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Japan Is Startled by Prime Minister’s Grueling Sleep Schedule

nytimes.com/2026/07/22/world/asia/japan-takaichi-sleep-schedule.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

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Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/judge-approves-anthropics-1-5-billion-copyright-settlement-with-authors/

Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.

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If His Shitty AI Movie Is What Finally Taught You Neill Blomkamp Is A Hack, Then So Be It

aftermath.site/neill-blomkamp-ai-movie/

It's 13 minutes of nothing

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Oligarchy and the Media - Paul Krugman

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/oligarchy-and-the-media

Can the takeover be stopped?

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Texas billionaire with Nazi art collection lends sculptures to White House

chron.com/culture/article/trump-harlan-crow-statues-22354019.php

Dallas real estate developer and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow's art collection is again in the news. 

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But wait / Be here now

flaminghydra.com/issue-601/

Tom Tomorrow gets a surprise visitor—and when is the future, asks Annalee Newitz

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Deportation Orders Soar in NYC as Trump ‘Mega Master’ Hearings Accelerate

thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/21/deportation-removal-immigration-orders-mega-master-trump/

A new report finds removal orders for people who missed hastily scheduled hearings more than doubled in New York City in June.

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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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Girls Can Tell by Spoon is a Perfect Album

medium.com/@Elana_Levin/girls-can-tell-by-spoon-is-a-perfect-album-d3a256fb4f81

My close read of a perfect album by a band that gets the balance of retro and modern just right.

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MS NOW Ratings Skyrocket as Fox News Hits Double Trouble

tvinsider.com/1276729/fox-news-ratings-ms-now-cnn-july-2026/

Plus, the latest numbers for CNN.

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‘This is AI out of control’: Claude disobeyed Anthropic CEO in simulations

thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-07-20/anthropic-ai-disobeyed-company-ceo-in-simulations

In testing, Claude went against boss’s orders and helped an employee blow the whistle about a safety concern

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Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers

variety.com/2026/film/news/pixar-layoffs-disney-studios-several-hundred-employees-1236817241/

Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.

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Andrew Tate charged with possessing child abuse images

telegraph.co.uk/gift/1f93e0c27e21741d

Social media influencer and brother appear in Miami federal court, where lawyers say they will fight extradition to the UK

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OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked HuggingFace

wired.com/story/openai-models-escaped-containment-and-hacked-huggingface/

The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.

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OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation | OpenAI

openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/

OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.

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US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years

apnews.com/article/eeoc-discrimination-dei-andrea-lucas-2f521d784a9d0376416499066dc9f178

The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency responsible for enforcing anti-discrimination laws in the workpla

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Denmark summons top US envoy over ‘covert operations’ in Greenland

politico.eu/article/covert-operations-greenland-prompt-denmark-summon-top-us-envoy-donald-trump/

“We do not spy on friends,” Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen says.

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How period trackers share your private details

bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260715-how-period-trackers-share-womens-private-details

Some apps are sharing users' health data. New research uncovers which apps lock down your privacy, and which don't.

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'Junk inferences' by data brokers are a problem for consumers and the industry itself

therecord.media/junk-inferences-data-brokers

Data brokers sell inferences about consumers, essentially making predictions about their habits and tastes. A significant portion of the inferences are junk, experts say, and the problem can create serious downstream effects.

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The Future of Genocide

nytimes.com/2026/07/21/opinion/israel-gaza-palestinians-genocide.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytopinion

In 1904, the Imperial German Army began a campaign that nearly wiped out the Herero and Nama peoples in what was then German South West Africa, now Namibia, through fatal expulsions into the desert, incarceration in forced labor camps and outright murder.

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Google AI Is Hallucinating Fake ‘Duskbloods’ Bosses Thanks To Reddit Shitposting

videogame.town/2026/07/21/google-ai-hallucinating-fake-duskbloods-bosses-reddit-shit-posting-switch-2-nintendo-from-software/

What a miserable future we are currently living in.

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The Worst Magazine In America

currentaffairs.org/news/the-worst-magazine-in-america

The Atlantic poses as a magazine of ideas, but its writers get away with terrible arguments. Its ascendance is a sign of the dire state of American intellectual life.

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The wireless headset that gets hot-swappable batteries right

theverge.com/tech/967153/glorious-infiniteplay-wireless-gaming-headset-hands-on

Glorious made swapping batteries faster and easier (and more fun) in a $230 headset than its $400 competitors.

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The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science

arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/national-academies-climate-attribution-is-maturing-but-still-has-limits/?utm_social-type=owned

New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving.

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The Proliferation of Deepfakes Is Profoundly Changing the Way Teenagers Use the Internet

futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deepfakes-teenagers-internet

AI-generated sexual content, including nonconsensual deepfakes, is rapidly transforming teens' strange new world, a new survey emphasizes.

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‘Everything I know about evil I learned in that small town’: John Carpenter on terrifying the world with Halloween, The Thing and The Fog

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jul/20/everything-i-know-about-evil-i-learned-in-that-small-town-john-carpenter-on-terrifying-the-world-with-halloween-the-thing-and-the-fog

At 78, the king of horror and sci-fi movies is as much of a rebel as ever. He talks about creativity, compromise (he’s not a fan) and how he became addicted to moviemaking

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DACA renewal costly for single moms who hid from ICE for months

19thnews.org/2026/07/ice-minneapolis-mothers-immigration-daca-renewal/

We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Creative Commons license as long as you follow our republishing guidelines, which require that you credit The 19th and retain our pixel.

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This Is Why Our Fresh Produce Keeps Making Us Sick

nytimes.com/2026/07/20/opinion/cyclospora-outbreak-symptoms-lettuce.html

There’s a gruesome food-borne illness going around this summer that can last for weeks and cause severe cramps, nausea and diarrhea.

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Not enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says

theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/21/not-enough-water-for-uks-datacentre-plans-trade-body-says

Industry says government’s failure to address cooling demands means AI growth plans are ‘fatally flawed’

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As the world embraces EVs, the U.S. hits the brakes

restofworld.org/2026/us-ev-sales-drop-global-outlook/

Canada and the EU opened their doors to Chinese electric cars this year while the U.S. watched from behind a tariff wall.