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US Senate unanimously opposed a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon. Here's why that matters

abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/ghislaine-maxwell-us-senate-resolution-explained/106975030

The bipartisan vote is non-binding, but it reveals the sentiment surrounding Epstein within Donald Trump's own party. Here's how.

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OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake

wired.com/story/openais-hacking-debacle-was-a-human-mistake/

If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.

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Sharia Law Is Not Coming to Texas, No Matter What Deuce Bigalow Says

texasmonthly.com/news-politics/rob-schneider-texas-sharia-law/

No, Rob Schneider doesn’t live here. But he has a lot to say about our state’s supposed fall to Islamic forces.

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Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font

theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/30/open-source-project-fools-ai-scrapers-with-poisoned-font/5281303

ShieldFont is available today if you've got copy that needs protecting, we mean

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I’m a Classicist. Were Emily Wilson and I Watching the Same Odyssey Movie?

slate.com/culture/2026/07/the-odyssey-christopher-nolan-emily-wilson-review-critique-translation-lrb.html

Celebrated translator Emily Wilson used baffling arguments to flay Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s poem.

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Public domain art resources

skeletoncodemachine.com/p/public-domain-art-resources

Using public domain art in tabletop game design

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The Untold Story About W Social: Unconventional Beginnings, Strategic Pitches and Conflicting Signals

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A deep dive into the origin story of W Social, an analysis of the strategic arguments they have been using to appeal to government officials, media companies and advertisers... and the discussion of conflicting signals they have been sending

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The Sane NYC DSA vs the Crazy National DSA- A Guide for the Perplexed

nathannewman.substack.com/p/the-sane-nyc-dsa-vs-the-crazy-national

If you are confused about what DSA is, the answer is that it is two very different organizations that I don't think can coexist for much longer

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My Blog's Biggest Fans Are AI Bots. So I Fought Back.

ranthebuilder.cloud/blog/my-blogs-biggest-fans-are-ai-bots-so-i-fought-back/

How I discovered AI bots faking my traffic spike, and how I fought back with AWS WAF challenges, blocking, and pay-per-crawl rules.

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What is the Atmosphere?

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“The Atmosphere is an ecosystem of apps that use Atmosphere accounts.An Atmosphere account exists outside of any single app. It consists of a username and a big folder of all the content and relationships a person has. It's public!Atmosphere apps use this folder to create social experiences like blogging, tweeting, and sharing. Because everything is public, Atmosphere apps can create uniquely seamless experiences between themselves!”

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Watching the show trials

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-the-show-trials

Anthony Fauci and the politics of retribution

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US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

reuters.com/world/africa/us-government-map-africa-mislabels-every-country-global-conference-2026-07-30/

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online.

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AOC Must Run For President

hamiltonnolan.com/p/aoc-must-run-for-president

History is calling. Sorry!

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IAB Tech Lab Releases AAMP 2.3, Bringing Enterprise-Grade Infrastructure and Privacy Diligence to Agentic Advertising

iabtechlab.com/press-releases/iab-tech-lab-releases-aamp-2-3-bringing-enterprise-grade-infrastructure-and-privacy-diligence-to-agentic-advertising/

Version 2.3 brings Enterprise deployment, privacy diligence, and pricing integrity as industry standards to Help Agentic Advertising scale

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It's three times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under Trump

politico.com/news/2026/03/23/trump-denies-disaster-aid-for-democratic-led-states-00831199

The president has approved just 23 percent of blue state requests for disaster aid, compared to 89 percent for red states.

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got to buy MSG’s privacy. Her fans aren’t so lucky.

ms.now/opinion/taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-got-to-buy-msgs-privacy-her-fans-arent-so-lucky

Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.

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The Covid Amnesia Project and the Plot to Erase 2020

sciencebasedmedicine.org/116333-2/

It’s up to those of us who experienced the pandemic in the real-world to make sure that what actually happened in 2020 isn’t deliberately erased by sheltered disinformation agents who experienced

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Stop treating Elon Musk’s racist meltdowns like they’re normal

ms.now/opinion/elon-musk-racist-meltdown-economist-traitor

Anthony L. Fisher: The economy and millions of retirement accounts are tied to the fortunes of an unstable, race-baiting conspiracy theorist.

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A second lens makes DJI’s Osmo Pocket 4P my new favorite video camera

theverge.com/gadgets/972456/dji-osmo-pocket-4p-review

Bigger, but definitely better.

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An Odyssey Through Testimonial Injustice

news.chanda.science/archive/an-odyssey-through-testimonial-injustice/

On reading Dr. Emily Wilson, properly