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Everything JD Vance wanted is slipping away

This past week has been a disaster for Vice President JD Vance. He embarked on two foreign adventures — campaigning for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and leading peace negotiations with Iran — that ended in total failure. Orbán lost by an enormous margin; Iran quit the talks, and President Donald Trump announced a new blockade […]

NYCHA Offers New Carrot to 24 Seniors Blocking $1.2 Billion Manhattan Project

NYCHA resident Yu Zhen Story spoke about being forced to move from her Chelsea Addition home,

The city housing authority offered a new concession to 24 elderly tenants who are holding up a contentious $1.2 billion plan to raze and rebuild several dilapidated Manhattan public housing developments, giving the holdouts the option of transferring to senior housing similar to their current home.  Two-dozen residents at Chelsea Addition, ranging in age from […]

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Filing: Anthropic hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with strong Trump administration ties, days after the DOD designated the startup a supply chain risk (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Filing: Anthropic hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with strong Trump administration ties, days after the DOD designated the startup a supply chain risk  —  Anthropic PBC hired the lobbying firm Ballard Partners as it draws out its fight with the Pentagon, a new public document shows.

New Cooling Tower Testing Rules Aim to Quell Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreaks

New York City property owners with working cooling towers — the cylinder rooftop structures spiking the city’s skyline — will soon be required to step up their testing for the Legionella bacterium. It’s the city’s latest effort to prevent outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease, which killed at least seven people in Harlem last summer. A spokesman […]

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OpenAI’s oddly socialist, wildly hypocritical new economic agenda

OpenAI wants to raise taxes on the rich, expand the welfare state, let workers decide how their employers use artificial intelligence, and give everyone a cut of the tech industry’s profits. Or so the company claims in a new vision statement. In that document, the AI titan argues that the government needs to enact sweeping […]