The holiday edition!

3 min readOct 9, 2023

Hi! Here are a few headlines I found around the Web (as we used to call it).

Speaker fight fallout: Pelosi, Maryland’s Hoyer lose Capitol hideaways.

Hideaways? Are we talking about speakeasies here? 🙂 (You guys know what a speakeasy is?)

Let’s see:

Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, and House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, D-California, were evicted Tuesday from their United States Capitol hideaway offices in the aftermath of the ousting of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
The ejection of Hoyer and Pelosi from their hideaway offices was one of the first acts of the new interim speaker, Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-North Carolina.

Oh, well that sucks.

Maryland’s push to phase out gas-powered car sales by 2035. And, as they say, good luck with that.

Here’s some EPA info on green vehicles.

And The New York Times asks the question: How Green Are Electric Vehicles?

Oh, here’s an article that mentions Serial (that true crime podcast that was so hot and all). It’s also a news story about a case being appealed to the highest court in Maeyland. Which mentions Serial.

Finally, from POV, Between Earth & Sky.

And then it was Sunday and I added these!

We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending To Believe (and Maybe You Should Too).

In anti-drag Texas, ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ is now a political act.

Been to a few parties like that. Back in the day! 🙂 Tim Curry was not there, but people dressed for the occasion, you could say. 🙂

How Big Tech is co-opting the rising stars of artificial intelligence.

How exciting is that? 🙂

In 2021, a group of engineers abandoned OpenAI, concerned that the pioneering artificial intelligence company had become too focused on making money. Instead, they formed Anthropic, a public-benefit corporation dedicated to creating responsible AI. This week, the do-gooders at Anthropic threw in with a surprisingly corporate partner, announcing a deal with Amazon worth up to $4 billion. The arrangement highlights how AI’s insatiable need for computing power is pushing even the most anti-corporate start-ups into the arms of Big Tech.

Yeah, I can think of a few other folks who have a pretty cozy relationship with Amazon. Not that they think they have a choice.

Meanwhile …

Tech giants ramp up cloud security under pressure from Washington. (My one and only gift link from The Washington Post and it’s big-hearted owner, Jeff “The Awesome One” Bezos.)

Finally, what a fitting end. 🙂

Kathleen Parker: The dead live on as long as the living remember.