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perspective. Starmer was still cautious, though-the West had to salvage it relationship with America, he told Carney. "We don't have a relationship to keep!" Carney replied.
In effect, for every $1 cut from programs for low-income Americans, the wealthiest 1% will get about $1 back in tax breaks.
Vance called Nixon a political genius and said the former Republican president's legacy was "enjoying a bit of a renaissance," with attention being focused on Nixon's diplomatic efforts to end the Vietnam War and open relations with China.
While I am certain with every fiber of my being that in the decades to come we will eventually see apologies and regrets by the Times over the types of coverage they engaged in, much as they've had to do for countless other historical mistakes, I want this article to be a record to independently show what happened, how it happened, and the effects it had on the trans community. They cannot be allowed to forget even if some may eventually choose to forgive. I, for one, don't think I ever will.
When Penn State Health informed Elliot that it was going to be abruptly terminating care for trans youth, he was disappointed that instead of giving him real resources the hospital gave him the number of a suicide hotline. Now, that letter hangs on Elliot's wall. He often turns
Background is space station. Foreground text says “Odo Learns to Dance.”
He said that he has been worried about Al in his college years, that it could be a "double-edged sword," one that could "solve all the diseases and make everyone prosperous, or it could kill us all." *START HIGHLIGHTING* He suggested that Al had two outcomes: the utopian Star Trek one, or the dystopian Terminator one. He wants the future to be more like Gene Roddenberry's and not like James Cameron's. *END HIGHLIGHTING* This was his intention in cofounding OpenAI.
Johnston points out that the amount of oil and gas that could be taken off the table is roughly the same amount of demand that was shed during the initial global shutdown in 2020 from the pandemic. "If the strait does not reopen, people are like, 'Is this recessionary?' I'm like, 'No, it's depressionary. This will be so, so, so, so, so bad," he says. "We're talking about Covid-level demand loss, no cars on the road, no planes in the sky, but with no pandemic."
whether it matters if I don't have free will. I have a lot of opportunities to hang out in my mind palace, because I do a lot of mundane chores, like grocery shopping, laundry, and picking up after myself. The ultra-wealthy don't have to do any of this. They pay people to do it for them — cooking, cleaning, shopping, you name it. There are no periods of the day where they are forced to figure out how to entertain themselves in the face of repetitive chores. If you don't use it, you lose it — so maybe a lot of them lose introspection. In fact, they can offload any cognitive activity they don't enjoy! That's what subordinates are for, isn't it? And whatever gets consistently offloaded, they lose.
"Mr. Owendoff — Shut your racist mouth and stop cluttering up our emails," Novick wrote in a reply-all response from his government account about an hour later, according to a copy of the exchange obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive. Minutes after, Novick issued a second reply-all remark: "In addition, Mr. Owendoff, I would strongly advise you to (f---) yourself in the heart," using the expletive in full.
Republicans also raised the question of evolving professional guidelines, in Europe and in the United States, over when minors should receive puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery. *Highlighted* Most significantly, The American Society of Plastic Surgeons recently recommended that surgeons delay gender-related surgery until a patient is at least 19, citing the low certainty of evidence showing a benefit and the irreversible consequences of surgery for minors. *end highlighting* The group's statement condemned efforts to criminalize gender-affirming care and said physicians should be allowed to exercise their professional judgement, guided by professional ethics.
And, again: OpenAl's agreement says it will allow anything the US government determines is legal. Even its assurances that it will only follow current laws and policies, not ones that are changed or reissued, may not offer meaningful safeguards. In the past, agencies have reinterpreted existing laws in ways that effectively allow them new powers. And the Trump administration has claimed laws like the International Emergency Economic Powers Act justify unprecedented presidential powers like imposing global tariffs. These powers have, in fact, sometimes been declared illegal — but only after months of legal battles, during which OpenAl would have to either follow the administration's orders or make an independent judgment call about the law. Altman has publicly stated that, unlike Anthropic, OpenAl is "generally quite comfortable with the laws of the US."
Photo of Jordanian prince in Starfleet costume on the set of Star Trek: Voyager.
When asked by The Hill if Gallup had received any feedback from the White House or anyone in the current administration before making the decision, the spokesperson said, "this is a strategic shift solely based on Gallup's research goals and priorities."
protests. Then their window broke. "I left to go to school and literally, not even an hour later, my mom is calling me crying," L.H. told OPB. "She was like, 'I can't breathe.
"This is not something that I have been seeking and is not something I am excited about," said Dunphy, as deliberations that began in a meeting seven days ago neared their 12th and final hour Wednesday afternoon. "But if the only way out of an entrenched 6-6 stalemate is for me to step into this role, then I'm willing, not happy, but willing to do this in service of this institution."
Screenshot of article passage: “conjure motive, manifesto, and meaning out of the dumbest shit scrawled onto bullets.” Highlighted: “These were sad attempts to impose meaning on an increasingly incoherent world by a literati that has not yet accepted its irrelevance in a postliterate society.” “But the most humiliating display of literate obliviousness in the face of”
Screenshot of Sam Reich with subtitles reading “Dropout CEO and woke Jigsaw”
On Sept. 28, the day Trump's order was implemented, a Fox News broadcast played a clip of Kotek saying that Guard troops were not needed in Portland, then immediately cut to a clip of a hectic scene of protesters clashing with police. "Wish she could see some of those images," the anchor said. Sarcastically, as a co-anchor chuckled, she added: "Look at that. Just a peaceful protest." A small box on the screen showed the footage wasn't from Oregon. It was from Illinois.
Kenan Thompson standing at a podium holding a giant book titled 2025: Mandate for Leadership.
Screenshot of Wall Street Journal article with the first sentence highlighted. It reads: “A Wall Street Journal reporter driving around Portland in recent days found a mixed picture. The city center was placid, with cobblestone strels and modern streetcars clanging past. Downtown has struggled to attract businesses after 2020 protests and the pandemic, but is rebounding. A recent report from the Major Cities Chiefs Association, a group representing police officials, showed decreased violent crime in Portland during the first half of 2025, including a 51% drop in homicides compared with the same period last year.”
On the OpenAl community forums and Reddit, long-time chatters are expressing sorrow at losing access to models like GPT-40. They explain the feeling as "mentally devastating," and "like a buddy of mine has been replaced by a customer service representative." These threads are fu' of people pledging to end their paid subscriptions. It's worth noting, though, that many of these posts look to us like they have been composed partially or entirely with Al. So even when long-time chat users are complaining, they're still engaged with generative artificial intelligence.