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Chuck Mangione, the Rochester jazz legend who created hits like "Feels So Good", has died, his attorney confirmed. | |
Submitted at 07-24-2025, 04:47 PM by sleeppoor | |
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It's not a great precedent, that's for sure. | |
Submitted at 07-24-2025, 09:31 AM by sleeppoor | |
Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan has died at 71 years old, TMZ Sports has learned.
Medics were dispatched to the WWE icon's Clearwater, Florida home early Thursday morning ... with operators stating it was regarding a "cardiac arrest." | |
Submitted at 07-24-2025, 04:47 PM by Torture the Artist | |
POO, the short form of the new name for fare inspectors on Toronto’s transit service, TTC, sparks jokes. Boys react to taking the blame. | |
Submitted at 07-24-2025, 02:31 PM by NickNoheart | |
I do not think it will shock anyone to learn that big tech is aggressively pushing AI products. But the extent to which they have done so might. The sheer ubiquity of AI means that we take for ground the countless ways, many invisible, that these products and features are foisted on us—and how Silicon Valley companies have systematically designed and deployed AI products onto their existing platforms in an effort to accelerate adoption.
It also happens to be the subject of a new study by design scholars Nolwenn Maudet, Anaëlle Beignon, and Thomas Thibault, who looked at hundreds of instances of how AI has been deployed, highlighted, and advertised by Google, Meta, Adobe, SnapChat, and others, and analyzed them for a study called “Imposing AI: Deceptive design patterns against sustainability.” They also present the results in a handy guide, with illustrated examples called, aptly: “How tech companies are pushing us to use AI.” (It’s translated from the French, hence the sometimes awkward phrasings.) | |
Submitted at 07-24-2025, 12:33 PM by Wreckard | |
Submitted at 07-24-2025, 08:42 AM by B. Weed | |
Submitted at 07-23-2025, 09:34 PM by sleeppoor | |
Powerhouse attorney Roy Black, who defended Jeffrey Epstein and William Kennedy Smith, is dead at 80. He’s remembered as a legal giant. | |
Submitted at 07-23-2025, 09:25 PM by sleeppoor | |
Nine men accused of breaking out of a New Orleans city jail in May after slipping through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a barbed wire fence pleaded not guilty to escape charges on Wednesday.
Officials have repeatedly pointed to video surveillance of the brazen escape, one of the largest jailbreaks in recent U.S. history, and vowed to bring the inmates to justice. A 10th inmate, Derrick Groves, a convicted killer, is the lone fugitive still on the run.
“Everyone is entitled to due process. But there’s a video of these detainees running out of the jail in the middle of the night. They were not heading to court hearings,” Attorney General Liz Murrill said on Wednesday. ”We will continue to hold everyone accountable for the escape.” | |
Submitted at 07-23-2025, 08:09 PM by NickNoheart | |
Submitted at 07-23-2025, 06:50 PM by DamnHead | |
Law enforcement reported finding the female chimp in a cage on Tonia Haddix’s property on July 9. | |
Submitted at 07-23-2025, 07:36 PM by Wreckard | |
Just in from the Shit That Surprises Nobody Department...
Support for Donald Trump is linked to darker personality traits, including increased psychopathy and decreased empathy, new research finds. The study also connects conservative political beliefs to lower benevolence, suggesting personality may shape how people engage with politics and ideology. | |
Submitted at 07-23-2025, 05:55 PM by DamnHead | |
Submitted at 07-23-2025, 04:29 AM by sleeppoor | |
The bridge was the governor’s idea to celebrate the state’s 150th anniversary. But it was panned by lawmakers, historic preservationists and, apparently, the public. | |
Submitted at 07-23-2025, 04:28 AM by sleeppoor | |
Electric bikes are a menace. They go almost as fast as a car (if the car is parking), they’re whisper quiet (which makes them impossible to hear over the podcast playing in your headphones), and worst of all, they’re increasingly ridden by teenagers.
By now, we’ve all seen the headlines. Cities are cracking down. Lawmakers are holding emergency hearings. Parents are demanding bans. “Something must be done,” they cry at local city council meetings before driving back home in 5,000 lb SUVs.
And it’s true – some e-bike riders don’t follow the rules. Some ride too fast. Some are inexperienced. These are real problems that deserve real solutions. But if you think electric bikes are the biggest threat on our roads, just wait until you hear about the slightly more common, slightly more deadly vehicle we’ve been quietly tolerating for the last hundred years. | |
Submitted at 07-23-2025, 02:29 AM by sleeppoor | |
Ozzy Osbourne, the frontman for Black Sabbath and a pioneer of heavy metal music, has died. He was 76. | |
Submitted at 07-22-2025, 07:20 PM by sleeppoor | |
"[Fascists] are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words." | |
Submitted at 07-22-2025, 05:15 PM by Mordant | |
Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied one of succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida | |
Submitted at 07-22-2025, 03:40 PM by sleeppoor | |
As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom | |
Submitted at 07-22-2025, 03:39 PM by sleeppoor | |
A new analysis of decades' worth of observations has revealed that Uranus does indeed emit more heat than it receives from the rays of the Sun. | |
Submitted at 07-22-2025, 01:57 PM by NickNoheart | |

Chuck Mangione, the Rochester jazz legend who created hits like "Feels So Good", has died, his attorney confirmed.
It's not a great precedent, that's for sure.
Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan has died at 71 years old, TMZ Sports has learned.
Medics were dispatched to the WWE icon's Clearwater, Florida home early Thursday morning ... with operators stating it was regarding a "cardiac arrest."
POO, the short form of the new name for fare inspectors on Toronto’s transit service, TTC, sparks jokes. Boys react to taking the blame.
I do not think it will shock anyone to learn that big tech is aggressively pushing AI products. But the extent to which they have done so might. The sheer ubiquity of AI means that we take for ground the countless ways, many invisible, that these products and features are foisted on us—and how Silicon Valley companies have systematically designed and deployed AI products onto their existing platforms in an effort to accelerate adoption.
It also happens to be the subject of a new study by design scholars Nolwenn Maudet, Anaëlle Beignon, and Thomas Thibault, who looked at hundreds of instances of how AI has been deployed, highlighted, and advertised by Google, Meta, Adobe, SnapChat, and others, and analyzed them for a study called “Imposing AI: Deceptive design patterns against sustainability.” They also present the results in a handy guide, with illustrated examples called, aptly: “How tech companies are pushing us to use AI.” (It’s translated from the French, hence the sometimes awkward phrasings.)
Powerhouse attorney Roy Black, who defended Jeffrey Epstein and William Kennedy Smith, is dead at 80. He’s remembered as a legal giant.
Nine men accused of breaking out of a New Orleans city jail in May after slipping through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a barbed wire fence pleaded not guilty to escape charges on Wednesday.
Officials have repeatedly pointed to video surveillance of the brazen escape, one of the largest jailbreaks in recent U.S. history, and vowed to bring the inmates to justice. A 10th inmate, Derrick Groves, a convicted killer, is the lone fugitive still on the run.
“Everyone is entitled to due process. But there’s a video of these detainees running out of the jail in the middle of the night. They were not heading to court hearings,” Attorney General Liz Murrill said on Wednesday. ”We will continue to hold everyone accountable for the escape.”
Law enforcement reported finding the female chimp in a cage on Tonia Haddix’s property on July 9.
Just in from the Shit That Surprises Nobody Department...
Support for Donald Trump is linked to darker personality traits, including increased psychopathy and decreased empathy, new research finds. The study also connects conservative political beliefs to lower benevolence, suggesting personality may shape how people engage with politics and ideology.
The bridge was the governor’s idea to celebrate the state’s 150th anniversary. But it was panned by lawmakers, historic preservationists and, apparently, the public.
Electric bikes are a menace. They go almost as fast as a car (if the car is parking), they’re whisper quiet (which makes them impossible to hear over the podcast playing in your headphones), and worst of all, they’re increasingly ridden by teenagers.
By now, we’ve all seen the headlines. Cities are cracking down. Lawmakers are holding emergency hearings. Parents are demanding bans. “Something must be done,” they cry at local city council meetings before driving back home in 5,000 lb SUVs.
And it’s true – some e-bike riders don’t follow the rules. Some ride too fast. Some are inexperienced. These are real problems that deserve real solutions. But if you think electric bikes are the biggest threat on our roads, just wait until you hear about the slightly more common, slightly more deadly vehicle we’ve been quietly tolerating for the last hundred years.
Ozzy Osbourne, the frontman for Black Sabbath and a pioneer of heavy metal music, has died. He was 76.
"[Fascists] are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words."
Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied one of succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida
As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
A new analysis of decades' worth of observations has revealed that Uranus does indeed emit more heat than it receives from the rays of the Sun.