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There’s No Gotcha Here

readtpa.com/p/theres-no-gotcha-here

Calling Hegseth’s testosterone program "gender-affirming care" trivializes trans healthcare and misreads what we’re up against. Speaking only for myself: knock it off

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Short sellers notch $8.7 bln profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price

reuters.com/business/media-telecom/short-sellers-rack-up-87-bln-profit-spacex-slips-below-ipo-price-ortex-2026-07-16/

Short sellers targeting SpaceX shares are sitting on an estimated $8.7 billion in paper ​profit since the rockets-to-AI firm's initial public offering last month, as ‌its stock slipped below the IPO price, according to data and analytics firm Ortex Technologies.

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“This Is Just So Sh**ty, We Gotta Watch”: The Beautiful, Inspirational Disaster of ‘Cabin Boy,’ 25 Years Later

theringer.com/2018/12/05/movies/cabin-boy-chris-elliott-anniversary-adam-resnick-comedy-get-a-life

How the film turned Chris Elliott and Adam Resnick into Hollywood pariahs … and comedy legends

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No code, no budget: 7 web scrapers put to the test

indicator.media/p/no-code-no-budget-7-web-scrapers-put-to-the-test

Scraping no longer demands coding skills or a big budget. Here's how seven options held up across three real-world tests.

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Tiles Protocols

dasl.ing/tiles-protocols.html

Tiles ([[tiles]]) are intended for use in a diversity of environements. Depending on the environment that they find themselves embedded in, they will have access to different capabilities that expose various features and communicate with the host environment. Tiles Protocols are the mechanisms through which these integrations are made available.

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Opinion | Kwame Anthony Appiah Hasn’t Done the Reading

chronicle.com/article/kwame-anthony-appiah-hasnt-done-the-reading

Scholars should welcome interdisciplinary contestation and dispute over fundamental questions of truth and method, and so this spring’s arrival of a “ Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences” was energizing.

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The bright and bold summer perfection of OMC’s “How Bizarre”

pastemagazine.com/music/alt-rock-dept/alt-rock-dept-omc-how-bizarre-july-2026

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

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A $10K Bounty Aims to Make Sony’s PlayStation 5 a Computer Again

wired.com/story/a-10k-bounty-aims-to-make-the-ps5-a-computer-again/

Nice PlayStation you got. Bet it could probably run Linux too.

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Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law

theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/16/how-europe-most-powerful-farming-lobby-copa-cogeca-killed-eu-pesticide-law

Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife

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wsj.com

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US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/us-seeks-cheaper-hunter-killer-drones-after-iran-destroys-1b-worth-of-reapers/

US military drone losses in Iran war spur Pentagon call for cheap replacements.

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How the UN’s Scientific Panel Erases Human Responsibility for AI

techpolicy.press/how-the-uns-scientific-panel-erases-human-responsibility-for-ai/

The UN Scientific Panel's report casts artificial intelligence as a system from nowhere, writes Eryk Salvaggio. The definition will shape policy for years.

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AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say

apnews.com/article/ice-david-brouillette-johan-guerrero-maine-shooting-dbc30d6d59e2a95fb470afc188e125c6?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a59633a1fe70a00011e5671

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to close relatives who spoke to The Associated Press.

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I Got Slopped

nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-biography-amazon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yVA.-M2B.EBjC4pOiWupM&smid=nytcore-android-share

This was news to me. I went to Amazon to investigate.

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Traditional Social Media as a Prison

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Social media apps have become a vehicle for community building, world news, and political campaigns. As app owners have enmeshed themselves more with the state, the carceral logics that haunt marginalized communities offline, became a part of their digital realities online.

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White House teleprompter operator made more than $100K betting on Trump's speeches: Sources

abcnews.com/US/white-house-teleprompter-operator-made-100k-betting-trumps/story?id=134764573

President Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on the contents of Trump's speeches, sources say.

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Parts of Manhattan to sacrifice 10% of street parking as NYC installs new trash bins

gothamist.com/news/parts-of-manhattan-to-sacrifice-10-of-street-parking-as-nyc-installs-new-trash-bins?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashsocial.com/gothamist/library/media/696754634

The Upper West and East sides of Manhattan are set to lose thousands of parking spaces as the city begins to containerize residential trash.

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Redditors Are Celebrating the Cutting Down of Flock Surveillance Towers With Based Memes

futurism.com/future-society/redditors-flock-surveillance-alpr-vandalism-memes

The Flock surveillance subreddit has quickly become the digital rallying point for anti-ALPR activists across the United States.

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Pigeons can distinguish cancerous breast tissue from normal

universityofcalifornia.edu/news/pigeons-can-distinguish-cancerous-breast-tissue-normal

Study finds the birds are uncommonly good at distinguishing cancerous breast tissue from normal .

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Meet 'the next Albert Einstein' Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski: Stephen Hawking cited her research, NASA and Jeff Bezos wanted to hire her, she turned down a $1.1 million offer

m.economictimes.com/news/new-updates/meet-the-next-albert-einstein-sabrina-gonzalez-pasterski-stephen-hawking-cited-her-research-nasa-and-jeff-bezos-wanted-to-hire-her-she-turned-down-a-1-1-million-offer/amp_articleshow/132279366.cms

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski built and flew a single-engine aircraft at a young age when she was just 12. Her research on the spin memory effect was cited by Stephen Hawking. Pasterski declined lucrative offers from NASA and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to pursue fundamental physics questions. She now leads research into quantum gravity and spacetime at the Perimeter Institute.

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How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars

404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/

Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Media.

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Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI

wired.com/story/please-stop-making-me-opt-out-of-ai/

I’m sick of “opt-out” toggles for automatically enabled generative AI features. It’s past time to make “opt in” the default setting for sensitive features.

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Anatomy of Generative Scam Campaigns in Online Advertising Ecosystems

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3774905.3794690

This paper presents an empirical, campaign-level analysis of AI-enabled scam advertising in a large online advertising ecosystem.

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Mitigating Exposure to Wildfire Smoke: What I’ve Learned So Far

apihtawikosisan.com/2023/09/mitigating-exposure-to-wildfire-smoke-what-ive-learned-so-far/

Folks, we need to talk. I’m shut up in the house again, windows tightly closed, air-filters running, because the outside air quality is absolutely terrible. It’s “wildfire season&…

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“Useful” is not sufficient

tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/

So Linus Torvalds, head of the Linux kernel development, put his foot down on the Linux Kernel development mailing list when someone was bringing up criticism of LLMs: “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issueswith that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away. […]

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Blue Angels conducting review after jet flies over Florida beachgoers

abcnews.com/US/blue-angels-conducting-review-after-jet-flies-florida/story?id=134800561

Officials with the U.S. Navy's elite Blue Angels said they're conducting a review after social media footage showed a jet flying low over a crowd of beachgoers.

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COMPUTER COPS: Inside the big business of selling AI to the police

theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/965066/ai-police-cops

From data gathering to decision making, there’s a gold mine in police funding.

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The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway.

theocharis.dev/blog/llm-critics-are-right-i-use-llms-anyway/

I almost agree with all of the LLM critics, yet I still use LLMs a lot. I know this sounds like I am delusional, but I don't think I am alone with it.

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Installation Guide

foundryvtt.com/article/installation/

The official website and community for Foundry Virtual Tabletop.