Morano Calabria, 1930 #realism #mcescher
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（天声人語）首相の視察動画が伝えなかったもの：朝日新聞 (digital.asahi.com)
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A Lost Civilization Is Baffling Experts and Rewriting China’s Origin Story (wsj.com)
The San Francisco Standard
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Charli XCX wielded an influence over Outside Lands that was virtually unmatched
Not since Chappell Roan’s endearingly earnest theater-kid dominance in 2024 has a single artist exerted such power over attendees’ looks.
Finished reading: The Poet Empress by Shen Tao. Incredible characters. A truly great work of fantasy. 📚
(S+) Luisa Neubauer und Sepp Müller (CDU): Wie können sich Klimaschutz und Wirtschaft vertragen? (spiegel.de)
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Is Samus Aran Trans? It Doesn't Matter
Metroid and the Male Gaze
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What Would It Mean to See a New Color? | The New Yorker
newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/03/what-would-it-mean-to-see-a-new-color
A new color called olo can be described as the “greenest green.” It can never be captured by a camera, but its development tells us a lot about how vision works.
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‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
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The Enshittification of Everything (Part 2)
robertreich.substack.com/p/the-enshittification-of-everything
And how to disempower the oligarchy
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Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids
wired.com/story/hackers-stalked-me-by-hijacking-a-smartwatch-for-kids/
Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.
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5 Years After Emailing Keanu Reeves, Mitchell-Avila Beats Him At Chess
chess.com/news/view/keanu-reeves-mitchell-avila-madwomans-game-chess
Bianca Mitchell-Avila’s chess documentary Madwoman’s Game premiered in California, where she beat executive producer Keanu Reeves twice on stage.
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ICE warns of criminal charges against Hennepin County sheriff over jail’s immigration policy
startribune.com/ice-hennepin-county-sheriff-immigration/601875693
The office said Sheriff Dawanna Witt received immigration subpoenas over a failure to give access to inmates for deportation.
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Hello Local Business, Your AI Ads Are Costing You Customers
'Even if this was a genre popularised by human artists, it would still look like shit'
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America’s largest newspaper chain, USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data as search traffic falls
USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday. In its Q2 earnings call Thursday morning, USA Today Co. chairman and CEO Mike Reed told investors he expects the partnership to "strengthen how we collect, …
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wsj.com
wsj.com/tech/meta-ordered-to-pay-942-million-to-address-harm-to-kids-from-social-media-8ba5aab7
An aramzs.xyz post
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The A.I. Revolt Is Here
Last August, a Heatmap News poll found that approximately four in 10 voters would oppose a data center being built where they live. By May of this year, opposition grew to seven in 10.
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How Data Centers Broke American Politics
What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.
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NYC’s Pied-à-Terre Owners Hunt for Creative Ways to Dodge New Tax
Accountant Mark Goodman tried to explain it to his clients delicately: setting up an offshore corporation in the Cayman Islands to hold their New York City pied-à-terre wouldn’t get them out of the new tax on second homes.
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How AI Hype Helps Render Women Invisible
AI images are a new form of structural violence, writes Eugenia Stamboliev—not through what we see, but through whom we do not see.