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John Solomon's propaganda continues to fail the most basic rules of journalism: Who, What, and When.

The post John Solomon’s Propaganda Technique: Keeping the “Who” “What” “When” Secret to Fool the Rubes appeared first on emptywheel.

“President Trump has ordered a reduction in childhood vaccines — publicly faulting the shots for an increase in autism cases — even as the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has failed to produce evidence linking vaccinations to the disorder,” CBS News reports. “While the executive order released Aug. 10 does not directly […]

ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.

A federal judge rejected homeless advocates’ request to block the city’s efforts to clear the camp for the long term, but granted a new concession.

We live in a world of ordinary abundance & luxuries only dreamed of in centuries past: music on demand, photographs, books, eyeglasses, refrigeration, vaccination, bicycles, and the washing machine.

Matteo Wong, staff writer at The Atlantic, talks about his latest reporting on artificial intelligence, including the potentially dangerous mistakes some of the biggest companies have made.

=> "It May Be Time to Panic About AI" (The Atlantic, August 12, 2026)

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Now that budget season is over, NYC Comptroller Mark Levine offers his view on the health of the city's finances, plus talks about his view on the housing affordability crisis, the city's pension fund and more.

New York City Comptroller Mark Levine speaks during the annual New York State Financial Control Board meeting on August 12, 2026 in New York City. Levine was joined by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, State Comptroller Thomas Dinapoli and other board members as they discussed the state's budget. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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As part of a 3-part series on the divisions within political movements, Eric Blanc, assistant professor of Labor Studies at Rutgers University, author of several books including We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big (University of California Press, 2025), and author of the Substack newsletter LaborPolitics.com, talks about what's dividing members of the Democratic Socialists of America, as the party is having a moment.

Photo: New York City Democratic Socialists (NYC-DSA) hold a rally in Union Square marking the start of a campaign to tax the rich and win universal childcare on November 16, 2025, in New York City, United States. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Technology journalist Darryl K. Taft led a long and successful career at several first-rank tech publications and was a highly

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Jonathan Bernstein: “House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries went on one of the Sunday shows over the weekend and gave some lame answers to some campaign and policy questions, leading to half of Bluesky getting all upset with him. I noted one person, who I respect, calling him ‘mealy-mouthed.'” “Here’s the thing: Jeffries as minority leader […]

“Journalism is the new practice for Everyman, it’s what we all will be doing all the time in this new century. As the professional media pulls back, the citizens, you and me, need to fill in and replace every pro with 100 of us, to cover every school board meeting, every planning commission, defense contractor, civic organization. It’s like the Second Amendment for information and ideas. We need a well-informed electorate to make the tough decisions n our future.”

“Job titles, boxes in org charts, are so last-millennium. They are relics of an Industrial Age that was born of the doomed notion that people are best understood as cogs in corporate machines. … What matters most in the long run is who you are. Not who you work for.”— Doc Searls on Robert Scoble’s value to Microsoft

Trump on White House staffers: "These young, beautiful girls! These young, these gorgeous, beautiful girls"

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Pittsburgh had a hell of a winter storm in January, with more than a foot of snow, and freezing temperatures that created towering walls of ice and annoyed locals whose parking situations wouldn’t return to normal for a month. Some of the city's oldest buildings suffered the...

The Gasolini AR1 uses 2-cylinder Honda bike engine, and an EV is underway, too.

Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centers.

Chat is great for intent, but agent work gets lost in the scroll. Here is how I use canvases with my agentic workflows—and why your workflow also deserves a canvas.

The post How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

I’m at WordCamp US in Phoenix Monday through lunch on Wednesday. Feel free to say hi. I have “I ❤️ RSS” stickers! Andrew at WordCamp US