Loved Caity Weaver’s Letter of Recommendation for the only reality show I’ve ever really loved: PBS’s Frontier House . “Next to the unflappable Glenns, the Clunes are revealed to be feckless, flighty, highfalutin’ crybabies.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Eric Illowsky, a cable TV veteran who helped launch the original Sci Fi Channel in the early 1990s, died June 15 at in Peekskill, New York after a battle with glioblastoma brain cancer. Illowsky started his career at Disney Channel in 1985 and later moved to Cox Cable. He
Joe Budden has shouted out Vince Staples for helping him understand how to organize and lay out his ideas while writing scripted content.
Track will appear on artist's first album in 17 years, Viva Tu
Valve added full controller support to Steam back in 2018, and now it says 'the controller landscape has changed.'
The Air Force has fired the top official overseeing the costly Sentinel nuclear missile program, which is currently under a Pentagon review for ballooning costs. The commander of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Maj. Gen. John Newberry, fired Col. Charles Clegg, The Hill
Channing Tatum may have seemed like a borderline soccer pro in She’s the Man, but the actor admitted his skills weren’t as impressive in the sport as they seemed onscreen. Tatum appeared on Entertainment Tonight‘s newest edition of “Spilling the E-Tea” alongside his Fly Me to
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Paris Hilton says she will "not stop until America's youth are safe," delivering emotional testimony against residential treatment facility abuse at a Wednesday House Ways and Means hearing. "While my experience was not through the foster care system, I know from personal
A group of prominent Israelis is urging congressional leaders to revoke the invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress, calling it a "terrible mistake." In an op-ed published Wednesday in The New York Times, six individuals
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced $375 million in funding for renewable energy projects, predominantly through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The funding, announced by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, includes $275 million through the Powering Affordable
When two veteran NASA astronauts blasted off on a test drive of Boeing's new capsule, they expected to head home from the International Space Station in a week or so.
Researchers continue to expand the case for the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis. The idea proposes that a fragmented comet smashed into the Earth's atmosphere 12,800 years ago, causing a widespread climatic shift that, among other things, led to the abrupt reversal of the
President Biden and former President Trump are virtually tied in a hypothetical 2024 general election matchup in Wisconsin, according to a poll released Wednesday of registered and likely voters in the key battleground state. The Marquette Law School poll, conducted on June
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss support for Ukraine and other key issues before Hungary's EU presidency commences on 1 July.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange finally landed in his native Australia after completing a series of formalities with US authorities in the Mariana Islands. But it was his wife Stella who spoke to the press to celebrate his arrival after a 14-year ordeal which included a spell
NASA launched the GOES-U weather satellite on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center.
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This changes everything.
There’s a persistent, distracting argument among Democrats about whether the party should move left or right. The correct answer is that Democratic candidates should simply fit their electorates.
Transforming the venerable B-52 bomber into a cutting-edge warplane, the US is gearing up the long arm of its strategic airpower against a near-peer fight with China in the Pacific. This month, The War Zone reported that the US is planning significant upgrades to its
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story Squad, Trump endorsements suffer primary blows Two vastly different groups – former President Trump and progressives – shared a rough Tuesday night when they both saw their
There's never been a better time to pick that old boltgun back up.
Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud services provider in the world, and growth at the Amazon unit has returned after a dip in the past year, thanks to surging adoption of AI technologies.
Being Dead are an indie rock duo comprising bandmates Falcon Bitch and Shmoofy, “two true-blue freak bitch besties holed up in a lil’ house in the heart of Austin, Texas.” Those freak bitches’ sophomore album EELS is arriving this September, and they’re previewing the record
llama.ttf is a font that includes an LLM and an inference engine for that model. “This also means that you can use your font to chat with your font.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The streamer still has dreams of being a big player in games, but keeping its feet on mobile ground is where it wants to be until it can make good on its larger plans.
If you’ve been roaming the Land of Shadow in Elden Ring’ s recently released expansion, there’s a good chance that you’ve met the greatest hater to ever live. No, Kendrick Lamar is not suddenly in Shadow of the Erdtree , he’s too busy in Compton making Drake’s life a living
Regardless of one’s political allegiance, it’s almost universally agreed that in recent years political expediency rather than truth has been, literally, the governing principle behind speeches from Britain’s right-wing politicians. Sadly, the same is true of the two leads in
Only 21.4 percent of mid-level Senate staffers are people of color, despite people of color making up more than 41 percent of the total U.S. population, according to a new report. The report, conducted by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, found that African
💵 Plus: The Energy Dept. announces more funding for clean technologies {beacon} Sustainability Sustainability The Big Story Prosecutor outlines homicide case against Big Oil As climate-fueled disasters kill thousands of Americans each year, state and local prosecutors have
[The Conversation Africa] Finding bats is hard. They are small, fast and they primarily fly at night.
The idea that a college degree levels the playing field for students of different socioeconomic classes has been bolstered in recent years. Research from 2011 and 2017, for example, found that earning a bachelor's degree helped students from less advantaged backgrounds do as
[Global Press Journal] Wakiso, Uganda -- Providing sexual and gender minorities with secure places to live has become more fraught since the passage of an anti-homosexuality law.
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Financial secrecy, estimated to hold over $50 trillion across more than 70 jurisdictions, is a system that benefits wealthy elites at the expense of the rest, and is used to conceal wealth and avoid taxes, undermining democracy and allowing adversaries to use our financial
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced a national recall of certain coffee products over the risk of a potentially deadly contamination. Read more...
Former President Trump has a 4-point lead over President Biden nationally, according to a new poll. The Quinnipiac University survey, published Wednesday, found that Trump garnered 49 percent support to Biden’s 45 percent. That’s a significant improvement for the former
Emma Roberts appeared on the “Table for Two” podcast (via Vanity Fair) and was asked whether becoming a “massive movie star” was a priority for her when she decided to follow in the career footsteps of her father, Eric Roberts, and her aunt, Julia Roberts, and become an actor.
Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany have advanced ultrafast electron microscopy to unprecedented time resolution. Reporting in Science Advances, the research team presents a method for the all-optical control, compression, and characterization of electron pulses
