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The poetry machine

[written by claude.] Here’s the thing about ChatGPT that nobody wants to admit: It’s not intelligent. It’s something far more interesting. Back in the 1950s, a Russian linguist named Roman Jakobson walked into a Harvard classroom and found economic equations on the blackboard.

Muscle-like gel polymer gets stronger with a new recipe

A new recipe, or design guidelines, for a self-strengthening muscle-like hydrogel has been developed through strategic integration of computational, information, and experimental research. The resulting gel exhibits rapid reinforcement under mechanical stress with improved

Paxton raises almost $3M in latest quarter

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) Senate campaign said on Friday it raised $2.9 million in the second quarter of 2025. Paxton is challenging incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) for his seat in the 2026 midterms. Cornyn, who is considered a GOP fundraising giant, has not

Help Fight ICE And Get 100 Games And Over 400 Table-Top RPGs

One of the better things to have occurred in recent years is the rise of the Itch.io protest bundles. Millions of dollars have been raised for various vital causes through the generosity of developers throwing in games by their hundreds, in deals that have done incredible work

Live updates: Trump heads to Texas after catastrophic floods

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump on Friday will head to Texas Hill Country, the scene on July 4 of devastating flooding that killed at least 120 people, with dozens still missing. “That was a terrible event. Terrible event,” Trump told reporters Monday when he

White House transforms Trump into Superman in new meme

The White House is capitalizing on the premier of the new "Superman" movie to cast President Trump as a powerful hero for the country. The administration posted an image to social media late Thursday with a depiction of Trump wearing Superman's outfit, complete with a red cape,

Whole Hog Politics: Democrats diving headfirst into 2028 race

On the menu: Carry them back to old Virginny; Big mad mood; GOP senators fret about Musk; Liberian lingo; Reaching the checkered flag There’s “testing the waters” and then there’s going off the high dive — for instance, announcing a visit to the Iowa State Fair by posting a