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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
The truth is, most of the groups and organizations that make up our movements do not have a strategy for winning. They might think they have a strategy.
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futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-hide-debt-off-balance-sheet
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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hearingthings.co/how-i-became-a-beatmaker-by-watching-other-people-make-beats/
A first-time beatmaker’s case for the nuances of developing style and gatekeeping within rap production.
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Ross McElwee's documentaries have always been personal. After his son died, he wondered if it was all worth it.
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propublica.org/article/alice-sebold-anthony-broadwater-rape-exoneration-syracuse
Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for years with little consequence have only deepened.
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wired.com/story/people-are-getting-off-to-content-about-ice-raids/
MAGA-coded adult content playing off immigration crackdowns, white supremacy, and obeying the “natural order” is finding rabid audiences on X.
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The cyclospora diarrhea outbreak isn't an isolated incident. It's part of a pattern of leafy greens wreaking digestive havoc.
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nytimes.com/2026/07/25/world/asia/india-protests-profiles.html?smid=bsky-nytimes&smtyp=cur
A crowd of thousands was mobilized by a call by the leaders of a youth movement to reform India’s troubled education system and to push for the resignation of the country’s education minister, blamed for botching a college-entrance exam that left millions in the lurch.
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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is perhaps the most highly anticipated new film of the 2020s. It has already received near-universal acclaim from film critics and earned more at the box office in its opening weekend than any of Nolan’s previous films, including The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and Oppenheimer (2023). It has only been out … Continue reading "An Ancient Historian’s Breakdown of Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’"
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theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/25/zohran-mamdani-small-business-policies
Initiatives including cutting permits just to serve ice-cream amount to a sweeping program of deregulation
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futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/friends-colleagues-recording-conversation
People in tech circles are carefully recording every single conversation they're having — not just at work but in their private lives as well.
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Karen Rebelo reports on incidents of abuse caused by use of Meta's wearable tech.
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vox.com/politics/496759/wisconsin-kalshi-right-vote-bet-wager-new-york
It may be a big problem for Kalshi and Polymarket.
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science.org/content/blog-post/assault-science-funding-continues
Time for another note about the Trump administration’s approach to funding US science. But let me make something clear right up front.
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Trump’s insult-laden speech to press dinner draws mostly stunned silence
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theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/25/flock-surveillance-cameras
An underground network of privacy activists is disabling or destroying the ubiquitous surveillance devices sprouting up across the US
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West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.
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“What do we do here? ” he asked as he kicked off his speech at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner redo in Washington on Friday night.
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ew.com/john-cusack-makes-rare-comment-about-why-he-stopped-making-movies-12026875
“Nobody edited anything I wrote or that he drew. So it’s really a piece of work that was just done by two people,” Cusack said of himself and Noé.
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President Trump was entranced.
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ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/24/poll-americans-dont-think-recipients-are-ripping-off-medicaid/
Despite attempts to portray Medicaid recipients as bilking the system, Americans think providers are responsible for any fraud.
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We all know a Steve
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hyperallergic.com/protesters-decry-chinatown-museums-acceptance-of-jail-money-at-town-hall/
Leaders of New York’s Museum of Chinese failed to persuade protesters that a $35 million grant from the city was not tied to the construction of a borough jail.
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thelocal.de/20260724/how-workers-in-germany-can-reclaim-vacation-days-when-they-get-sick-on-holiday
Falling ill during a holiday does not always mean losing your annual leave. But employees in Germany must follow strict reporting rules from day one to get those days back.
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Valve made the eInk Steam Machine faceplate open source to see what the community could do. We're already seeing results.
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nytimes.com/2020/04/04/opinion/bill-withers-coronavirus.html
The three-time Grammy Award winning artist has died. In this moment of isolation, I wanted to see him alive again. And I did.
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Hightouch, the leading Composable CDP and Agentic Marketing Platform, announced Exposure Log Matching for The Trade Desk. The new Match Booster capability resolves The Trade Desk's Raw Event Data Stream (REDS) logs directly to a brand's own customer and household IDs, landing the data in the customer's warehouse for measurement, reporting, and AI analysis.
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Peptide boom has states scrambling to protect consumers, Post investigation finds
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roncharles.substack.com/p/the-book-banning-bill-that-wont-die
What looked like political theater is becoming a genuine threat to the freedom to read.
