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hyperallergic.com/a-homerist-reacts-to-christopher-nolans-the-odyssey/
“This is a tale of a man affected by trauma, but without any sense that it changed him at all.”
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nytimes.com/2026/07/20/us/politics/snap-food-stamps-arizona.html
The number of Arizonans getting SNAP benefits has fallen by about half in less than a year, a remarkable drop in nutrition aid that may preview the program’s future nationwide following a landmark law to limit assistance that President Trump championed last year.
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reactormag.com/author-interviews-vajra-chandrasekera-rakesfall/
"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"
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nytimes.com/2026/07/20/opinion/paramount-warner-bros-merger-hollywood.html
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How Whole Foods went from local-sourcing pioneer to Amazon-owned chain, squeezing small suppliers and cutting worker benefits along the way. The full sourced story.
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Dealerships installed alarms in millions of vehicles—and left them in even if the buyer didn’t want them. Now researchers warn they can be hacked to unlock, track, and disable cars.
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werd.io/people-are-transcribing-your-conversations-without-asking-that-puts-you-at-risk/
Apps like Granola make it easy to transcribe conversations without asking for consent. Those transcripts are a subpoena honeypot.
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Passkey records are an interoperable format for WebAuthn credentials, similar to password hash strings. I propose a potential crypto/passkey Go API based on them.
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bubblegum.girlonthemoon.xyz/articles/urlref-but-i-wrote-my-own-version-of-it
a while ago, i found...
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latimes.com/environment/story/2026-06-25/drying-colorado-river
The source of the Colorado River in the Rocky Mountains is drying up, threatening a critical water lifeline for about 35 million people and 5 million acres of farmland across the Southwest.
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It's 13 minutes of nothing
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thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study
A study found that access to AI advice collapsed people's willingness to say "I don't know" from 44% to 3%, while accuracy dropped from 27% to 9%.
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newrepublic.com/post/213277/man-died-running-from-ice-tourist-visa
The man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico.
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cbc.ca/news/science/wildfire-climate-emissions-smoke-9.7274862
Smoky skies in Toronto have led to new scrutiny of government efforts to fight fires and manage forests. But scientists say the realistic way to tackle the smoke is fighting climate change itself.
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newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/27/how-biden-emboldened-israels-aggression-toward-gaza-and-iran
Top officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu.
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Announcing a curated, thematic link page of important essays and articles about video game narrative.
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cnn.com/2026/07/20/climate/climate-compounding-disasters-summer
This summer has proven we don’t have to wait for climate change to smack us in the face. The signs of global warming are all around us, right now.
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A coalition of states led by California won a pause of Paramount's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Monday, after the states argued letting the merger close would irreparably harm competition.
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The Trump administration sought the phone records of several New York Times journalists and their relatives — including one reporter’s mother — in its effort to unmask the confidential sources who had provided information for articles about the security capabilities of President Trump’s new Air Force One jet.
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Well, well, well, would you look at that. We have a fancy new website. This redesign is the result of a lot of hard work by our esteemed partners at Lede, and they have provided us with a homepage that is much more customizable. We now have the ability to highlight specific stories, coverage areas,…
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thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/20/legionnaires-disease-staff-shortages-nyc-health-department/
The union representing Department of Health scientists says low wages and overwork make it hard to recruit and retain staff amid a summer of public health emergencies.
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theintercept.com/2026/07/20/google-maps-reviews-ice-detention-centers/
In the past year, Google Maps was deleting all the reviews for dozens of ICE jails, a new study found.
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I’m setting my relationship status to “Complicated” with Infold’s hit boyfriend simulator
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I suspect like many of you, I saw The Odyssey this weekend. I really liked it and the more I read & think about the film, the more it grows in my esteem. This t
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space.com/entertainment/space-games/why-space-games-still-struggle-with-the-scale-of-the-universe
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is."
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yahoo.com/news/us/articles/federal-prosecutors-under-fire-critics-103025397.html
Legal experts are questioning whether the DOJ is playing politics in an unorthodox way after the surprise unsealing of an FBI search warrant following ICE shooting.
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margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/a-d-and-a-bunch-of-bs-my-report-card
Some flashes of courage, some good analysis and still too much normalization
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An LLM is a computer program. We should talk about it like a computer program.
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The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security have both denied that any change in oversight has taken place.
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npr.org/2026/06/30/nx-s1-5835631/turner-camhi-do-no-harm-college-loans
If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?
