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Mamdani administration eyes new effort to steer sale of NYC rent-stabilized apartments
David Brand
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and top city officials hope to influence the sale of several dozen rent-stabilized apartment buildings in East Harlem facing foreclosure after his administration failed to slow a ...[Continue Reading]
Gothamist
1 day ago
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Adam Smith on Slavery
Jack Russell Weinstein
There were two types of slaves in Scotland during Adam Smiths lifetime. The first were chattel slaves of African descent. This is what most people envision today when they think about slaverypeople w ...[Continue Reading]
Econlib.org
1 day ago
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I ran the same prompts through Claude and my local LLM, and the results weren't what I expected
Nolen Jonker
I use AI tools almost every day now, and after way too many tools in rotation, Ive finally settled on a handful of go-tos. A couple of cloud AI tools when I need horsepower, and my local LLM for anyt ...[Continue Reading]
XDA Developers
1 day ago
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What the U.S. Got So Badly Wrong About Iran
Benjamin Hart
After the U.S. rescued an airman who had been shot down above Iran over the weekend, President Trump threatened to commit war crimes against the country if it did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the ...[Continue Reading]
New York Magazine
1 day ago
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You Can Smell It Now: The Trump Presidency Is in Total Free-Fall
Michael Tomasky
The sentence with the three expletives will catch the notice of most Western eyes, but I have a feeling its the next one, and its schoolyard-level sarcastic mockery, that will get the lions share of ...[Continue Reading]
The New Republic
1 day ago
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Pens Points: Foolin with Florida
Garrett Behanna
The Pittsburgh Penguins closed out the rare home-home back-to-back on Sunday against the Florida Panthers. Pittsburgh once again took care of business after dispatching the Cats 9-4 on Saturday with ...[Continue Reading]
PensBurgh
1 day ago