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washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/08/12/aoc-president-2028-she-may-never-have-better-chance/
AOC may never get a better shot at being president than this
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hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/warren-ellis-image-comics-fell-canceled-1234974036/
'Fell' would have been a comeback for the writer, who was accused of using his stature in the industry to manipulate women into relationships.
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digiday.com/media/perplexity-blocks-times-ads-served-to-ai-agents-calling-them-deceptive/
Perplexity has blocked Time’s markdown agent ads from influencing its AI system, labeling the practice “deceptive."
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forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2026/08/12/trump-sued-over-plan-to-monetize-his-truth-social-posts/
Two media firms called the president’s plan to sell faster access to his social media posts “extraordinary, corrupt and unconstitutional.”
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theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/16/covid-vaccine-recommendation-kids-pregnant-people-data
Internal memos ignored Covid safety studies and pushed vaccine changes based on ideology, critics say
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autonomynews.co/a-big-deal-top-anti-abortion-group-endorses-comstock-act-as-a-nationwide-ban/
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America had remained silent amid growing calls to enforce the 19th century anti-obscenity law as an abortion ban. That silence ended on Friday.
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For all the talk of “reforming” or “repealing” Section 230 in Congress, the fact is that the courts over the past three or four years have effectively chipped away so steadi…
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propublica.org/article/general-dynamics-artillery-factory-failed
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a real-life dumpster fire.
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The New York City Council is investigating four prediction markets for alleged deceptive marketing practices and targeting minors, opening a new front in the bitter, state-by-state legal war over prediction-market regulation.
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thebanner.com/community/housing/vacant-baltimore-city-houses-FJDU6MJXFRA6NEHTGCDCADWCYY/
More than 3,000 Baltimore buildings have been vacant for two decades or longer.
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wired.com/story/mcdonalds-built-a-515-page-dossier-on-me-it-says-ill-never-leave/
I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program and received an extensive, personalized report that algorithmically predicts my next purchase.
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First responders, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops
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nytimes.com/2026/08/12/magazine/deportation-immigrants-prison-eswatini.html
As he stepped out of the American military cargo plane, Roberto Mosquera still couldn’t tell where he was or why he had been taken there.
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technologyreview.com/2026/06/29/1139849/ai-agents-are-not-your-coworkers/
Marketing AI agents as digital employees may make human workers worse at spotting errors and more likely to offload accountability.
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The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Plus, the day Trump left his press corps for dead.
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stevenhyden.substack.com/p/podcast-the-new-old-weird-america
An interview with half of the garage-rock duo, one of my favorite bands of 2026
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everythingishorrible.net/p/ross-douthat-knows-the-fascists-are
Consensus white supremacy relies on fascism to crush its foes.
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wired.com/story/ai-could-help-fossil-fuel-companies-create-more-emissions/
New research finds that by making the fossil fuel industry more productive, AI could help increase carbon emissions by up to nearly 5 percent—vastly outpacing the impact of data centers.
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theflytrapmedia.com/dungeon-crawler-carl-dickhead-antihero-litrpg/
How did I end up binge-reading an excessively violent, cringingly crass litRPG series featuring a dickhead antihero and his sassy show-cat?
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thenation.com/article/society/maryam-tahmasebi-iran-ice-essay/
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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jessesquires.com/blog/2023/12/16/macbook-notch-and-menu-bar-fixes/
Last week I wrote about setting up a new MacBook Pro — my first Apple Silicon Mac, and thus my first MacBook with a notch. I lamented how poorly macOS intera...
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Last weekend I was just scrolling and had an idle thought. A couple of times I started posts to say something like “I bet somebody could do something with this” but both disappeared mid-draft.
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The Hollywood actor investigates claims cancer-causing chemicals were dumped across Wales.
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It looks like we are seeing some Googler accounts being taken over by sites that sell SEO services, or dare I say it, spammy or low-quality SEO services. Martin Splitt from Google let his X account go during the whole Twitter to X Elon thing and eventually that account was picked up by a search engine indexing service.
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Cherokee Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. wrote that the Tahlequah-based tribe, which has the most enrolled tribal members in the U.
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No new evidence is being offered to justify the proposed overhaul, which arrived via executive order on Monday and calls for cutting back the number of vaccines children receive and instructing states to review their immunization laws — probably because there is no new data to support it.
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washingtonpost.com/health/2026/08/10/louisiana-warns-rise-flesh-eating-bacteria-vibrio-vulnificus/
Louisiana warns of rise in flesh-eating bacteria infections
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French media have asked the country's anti-trust watchdog to act on Google's artificial intelligence-generated article summaries which they say deprive them of traffic, a press trade association body said on Tuesday.
