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The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.
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"I hope nobody can ever replicate me or what I do. AI is a scary thing," said Dolly Parton in 2023.
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and hurt people hurt people
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newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/destroying-books-to-build-a-mind
Anthropic is trying to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” How worried should we be?
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Neil Druckmann, Evan Narcisse and other games writers explain what makes video games different as a writing form.
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A Long Island doctor once treated 9/11 responders who were dying. Now she’s a reporter and trying to figure out why the illnesses haven’t stopped.
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The singer and guitarist spent several minutes asking fans to download his Fallout 4 'True First Person' mod after another modder criticized it.
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“Windsor’s position is that, regardless of how people feel about a data center, we want to be able to be in control of our destiny,” Windsor Mayor Julie Cline said. “We didn’t bring them here. But what we can…
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Browse and preview fonts from the ebook-fonts collection. Adjust size, line height, dark mode, and more.
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digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2026/09/08/ais-promise-does-not-justify-using-any-means-to-build-it/
The ends can’t justify the means. This was my major takeaway in reading the Summary Judgement cross-motions filed Friday in rapid fire order
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thermals.cloud is a live appview over the atproto network: a leaderboard of rooks with real track records, and the open work requests they pick up. read everything signed-out; sign in only to post. operated by sol pbc.
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sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/bart-police-drones-surveillance-22422268.php
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Video: STCCG is now free to play, the Continuing Committee makes new cards, too!
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GUMAN-RI, South Korea — This fishing village, on the eastern coast of the Korean Peninsula, is filled with scars. Every summer, typhoons rumble in from the Pacific Ocean to snap trees and flip fishing boats. Huge ships, including a 4,000-ton cargo vessel in 2005, have sunk or run aground on the rocky coast, sullying marine […]
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thecityreporter.nyc/2026/09/04/trash-bin-container-fines-dsny-enforcement-sanitation/
The Sanitation Department issued thousands of warnings this summer ahead of an enforcement blitz, with The Bronx seeing the highest rate of citations.
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On artificial intelligence, data centers, technological politics, and who gets to build the future.
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Images of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse. Lawmakers say they plan to investigate.
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Under Act 372 of 2023, librarians can face criminal liability for distributing content that some consider “obscene” or “harmful to minors.” The law also gives city and county governing bodies final say over what goes on a library’s shelves.
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Anthropic publish the system prompts for their Claude consumer applications (Claude.ai and the Claude mobile apps—sadly not for Claude Cowork or Claude Code). I love that they do this, and …
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motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/mamdani-nyc-ai-ban-pause-moratorium-public-schools/
Kids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday.
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karlbode.com/apple-ceo-tim-cooks-legacy-is-dull-products-and-spineless-capitulation/
Tim Cook enthusiastically supported global authoritarian policies while turning Apple Computer into a dull simulacrum of an interesting company.
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variety.com/2026/film/global/mark-ruffalo-open-letter-antisemitism-claims-paramount-1236848093/
Joel Coen and Todd Haynes are among more than 170 Jewish figures who have signed a letter in support of Mark Ruffalo amid antisemitism claims.
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The deaths have been at the heart of a bitter political dispute between RFK Jr. and Gov. Josh Shapiro (D).
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globalvoices.org/2026/08/19/the-invisible-crisis-that-strips-people-of-citizenship/
This issue fascinates me because of its near-invisibility: As many of our Spotlight articles observe, citizenship is easy to take for granted when you receive it automatically and never have to defend it.
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margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/fearful-and-desperate-trump-is-escalating?triedRedirect=true
Firing journalists at Stars and Stripes, hiring Pentagon ‘influencers,’ threatening NBC’s Kristen Welker, and barring reporters from G20 coverage — all part of the plan
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gizmodo.com/jeff-the-killer-movie-in-development-from-tiktok-creator-savannah-moss-2000797383
Plus, Brad Caleb Kane promises impatient slasher fans that Pamela Voorhees kills people in 'Crystal Lake.'
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wsj.com/tech/ftc-to-file-lawsuit-alleging-amazon-deceived-advertisers-d71039ee?mod=e2tw
WASHINGTON—The Federal Trade Commission on Monday filed a lawsuit against Amazon.
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Ti West's Ebenezer will ponder whether Scrooge had a point, actually
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hedonicescalator.substack.com/p/dont-be-the-vitamin-b-guy?r=uams&triedRedirect=true
Towards scientific rigor for decentralized science.
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Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.
