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For Meta’s Smart Glasses, Access Is An Afterthought

techpolicy.press/for-metas-smart-glasses-access-is-an-afterthought/

Tech companies are using accessibility as a smoke screen to obfuscate the risks of AI wearables, writes Ariana Aboulafia.

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Systems Reference

rpg.actor/systems

Complete field reference for all supported stat systems in actor.rpg.stats.

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The System From Nowhere

mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-system-from-nowhere/?ref=cybernetic-forests-newsletter

When Accountability Goes Rogue

💡I recently spoke with Dr. Zena Assaad for her podcast, Responsible Bytes. Video is above, below is an essay adapted from the conversation.

"The system from nowhere" is a way of talking about AI systems that excludes its origin as a consciously, human-designed product. It

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Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversion_of_writing

It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into the generation of text *for me* is patently offensive.

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How Australia’s data centre lobby is winning its fight to to freely pollute

ketanjoshi.co/2026/08/14/please-do-not-help-the-data-centre-lobby-fight-in-favour-of-pollution/

Data centre greenwashing is getting worse, alongside the tech industry’s hunger for fossil fuels. Why help them?

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Inside the Nationwide Resistance to the ICE Invasions

hammerandhope.org/article/ice-resistance-organizing

The mass popular opposition to ICE “surges” led to a sea change in public opinion. Now organizers are asking: What’s next?

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Epic Games Store Is Coming To Linux With Native Steam Deck Support

hothardware.com/news/epic-games-store-is-coming-to-linux-with-native-steam-deck-support

Epic has seemingly confirmed plans to bring its Epic Games Store to Linux and emphasizes that it won't stop at a working storefront.

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Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It’s Almost Hard to Believe

futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/young-people-ai-ceos-executives-poll

A new survey of 1,000 young adults in the US found that nine of the top tech executives are deeply loathed.

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Tell Them I Said No

sternberg-press.com/product/tell-them-i-said-no/

This collection of essays by Martin Herbert considers various artists who have withdrawn from the art world or adopted an antagonistic position toward its mechanisms. Providing a counterargument to this concept of self-marketing, Herbert examines the nature of retreat, whether in protest, as a delib

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How Cyclospora Evaded the U.S. Food Safety System to Sicken Thousands

nytimes.com/2026/08/15/health/cyclospora-invesigation-fda.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

“With the rapid nature of this outbreak and the number of people affected, we need to ensure we are completing traceback in a timely manner to preserve public health,” Lauren Edwards, an epidemiologist on the state’s rapid response team, said in an email to executives at Yum Brands, which owns Taco Bell.

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Words matter. Damnit.

buzzmachine.com/2026/08/15/words-matter-damnit/

On this week’s Intelligent Machines, we cohosts had a spirited disagreement about Anthropic’s watermarking of text, as required by EU regulation. The...

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NYC Targets Homeowners in Flood-Prone Areas of Queens for Potential Buyouts

thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/14/nyc-flooding-queens-climate-resilience-buyouts-hollis-kissena-park/

The city is gauging interest among Hollis and Kissena Park residents, expanding outreach beyond the area known as the Hole.

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Bon Appétit: Year-Round Roadside Dining Set To Return to NYC Under Newly Passed Bills

thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/13/nyc-outdoor-dining-roadside-sheds-new-laws-restaraunts/

Year-round curbside dining had ceased after the Adams administration rolled out restrictions on al fresco setups.

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As Trump blocks Medicaid funds, one trans teen's mom asks: What's next?

npr.org/2026/08/16/nx-s1-5932491/transgender-health-care-medicaid-trump-oz

A longtime Republican living in California says the Trump administration's continuing actions to target transgender youth take a personal toll.

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Jason Arday's Death and the Age of Digital Racial Terror

karenattiah.substack.com/p/jason-ardays-death-and-the-age-of?r=2bz6j

What Jason Arday's death by media mob says about the old machinery of anti-Black terror in the algorithmic age.

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CBS News Chief Correspondent Matt Gutman Accused of Sexual Harassment by Former ABC Field Producer

variety.com/2026/tv/news/cbs-news-matt-gutman-lawsit-sexual-harassment-1236835096/

Matt Gutman, CBS News' chief correspondent, has been accused of sexual harassment in a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed by a former co-worker at ABC News.

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Adjuncting Until the End of Time

thenation.com/article/society/adjuncting-until-the-end-of-time/

Universities now have more adjuncts than tenured and tenure-track professors combined. The conditions are unsustainable—for professors and students alike.

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Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold

independent.co.uk/news/science/gold-big-bang-theory-large-hadron-collider-b3033578.html

The physicists made an unexpected breakthrough

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Prague library data reveals a widening gender gap in borrowing books

chytomo.com/en/prague-library-data-reveals-a-widening-gender-gap-in-borrowing-books/

An analysis of 17 million loans recorded by the Municipal Library of Prague between 2023 and 2025 revealed substantial differences in library use and borrowing preferences by age and gender. The gap widened particularly after age 30: among 35-year-old users, the library recorded 3.5 active women for every active man.

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OBLIVION 2666 - DEMO DISC

solarautomata.itch.io/oblivion2666demo

SMILE FOR THE CAMERA.

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How Cyclospora Evaded the U.S. Food Safety System to Sicken Thousands

nytimes.com/2026/08/15/health/cyclospora-invesigation-fda.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

“With the rapid nature of this outbreak and the number of people affected, we need to ensure we are completing traceback in a timely manner to preserve public health,” Lauren Edwards, an epidemiologist on the state’s rapid response team, said in an email to executives at Yum Brands, which owns Taco Bell.

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How to Turn Off Smart TV Snooping Features

consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smart-tv-snooping-features-a4840102036/

Smart TVs collect viewing data. Consumer Reports shows you how to shut off TV snooping on all the major TV brands, including LG, Samsung, Sony, TCL (Roku), and Vizio.

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Man Wearing Pervert Glasses Films Himself Harassing Famous Female Comedian in the Middle of TV Shoot

futurism.com/future-society/pervert-glasses-harassing-diane-morgan-philomena-cunk

A man wearing Meta smart glasses burst onto a TV set to harass British comedian Diane Morgan amid growing controversy.

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Conventures — MCDM Productions

mcdmproductions.com/conventures

The Road to Broadhurst written by Carlos Cisco is available for free. Internally, we called this “the Conventure.

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Get Started

proxmox.com/en/products/proxmox-virtual-environment/get-started

Proxmox VE is fast and easy to install. Download the ISO, copy to a USB, and start the automatic installation wizard.

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Code on the Go

appdevforall.org/code-on-the-go/?utm_source=gh&utm_medium=readme

Note: CoGo requires the Android permission to display over other apps. Some phones, including Google Pixels, may restrict the permission so that you can’t enable it during installation.

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civic.garden interest form

tally.so/r/5BgOLZ

Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

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Prototyping Democratic Public Finance With the Seattle Loop

moneyontheleft.org/2026/07/31/prototyping-democratic-public-finance-with-the-seattle-loop/

By Will Beaman Seattle is once again being told that a projected budget deficit requires difficult choices about which public commitments the city can continue to honor. Councilmember Robert Kettle…

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Plan 9 from Bell Labs

plan9.io/plan9/about.html

Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a research system developed at Bell Labs starting in the late 1980s. Its original designers and authors were Ken Thompson, Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, and Phil Winterbottom.

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Ordinary Abundance

ordinaryabundance.com/?_bhlid=89dc4a05210b68feb82c2eee4335cc133f7d3ce3

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.