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Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law

theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/16/how-europe-most-powerful-farming-lobby-copa-cogeca-killed-eu-pesticide-law

Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife

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wsj.com/finance/regulation/sec-quarterly-earnings-reports-complaints-2979d5a0

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wendymurphyonline.gumroad.com/

design enjoyer • she/her • portfolio on wendymurphy.online • IG: @wendyleftmealone • see more on linktr.ee/wendymurphyonline

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US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/us-seeks-cheaper-hunter-killer-drones-after-iran-destroys-1b-worth-of-reapers/

US military drone losses in Iran war spur Pentagon call for cheap replacements.

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How the UN’s Scientific Panel Erases Human Responsibility for AI

techpolicy.press/how-the-uns-scientific-panel-erases-human-responsibility-for-ai/

The UN Scientific Panel's report casts artificial intelligence as a system from nowhere, writes Eryk Salvaggio. The definition will shape policy for years.

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AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say

apnews.com/article/ice-david-brouillette-johan-guerrero-maine-shooting-dbc30d6d59e2a95fb470afc188e125c6?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a59633a1fe70a00011e5671

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to close relatives who spoke to The Associated Press.

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I Got Slopped

nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-biography-amazon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yVA.-M2B.EBjC4pOiWupM&smid=nytcore-android-share

This was news to me. I went to Amazon to investigate.

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Traditional Social Media as a Prison

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Social media apps have become a vehicle for community building, world news, and political campaigns.
As app owners have enmeshed themselves more with the state, the carceral logics that haunt marginalized communities offline, became a part of their digital realities online.

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White House teleprompter operator made more than $100K betting on Trump's speeches: Sources

abcnews.com/US/white-house-teleprompter-operator-made-100k-betting-trumps/story?id=134764573

President Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on the contents of Trump's speeches, sources say.

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Parts of Manhattan to sacrifice 10% of street parking as NYC installs new trash bins

gothamist.com/news/parts-of-manhattan-to-sacrifice-10-of-street-parking-as-nyc-installs-new-trash-bins?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashsocial.com/gothamist/library/media/696754634

The Upper West and East sides of Manhattan are set to lose thousands of parking spaces as the city begins to containerize residential trash.

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Redditors Are Celebrating the Cutting Down of Flock Surveillance Towers With Based Memes

futurism.com/future-society/redditors-flock-surveillance-alpr-vandalism-memes

The Flock surveillance subreddit has quickly become the digital rallying point for anti-ALPR activists across the United States.

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Pigeons can distinguish cancerous breast tissue from normal

universityofcalifornia.edu/news/pigeons-can-distinguish-cancerous-breast-tissue-normal

Study finds the birds are uncommonly good at distinguishing cancerous breast tissue from normal .

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Meet 'the next Albert Einstein' Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski: Stephen Hawking cited her research, NASA and Jeff Bezos wanted to hire her, she turned down a $1.1 million offer

m.economictimes.com/news/new-updates/meet-the-next-albert-einstein-sabrina-gonzalez-pasterski-stephen-hawking-cited-her-research-nasa-and-jeff-bezos-wanted-to-hire-her-she-turned-down-a-1-1-million-offer/amp_articleshow/132279366.cms

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski built and flew a single-engine aircraft at a young age when she was just 12. Her research on the spin memory effect was cited by Stephen Hawking. Pasterski declined lucrative offers from NASA and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to pursue fundamental physics questions. She now leads research into quantum gravity and spacetime at the Perimeter Institute.

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How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars

404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/

Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Media.

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Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI

wired.com/story/please-stop-making-me-opt-out-of-ai/

I’m sick of “opt-out” toggles for automatically enabled generative AI features. It’s past time to make “opt in” the default setting for sensitive features.

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Anatomy of Generative Scam Campaigns in Online Advertising Ecosystems

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3774905.3794690

This paper presents an empirical, campaign-level analysis of AI-enabled scam advertising in a large online advertising ecosystem.

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Mitigating Exposure to Wildfire Smoke: What I’ve Learned So Far

apihtawikosisan.com/2023/09/mitigating-exposure-to-wildfire-smoke-what-ive-learned-so-far/

Folks, we need to talk. I’m shut up in the house again, windows tightly closed, air-filters running, because the outside air quality is absolutely terrible. It’s “wildfire season&…

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“Useful” is not sufficient

tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/

So Linus Torvalds, head of the Linux kernel development, put his foot down on the Linux Kernel development mailing list when someone was bringing up criticism of LLMs: “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issueswith that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away. […]

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Blue Angels conducting review after jet flies over Florida beachgoers

abcnews.com/US/blue-angels-conducting-review-after-jet-flies-florida/story?id=134800561

Officials with the U.S. Navy's elite Blue Angels said they're conducting a review after social media footage showed a jet flying low over a crowd of beachgoers.

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COMPUTER COPS: Inside the big business of selling AI to the police

theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/965066/ai-police-cops

From data gathering to decision making, there’s a gold mine in police funding.

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The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway.

theocharis.dev/blog/llm-critics-are-right-i-use-llms-anyway/

I almost agree with all of the LLM critics, yet I still use LLMs a lot. I know this sounds like I am delusional, but I don't think I am alone with it.

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Installation Guide

foundryvtt.com/article/installation/

The official website and community for Foundry Virtual Tabletop.

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Inside RFK Jr.’s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy

reuters.com/world/americas/inside-rfk-jrs-push-dismantle-decades-us-vaccine-policy-2026-07-14/

Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.

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How Linda Ronstadt fought — and won — a battle to release the Mexican 'songs of her father'

azcentral.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/10/11/linda-ronstadt-canciones-de-mi-padre-album/8179675001/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=false&gca-epti=z1133xxe1133xxv000070&gca-ft=165&gca-ds=sophi

Linda Ronstadt wanted to honor her father's Mexican heritage with an album of Spanish folk songs. Her label put up a fight. Here's what happened next.

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Andy Serkis Gets Asked Why New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Cast Is All White Actors: ‘I Don’t Think We’ll Be Doing a Politically Correct Casting-for-the Sake-of-Casting Version of the Film’

variety.com/2026/film/news/andy-serkis-lord-of-the-rings-diversity-white-actors-1236811570/

Andy Serkis' 'The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum' has only announced white actors for its cast, following the lack of diversity in other flms.

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Hegseth Plans to Screen All Troops, Even Women, for Low Testosterone

nytimes.com/2026/07/15/us/politics/hegseth-troops-testosterone.html?unlocked_article_code=1.x1A.Jlpz.D3nXhkG8kN1v&smid=bs-share

Mr. Hegseth’s focus on testosterone levels at a moment when U.

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Elon Musk likely broke the law by promising voters $1 million payouts, Wisconsin board says

apnews.com/article/elon-musk-wisconsin-election-million-dollar-checks-2900f27acc373c9f1661a934f00c0c3d

The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission has found probable cause that billionaire Elon Musk broke state law when he promised to hand out $1 million checks to voters in the 2025 state Supreme Court election.

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AT Protocol Trademark

atproto.com/blog/at-protocol-trademark

Bluesky now owns the AT Protocol trademark to help make sure it can be used as widely and responsibly as possible.

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‘Citizen Vigilante’ Is The Latest Product Of The Culture Of Petulance

defector.com/citizen-vigilante-is-the-latest-product-of-the-culture-of-petulance

In the movie Citizen Vigilante, the latest Uwe Boll provocation that’s gaining attention from the far-right side of the internet, Armie Hammer plays Michael Sanders, an American vigilante righting the wrongs of Europe’s woke-and-broken criminal justice system. Why an American has deemed himself worthy of this task, let’s not ask that question … or too…

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Democrats Flock to House Proposal to End Aid to Israel

nytimes.com/2026/07/15/us/politics/democrats-house-israel-vote-aid.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20260715&instance_id=178807&nl=breaking-news&regi_id=91044450&segment_id=223167&user_id=ac85d2c6478bc764268e8dbea3d2420f

The House on Wednesday rejected a measure to eliminate U. S.