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hellgatenyc.com/yu-me-books-gets-the-beautiful-documentary-it-deserves/
A short about the beloved Chinatown bookstore opens at the Asian American International Film Festival this weekend.
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I had no words for myself in the late 1980s when I obsessed over Metroid in the basement, only ideas. Desires that questioned the body, how it might be broken down and rebuilt into something better, even when I was so young.
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metro.co.uk/2026/08/07/wetherspoons-bans-meta-spy-glasses-800-pubs-29325109/
Spoons has taken a stand amid the privacy concerns.
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Metroid and the Male Gaze
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newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/03/what-would-it-mean-to-see-a-new-color
A new color called olo can be described as the “greenest green.” It can never be captured by a camera, but its development tells us a lot about how vision works.
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As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
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robertreich.substack.com/p/the-enshittification-of-everything
And how to disempower the oligarchy
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wired.com/story/hackers-stalked-me-by-hijacking-a-smartwatch-for-kids/
Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.
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chess.com/news/view/keanu-reeves-mitchell-avila-madwomans-game-chess
Bianca Mitchell-Avila’s chess documentary Madwoman’s Game premiered in California, where she beat executive producer Keanu Reeves twice on stage.
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startribune.com/ice-hennepin-county-sheriff-immigration/601875693
The office said Sheriff Dawanna Witt received immigration subpoenas over a failure to give access to inmates for deportation.
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'Even if this was a genre popularised by human artists, it would still look like shit'
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USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday.
In its Q2 earnings call Thursday morning, USA Today Co. chairman and CEO Mike Reed told investors he expects the partnership to "strengthen how we collect, …
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wsj.com/tech/meta-ordered-to-pay-942-million-to-address-harm-to-kids-from-social-media-8ba5aab7
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Last August, a Heatmap News poll found that approximately four in 10 voters would oppose a data center being built where they live. By May of this year, opposition grew to seven in 10.
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What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.
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Accountant Mark Goodman tried to explain it to his clients delicately: setting up an offshore corporation in the Cayman Islands to hold their New York City pied-à-terre wouldn’t get them out of the new tax on second homes.
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AI images are a new form of structural violence, writes Eugenia Stamboliev—not through what we see, but through whom we do not see.
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Only one band could have been enshrined as the first of this newsletter’s canonical artists. Here be the Gories.
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Screaming, dancing, and nearly fainting at a bucket list show that far exceeded my impossibly high expectations.
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variety.com/2026/tv/news/fcc-eliminates-tv-station-ownership-cap-nexstar-broadcaster-1236829194/
The FCC has formally voted 2-1 to eliminate longstanding restrictions on the ownership of TV stations, a move that is sure to draw legal challenges.
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FAA probing safety incident involving Trump’s helicopter, passenger jet
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Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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Elon Musk's DOGE made big errors in claims of government savings, GAO finds
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A public report urges the CFTC to ban prediction market contracts on destructive wildfires, raising concerns over public safety and potential arson.
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Blood farms and custom guitars: TVL production designer Andres Cubillan shares insights into the season’s most memorable setpieces.
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ctinsider.com/columnist/article/powerful-americans-escape-accountability-22372721.php
Philip Bump argues that political allies, investors and public cynicism allow wealthy and influential Americans to operate without accountability.
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The New Yorker’s Jessica Winter this week dissected Scott Galloway’s new book on masculinity, Notes on Being a Man, with an expert scalpel. According to Winter, Galloway tacitly agrees with right-wing influencers, like the late Charlie Kirk, that “young American men are in terrible and unprecedented straits, and
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A mantra to value our time and leverage our moments of impact
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theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/976004/elon-musk-grokipedia-ai-wikipedia-not-updating-dead
You can still suggest articles and edits, but nothing seems to be changing.
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disgruntledharadrim.com/2026/08/04/africa-fantasy-and-worldbuilding/
Movie still featuring royal family in film adaptation of Children of Blood and Bone Over the past few weeks there’s been a lot of discourse about the film adaptation of Nigerian-American writ…
