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Unhoused People Are Paying the Price For the Supreme Court’s Cruelty

ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/grants-pass-supreme-court-cruelty/

The Grants Pass decision allowed more cities and states to impose criminal penalties for the offense of being poor in public.

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Patreon Lays Off 20 Percent of Its Workforce

404media.co/patreon-lays-off-20-percent-of-its-workforce/

In an internal email shared with creators, CEO Jack Conte wrote that AI doesn’t replace human creativity — but it does affect how the company operates.

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Parsley and Cilantro Identified as Potential Sources of Cyclospora Outbreak in North Carolina

consumerreports.org/health/food-recalls/parsley-cilantro-potential-sources-cyclospora-a1067026795/

State officials said parsley and cilantro may be linked to rising cases in North Carolina. The FDA is also investigating a new outbreak with an unknown source.

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Cyclospora 2026 (by あ)

semble.so/profile/aiueo.ooo/collections/3mqxjjme4ph2e

Cyclospora outbreak in the US, May–July 2026. Also includes articles related to the cyclosopra outbreak in 2013 and the E. coli outbreak in 2025. Search terms: Taylor Farms, Taylor Fresh Foods, Cyclosporiasis, サイクロスポラ症

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🚨 Pol’s staffer killed

nydailynews.com/2026/07/23/feds-rename-penn-station-potentially-for-trump/

In a letter sent Wednesday to Senate leadership on several committees, Duffy lists “administration priorities” for the federal rebuilding of the nation’s busiest rail hub.

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Inside Ukraine’s Kill Zone

reuters.com/graphics/UKRAINE-CRISIS/KILL-ZONE/znpnojmknvl/

Drones now dominate the war in Ukraine. Fly through the front line’s deadly “kill zone” and discover how surveillance, kamikaze drones and new tactics are reshaping modern warfare. An immersive Reuters reconstruction.

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Inevitably, Ads Have Come to Xbox Game Streaming

gizmodo.com/inevitably-ads-have-come-to-xbox-game-streaming-2000790020

You can now suffer through a Mountain Dew commercial for a quick hour of cloud-based gaming.

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Bipartisan bill would require companies to tell users when they’re talking to AI

nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/senate-bill-require-ai-chatbots-disclose-rcna588970

The Senior Chatbot Protection Act, from Sens. Mark Kelly and Jim Justice, would require clear labeling of AI and new protections for health and financial conversations.

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What is Random Forest and how it works

towardsmachinelearning.org/random-forest/

Random forest is a machine learning approach that utilizes many individual decision trees.

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NYT Advertising's first clean room deal beat cookies by 61%

ppc.land/nyt-advertisings-first-clean-room-deal-beat-cookies-by-61/

New York Times Advertising ran its first-ever data clean room deal in Q4 2025, using Decentriq to match first-party data and beat cookie benchmarks by 61%.

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Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change.

werd.io/private-healthcare-makes-industries-less-innovative-its-time-for-change/

1 in 4 American workers stay in their jobs because of the healthcare. It suppresses wages and working conditions - and prevents innovators from heading out on their own.

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Programmatic Platforms Champion Transparency, But Not If It Means Giving Activists Access

adexchanger.com/programmatic/programmatic-platforms-champion-transparency-but-not-if-it-means-giving-activists-access/

A DSP refused to give ad industry watchdog Check My Ads a seat on its platform, even after both parties cosigned a master service agreement.

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Musk Leaves Room For a Potential SpaceX-Tesla Merger

gizmodo.com/musk-leaves-room-for-a-potential-spacex-tesla-merger-2000789371

First came xAI-SpaceX. Now brace yourselves for SpaceXAI-Tesla.

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Surprise! NYC Nets 40,000 New Jobs on Wall Street Surge

thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/22/mamdani-wall-street-new-jobs-employment/

A continuing boom on Wall Street keeps the economy expanding — even as tariffs, high inflation and rising rents take a toll.

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‘The Child Is Terrified’: Measles Doctors Speak Out

wired.com/story/the-child-is-terrified-measles-doctors-speak-out/

Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah, as the US faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease.

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Trump had no idea suing the BBC would be so much work

dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/22/800073490/courts/trump-had-no-idea-suing-the-bbc-would-be-so-much-work/

Poor President Donald Trump. He loves filing lawsuits. Why can’t he just sue the BBC for defamation, demand $10 billion and have them write him a check for $10 billion?

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Tesla shares tumble 11% after discounts hit profits

ft.com/content/dc5e629b-562c-41e3-8b89-350af6960adc?syn-25a6b1a6=1

Tesla shares tumbled 11 per cent on Thursday after the carmaker reported a surprise drop in second-quarter profits, as the group cut prices to boost sales and income from regulatory credits sold to rivals dried up.

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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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How the Digital Omnibus Could Unravel Europe’s Digital Safeguards

techpolicy.press/how-the-digital-omnibus-could-unravel-europes-digital-safeguards/

The challenge is not so much how to simplify Europe’s digital rules, but how to ensure that the foundations that make those rules enforceable remain intact.

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California Governor Signs Octopus Farming Ban into Law

aldf.org/article/california-governor-signs-octopus-farming-ban-into-law/

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov.

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Police shooting on Madison’s Willy Street leaves 1 dead

madison.com/news/local/crime-courts/article_d540e25e-494a-4cd0-b55e-ee9f535335bf.html#tracking-source=home-top-story

After an officer killed a man police said was armed with a knife, protesters marched to the Capitol and demanded answers.

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Google is responsible for false statements in AI Overviews, German court rules

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/nobody-needs-ai-to-search-the-internet-court-says-in-ruling-against-google/

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

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‘If Not for Video’: Bodycam Exposes New York Cop Planting Drugs on Black Man In Case That Could Have Sent Him to Prison for 10 Years

atlantablackstar.com/2026/07/16/bodycam-exposes-new-york-cop-planting-drugs-on-black-man-in-case-that-could-have-sent-him-to-prison-for-10-years/

Twice in less than a year, New York cops arrested Ivin Harper, a Black fitness instructor, on fabricated drug charges. New Rochelle police officer Jared

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“Nothing Is Ever Over”

atproto.com/off-protocol/2026-07-22-erin-kissane

Writer, speaker, and researcher Erin Kissane joins Jim to trace how the social internet got here, what’s worth salvaging, and how we can do better by listening to people.

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Talk: Mini Metro - A Musical Subway (System)

disasterpeace.com/blog/mini-metro.musical-subway-talk

I spoke with Peter Curry of Dinosaur Polo Club at Konsoll 2016, in Bergen, Norway. We spoke about the audio systems.

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Opencode for Agentic Development with Local LLMs

dev.to/ferdousulhaque/opencode-for-agentic-development-with-local-llms-2h4k

Agentic development is rapidly transforming the way developers design, build, and ship software....

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Local LLM for Coding: Free AI Coding Agent With Ollama + Claude

codesamplez.com/productivity/local-ai-coding-agent

Learn how to set up a local LLM for coding with Ollama, Continue.dev, and VS Code. Covers model selection, hardware planning + IDE integration

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I Built a Local AI Coding Agent Home Lab Setup With OpenCode and Ollama

virtualizationhowto.com/2026/05/i-built-a-local-ai-coding-agent-home-lab-setup-with-opencode-and-ollama/

Learn how I built a self-hosted AI coding agent using OpenCode and Ollama with fully local models running in my home lab.

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Using Local Coding Agents

magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/using-local-coding-agents

Using Open-Weight Models in Local Coding Harnesses as an Alternative to Claude Code and Codex Subscriptions

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Using local LLMs for agentic coding

blog.alexewerlof.com/p/local-llms-for-agentic-coding

AI honeymoon pricing is over, but your work is not