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Tue, 12/08/2025 - 21:58

The digital landscape continues to evolve, and artificial intelligence is now a present reality. The Drupal Association is excited to announce a focused approach to AI development within the Drupal ecosystem: the Drupal AI Initiative.

To ensure Drupal AI delivers a significant and strategic impact, we must move beyond traditional volunteer-based contribution models. We need a coordinated, highly dedicated effort to make sure we don’t miss the connection with the market. To build a powerful and competitive AI ecosystem for Drupal aligned with the community’s values, we need a professional team focused exclusively on this task.

Why is this needed?

We are accelerating Drupal AI innovation: Strategic initiatives like the Drupal AI initiative require consistent, dedicated effort that often exceeds the capacity of volunteer contributors.

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Tue, 12/08/2025 - 21:30

On July 26 Donald Trump played a round of golf at his own Turnberry course in Scotland. Over footage of the event from Sky News, we hear a reporter shouting, “Mr. Trump, can you escape the Jeffrey Epstein crisis?” At that point in the clip, the volume surges on the song Trump’s large entourage is […]

The post ‘A Guy Who Never Dies’ appeared first on The New York Review of Books.

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Tue, 12/08/2025 - 13:13

In 2022, the Swedish digital bank and fintech giant Klarna laid off 700 permanent staff, hoping to replace the expertise and energies of hundreds of employees with a single, rational AI assistant that would apparently handle millions of different consumer conversations in dozens of languages. Yet the bots didn’t work out; almost immediately, customers began […]

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Tue, 12/08/2025 - 07:31

Eric Adams’ mayoral campaign quickly removed all references to a “rabbi” accused of pedophilia after eagle-eyed social media users discovered the charges. New York City Mayor Eric Adams has touted the endorsement of a notorious “rabbi” whose refusal to address accusations that he molested a child led to a major schism within the Black Hebrew Israelite community in the US. The mayor boasted of the endorsement in a August 11 Instagram post which was edited hours later to remove any […]

The post NYC’s Mayor Adams boasts of endorsement from ‘rabbi’ accused of child molestation first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post NYC’s Mayor Adams boasts of endorsement from ‘rabbi’ accused of child molestation appeared first on The Grayzone.

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Tue, 12/08/2025 - 03:00

Are you looking for sweet, melty chocolate that makes you feel comforted—or are you a fucking adult? Are you grown up enough to appreciate that everything that once brought you joy is only really worthwhile if it punishes you?

Then strap in, because it’s time to invest in REAL chocolate. Chocolate that comes in flavors like:

  • Activated Charcoal with Hand-Muddled Corsican Mint
  • Blood Orange Millet Gravel (Are some of those words adjectives, or are all of them nouns? Bet your money and take your chances)
  • Shaved Ghost Pepper and Rock Salt
  • Regret

This chocolate is made of 87 percent unroasted cacao beans, but 100 percent of those beans have seen some shit. It was handcrafted next to a rusty fire escape in Brooklyn by stone-cold motherfuckers with nothing to lose. It hardened from its molten state in a kitchen that moonlights as an unlicensed kickboxing arena.

It’s a confection with unresolved trauma, and it knows Muay Thai.

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Mon, 11/08/2025 - 22:01

Q: You were laid off from the National Weather Service amid all the DOGE cuts, correct?

A: Yes. And they haven’t hired anyone new to do my job.

Q: Which was?

A: The National Weather Service’s Director of “Feels Like.” You know how when there’s a heat wave, you hear that the actual temp is eighty-five degrees but it “feels like” it’s ninety-nine? That was me. Since the 1980s, the “feels like” temp was based on my determinations.

Q: And how were these determinations reached?

A: By considering a variety of factors: heat index, wind chill, dew point, solar intensity, the director’s discretion…

Q: Discretion? So you’re saying “feels like” is partially a subjective measure?

A: No, I am saying that the Weather Service, until this administration came along, entrusted me with the job because I have a decades-long track record of empathic temperature-vibing. A single-digit January day in Chicago may be no colder than a single-digit November day. But in January, the Christmas lights have come down, and the Bears are washed. So you know for damn sure that it feels like it’s twelve below.

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Mon, 11/08/2025 - 21:34
The Economist, having surveyed the current state of European higher education, has decided that the most significant problem is that the specialized graduate school where I work is insufficiently “relevant.” Two objections so far. First, please please please let’s move on from the Harry Potter references. We’re talking about a campus headquartered in an abbey in Florence, the real-life birthplace […]