The "rogue AI" narrative continues to help obscure very ugly and avoidable human failures.
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You Cannot Use One Bullshit Machine To Catch Another Bullshit Machine
I really fucking hate AI right now. I really fucking hated AI yesterday and the day before, too, though I think the hate is growing faster and hotter, like a sun about to explode and consume the ga…
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First volume of The Terry Pratchett Reader’s Guide gets early launch at Discworld Convention
Explore the legacy of Terry Pratchett with Marc Burrows' new Reader’s Guide, launching at the Discworld Convention in August 2026
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Understanding Americans' ideology
yougov.com/en-us/articles/53978-understanding-americans-ideology
9% of Americans describe their politics as far-left, 15% as left, 9% as center-left, 21% as center, 10% as center-right, 17% as right, and 5% as far-right.
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10,000 items, 5,000 square feet, 160 years of history: Inside General Mills’s brand archive
The company’s senior corporate archivist supports brand marketers’ various requests, dives deep into brand histories, and creates the archives of tomorrow. “I’m always looking to see what people are working on today and what will be useful for the future generations of marketers and brand teams,” the company’s senior corporate archivist told us.
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Dow Chemical seeks to legalize plastic pollution in Texas bay
pirg.org/articles/dow-chemical-seeks-to-legalize-plastic-pollution-in-texas-bay/
Dow wants Texas regulators to make their plastic pellet discharge legal. That would be a step in the wrong direction
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Hims misled consumers and violated their privacy, FTC alleges in a lawsuit
statnews.com/2026/07/29/ftc-lawsuit-hims-alleging-deceptive-business-practices/
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission sued telehealth company Hims & Hers alleging business practices that agency says mislead consumers.
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A Regional War, With Options To Expand
And without any reason for Iran to trust in negotiations, this is a one-way elevator until U.S. capitulation
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Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books
wired.com/story/boomers-cant-stop-gifting-their-grandkids-ai-generated-slop-books/
Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.
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The Odyssey’s Most Urgent Warning is Written All Over Lupita Nyong’o’s Face
The Odyssey taps into an elemental anger that Nyong’o brings to exquisitely painful life in her dual roles as Helen and Clytemnestra.
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Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct when they were teenagers
bbc.com/news/articles/cd7lg2nz2x2o?app-referrer=push-notification
The actor and musician faces allegations from 10 women in total who say he mistreated them as teenagers.
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I thought Nolan’s Odyssey was an epic bore. If you want Greek myths brought to life, try the thrill of opera!
theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/29/odyssey-christopher-nolan-opera-greek-myths
Composers from Purcell to Birtwistle have created passionate dramas inspired by ancient Greek stories – and none of them require you to sit through three hours of solemn spectacle without an interval
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Fark NotNewsletter: Not Ready to go on the cart
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Fark NotNewsletter: Not Ready to go on the cart
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ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive
The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired U. S.
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Role Player's Digest #7
July 27, 2026
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Man accused of stealing automated license plate reading cameras in Lisle, Illinois, speaks out
cbsnews.com/chicago/news/man-charged-in-flock-alpr-theft-speaks/?intcid=CNR-01-0623
His arrest comes as a small but visible vigilante movement has vandalized similar cameras across the country.
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In China, people are renting out their faces to AI
New platforms are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, creating a new marketplace for biometric identity.
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The Masculinity Scam
The attacks against James Talarico are revealing, @AdamSerwer writes. They resemble “the frothing tone of masculinity influencers in the online manosphere, with its strict but arbitrary standards for what makes a man a man”:
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What the Crackup of the Heritage Foundation Says About the Post-Trump Right
nytimes.com/2026/07/28/magazine/heritage-foundation-trump-republicans.html
“You can never institutionalize the gut instincts of a great, heroic populist like Donald Trump, or Teddy Roosevelt, or Andrew Jackson,” Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, told me this spring.
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What is the Atmosphere?
An explainer for everyone in 4 minutes or less.
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Google to use UK and EU user IP addresses for ad personalization
bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-to-use-uk-and-eu-user-ip-addresses-for-ad-personalization/
From August 3, 2026, Google will use IP addresses from UK, EEA and Switzerland users for ad measurement and personalization. It lands as the ICO weighs new consent rules, and years after Google itself called using such signals to identify devices "wrong."
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[mixed cd archive - 02] pissing me the fuck off all by yourself, handsome?
songs to listen to whilst placing a curse on your enemies as you ride into the psychological equivalent of the battle of helms deep
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Murder
Welcome to the official documentation for the Murder engine. This has been an ongoing and fun development project of creating a game engine on top of FNA.
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An Uncomplicated Man
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/emily-wilson/an-uncomplicated-man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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The IRS Is Imploding
The CEO says the agency is proving it's possible to have “less people and better results.”
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There’s a National Blood Supply Crisis Happening Right Now
gizmodo.com/theres-a-national-blood-supply-crisis-happening-right-now-2000791289
Red Cross officials are pleading with Americans to donate blood, especially if they have O-positive blood.
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The Architecture of Resistance: America’s Year of Taking On ICE
Ordinary people launched a movement against Trump’s secret police. They’re still at it.
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The Odyssey’s Circe Is the Best Female Character Christopher Nolan’s Ever Written
vulture.com/article/circe-is-the-best-female-character-nolan-has-ever-written.html
Nolan’s never been great at writing women, but what doesn’t exist on the page Samantha Morton conjures through a tricksy, powerhouse performance.
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The data center backlash Is working. That's why the New York Times is so concerned.
I have a
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‘Children of Blood and Bone’ Author Tomi Adeyemi “Will Not Watch” Film Version: “Officially Separating My Name”
With a cast that includes Amandla Stenberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Viola Davis, Gina Prince-Bythewood's feature adaptation of the 2018 YA novel is set to hit theaters early next year from Paramount.