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30 Jul 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books

wired.com/story/boomers-cant-stop-gifting-their-grandkids-ai-generated-slop-books/

Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.

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30 Jul 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The Odyssey’s Most Urgent Warning is Written All Over Lupita Nyong’o’s Face

vulture.com/article/the-odysseys-warning-is-all-over-lupita-nyongos-face.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=vulture&utm_source=bluesky

The Odyssey taps into an elemental anger that Nyong’o brings to exquisitely painful life in her dual roles as Helen and Clytemnestra.

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30 Jul 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct when they were teenagers

bbc.com/news/articles/cd7lg2nz2x2o?app-referrer=push-notification

The actor and musician faces allegations from 10 women in total who say he mistreated them as teenagers.

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30 Jul 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

I thought Nolan’s Odyssey was an epic bore. If you want Greek myths brought to life, try the thrill of opera!

theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/29/odyssey-christopher-nolan-opera-greek-myths

Composers from Purcell to Birtwistle have created passionate dramas inspired by ancient Greek stories – and none of them require you to sit through three hours of solemn spectacle without an interval

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30 Jul 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Fark NotNewsletter: Not Ready to go on the cart

m.fark.com/comments/blog1796/Fark-NotNewsletter-Not-Ready-to-go-on-cart

Fark NotNewsletter: Not Ready to go on the cart

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30 Jul 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive

nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/ice-arrests-airports-visa-overstay.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1VA.bzJB.z6JMyspVtvel&smid=url-share

The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired U. S.

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30 Jul 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Role Player's Digest #7

roleplayersdigest.substack.com/p/role-players-digest-7

July 27, 2026

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30 Jul 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Man accused of stealing automated license plate reading cameras in Lisle, Illinois, speaks out

cbsnews.com/chicago/news/man-charged-in-flock-alpr-theft-speaks/?intcid=CNR-01-0623

His arrest comes as a small but visible vigilante movement has vandalized similar cameras across the country.

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30 Jul 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

In China, people are renting out their faces to AI

restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-microdramas-face-licensing/

New platforms are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, creating a new marketplace for biometric identity.

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30 Jul 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The Masculinity Scam

theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/masculinity-scam-manosphere-talarico/687999/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8LSB1oeROEz1uvJAU23jYGE

The attacks against James Talarico are revealing, @AdamSerwer writes. They resemble “the frothing tone of masculinity influencers in the online manosphere, with its strict but arbitrary standards for what makes a man a man”:

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30 Jul 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

What the Crackup of the Heritage Foundation Says About the Post-Trump Right

nytimes.com/2026/07/28/magazine/heritage-foundation-trump-republicans.html

“You can never institutionalize the gut instincts of a great, heroic populist like Donald Trump, or Teddy Roosevelt, or Andrew Jackson,” Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, told me this spring.

Gift Articles
30 Jul 05:27

A.I. Data Centers in Space? A System to Cool Chips Could Help. (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

nytimes.com/2026/07/30/business/solar-powered-data-centers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1lA.vAEV.iLSwdKnDgPei&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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30 Jul 05:27

被災自治体の負担減らしてできる「代理寄付」　寄付した人は税優遇も：朝日新聞 (digital.asahi.com)

digital.asahi.com/articles/ASS1F5R8NS1FUTFL00P.html?ptoken=01KYRKTYWW53A5HE2NVKYQ7Q5H

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30 Jul 05:27

If It Has a Chip, You’re Renting It. Here Are the Receipts — and the Fight Back. (medium.com)

medium.com/@reactjsbd/if-it-has-a-chip-youre-renting-it-here-are-the-receipts-and-the-fight-back-0d3c86db158d?sk=6a0e5e23fadc4c947a10a2a025372a15

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30 Jul 05:27

Rand Paul threatens to hold Fauci in contempt after he declines to answer questions (washingtonpost.com)

washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/07/29/fauci-set-face-rand-paul-senate-gop-after-release-his-covid-diary/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzg1Mjk3NjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzg2Njc5OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODUyOTc2MDAsImp0aSI6IjU0MTdlYzk3LWVkYjAtNDVjYy1iZWE1LTdjNTEzZDdkMGU5NCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI2LzA3LzI5L2ZhdWNpLXNldC1mYWNlLXJhbmQtcGF1bC1zZW5hdGUtZ29wLWFmdGVyLXJlbGVhc2UtaGlzLWNvdmlkLWRpYXJ5LyJ9.7h9D4pwRaZX6wHCOSUiNUqja_hXxoW2BGHxPpSr__-4

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30 Jul 05:27

When Your Neural Network Forecaster Lost to a One-Line Baseline (medium.com)

medium.com/data-and-beyond/when-your-neural-network-forecaster-lost-to-a-one-line-baseline-0c0586e96d8d?sk=55ca1b0c6db16f4a3a94e885117e4065

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30 Jul 05:12 • Mitch Wagner #DEI

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by @dave

"“Now, it wasn’t AI that killed all that. Social networks like Facebook and Twitter were the main culprits, especially once they started treating corporations like users and users like product, sacrificing quality for quantity. AI just danced on our grave.”
: ehandbook.com"

We Need To Keep Human...

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Electrek
30 Jul 05:09 • Michelle Lewis

IEA: Global EV sales jump 35% in Q2 and 50 countries set records

Global EV sales shook off a rough start to 2026 and came bounding back in Q2, jumping 35% from the first three months of the year and setting quarterly records in 50 countries.

@art.feediverse.org - Great art on Bluesky
30 Jul 05:03

Young Slave, 1523 #highrenaissance #michelangelo

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30 Jul 04:42

Padres, days from the trade deadline, are suddenly in the thick of a playoff race (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

nytimes.com/athletic/7479365/2026/07/29/padres-trade-deadline-playoff-race/?unlocked_article_code=1.1lA.0jlW.CSjQLH_6afSJ&source=user_shared_article&smid=ta-ios-share