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Some platforms are turning against AI-generated content. Others are embracing it. What gives?

Most native apps collect far more data than their website equivalents ever could. They request permissions to hardware, sensors, and background processes that browsers deliberately restrict. The third-party software embedded in these apps frequently transmits your location, device identifiers, and behavioral data to third parties before you even see a consent prompt. This data is in tandem bought, sold, and aggregated by brokers. It has been used to out individuals, track immigrants, and enable prosecution over reproductive healthcare.

A win! Prosecutors in Washington are dropping charges against three more defendants who had been accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

After 14 years, I decided to retire Playfic, an online community for writing and sharing interactive fiction made with Inform 7. All the games will stay online indefinitely.

“The deal that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche struck with two holdout Republican senators to formally kill the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion ‘anti-weaponization’ fund has a major loophole that could allow it to come back to life,” NBC News reports.

Bangkok Market, the Thai pop-up eatery on Woodstock’s Dixon Avenue that said it drew 3 ½-hour wait times when it opened July 10 for a month-long run, shut down 12 days early last week after running into financial and staffing difficulties. Award-winning Brooklyn chef Elizabeth Calvo, who was born in Thailand, said on Wednesday morning […]

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The best parts of Django are the ones you stop noticing — a tour of the abstractions that have given Buttondown the most leverage over the years.

Tomorrow is primary day in a number of states. Michigan is the state that will get the most attention. There...

Reform, when it comes, will be welcomed. The question is whether the reformers are counting the same things Mama Chioma is counting. So far, the evidence suggests they are operating from entirely different ledgers and that only one of those ledgers is written in the ink of lived consequence.

The 39-year-old is suing Berkeley Unified for negligence, alleging a computer teacher groomed and then abused him at what was then LeConte Elementary School in 1996 and 1997.

Fleur rose dans un vase, 1902 #divisionism #jeanmetzinger

Build a set of filters once, name it, and reuse it as a one-click audience on every future email.

Build a set of filters once, name it, and reuse it as a one-click audience on every future email.

A couple of months ago, Ezra Klein said this: My pet theory right now is that President Trump is not trying to win the midterm elections. ... if he wanted to win the midterms, he’d be moving to the center. He’d be focusing on the things that Americans are angry about, disa...