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'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Killed in Shooting
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'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Killed in Shooting

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Jonathan Joss, an actor best known for voicing John Redcorn on animated series "King of the Hill," was killed in a shooting outside his home in San Antonio, Texas, police confirmed.See the Story
US court blocks most Trump tariffs, says president exceeded his authority
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US court blocks most Trump tariffs, says president exceeded his authority

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A U.S. trade court ruled the president overstepped his authority by imposing across-the-board duties on imports from trading partners. See the Story
Climate and Weather Scientists Join the Resistance Against Trump in the Most "Scientific" Way Possible
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Climate and Weather Scientists Join the Resistance Against Trump in the Most "Scientific" Way Possible

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Starting Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET and lasting for 100 straight hours, climate and weather specialists will spend 15 minutes each talking about their work and why it is so valuable for the American people. Their goal is to call attention to the impacts of cuts to federal agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA and the Department of Energy, along with the Trump administration’s withholding of research funding to academia.See the Story

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Yates Wraps up Giro d'Italia Triumph in Rome

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Britain's Simon Yates sealed victory in the Giro d'Italia following the final stage from the Vatican City to Rome.Cycling · RomeSee the Story

The Man Putin Couldn’t Kill

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The best spy thrillers have plot twists upon plot twists: The trusted source turns out to have a sinister motive; the quiet, helpful colleague is smuggling documents to the other side; the mentor whose allegiance seemed to be wavering was actually just setting a trap for a mole. M. Gessen's latest piece has one of the most satisfying plot twists of all: The little guy outsmarts the supervillain. Christo Grozev is that little guy, a journalist wh…Vladimir Putin · UkraineSee the Story

Beauty is sometimes the instrument that achieves some nonaesthetic goal

The lesson we should take from functionalism is that, while there are unlimited contexts, real and imaginary, in which a building can legitimately be viewed, there is usually some functional context that should take precedence when deciding what to build. The functional context is simply the context created by the purpose of the building. It should take precedence when deciding what to build because it is the context in which the most important …Read Article

The dragon lady next to me at the Second Life rave was too close.

Bridge to eQualia is a fourteen thousand word story about an internet sleuth by Blackle Mori that began as a Bluesky thread. You can also read it as a visual novel.Read Article

'Du Deffand, vous etes la mere'

Marie du Deffand. "Biographies of the obscure -- history's "lesser lives" -- often have a fixed agenda: either they are bent on telling the other side of a story hitherto dominated by a famous protagonist (and hardly ever to the advantage of said protagonist), or they propose to right history itself by rehabilitating figures it has unjustly chosen to ignore." 'Oh, Shut up, Voltaire' (NYT. 1995)"Let's take a stroll through 18th-century Paris and …Paris, France · ParisRead Article

A nontrivial problem for modern compatibility

These days, most emulators presume a 4:3 display aspect ratio, which generally gives you a close enough pixel aspect ratio, and default scaling generally looks good enough. A casual user doesn't really need to worry too much about it, but I feel there's value in giving it some thought. from Superauthenticity: Computer game aspect ratiosRead Article

No one puts anything over on Claude C. Dobbs

" What happens when you ask an advanced AI to run a simple vending machine? Sometimes it outperforms humans, and sometimes it spirals into conspiracy theories."Interesting deets in the paper.Artificial IntelligenceRead Article

📚 Canadian small presses #22 📚

Under the fold, Canadian play publishers J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing, Infinipress, and Playwrights Canada.Here's the next in a series of Canadian small press roundups. Infinipress is Infinithéâtre's in-house publisher. Titles include Fight On! by Guy Sprung with Drew Hayden Taylor, Trench Patterns by Alyson Grant, and Love, Child by Anana Rydvald. Manitoba's J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing has several imprints: J. Gordon Shillingford (po…Winnipeg · WinnipegRead Article

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