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lifeisasacredtext.com/the-jewish-case-for-ai-work-exemptions/
or: why should CHICAGO POPE have all the fun
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washingtonpost.com/style/2026/07/14/are-cigarettes-cool-again-cultural-investigation/
Are cigarettes cool again? A cultural investigation.
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Authorities investigate Taco Bell and lettuce in multistate cyclosporiasis outbreak
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Emma Waters has a powerful platform, but is anyone watching?
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techdirt.com/2026/07/14/a-dozen-states-sue-to-block-paramounts-shitty-unpopular-merger/
A dozen states have filed an antitrust lawsuit to block Paramount/CBS’ $111 billion merger with Warner Brothers. The states argue the deal will undermine market competition, cause untold layo…
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Doctors and human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is ‘far greater’
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Plug-in panels are getting popular—how do we make sure they’re safe?
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Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future
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New research sheds light on how mediocre employees help would-be authoritarians maintain power.
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/14/new-york-times-subpoenas-trump-media
Federal agents showed up at reporters’ homes, targeting journalists for doing exactly what the first amendment protects
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osnews.com/story/145469/most-slopcode-projects-are-abandoned-and-deleted-within-months-of-release/
About a month ago, Flathub announced a ban on slopcoded applications.
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This op-ed explores power and narrative dynamics around AI.
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thedailytexan.com/2026/07/13/the-surveillance-state-voiced-by-kylie-jenner/
Columnist Tia Chatterjee argues the acceptance of content filmed using smartglasses reflects society’s growing acceptance of surveillance and erosion of privacy.
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Taking Mise en Mode into the new web standard
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tmz.com/2026/07/13/boosie-badazz-sues-over-trump-pardon-deal/
Boosie Badazz says he paid big money for a presidential pardon ... but now he's claiming all he got was a massive bill and an empty promise ... and he wants a big refund.
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techpolicy.press/the-public-rejects-ombs-federal-financial-assistance-rule/
Tens of thousands of scientists, clinicians, and ordinary citizens warned OMB about putting political appointees in charge of which research gets funded.
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wired.com/story/trump-mocked-mark-zuckerberg-and-jeff-bezos-by-showing-off-fawning-texts/
“You would not believe the texts I got from these tech guys,” NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan quote Donald Trump as telling associates in an upcoming book.
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The soft, weirdly sexualized home-chore robot has been given some very tactile hands.
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nypost.com/2026/07/13/media/robotics-ceo-fumes-after-wired-portrays-20k-home-robot-as-sexualized/
Dar Sleeper, vice president of product and design at 1X, blasted Wired magazine over the weekend.
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treblezine.com/iceage-for-love-of-grace-the-hereafter-review/
It sure didn’t seem like it at the time, but the Iceage song that seemed to most accurately point toward their future was 2014’s “ The Lord’s Favorite.
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Language, resentment, magic, and morals.
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motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/mitch-mcconnell-polio-vaccine-rfk-trump-illness-senate-disability/
The senator defended vaccines and angered Trump. If only he'd done that more.
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The 'ideal' sizing is more complicated than you think…
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thenation.com/article/politics/lindsey-graham-obituary-trump/
Conspiracy theorists liked to say that Graham’s Trump sycophancy was a result of blackmail. But the truth is worse: He stuck with Trump to keep the US war machine going.
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theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/18/brian-poindexter-ohio-congress-candidate
Brian Poindexter, a five-term local councilman and apprentice instructor at Ironworkers Local 17, is seeking the Democratic nomination for an Ohio House seat
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gamespot.com/articles/slay-the-spire-2-is-choosing-shit-art-over-generative-ai/
Throughout the past decade, we’ve seen the gaming industry grow increasingly concerned with optimization and the fruitless endeavor of chasing perfection.
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Create repository custom instructions files that give Copilot additional context on how to understand your project and how to build, test and validate its changes.
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garbageday.email/p/every-new-beginning-comes-from-some-other-beginning-s-end
Read to the end for a pizza crime
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Five thousand words—and many, many beautiful charts—on what was similar (fears of technological unemployment!) and different (relieving yourself in chamber pots!) exactly 100 years ago.
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Phia, an advertising startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates, daughter of billionaire Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, bills itself as a “personal shopping assistant” that helps users find the lowest prices on a broad range of clothes and fashion accessories.
