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Kiri Masters: The best advertising advice Amazon gives isn't in a slide deck
thedrum.com/news/the-best-advertising-advice-amazon-gives-isn-t-in-a-slide-deck
According to the law of large numbers, Amazon should be finding it hard to keep growing. It already takes roughly 40% of every dollar spent online in the US.
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Can AI Coexist With Privacy? Proton’s Andy Yen Says It Will Have To
Proton’s CEO is a champion of encryption for everyone. So why is he going all in on un-encryptable AI?
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‘Platforms will deny they have a responsibility, but they do’ – experts warn live streaming has ‘industrialised’ validation of anti-social behaviour | Irish Independent
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Laura Veirs: Temple Songs Album Review | Pitchfork
Read Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s review of the album.
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North Texas county shuts down Flock cameras over privacy concerns
kbtx.com/2026/08/17/north-texas-county-shuts-down-flock-cameras-over-privacy-concerns/
A North Texas county has shut down its network of Flock automated license plate reader cameras, saying the technology amounted to warrantless surveillance of residents going about their daily lives
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The Economy Has Spoken: Stuff That’s AI-Generated Has Almost Zero Value
futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economy-ai-generated-value
3D assets marketplace CGTrader is being flooded by AI slop, but nobody is buying it, suggesting AI isn't "repricing the market."
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Google Search Will Eventually Support HTTP QUERY Method
seroundtable.com/google-support-http-query-method-41882.html
Gary Illyes from Google said Google Search will eventually support the new HTTP QUERY method. He said as the "ecosystem catches up" Google will then support the HTTP QUERY method.
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Google Aims to Boost AI With Purchase of Spirit Airlines Data
Google LLC won a bankruptcy auction for a trove of deindentified business data, software code, and operations records from collapsed low-cost carrier Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc., saying it plans to use the assets to improve its artificial intelligence.
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Elon Musk made flying even worse so Palantir could profit
theverge.com/transportation/981194/faa-air-traffic-elon-musk-peter-thiel-palantir
Palantir’s reach in the FAA keeps growing.
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ChatGPT Ads Switching Advertisers On Load
seroundtable.com/chatgpt-ads-switching-advertisers-41883.html
Sometimes when you look at the ads within OpenAI's ChatGPT, you might notice an ad from one advertiser first loads and then it quickly blinks and loads a different advertiser. I suspect this is a bit of a deficiency with the ad server, but I am not certain.
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The Cop Who Took On Flock
After Noel Pichardo called out his city's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years.
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Kindergarten vaccine exemptions jump to another record high
washingtonpost.com/health/2026/08/17/kindergarten-vaccine-exemptions-jump-another-record-high/
Kindergarten vaccine exemptions jump to another record high
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Trump administration can’t scrap plan to move FBI headquarters to Md., judge rules
Trump administration can’t scrap plan to move FBI headquarters to Md., judge rules
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Leaking and Investigating the Epstein Files
emma.best/2026/08/14/leaking-and-investigating-the-epstein-files/
This unique panel brought together leading journalists who published and investigated leaked emails from the Epstein files, exposing his network of collaborators and enablers in one of the most explosive political scandals in decades.
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Suing for silence: Nationwide lawsuits and social media videos document data center noise
nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/data-centers-noise-lawsuits-social-media-rcna587447
Concerns about data centers initially centered on their energy and water consumption, but as more have come online, residents’ gripes are increasingly about noise.
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Fascists Really Believe It
Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.
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The Bears Are on Ozempic
nytimes.com/2026/08/01/style/provincetown-bear-week-ozempic.html
Some partygoers were in sequins. Others in polo shirts.
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‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit
ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.
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Nancy Mace Finds Her ‘Death Goddess’
Victim, survivor, avenger — is her “brokenness” her superpower?
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Nancy Mace reveals why she got 9 tattoos in ‘rapid succession’ while serving in Congress
“So my story is I am totally broken,” Mace said in a revealing profile published Friday.
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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The School Shooter Civilization
"Civilizationist" thinking, once confined to the radical fringe and the manifestos of mass killers, has moved to the center of American foreign policy.
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Opinion | I’m a hawk. Even I’m shocked by a $1.5 trillion defense budget.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/08/17/congress-cant-trust-pete-hegseth-spend-15-trillion-wisely/
I’m a hawk. Even I’m shocked by a $1.5 trillion defense budget.
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This is Medical Advice*
The AI slop doctors of YouTube, and the prompts instructing them to lie
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The Wrong Kind of American
Julia Curlee was the first CIA officer to transition openly and keep serving the agency. The Trump White House needed her—until her identity became public.
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This Serial Killer Thriller Is My Favorite New Show Right Now
There are a ton of great shows and movies to watch right now, but my current favorite series is a serial killer thriller on Hulu, 'Furious'. The must-watch show stars Emmy Rossum as an FBI agent out to stop a killer. Here's my 'Furious' review.
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Hayden Panettiere dies at 36
Her representative confirmed her death to ABC News.
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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …
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wsj.com/tech/ai/china-wants-more-babiesso-its-cracking-down-on-chatbot-love-affairs-65cd6c82
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