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Michael Sheen investigates cancer concern around chemical dumping

bbc.com/news/articles/czekx5g39elo

The Hollywood actor investigates claims cancer-causing chemicals were dumped across Wales.

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SEOs Taking Over Expired Google X Accounts

seroundtable.com/seo-expired-google-x-accounts-41844.html

It looks like we are seeing some Googler accounts being taken over by sites that sell SEO services, or dare I say it, spammy or low-quality SEO services. Martin Splitt from Google let his X account go during the whole Twitter to X Elon thing and eventually that account was picked up by a search engine indexing service.

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Cherokee Nation bans hyperscale data centers on tribally owned, trust lands | KOSU

kosu.org/cherokee-nation-bans-data-centers

Cherokee Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. wrote that the Tahlequah-based tribe, which has the most enrolled tribal members in the U.

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Trump's Childhood Vaccines Order Is a Public Health Risk - Bloomberg

bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-08-11/trump-s-childhood-vaccines-order-is-a-public-health-risk?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a7b0440b3146000015ae70d

No new evidence is being offered to justify the proposed overhaul, which arrived via executive order on Monday and calls for cutting back the number of vaccines children receive and instructing states to review their immunization laws — probably because there is no new data to support it.

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Louisiana warns of rise in flesh-eating bacteria infections

washingtonpost.com/health/2026/08/10/louisiana-warns-rise-flesh-eating-bacteria-vibrio-vulnificus/

Louisiana warns of rise in flesh-eating bacteria infections

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French media asks French anti-trust watchdog to act on Google's AI

reuters.com/world/french-media-asks-french-anti-trust-watchdog-act-googles-ai-2026-08-11/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a7b0698325a7500012a794e

French media have asked the ​country's anti-trust watchdog to ‌act on Google's artificial intelligence-generated article summaries ​which they say ​deprive them of traffic, ⁠a press trade association ​body said on ​Tuesday.

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Two Scrabble Superstars Explain Their Unbelievable Championship Match

defector.com/two-scrabble-superstars-explain-their-unbelievable-championship-match

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — In the quarter-century that I’ve been playing and writing about Scrabble—a game in which greatness requires that rare matrix of biological gift, yeoman preparation, preternatural vision, marathon endurance, and blind luck—I’ve never witnessed anything as shocking and painful as the end of the 2026 North American championship here in July. The…

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He Fired a Nazi Gun and Joked About Killing Old People. Republicans Don’t Seem Concerned.

nytimes.com/2026/08/10/opinion/brandon-herrera-republicans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4lA.weip.FQ7REbgy5cBW&smid=url-share

Because this is a family newspaper, I cannot quote the piquant term that Brandon Herrera, a Republican House candidate in Texas, used to refer to children in a 2023 video.

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Hot air: the bizarre effects climate change could have on radio

thereengineer.pro/p/hot-air-the-bizarre-effects-climate

Montage by Chris Baraniuk. Includes imagery from Risky Syahriadi and Moose Photos. One minute it was a British radio broadcast booming out of the studio speakers – then it suddenly switched. To Italian pop.

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Ken Paxton’s Political Operation Rakes In Data Center Donations as Texans Turn Against Industry

notus.org/technology/ken-paxton-data-centers-texas-senate-race-james-talarico

The Republican Senate candidate has tried to avoid data center fights. His Democratic opponent, James Talarico, has called for more regulations.

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Google Still Aggressively Poaching Agency Ads Accounts

seroundtable.com/google-poaching-agency-ads-accounts-41845.html

I feel like a broken record and that Google simply does not care but again, I am seeing numerous reports from the PPC community about Google representatives attempting to poach their client accounts from them.

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Lauren Boebert’s son charged with sexual exploitation

coloradosun.com/2026/08/10/lauren-boebert-son-charged-with-sexual-exploitation/

Tyler Boebert was released from jail on $10,000 bond on Sunday, the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office said.

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“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers

The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...

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Italy’s $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral

fortune.com/2026/08/10/italy-5-billion-cheese-economy-heat-wave-climate-change/

Extreme heat is straining the vaults that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral, and economists say the damage runs wider than the vault

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Why transforming your operating model for AI is imperative

ibm.com/think/leadership/the-billion-dollar-misfire/ai-operating-model

Despite widespread investment in AI, only a small group of
companies is seeing significant returns. High performers are
redesigning how they operate around AI, systematically embedding
intelligence, action, operations and trust across workflows.

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Here's How the WNBA Can Win the Anti-Trans Controversy

burnsnotice.com/heres-how-the-wnba-can-win-the-anti-trans-controversy/

The league has a golden opportunity to make a definitive and educational point about trans athletes–if it has the courage to do it

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A different time, a different web: Looking back at search before Google

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/remembering-the-pre-google-web-when-search-was-an-experiment/?utm_social-type=owned

Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was."

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Trump administration order would upend nation’s childhood vaccine schedule

washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/10/trump-administration-order-would-upend-nations-childhood-vaccine-schedule/

Trump administration order would upend nation’s childhood vaccine schedule

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RFK Jr. is targeting a decades-old loophole allowing chemicals in food supply

washingtonpost.com/health/2026/08/10/rfk-jr-slated-unveil-plan-targeting-loophole-that-allows-chemicals-food-supply/

RFK Jr. is targeting a decades-old loophole allowing chemicals in food supply

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Inside the Making of The Odyssey with Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, and Christopher Nolan

gq.com/story/matt-damon-robert-pattinson-tom-holland-cover-interview-summer-2026

How Hollywood’s three leading-est men led a cast and crew of hundreds to help Nolan create his most epic and ambitious blockbuster to date

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The Outlaw Chemist Teaching People How to Make Drugs From Scratch

wired.com/story/the-outlaw-chemist-teaching-people-how-to-make-drugs-from-scratch/

Willy Myco has made over 120 videos showing people his exact process for making everything from LSD to DMT vapes. Not everyone’s a fan of his methods.

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Confessions of a Token Black Professor

theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/09/elite-academia-leadership-hypocrisy/687969/?gift=Klof0Wgy0RTUKQp48ZrIq5m1748zyYmXfkJ32BizNR0

Much of @Tyler_A_Harper’s academic career had felt like a fairy tale. When he landed a tenure-track job, one adviser said that it was like “watching the last dinosaur being born.” But a few years at Bates College shattered his faith in academia:

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People are refusing transfusions from donors vaccinated against covid

newscientist.com/article/2523157-people-are-refusing-transfusions-from-donors-vaccinated-against-covid/

Patients are requesting that blood transfusions come from people who they know have not been vaccinated against covid-19, which can cause dangerous delays

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I Spy with My Little Eye . . . a Spy | The New Yorker

newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/17/i-spy-with-my-little-eye-a-spy

Atlanta has more street cameras per capita than anywhere outside of China. On a walking tour of the city, can anti-surveillance vigilantes spot—and dodge—them all?

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Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole from Walmart, Kroger over salmonella risk

reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/taylor-farms-pulls-salsa-guacamole-over-salmonella-concerns-bloomberg-news-2026-08-09/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a7922c8dd72780001fe7b9e

Taylor Farms said on Sunday it was recalling prepared food items containing jalapenos from ‌retailers, including Walmart, Kroger and Whole Foods in some states, over concerns about potential salmonella contamination.

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Trump can’t lie his way out of a missile shortage

publicnotice.co/p/us-munitions-shortage-iran

All the obfuscation in the world won't make munitions.

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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

futurism.com/science-energy/diarrhea-lettuce-taylor-farms-prison-labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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Jo Bromilow: AI can’t go mainstream without women – or an influencer trip?

thedrum.com/opinion/jo-bromilow-ai-will-not-go-mainstream-without-the-approval-of-women?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

Recently, OpenAI invited a group of ‘lifestyle tech’ influencers to what could best be described as a wilderness retreat – call it DataCenter Parcs – where creators reconnected with the natural world through sound baths, meditation, foraging and candle-making, the sort of event Dove might run in the next mountain lodge to promote a new moisturizer.

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As US Offshore Wind Disappears, a Generation of Workers Is Left Behind

insideclimatenews.org/news/09082026/us-offshore-wind-disappears-leaving-workers-behind/

Building trades spent the past five years preparing for an offshore wind boom that went bust. Now, U.S. workers mourn the well-paying careers they don’t see coming back.