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☆ Sam Altman used to be 'super anti-Burning Man.' Now he's a fan and sees it as how the world could look after AGI
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman used to be "super anti-Burning Man." Altman said on the podcast he's been to Burning Man five or six times. "Everyone so happy, so engaged, so present that I was like, 'OK, I was wrong to be so negative on Burning Man.'" A photo of Burning Man attendees on the playa of Black Rock City. "This is one possible, like, part of what the post-AGI world can look like," Altman said on the podcast.

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☆ Worried About a Convention Clash, Democrats Woo Uncommitted Delegates
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Thousands of demonstrators are expected in the streets and the parks of Chicago for next week’s Democratic National Convention, most of them to protest the U.S. role in the war in Gaza. But officials are concerned about the potential for a more embarrassing spectacle: prime-time disruptions inside the arena itself. State party leaders, led by Lavora Barnes, the chairwoman of the Michigan Democratic Party, and Ken Martin, the chairman of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota, have for months worked to defuse tensions and head off a high-profile clash. “I know these folks are anxious to be part of the process, they’re anxious to defeat Donald Trump. They recognize Donald Trump is not part of the answer here.”

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☆ After Cold Shoulders for Biden, Senate Democrats Wrap Their Arms Around Harris
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When President Biden campaigned in Michigan last month, Representative Elissa Slotkin, the Democrats’ nominee for the state’s open Senate seat, was nowhere to be found. But on Wednesday night, just weeks after that no-show, Ms. Slotkin announced her full-throated support for her party’s new presidential ticket at a Detroit rally. Tim Walz of Minnesota, Ms. Slotkin concluded her speech by delivering her final punch at the Republicans’ vice-presidential nominee, Senator JD Vance of Ohio. Ms. Slotkin is not alone in recognizing the new political landscape since Mr. Biden decided to end his re-election bid. The new energy and rapid coalescing of Democrats behind Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz have drastically changed the strategies of both Democrats and Republicans alike in down-ballot races.

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☆ Trump's 'over-the-top' tariffs will thrust the US back into an era of economic shocks, thank tank expert says
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Filip De Mott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Trump has promised to implement tariffs on virtually all US trade, and use them to replace the income tax. But the US already has a history of implementing broad-sweeping tariffs, PIIE's Steven R. Weisman said. He said such policies have taken the US close to bankruptcy, and unleashed an era of economic shocks. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! But to Steven R. Weisman — a vice president with the Peterson Institute for International Economics — a look through American history shows why this could prove reckless.

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Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with top candidates to serve as her vice president on Sunday, closing out her search for a running mate with a test of whether she and her potential new partner click. It was unclear whether other potential candidates — including Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg — were also on the schedule, or if they had already met with Ms. Harris. The in-person meeting, described as a “chemistry test,” is a final step in the search, but one that Ms. Harris is expected to put considerable stock in. Aides and associates have said that she often prioritizes personal rapport with her staff and advisers.

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☆ Pro-Palestinian Groups Seek to Block a Vice-Presidential Contender
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | Hiroko Masuike | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania took the stage at Wissahickon High School in the Philadelphia suburbs on Monday to the roars of his fellow Democrats, a campaign appearance and an audition all in one. As he enthusiastically shouted out his support for Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, the pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had dogged Democratic politicians last spring were nowhere in evidence. There was only the adoration of an audience from his native Montgomery County, which the Democratic ticket must carry by sizable margins in November to win Pennsylvania. But as Ms. Harris prepares to name her running mate ahead of a rally on Tuesday in Philadelphia, those protests are very much part of the calculus surrounding Mr. Shapiro, who is believed to be on her shortlist of potential running mates. An effort by a motley group of left-wing and pro-Palestinian activists to derail his nomination has presented the Harris campaign with a decision as the vice president prepares to make one of most significant choices of her career: Should she take the opportunity to stand up to her far-left flank in an appeal to the center of the party and to independents, or should she shy away from inflaming an issue that has divided and bedeviled the party — Israel’s war in Gaza?

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There were also the white women, in a Zoom-busting paroxysm of solidarity and angst. The speakers included two white dudes on the shortlist to be Ms. Harris’s running mate — Gov. Image The actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt joined the “White Dudes for Harris” call. (The “White Dudes for Harris” call, at the end of its three-hour 20-minute run, had brought in more than $4 million.) He had seen a link for the “White Dudes for Harris” trucker hat and wanted one.

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Mr. Vance’s stumbles have come after a remarkable two weeks when Mr. Trump survived an assassination attempt and then rallied the party — and even some skeptics — behind him. Then, in a sense, Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance became the victims of that success. Some of Mr. Vance’s comments on some conservative podcasts veered into serious policy critiques that trucked in antisemitic tropes and racial stereotypes. The Harris campaign has been able to keep the spotlight on the momentum behind her fledgling presidential run — and away from Mr. Trump. Still, the Harris campaign was happy with the bruises they had inflicted.

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Mr. Vance’s stumbles have come after a remarkable two weeks when Mr. Trump survived an assassination attempt, and then rallied the party — and even some skeptics — behind him. Then, in a sense, Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance were the victims of that success. Image Mr. Vance, center right, and Mr. Trump at the Republican National Convention earlier this month. Some of Mr. Vance’s comments on some conservative podcasts veered into serious policy critiques that trucked in antisemitic tropes and racial stereotypes. Still, the Harris campaign was happy with the bruises they had inflicted.

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☆ JD Vance Stumbles in His Debut as Democrats Go on Offense
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | Shane Goldmacher | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The choice of Senator JD Vance as former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate reflected the confidence of a campaign so sure of victory in November that it could look beyond a second Trump term to the legacy of his movement. But in less than two weeks, Mr. Vance has found himself on the defensive, and his struggles have dented the sense of invulnerability that only a week ago seemed to be the overriding image of the Trump campaign. A stream of years-old quotes, videos and audio comments unearthed by Democrats and the news media in recent days has threatened to undermine the Trump campaign’s outreach to women, voters of color and the very blue-collar voters to whom Mr. Vance, a first-term Ohio senator, was supposed to appeal. His past comments deriding “childless cat ladies,” supporting a “federal response” to stop abortion in Democratic states and promoting a higher tax burden for childless Americans have yielded a chorus of criticism from Democrats. Mr. Vance’s fresh efforts to explain them have provided Democrats more material, with the Harris campaign promoting one short clip in which he seems to suggest that when he spoke of childless cat ladies, he meant no insult to cats — “I’ve got nothing against cats,” he said.

Persons: JD Vance, Donald J, Vance, Trump, deriding, Vance’s, Harris, “ I’ve, ” Organizations: Trump, Democratic Locations: Ohio

☆ Spaceman, Senator, V.P. Pick? Kamala Harris Sizes Up Mark Kelly.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | Jazmine Ulloa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Senator Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat under consideration to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, knows this expanse well — a fact that even the state’s Republicans acknowledge. mayor of Douglas, recounted a phone call with Mr. Kelly two weeks ago, when the two men talked through progress on making the small city an official, expanded port of entry into the United States. The senator has pushed hard for the move, and Mr. Huish has embraced it. “What gets me about Senator Kelly is, yes, we’re in touch with staff on the issues, but he personally calls me on a regular basis, and I feel comfortable calling him,” said Mr. Huish, who identifies as a strongly conservative Republican. “I’m sure he’s taken some heat from some of his party concerning the border, but he understands it.”

Persons: Mark Kelly, Kamala Harris’s, Donald Huish, Douglas, Kelly, Huish, ”, “ Organizations: Arizona Democrat, Republican Locations: Douglas, Ariz, Mexico, Arizona, United States

☆ G.O.P. Puts Israel and Antisemitism Front and Center, Courting U.S. Jews
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | More About Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Hamas’s brutal massacre in Israel and Israel’s retaliatory war in Gaza crashed into the Republican National Convention in prime time Wednesday night, as former President Donald J. Trump’s Republican Party moved to make Israel’s fight its own — and to further fracture the Democratic Party’s longstanding bond with American Jews. A coterie of fresh-faced fraternity brothers from the University of North Carolina was invited onstage to be celebrated for defending the American flag from pro-Palestinian protesters who had tried to take it down. An Orthodox Jewish student from Harvard, Shabbos Kestenbaum, castigated the Democratic Party he once supported as “ideologically poisoned” by “far-left antisemitic extremism.”And Orna and Ronen Neutra, the parents of an American citizen still held by Hamas in Gaza, led the crowd in a chant of “bring them home,” after recounting how Mr. Trump had called them after their son was taken hostage.

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☆ Vance Lays Out a Blue-Collar Vision That Clashes With Trump’s Record
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Vance, the Republicans’ vice-presidential nominee, has embraced a vision to lift the American working class with policies that would break radically with Republican economic orthodoxy, and at times with former President Donald J. Trump’s own plans. Now he faces questions from left-leaning and right-leaning economists on whether it would actually work. The broad vision, laid out in the Ohio senator’s acceptance speech on Wednesday night and through interviews and detailed somewhat in the truncated Republican platform, seeks to raise wages and restore American manufacturing in two basic ways: impose across-the-board tariffs on all imports to favor American-made products, and reduce downward pressure on wages by deporting millions of undocumented immigrants and narrowing the path into the country for legal immigrants. Meantime, the Republican platform, adopted just ahead of the convention, pledges to end inflation, increase energy production, stop sending manufacturing jobs overseas, cut taxes for workers and corporations, keep the dollar the world’s reserve currency and protect the largest domestic programs, Social Security and Medicare, from any cuts.

Persons: Vance, Donald J, Trump’s Organizations: Republicans ’, Republican, Social Security Locations: Ohio

On Today’s Episode:Takeaways From Day One of the Republican Convention, by Jonathan WeismanHow J.D. Vance Won Over Donald Trump, by Jonathan Swan and Maggie HabermanBystanders Warned Law Enforcement of the Gunman Two Minutes Before He Began Shooting, Video Shows, by David Botti, Malachy Browne, Haley Willis, Riley Mellen and Dmitriy KhavinJudge Dismisses Classified Documents Case Against Trump, by Alan FeuerThe World Is Pushing Clean Energy. Oil Companies Are Thriving, by Rebecca F. Elliott

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☆ Live Election Updates: R.N.C. to Spotlight Trump’s Hard-Line Vision on Immigration
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

A majority of its members have deep ties to Mr. Biden and were vetted for their loyalty to him, making it unlikely that his nomination will face significant dissent. Mr. Biden, during an interview with NBC News that aired on Monday, reiterated that he was not leaving the race. “Look, 14 million people voted for me to be the nominee in the Democratic Party, OK?” he said. changed its process to nominate Mr. Biden to accommodate an Aug. 7 deadline to place him on the ballot in Ohio. In recent days, Mr. Biden has held several meetings with Democrats in the House that have ended with mixed reviews.

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☆ In Leaked Phone Call, Trump Tries to Coax Kennedy Into His Camp
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | More About Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A leaked video of Donald J. Trump calling Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offered a behind-the-scenes look into the former president’s efforts to coax Mr. Kennedy out of the presidential race and into his camp. On Mr. Kennedy’s speaker phone, Mr. Trump, the Republican nominee, can be heard offering up the kind of anti-vaccine message that Mr. Kennedy is known for. Mr. Trump also reveals details of his call with President Biden, saying “it was very nice.” And he tells Mr. Kennedy, seemingly in an effort to win his support: “I would love you to do something. And we’re going to win.”Mr. Kennedy, the iconoclastic but struggling independent candidate, apologized for the leak almost immediately on X, the same social media site where the video appeared. “When President Trump called me I was taping with an in-house videographer,” he wrote.

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☆ Live Election Updates: G.O.P. Convention to Open as F.B.I. Hunts for Would-Be Assassin’s Motive
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

There is no place in America for this kind of violence — for any violence ever, period. “I’m sincerely grateful that he’s doing well and recovering,” Mr. Biden said. And the White House said that Mr. Biden would keep his campaign events in Las Vegas. Mr. Biden will speak at an NAACP conference on Tuesday and a UnidosUS conference on Wednesday, even as Mr. Trump and his party hold the Republican convention in Milwaukee. In both sets of remarks on Sunday, Mr. Biden made a plea that — if recent history is any guide — seemed unlikely to be heeded by activists on either side of the nation’s increasingly bitter divide.

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☆ As Biden Struggles, the Fight for the House Takes On New Importance
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

With President Biden struggling to right his listing re-election campaign, Democrats and Republicans are closely watching how the presidential contest is affecting races farther down the ballot. And no contest could prove more consequential than the razor-close battle for control of the House. Only four seats separate the Democratic Party from House control, a number still within the party’s grasp, even with the president’s struggles. But unless the party can turn around its bid to hold the White House, even that small hill could prove steep. That is because losing the White House would almost certainly cost Democrats the Senate as well.

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☆ The Everything Guide to Partying (Without Regrets)
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( George Gurley | Carson Griffith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

And don’t ask who else is coming. Romilly Newman, chef, food stylist, social media personality Don’t bring a guest to a seated dinner. Raul Tovar/Houses & Parties Rebecca Gardner Please don’t ask people to take off their shoes when entering your apartment. Bronson van Wyck Gosh, I don’t think you can avoid certain topics in 2024. But don’t think you’re décor.

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☆ Election Updates: A Democratic brawl in a Virginia race may put a House seat in play in November.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

One of the field’s top fund-raisers, Krystle Kaul, faces charges of embellishing her résumé well beyond the usual flourishes of a political campaign. Ms. Filler-Corn was the first woman and first Jewish speaker of the Virginia State House. Mr. Helmer is a Rhodes scholar and an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, Iraq, and as a member of the Virginia House. Then last week, an anonymous Democratic official, speaking through her lawyer, accused Mr. Helmer of groping her and later making sexually crude remarks. “That would be presumptuous.”Democratic voters in the district peppered by texts attacking Mr. Helmer could be forgiven if they do not know where to turn.

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☆ Trump Whistle-Blower Wins House Primary in Virginia
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | More About Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At the time, Mr. Biden was widely expected to be Mr. Trump’s opponent in the 2020 election. Eugene Vindman, who was dismissed from the White House early in 2020, he says as improper retaliation for his whistle-blowing actions, raised a remarkable sum of money for a first-time candidate. “I sacrificed my military career to expose Trump’s corruption,” Eugene Vindman said in one of his campaign ads. His election to the House is not guaranteed. But Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, won the district the year before by 4.9 points en route to winning the governor’s mansion.

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☆ In a Divided Nation, an Infrastructure Develops to Build Bridges
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | Jon Cherry For The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But over a structured brainstorming session in 2022, amid a weekend retreat with the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange, something clicked. Mr. Clay, 47, had a side project chronicling Kentucky’s Black Civil War veterans. Ms. Bishop, 34, during quiet hours alone studying the ecology of the Clay Hill Memorial Forest in Taylor County, Ky., had pondered the old stones that almost certainly marked the burial grounds of the once-enslaved, a forgotten memorial to a hidden past. An effort was born — the Enslaved People of Clay Hill, or EPOCH, Legacy Project — to officially recognize the burial ground. And a connection was made across the gulfs of race, age and geography.

Persons: Bernard Clay, Shaelyn Bishop, Clay, Bishop, — Organizations: Kentucky, Urban, Civil Locations: Louisville, Ky, Green County, Clay Hill, Taylor County

☆ Larry Hogan Incurs Trump’s Wrath After Telling Americans to ‘Respect the Verdict’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

With former President Donald J. Trump’s organization in full attack mode, former Gov. Larry Hogan’s path to the Senate in Maryland is getting considerably narrower. Mr. Hogan, a popular Republican in a strongly Democratic state and prized Senate recruit, has never tried to hide his disdain for Mr. Trump, the former president and presumptive nominee. “You just ended your campaign,” announced Chis LaCivita, a veteran Republican operative who serves as a senior campaign adviser to Mr. Trump and as an official at the Republican National Committee. Lara Trump, the Republican National Committee co-chair and Mr. Trump’s daughter-in-law, strongly denounced him on CNN.

Persons: Donald J, Larry Hogan’s, Hogan, Trump, “, ”, Chis LaCivita, Lara Trump, Trump’s Organizations: Senate, Democratic, Mr, Trump, Republican, Republican National Committee, CNN Locations: Maryland, Manhattan

☆ As Hunter Biden Stands Trial, a Republican Noise Machine Goes Silent
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For nearly four years, Republicans have delved into the darkest corners of Hunter Biden’s life, seeking to tie his troubles to his father, President Biden. But as the younger Biden stands trial in Delaware on gun charges, the case’s glaring political contradictions have rendered the G.O.P. It stands to reason: The baseless claim that the Biden Justice Department is running a political persecution of Mr. Trump is somewhat undermined by the department’s prosecution of the president’s son. So beyond the professional provocateurs in Washington and the right-wing media, Republicans have decided to say as little as possible. “I wouldn’t read too much into a lot of people not talking about it right now,” cautioned Representative Kelly Armstrong, Republican of North Dakota, and a leader of the House investigation of Hunter Biden.

Persons: Hunter, Biden, Donald J, Trump, Hunter Biden, ”, Kelly Armstrong, “ There’s Organizations: Republicans, Biden Justice Department, Republican Locations: Delaware, Washington, North Dakota

☆ The Governor, the Wolf and the Warden: A Fresh Look at a Gianforte Hunt
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“I said I wanted no part of it,” the warden, Justin Hawkaluk, recalled with a barely audible chuckle. Mr. Hawkaluk now says his sense of dread was warranted. The story of the governor, the wolf and the warden made few waves when it first broke. Mr. Gianforte was recorded as the killer of the animal, an adult black wolf, and given a warning for not having taken a required trapping course. A spokeswoman for the governor said Mr. Gianforte had “immediately rectified the mistake” by taking the course.

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