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Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

wired.com/story/meta-now-lets-anyone-use-your-instagram-photos-in-ai-images-unless-you-opt-out/

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.

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Pod Save Patriarchy (or Whatever That Sorry Platner Spectacle Was)

meditationsinanemergency.com/pod-save-patriarchy-or-whatever-that-sorry-platner-spectacle-was/

For at least a decade we have been told that this and that and the other thing must be tolerated in pursuit of the elusive vote of the working class or the white working class which often means the white male working class which becomes in turn a way that

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American A.I. Companies Say Chinese Copycats Are Quickly Catching Up

nytimes.com/2026/07/06/technology/ai-distillation-china.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

The American companies building artificial intelligence systems are loudly complaining that their Chinese competitors are unfairly copying their technology, and they are pleading with officials to do something about it.

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Nigel Farage resigns as MP for Clacton, triggering by-election which he says he will stand in - BBC News

bbc.com/news/live/cn0v9l9x0g8t

The Reform UK leader's statement follows reports he failed to declare financial support from an ally. He has also faced questions over an unregistered £5m gift from a donor.

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Columns buckle at Midtown building: FDNY

pix11.com/news/columns-buckle-at-midtown-building-fdny/

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — A large FDNY response is underway in Midtown after two columns buckled and five floors caved in at a building under construction Tuesday morning. FDNY said the call came in …

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Midtown Manhattan buildings evacuated after columns found buckling at high-rise construction site

abc7ny.com/post/midtown-east-buildings-evacuated-construction-workers-find-buckling-beams-21st-floor-nyc/19463640/

Mayor Mamdani says "the building remains unstable" as there has been additional movement in one of the columns since city officials arrived.

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Report: Congestion Pricing Had No Impact on Parking Availability

nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/07/06/parking-is-never-easy

A new study found congestion pricing had little-to-no impact on parking availability in New York City — both inside and outside the toll zone.

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Censorship Lawsuit Against Disinformation Researchers Dismissed — After Succeeding At Actual Censorship

techdirt.com/2026/07/06/censorship-lawsuit-against-disinformation-researchers-dismissed-after-succeeding-at-actual-censorship/

Trump-appointed Louisiana federal judge Terry Doughty has spent years bending over backwards trying to help some MAGA faithful manufacture nonsense claims about “censorship” for some gr…

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He wrote a scathing message to ICE. Federal agents showed up at his door.

washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/07/06/he-wrote-scathing-message-ice-federal-agents-showed-up-his-door/

He wrote a scathing message to ICE. Federal agents showed up at his door.

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Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal

euronews.com/culture/2026/06/29/dua-lipa-opens-library-for-banned-and-censored-books-in-portugal

The Manifesto Library is located inside Livraria Lello in Porto, and is dedicated to books “that challenge power, censorship, exclusion, and dominant narratives.”

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CNN and CNBC promote gambling to make a cheap buck

werd.io/cnn-and-cnbc-promote-gambling-to-make-a-cheap-buck/

Some newsrooms are making money from deals with prediction markets. It will only serve to further destroy the public's trust in news.

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How Kalshi infects the news

publicnotice.co/p/kalshi-cnn-cnbc?ref=werd.io

CNN and CNBC are pushing Kalshi on viewers but not telling them the whole story.

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Her Voice Is Unlike Anything in Opera

nytimes.com/2026/04/22/arts/music/vilma-jaa-innocence-met-opera.html

Vilma Jää, a Finnish folk and pop singer, is bringing her eerie and affecting traditional music to the Metropolitan Opera.

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Do Smart Glasses Have a Surveillance Problem?

vogue.com/article/do-smart-glasses-have-a-surveillance-problem

Big Tech is investing in fashion’s cultural legitimacy to make AI smart glasses socially acceptable, but consumers view them as synonymous with surveillance. Is removing the camera the key to adoption?

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Apple TV Shares Mysterious First Teaser for Adaptation of William Gibson’s Sci-Fi Novel Neuromancer

reactormag.com/apple-tv-first-teaser-william-gibson-sci-fi-novel-neuromancer/

The teaser certainly captures the look and feel of the novel

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Rethinking Federal Support for Journalism

knightcolumbia.org/blog/rethinking-federal-support-for-journalism

Ours is an era of abundant information. With just a couple of keystrokes, readers can access whatever they might want to see, hear, read, watch, or engage with.

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Europe Can Protect Children Online Without Surveillance or Age Bans

techpolicy.press/europe-can-protect-children-online-without-surveillance-or-age-bans/

Europe has never defined, in any testable way, what a "safe" platform for children actually looks like, writes Tanya Becheva.

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Your social login buttons run on third-party cookies. FedCM doesn’t.

thenewstack.io/fedcm-federated-login-standard/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a480a555db5d30001164c33

Social logins run on dying cookies. FedCM is the browser-native alternative built to protect privacy and boost your site's conversions.

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Trump's War on the Museum of American History Continues

kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/trumps-war-on-the-museum-of-american?r=19280n&triedRedirect=true

The White House's new Smithsonian report has no authors, no methodology, and no historians. What it has is an agenda.

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Trump’s Vile New Birthright Stance Is So Toxic, Even Fox Admits It

newrepublic.com/article/212747/trump-birthright-citizenship-toxic-gop-fox-admits

Mike Johnson is now floating a “legislative fix” to birthright citizenship. That’s an assault on the Constitution—and a vote that vulnerable Republicans will hate, if recent polling from Fox News is any indication.

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Lessons From the Graham Platner Disaster

nytimes.com/2026/07/06/opinion/graham-platner-rape-accusation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.v1A.sKtq.l5ZVinPHdRP6&smid=url-share

His campaign, which started with such excitement and inspired so many people in Maine, has become a shameful catastrophe.

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Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For

eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/hate-algorithm-rss-one-tools-youve-been-looking

Since at least the moment Facebook introduced (and apologized for) its News Feed, “the algorithm” has been shorthand for the ways the tech giants control what we see and when we see it. In the age of enshittification, there is a push to reclaim our feeds and networks. Good news: there’s a tool that’s been around for decades that can help wrangle many of your feeds into something manageable: Really Simple Syndication, more commonly known as RSS.

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The Ultimate Keygen Music Archive (80s-90s Chiptune)

http://archive.org/details/Keygen-Music-Archive

[ITALIANO] Un archivio completo e ragionato dedicato alla musica dei keygen, dei trainer e delle cracktro che hanno segnato l'era degli anni '80 e '90. Questa...

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Guides

microlink.io/docs/guides

Step-by-step guides for common Microlink workflows. Learn how to query public search surfaces, capture screenshots, extract custom data, generate PDFs, extract metadata, and more with practical examples.

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AI Data Centers Use Far More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report

wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-data-centers-water-use-901e2902?st=TJKFLy&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Water used at the power plants that supply electricity to data centers can be much greater than the water used in the data centers themselves.

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The data center boom in the desert

technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116287/ai-data-centers-nevada-water-reno-computing-environmental-impact/

The AI race is transforming northwestern Nevada into one of the world's largest data-center markets—and sparking fears of water strains in the nation’s driest state.

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Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her - POLITICO

politico.com/news/2026/07/06/graham-platner-sexual-assault-allegation-00987737

The woman, a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, detailed the alleged incident to POLITICO in three interviews over the past two weeks.

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Platner says he will ‘reflect’ on Maine Senate campaign after woman accuses him of sexual assault

apnews.com/article/graham-platner-maine-assault-senate-061e18bdd180928bbcd94b18a52f4ec9

Politico reports that a woman has accused Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner of sexual assault. Jenny Racicot claims Platner entered her home in 2021 while drunk and assaulted her.

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Woman alleges Graham Platner raped her in 2021 while they were dating, which he denies

cnn.com/2026/07/06/us/graham-platner-racicot-allegation-maine-invs

A woman said Monday that Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine, raped her – an allegation Platner denies.

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Platner Will Take Time to ‘Reflect’ on Campaign After Sexual Assault Accusation

nytimes.com/2026/07/06/us/politics/graham-platner-maine-assault.html

Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate nominee from Maine, said he was taking time to “reflect” on his political path forward after a report that a woman had accused him of sexual assault, which he denied.