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The Realization That Changed Gracie McGraw's Health Journey

Gracie McGraw is sharing the difficult realization she had after taking Ozempic for PCOS, explaining how it helped manage her symptoms while reigniting her eating disorder. Continue reading…

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🦍 Mitchellaneous 8.4.2026

I use semicolons anyway. Give the motherfuckers reading my shitposts an edumacation. Yes to this

Letters from an American
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August 4, 2026

On Friday night, a court filing from Capital One denied there was any political motivation behind the closure of more than 380 bank accounts in the names of Donald Trump and the Trump Organization.

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🌻 no data centers in my backyard

jasmi.news/p/no-data-centers-in-my-backyard

money, power, and populism in the AI buildout

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TikTok Withheld a Safety Feature From Millions. One Died by Suicide

bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-04/confidential-tiktok-report-shows-algorithm-safety-feature-withheld-from-millions?srnd=phx-bigtake

A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement.

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[Editor’s desk] Controlling colons and dodging bullets

silverbranch.co.uk/2025/03/controlling-colons-and-dodging-bullets/

TTRPG and boardgame writers tend to throw around too many colons. A lot of it is about right and wrong ways to use bullets. Tim Gray explains.

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A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?

wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/?_sp=3e192a0e-d114-4877-baca-258ed45ab017.1785878098731

Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.

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DOJ Takes Aim At Off-Label Prescriptions in Gender-Affirming Care Fight

autonomynews.co/doj-off-label-prescriptions-gender-affirming-care-subpoena-abortion-pills/

The Trump Administration’s arguments in a recent hearing over a subpoena for trans patients’ medical records could also spell danger for abortion access.

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The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed - Bloomberg

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-03/the-world-crossed-a-major-solar-milestone-no-one-noticed

After crossing the 100-gigawatt mark in 2012, it took the world 10 years to deploy 1 terawatt of solar power.

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Now you can securely link multiple phones to one Signal account

theverge.com/tech/975407/signal-linked-devices-sync

Signal in sync.

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How to Snoop Through Property Records Like a Reporter

thecityreporter.nyc/2023/11/03/how-to-snoop-through-property-records-like-a-reporter-two/

Maybe you need to find the name of a contractor who botched a repair, or your landlord’s real mailing address, or how many violations a building has racked up.

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Scott Galloway: I Got ‘Doxed’ by Mamdani

nymag.com/intelligencer/article/scott-galloway-i-got-doxed-by-mamdanis-pied-terre-list.html?utm_source=nymag_app_article_share

Pivot co-hosts Galloway and Kara Swisher discuss the bumpy pied-à-terre tax rollout.

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Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers

techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/android-app-developers-may-be-unwittingly-sharing-their-users-location-data-with-advertisers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

Developers may not realize they are sharing their users' location data with advertisers, per new research.

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Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy

andre.arko.net/2026/07/30/ruby-centrals-destructive-legacy/

At conferences and meetups, and in conversations online, many Ruby developers have asked me about Ruby Central and my disagreement with them. This post is my attempt to answer the questions I’ve been getting over and over, covering: 1) what is Ruby Central doing now? 2) has the dispute over Bundler and RubyGems been resolved? 3) what has Ruby Central said about the dispute? and 4) what can Ruby developers do now?

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Online advertising giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are necessary

this.weekinsecurity.com/online-advertising-giant-adform-was-hacked-proving-once-again-why-ad-blockers-are-necessary/

The hacked digital advertiser was caught serving malicious ads that allowed hackers to steal a victim's cryptocurrency.

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Inside a Mass Shooter’s Harrowing History With ChatGPT

motherjones.com/media/2026/08/openai-chatgpt-fsu-mass-shooting-chat-logs/

A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.

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Who goes transphobe?

welcometohellworld.com/who-goes-transphobe/

by Sandy Ernest Allen

It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go transphobe. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times—in California, in Iowa,

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Piloting paid memberships for the open social web!

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Lab Notes 035: building monetization features for Leaflet creators, starting with paid memberships — tell us if you'd like to be the first to try, and what else you need!

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‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock

404media.co/do-not-mention-alpr-usage-how-cops-are-trying-to-hide-the-existence-of-flock/

“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."

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Massive ChainDrop npm supply-chain attack infects hundreds of packages

bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/massive-chaindrop-npm-supply-chain-attack-infects-hundreds-of-packages/

Self-propagating malware named 'ChainDrop' has compromised more than 1,300 packages with a combined 2 billion monthly downloads on the Node Package Manager (npm) registry.