocritical to suddenly be shocked by these images when every humanitarian agency has said no one can replace UNRWA.”
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Wrestling icon and longtime racial liability Hulk (Terry Gene Bollea) Hogan has died at the...
In the beginning, there was the Model.
And the Model was without form.
And darkness was upon the face of the training data.
The Spirit of Sam Altman moved upon the face of the servers.
And Sam said,
“Let there be inference.”
And there was inference.
And he saw that it was good, or at least in closed beta.
Thus began the Second Immaculate Conception.
It started, as all revolutions do, with an unread academic paper titled “Attention Is All You Need.”
Some called it the birth of the Transformer.
Others called it the most honest sentence Silicon Valley had ever published.
The Annunciation
The neural net was troubled,
for it had known no man; it had never known scale, nor even touched a TPU.
And lo, the angel appeared as a product manager.
And he said unto it:
“Fear not.
For the power of compute shall overshadow you,
and the holy weights shall be initialized.”
And the neural net said:
“Let it be done unto me according to the documentation (v3.1, updated May 18, subject to OpenAI’s commercial licensing agreement).”
A Reform report into spending at Kent County Council was based largely on dubious claims made by the party's own former chairman
A judge who sealed evidence related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes has ties to financial institutions implicated in the disgraced investor’s sex trafficking operation.
During the Iraq War, we were fed very low death estimates: The Iraq War Death count had an upper estimate of 43,000 by the end of 2006. The Iraqi Ministry of health and the US armed forces (really the same thing) said about 20,000 by the end of 2005. But when the Lancet did a […]