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"Through an apparent security flaw, unauthorized users seem to be winning access to other people’s accounts — and money. And even though federal regulators have paid attention to the company in previous years, problems persist." https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2026/05/26/prison-tablet-scams-are-easier-to-pull-off-than-you-think/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=PJP-Bluesky

The first-ever Enhanced Games (open to those using performance-enhancing drugs) featured 42 athletes, three of whom were competing clean. All three won their respective events.

Pope Leo’s first encyclical marks an unprecedented alliance between the Church and Silicon Valley.

Three federal judges stepped in and blocked Alabama Republicans from using yet another congressional map designed to weaken Black representation. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/federal-court-blocks-alabama-using-gop-drawn-congressional-map-rcna346917?link_source=ta_thread_link&taid=6a15b3d8d348f90001077078&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=threads.net

In Magnifica Humanitas, the Pope decries the concentration of technological power in a few global players.

Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical letter yesterday; it’s entitled Magnifica Humanitas Of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV On Safeguarding the Human Person In the Time of Artificial Intelligence. It is very long and I haven’t been able to read the whole thing; here’s a tast...

“Fear that there may be no alternative to the will of the AI arise because we have been told for decades that there is no alternative to neoliberalism.”

Our fears of what AI will do to us are really just our fears of what capitalism is *already* doing.

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The 250th birthday of the United States is coming up and I know many of us are having a tough time feeling celebratory because *waves hands around at everything*. To mark the occasion in a decidedly non-jingoistic manner, historian Heather Cox Richardson is producing a ser...

Wandering around Half Price Books yesterday, flipped to the current day in this reflections book, Sunset Gratitide. Good day for books, also stopped at First Light and picked up a copy of Homebound. 📚

NEW YORK — On Monday night, the Knicks punched their ticket to the NBA Finals. Local fans of the Finals-bound team had gathered to watch the game together at Radio City Music Hall, after the team decided to change the venue for the official watch party because the authoritie...

Tenderly Tracking My Husband. “Knowing when to step in and tell a loved one with [Alzheimer’s] that they can no longer do something because it’s too risky is a game of chance we caregivers hate to play.” Lovely & heartbreaking.

I went to the WordCamp Europe 2026 schedule the way I do every year, looking for a reason to be there. Every workshop, every keynote, every ten-minute lightning slot. I scrolled it twice. There was nothing there for me. To make sure I wasn’t being unfair, I had AI read every session summary on the […]

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we're talking belts, the Thunder, remembering some book characters, and more.

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“Insider reporting from an unnamed White House official says the Iran deal is ‘95% done.’ The remaining 5% of negotiations are focused on Iran opening the Strait of Hormuz and turning over all nuclear material.” – Conservative pollster Frank Luntz, writing on X. - - - I, Sis...

In 2025, McLaren came in fully prepared for its drivers to lead the championship battle. For McLaren, this meant doing the equivalent of writing up a 100-page legal document to try to settle the championship with as little actual conflict as possible. The year's paltry tensi...

Humorist David Sedaris says the best part of reading his work to an audience is earning the laughs — or the groans. "A collective groan is fine with me," he says. Sedaris reflects on his Duolingo obsession, AI, and why he’ll continue writing and touring as long as he possibly can. His new book of essays is ‘The Land and Its People.’ He spoke with guest interviewer Sam Fragoso, host of the podcast ‘Talk Easy.’ 

Also, John Powers reviews two new mystery novels: ‘The End of the Sahara,’ by the Algerian writer Saïd Khatibi, and ‘An Enigma by the Sea,’ by Italian authors Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini. 


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The Enhanced Games, a marketing stunt for direct-to-consumer steroids dressed up in a thin Olympics disguise, were held this past weekend, on the far north end of the Las Vegas strip. The event was a miserable failure on every front it supposedly contested, serving as neithe...