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getalternative.com/finding-meaning-in-a-stagnant-life-a-the-amazing-digital-circus-playlist/
Matthew put together a 10-song playlist to accompany the finale of 'The Amazing Digital Circus,' featuring Ratboys, The Hotelier, and more!
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Developer guide for building on rpg.actor — AT Protocol lexicons, character stats, sprites, and the master system.
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projects.propublica.org/blueberries-farmworker-mistreatment/
Max Blau spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers. It left him wondering: Is the produce he buys at the grocery store part of the problem?
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Federal lawyers say anti-mask laws would endanger immigration agents, citing an ICE face-recognition art project that doesn’t actually work.
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motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/staten-island-new-york-city-revisionist-history/
“Revisionist History” looks back at Staten Island’s 1990s secession movement and how it foreshadowed America’s politics of resentment.
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thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnells-team-falls-silent-as-security-detail-guards-hospital/
It is now two weeks since Scott Jennings claimed he spoke to the 84-year-old.
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With a range of 45 miles, shop the range of Brompton Electric Folding Bikes. Arrive in effortless style with a folding e-bike.
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futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-ad-revenue-ai-advertising-financial-projection
The company behind ChatGPT is on track to undershoot its five-year revenue projection by upward of 90 percent.
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nytimes.com/2026/07/22/world/asia/japan-takaichi-sleep-schedule.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.
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It's 13 minutes of nothing
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Can the takeover be stopped?
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chron.com/culture/article/trump-harlan-crow-statues-22354019.php
Dallas real estate developer and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow's art collection is again in the news.
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Tom Tomorrow gets a surprise visitor—and when is the future, asks Annalee Newitz
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thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/21/deportation-removal-immigration-orders-mega-master-trump/
A new report finds removal orders for people who missed hastily scheduled hearings more than doubled in New York City in June.
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404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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medium.com/@Elana_Levin/girls-can-tell-by-spoon-is-a-perfect-album-d3a256fb4f81
My close read of a perfect album by a band that gets the balance of retro and modern just right.
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tvinsider.com/1276729/fox-news-ratings-ms-now-cnn-july-2026/
Plus, the latest numbers for CNN.
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thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-07-20/anthropic-ai-disobeyed-company-ceo-in-simulations
In testing, Claude went against boss’s orders and helped an employee blow the whistle about a safety concern
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variety.com/2026/film/news/pixar-layoffs-disney-studios-several-hundred-employees-1236817241/
Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.
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Social media influencer and brother appear in Miami federal court, where lawyers say they will fight extradition to the UK
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wired.com/story/openai-models-escaped-containment-and-hacked-huggingface/
The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.
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openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/
OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.
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apnews.com/article/eeoc-discrimination-dei-andrea-lucas-2f521d784a9d0376416499066dc9f178
The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency responsible for enforcing anti-discrimination laws in the workpla
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politico.eu/article/covert-operations-greenland-prompt-denmark-summon-top-us-envoy-donald-trump/
“We do not spy on friends,” Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen says.
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bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260715-how-period-trackers-share-womens-private-details
Some apps are sharing users' health data. New research uncovers which apps lock down your privacy, and which don't.
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Data brokers sell inferences about consumers, essentially making predictions about their habits and tastes. A significant portion of the inferences are junk, experts say, and the problem can create serious downstream effects.
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nytimes.com/2026/07/21/opinion/israel-gaza-palestinians-genocide.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytopinion
In 1904, the Imperial German Army began a campaign that nearly wiped out the Herero and Nama peoples in what was then German South West Africa, now Namibia, through fatal expulsions into the desert, incarceration in forced labor camps and outright murder.
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What a miserable future we are currently living in.
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The Atlantic poses as a magazine of ideas, but its writers get away with terrible arguments. Its ascendance is a sign of the dire state of American intellectual life.
