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“Defenders of Platner wrote off the tattoo as a drunken mistake; one wonders whether other candidates, perhaps those who were not white men, would be forgiven for a similar transgression. And while it always seemed unlikely that the tattoo reflected any secret Nazi allegiance on Platner’s part – frankly, it was difficult to imagine him thinking that hard – the likelier explanation was damning in its own right: that he was habitually drunk and thoughtless, that he had shallow commitments and bad judgment, and that he was recklessly oblivious, if not indifferent, to the hierarchies of race and gender, or to the gravity of history. Someone who can wear a Nazi tattoo with a cavalier irony is not someone suited to the responsibilities of the Senate.”
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Meet Davy’s naked-backed bat (Pteronotus davyi)! This species, which can be found in parts of Central and South America, preys mostly on moths and flies. It uses echolocation to hunt by night, and can detect prey as small as 0.08 in (0.2 cm) in size from nearly 2.46 ft (0.75 m) away in darkness. Often feeding above water, this bat also has the ability to drink on the go—a phenomenon known as “drinking on the wing.”
Gorgonavis alcyone was an enantiornithean bird that lived in what is now Spain during the early Cretaceous, about 129-126 million years ago.
Enantiornitheans were a diverse and abundant group of Mesozoic birds that retained claws on their wings and often had toothy snouts instead of beaks, and many also had ribbon-like display feathers on their tails instead of lift-generating fans. While they externally looked a lot like modern birds they weren't ancestral to any living forms — instead they represented a separate "cousin" lineage to euornitheans that convergently evolved similar features and lifestyles.
Although known only from an isolated skull, Gorgonavis would probably have been around 14cm long (~5.5") with an estimated wingspan of 30cm (~12"). It seems to have been a close relative of long-snouted enantiornitheans like Longipteryx, having similar elongated jaws with teeth only at the tips.
If it was a longipterygid it would be the oldest known member of that group and the only one currently known outside of China, suggesting that particular family was much more widespread than previously thought.
Longipterygids were traditionally interpreted as kingfisher-like birds specialized to prey on insects or fish, but two specimens from China with preserved gut contents recently demonstrated that they may actually have been frugivores feeding on the fleshy fruit-like seeds of gymnosperm plants.
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Nebreda, Sergio M., et al. "An isolated skull from Las Hoyas (Early Cretaceous, Spain) informs the early evolution towards elongated rostra in enantiornithine birds (Aves, Ornithothoraces)." Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 145 (2026): 251-265. https://doi.org/10.3897/sjp.145.182813
O’Connor, Jingmai, et al. "Direct evidence of frugivory in the Mesozoic bird Longipteryx contradicts morphological proxies for diet." Current Biology 34.19 (2024): 4559-4566. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.08.012
Wikipedia contributors. “Gorgonavis” Wikipedia, 17 Jun. 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgonavis
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In response to a public records request, HUD has withheld documents about DOGE’s use of AI—in part by citing a privilege that doesn’t exist.
Members of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who were working at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) used artificial intelligence to inform policy decisions. Now, the agency appears to be denying Freedom of Information Act requests for information on the development and use of AI tools, and the way they informed policy decisions, according to documents obtained by a FOIA request by Democracy Forward, a nonprofit legal organization.
Last year, WIRED reported that Christopher Sweet, who was then a third-year student at the University of Chicago, had joined the DOGE team at HUD, along with Scott Langmack, who came to DOGE from a property technology startup called Kukun. Sweet’s primary focus, according to HUD employees who spoke to WIRED at the time, was on using artificial intelligence to identify agency rules for potential rescission, or contract cancellations, as part of a similar effort across the government.
At the time, HUD staffers told WIRED that employees were being looped in to give feedback on regulations that were flagged by the AI for rescission. Other employees, however, described the effort as redundant.
Sweet graduated from the University of Chicago in June with a degree in economics; Langmack is now the executive director of deregulation AI at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), under the Executive Office of the President, according to his LinkedIn.
More than 100 documents that had been requested by Democracy Forward about HUD’s AI use for decisionmaking were withheld. Among the reasons HUD cited for not releasing documents were a nonexistent AI privilege and a privilege for presidential communications that is real but generally held to apply only to the president and their immediate advisers. Several of the withheld documents, whose names are shared in the FOIA but whose contents remain unknown, appear to indicate that the DOGE team at HUD was using AI tools to help make policy decisions.
Sweet, Langmack, HUD, OMB, and the White House did respond to requests for comment.
One document, labeled “GPT defined Econ Analysis approach 11 10 25.docx,” which belonged to Langmack, was exempted from FOIA because it was labeled as “deliberative AI input.” Another document, titled “RegulatoryAnalysisPrompt.pdf,” also belonging to Langmack, appears to indicate that the DOGE team was looking into creating prompts to conduct regulatory analysis. Several of the other documents that were withheld for being part of the deliberative process were labeled as some form of “regulatory analysis” for different HUD programs, though it is not clear if AI was used in their creation.
Tori Noble, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says that the lack of transparency around how AI tools might be used in the creating or changing policy is particularly worrisome, because tools have been known to hallucinate, show bias, or just plain get things wrong. “It’s not necessarily the case that we'd always know how tools are being used,” she says. “So having access to the prompts is really the best way to be able to tell what officials are using these tools for and how harmful those uses might be.”
There are currently no laws in the US that require the government to disclose if AI has been used in the creation of rules, policies, or regulation.
“If AI is being used to assess policy as one of the tools in the toolkit, I think at this stage in the development and use of AI, it is good protocol to indicate that,” says Mark Fagan, a lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School. “In part to try and build confidence in the use of AI in government.”
But Fagan says that he can see a way that AI could be used in a kind of deliberative process that may not necessarily warrant disclosure. “If I am reviewing policy to decide where I want to prune or redesign or appeal or enhance policy, and I go and Google, ‘How has this been done by others?’ I don't disclose that,” says Fagan. “It is part of my embedded process.” Fagan also notes that often it may take several prompts to work through a problem or question, and so “from a technical perspective I think much of it is deliberative.”
Since many of the documents were withheld from Democracy Forward’s request, it’s also difficult to exactly ascertain how AI was being employed.
There are nine different reasons the government can deny a FOIA request, including, for instance, if a document would reveal personal information or trade secrets. Nearly all of the documents from HUD are labeled as withheld due to Exemption 5, which allows agencies to withhold information under what’s known as “deliberative process privilege.” This protects material where federal workers may be workshopping or giving feedback on new or changing policy and regulations.
“If there is a deliberative process, occurring between human beings that work for the agency, where the material is both pre-decisional and leading up to some sort of decision, that might be a justifiable assertion of deliberative process privilege there,” says John Davisson, deputy director of enforcement at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Davisson says this is meant to encourage “candor” so that government employees can debate policies and give their honest feedback without fear. In many cases, the reason for the exemption is listed as “deliberation of process” or sometimes “attorney-client privilege.”
But in a handful of cases, HUD’s FOIA office denied the request for certain documents, citing “draft of AI prompt” and “deliberative AI input” as reasons.
Documents labeled “Prompt.pdf” and “PROMPT+AB2(alr)+ab.dox” were exempted because they were labeled “deliberation of AI prompt.” Similar exemptions occurred for a number of other documents.
“There is no AI exemption under FOIA,” says Davisson, noting that any deliberation done between a person and an AI chatbot should not qualify for the exemption, because “AI systems, computers are not entitled to candor.”
Another document labeled “DFR Template_Workflow Prompt Directory (3).pdf” was exempted because it involved “deliberation of regulatory changes” and “presidential communications privilege.” This reason, according to Davisson, raises “questions about where the prompts may have come from.”
“It's concerning that the government is shielding records about how it uses AI in policymaking. If the government is going to use AI in formulating policy that affects us all, the public has a right to understand its impact,” says Dan McGrath, senior oversight counsel at Democracy Forward. “Withholding AI input into the policy process as deliberative and privileged raises serious questions. Existing privileges are meant to ensure that public officials share their candid views, not to shield the impact of AI's impact on our government.”
the henslow’s sparrow is a small passerine bird found in north america. they are often found in brushy grassland habitat along with marshes. during the breeding season, they are found in southern canada and the northeastern united states; during colder winter months, they migrate to the southeastern united states. they are omnivorous feeders that eat insects, berries, and seeds. their call is a quick see-lick.
Nature photographer Curt Fonger stumbled upon a bobcat sitting atop a 40 foot tall Saguaro cactus in the Arizona desert. The animal was apparently taking refuge from a nearby mountain lion.
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Long-tongued, termite-munching numbats are no longer endangered due to decades of successful conservation efforts, the global authority on the status of the natural world says.
Also known as banded anteaters, the status of the pint-sized marsupial has improved to near-threatened on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List.
''Today's assessments show that long-term, strategic and collaborative conservation effort works,'' conservation biologistJohn Woinarski said on Friday.
''Without it, invasive cats and foxes will continue to drive Australia's small marsupials and native rodents to extinction.''
Read more: Numbats no longer endangered but threat far from over - The Australian Museum Blog
Something about the bastardization of the story time and time again proves that nobody in power really cares about the people who would resonate with King’s Carrie White. A girl so ugly and repulsive she’s been removed from her own story. The societal need for women and girls to be constantly perceived as attractive is what fuels a fair amount of her torment in the book, but that person isn’t even allowed to exist on the screen. We cannot empathize with her; it isn’t allowed. It’s fascinating to me.
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NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming
"The Trump administration is abandoning its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally, according to an official document obtained by NPR.
The document shows that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing a proposed rule that would have blocked all Medicaid and Medicare funding for hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care."
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I really hope attenborough just keeps going, I hope he hits 200 but everyone is too nervous to like bring it up or study him or whatever cuz it's david attenborough
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