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Police shooting on Madison’s Willy Street leaves 1 dead

madison.com/news/local/crime-courts/article_d540e25e-494a-4cd0-b55e-ee9f535335bf.html#tracking-source=home-top-story

After an officer killed a man police said was armed with a knife, protesters marched to the Capitol and demanded answers.

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Google is responsible for false statements in AI Overviews, German court rules

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/nobody-needs-ai-to-search-the-internet-court-says-in-ruling-against-google/

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

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‘If Not for Video’: Bodycam Exposes New York Cop Planting Drugs on Black Man In Case That Could Have Sent Him to Prison for 10 Years

atlantablackstar.com/2026/07/16/bodycam-exposes-new-york-cop-planting-drugs-on-black-man-in-case-that-could-have-sent-him-to-prison-for-10-years/

Twice in less than a year, New York cops arrested Ivin Harper, a Black fitness instructor, on fabricated drug charges. New Rochelle police officer Jared

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“Nothing Is Ever Over”

atproto.com/off-protocol/2026-07-22-erin-kissane

Writer, speaker, and researcher Erin Kissane joins Jim to trace how the social internet got here, what’s worth salvaging, and how we can do better by listening to people.

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Talk: Mini Metro - A Musical Subway (System)

disasterpeace.com/blog/mini-metro.musical-subway-talk

I spoke with Peter Curry of Dinosaur Polo Club at Konsoll 2016, in Bergen, Norway. We spoke about the audio systems.

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Opencode for Agentic Development with Local LLMs

dev.to/ferdousulhaque/opencode-for-agentic-development-with-local-llms-2h4k

Agentic development is rapidly transforming the way developers design, build, and ship software....

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Local LLM for Coding: Free AI Coding Agent With Ollama + Claude

codesamplez.com/productivity/local-ai-coding-agent

Learn how to set up a local LLM for coding with Ollama, Continue.dev, and VS Code. Covers model selection, hardware planning + IDE integration

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I Built a Local AI Coding Agent Home Lab Setup With OpenCode and Ollama

virtualizationhowto.com/2026/05/i-built-a-local-ai-coding-agent-home-lab-setup-with-opencode-and-ollama/

Learn how I built a self-hosted AI coding agent using OpenCode and Ollama with fully local models running in my home lab.

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Using Local Coding Agents

magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/using-local-coding-agents

Using Open-Weight Models in Local Coding Harnesses as an Alternative to Claude Code and Codex Subscriptions

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Using local LLMs for agentic coding

blog.alexewerlof.com/p/local-llms-for-agentic-coding

AI honeymoon pricing is over, but your work is not

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Finding Meaning in a Stagnant Life: A ‘The Amazing Digital Circus’ Playlist

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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rpg.actor

rpg.actor/dev-guide#systems-overview

Developer guide for building on rpg.actor — AT Protocol lexicons, character stats, sprites, and the master system.

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My Maddening Quest to Find Out if Blueberries Come From Farms Where Workers Were Harmed

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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States Want ICE Agents to Show Their Faces. The Trump Administration Is Blocking Them

wired.com/story/states-want-ice-agents-to-show-their-faces-the-trump-administration-is-blocking-them/

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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Staten Island v. New York City With Revisionist History

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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Mitch McConnell’s Aides Launch New Health Cover-Up

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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Brompton Electric

us.brompton.com/electric-bikes

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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OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin

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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Japan Is Startled by Prime Minister’s Grueling Sleep Schedule

nytimes.com/2026/07/22/world/asia/japan-takaichi-sleep-schedule.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

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Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/judge-approves-anthropics-1-5-billion-copyright-settlement-with-authors/

Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.

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If His Shitty AI Movie Is What Finally Taught You Neill Blomkamp Is A Hack, Then So Be It

aftermath.site/neill-blomkamp-ai-movie/

It's 13 minutes of nothing

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Oligarchy and the Media - Paul Krugman

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/oligarchy-and-the-media

Can the takeover be stopped?

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Texas billionaire with Nazi art collection lends sculptures to White House

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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But wait / Be here now

flaminghydra.com/issue-601/

Tom Tomorrow gets a surprise visitor—and when is the future, asks Annalee Newitz

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Deportation Orders Soar in NYC as Trump ‘Mega Master’ Hearings Accelerate

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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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

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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Girls Can Tell by Spoon is a Perfect Album

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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MS NOW Ratings Skyrocket as Fox News Hits Double Trouble

tvinsider.com/1276729/fox-news-ratings-ms-now-cnn-july-2026/

Plus, the latest numbers for CNN.

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‘This is AI out of control’: Claude disobeyed Anthropic CEO in simulations

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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Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers

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.