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- Shortage of Madison police officers reason for Dane Dances cancellation
Protest activity, including at the intersection of Williamson and Baldwin streets, is requiring extra police presence, resulting in no staff available for security at the Monona Terrace event. Source: Isthmus.com [TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - 2026 Indian Chief Vintage Sturgis SD Edition to Debut at 86th Annual Sturgis Ral...
Indian Motorcycle celebrates the 86th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and Indian’s role in that inaugural 1938 rally with a new limited-edition model, the Indian Chief Vintage Sturgis SD Edition. 2026 Indian Chief Vintage Sturgis SD Edition The rally’s roots can be traced to a 1938 one-day event called the Black Hills Motor Classic. Organized by Indian dealer Clarence “Pappy” Hoel, the event featured racing and stunts, as well as a Gypsy Tour ride through Custer State Park organized by Pappy’s wife, Pearl. Nine racers competed, including eight Indians and one Harley. Only 175 people attended the 1938 event, but it gained steam and grew, despite being cancelled in 1942 and 1943 due to gas rationing. The new Indian Chief Vintage Sturgis SD Edition celebrates Indian’s place in the rally’s history with special paint and badging inspired by Indians of the 1930s. It features a classic two-tone Indian Motorcycle Red and Cream paint with a multicolored Indian Motorcycle headdress logo. Paying tribute to the numbers that the 1938 racers painted on their race bikes is a painted number 56 on the side plate. In honor of Indian’s 125th anniversary, 125 individually serialized motorcycles will be produced. A multicolored headdress logo adorns the fuel tank. “When you look at how far it’s come and how much it’s grown over almost 90 years, it’s amazing to think that it was an Indian Motorcycle dealer and a group of Indian Motorcycle riders that literally started it all,” said Mike Kennedy, CEO of Indian Motorcycle. “What’s even cooler is the fact that back then, it was all based on a simple desire to come together in celebration of a lifestyle and a spirit of freedom that can only be found through motorcycle riding, and it remains the same to this day. This bike is special in that it pays homage to those origins and to that spirit that all riders share.” The Indian Chief Vintage is a new model for 2026, reviving the name of a model that debuted in 2013 when Polaris relaunched Indian Motorcycle at the Sturgis Rally of that year. It’s based on the Chief platform that debuted in 2022. The Vintage is powered by an air-cooled Thunderstroke 116 V-Twin and features classic styling touches such as valanced fenders, wire-spoke wheels, and a solo floating seat. Compared to the 2013 model of the same name, the 2026 Vintage… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - Hot pursuitA 72-year-old driver in a Cadillac never exceeded the speed limit while being chased by Madison police officers. Source: Isthmus.com [TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
- Behind the Isthmus cover: August 2026Photographer Miki Pope has actively chronicled the protests that followed the fatal shooting of Corey Ruiz on Williamson Street. Source: Isthmus.com [TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
- The Risks of a Chatbot Childhood
The human brain has evolved to learn from specific instructors. When a child hears a gentle spoken word or a soothing lullaby from another person, when their cry is responded to, their brain lights up. Nurturing interactions, or what child-development experts call “serve and return” exchanges, help shape and strengthen the 1 million new neural connections taking place in a child’s brain every single second. Every time a child cries or serves up a bid for attention and receives a caregiver’s response, that back-and-forth helps build the circuits underlying their communication, learning, and emotional well-being. No other input, not even Johann Pachelbel’s Canon in D performed by the Berlin Philharmonic, is capable of activating the neural circuitry the way human interaction does.Until now. Generative AI may be the first technology in history sophisticated enough to mimic the social interactions that build our brains. Research has demonstrated that infants as young as six months old respond physiologically to interactions with humanoid robots in ways that mirror their response to live humans; another, small-scale experimental study recently found that, after young children interacted with a chatbot, most of them for the first time, they asserted that the AI could perceive the world with humanlike senses and understand and learn as people do.This technology is already showing up in children’s lives. The talking plush robot that purports to be a child’s best friend is obviously driven by AI, but many parents may not realize that their Amazon Echo recently received a software update that converts the Alexa voice assistant into a full-blown chatbot, using the same fundamental tech that fuels ChatGPT; toddlers asking for information about animals or a joke or a bedtime story may quickly find themselves in the habit of engaging socially with a large language model.As a pediatric surgeon, researcher, and technologist who has spent decades studying how children’s brains develop, I am concerned about these technologies rolling out and being used by children in the home and at school before we have a full sense of their safety and what they do to young minds. And I am compelled to point out what we do know about human development: that human connection, in all of its imperfection, is foundational to brain development. It can’t be engineered or recovered later.When a disruption as significant as the AI revolution occurs, people might look for a comparison to make sense of the… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
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Protest activity, including at the intersection of Williamson and Baldwin streets, is requiring extra police presence, resulting in no staff available for security at the Monona Terrace event. Source: Isthmus.com [TheTopNews] Read More.
1 week ago
Indian Motorcycle celebrates the 86th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and Indian’s role in that inaugural 1938 rally with a new limited-edition model, the Indian Chief Vintage Sturgis SD Edition. 2026 Indian Chief Vintage Sturgis SD Edition The rally’s roots can be traced to a 1938 one-day event called the Black Hills Motor Classic. Organized by Indian dealer Clarence “Pappy” Hoel, the event featured racing and stunts, as well as a Gypsy Tour ride through Custer State Park organized by Pappy’s wife, Pearl. Nine racers competed, including eight Indians and one Harley. Only 175 people attended the 1938 event, but it gained steam and grew, despite being cancelled in 1942 and 1943 due to gas rationing. The new Indian Chief Vintage Sturgis SD Edition celebrates Indian’s place in the rally’s history with special paint and badging inspired by Indians of the 1930s. It features a classic two-tone Indian Motorcycle Red and Cream paint with a multicolored Indian Motorcycle headdress logo. Paying tribute to the numbers that the 1938 racers painted on their race bikes is a painted number 56 on the side plate. In honor of Indian’s 125th anniversary, 125 individually serialized motorcycles will be produced. A multicolored headdress logo adorns the fuel tank. “When you look at how far it’s come and how much it’s grown over almost 90 years, it’s amazing to think that it was an Indian Motorcycle dealer and a group of Indian Motorcycle riders that literally started it all,” said Mike Kennedy, CEO of Indian Motorcycle. “What’s even cooler is the fact that back then, it was all based on a simple desire to come together in celebration of a lifestyle and a spirit of freedom that can only be found through motorcycle riding, and it remains the same to this day. This bike is special in that it pays homage to those origins and to that spirit that all riders share.” The Indian Chief Vintage is a new model for 2026, reviving the name of a model that debuted in 2013 when Polaris relaunched Indian Motorcycle at the Sturgis Rally of that year. It’s based on the Chief platform that debuted in 2022. The Vintage is powered by an air-cooled Thunderstroke 116 V-Twin and features classic styling touches such as valanced fenders, wire-spoke wheels, and a solo floating seat. Compared to the 2013 model of the same name, the 2026 Vintage… [TheTopNews] Read More.
1 week ago
A 72-year-old driver in a Cadillac never exceeded the speed limit while being chased by Madison police officers. Source: Isthmus.com [TheTopNews] Read More.
1 week ago
Photographer Miki Pope has actively chronicled the protests that followed the fatal shooting of Corey Ruiz on Williamson Street. Source: Isthmus.com [TheTopNews] Read More.
1 week ago
The human brain has evolved to learn from specific instructors. When a child hears a gentle spoken word or a soothing lullaby from another person, when their cry is responded to, their brain lights up. Nurturing interactions, or what child-development experts call “serve and return” exchanges, help shape and strengthen the 1 million new neural connections taking place in a child’s brain every single second. Every time a child cries or serves up a bid for attention and receives a caregiver’s response, that back-and-forth helps build the circuits underlying their communication, learning, and emotional well-being. No other input, not even Johann Pachelbel’s Canon in D performed by the Berlin Philharmonic, is capable of activating the neural circuitry the way human interaction does.Until now. Generative AI may be the first technology in history sophisticated enough to mimic the social interactions that build our brains. Research has demonstrated that infants as young as six months old respond physiologically to interactions with humanoid robots in ways that mirror their response to live humans; another, small-scale experimental study recently found that, after young children interacted with a chatbot, most of them for the first time, they asserted that the AI could perceive the world with humanlike senses and understand and learn as people do.This technology is already showing up in children’s lives. The talking plush robot that purports to be a child’s best friend is obviously driven by AI, but many parents may not realize that their Amazon Echo recently received a software update that converts the Alexa voice assistant into a full-blown chatbot, using the same fundamental tech that fuels ChatGPT; toddlers asking for information about animals or a joke or a bedtime story may quickly find themselves in the habit of engaging socially with a large language model.As a pediatric surgeon, researcher, and technologist who has spent decades studying how children’s brains develop, I am concerned about these technologies rolling out and being used by children in the home and at school before we have a full sense of their safety and what they do to young minds. And I am compelled to point out what we do know about human development: that human connection, in all of its imperfection, is foundational to brain development. It can’t be engineered or recovered later.When a disruption as significant as the AI revolution occurs, people might look for a comparison to make sense of the… [TheTopNews] Read More.
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