A young canine trying to outsmart a City Hall security guard yesterday ended up bringing together more than a dozen downtown residents, workers and tourists, who got the overheated dog to shelter. I first encountered the lost dog as I left City Hall.
It appears the race is on to see whether it will be the EU or the US in promulgating worse regulations around generative AI tools. The EU (as has been its MO over the last few years) is taking the lead. A few weeks back the EU Parliament passed a draft regulation for AI. There’s […]
The solo career of the late Pink Floyd guitarist and co-founder Syd Barrett is being celebrated by Jack White’s Third Man Records. The label, in conjunction with Sony Music, will release a three-LP set of…
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports the university's education and research efforts, raised a record amount during fiscal 2023.
Text messages are offering a new window into St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones' thinking, as she questions a pair of longtime allies and offers a more nuanced view of gun control and its affect on reducing violent crime.
Five years after he first announced it, Elton John's Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour finally comes to an end Saturday, July 8, in Stockholm, Sweden. It's officially the highest-grossing tour of…
On Wednesday Meta launched Threads, a new social media app designed to compete with Twitter. It's already signed up 30 million users, and you'd think this would be broadly welcomed since Twitter users have been bitching forever that Twitter is a cesspool that's only gotten worse since it was purchased last year and subjected to ...continue reading "Threads needs a little time before it descends into bedlam"