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Nancy Mace reveals why she got 9 tattoos in ‘rapid succession’ while serving in Congress

nypost.com/2026/02/28/us-news/nancy-mace-reveals-why-she-got-nine-tattoos-in-rapid-succession-while-serving-in-congress/

“So my story is I am totally broken,” Mace said in a revealing profile published Friday.

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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The School Shooter Civilization

liberalcurrents.com/the-schoool-shooter-civilization/

"Civilizationist" thinking, once confined to the radical fringe and the manifestos of mass killers, has moved to the center of American foreign policy.

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Opinion | I’m a hawk. Even I’m shocked by a $1.5 trillion defense budget.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/08/17/congress-cant-trust-pete-hegseth-spend-15-trillion-wisely/

I’m a hawk. Even I’m shocked by a $1.5 trillion defense budget.

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This is Medical Advice*

codysumter.substack.com/p/this-is-medical-advice

The AI slop doctors of YouTube, and the prompts instructing them to lie

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The Wrong Kind of American

theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/trump-white-house-transgender-mike-pence/688284/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a82de25aa1ab60001e2e186

Julia Curlee was the first CIA officer to transition openly and keep serving the agency. The Trump White House needed her—until her identity became public.

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This Serial Killer Thriller Is My Favorite New Show Right Now

purewow.com/entertainment/furious-hulu-review

There are a ton of great shows and movies to watch right now, but my current favorite series is a serial killer thriller on Hulu, 'Furious'. The must-watch show stars Emmy Rossum as an FBI agent out to stop a killer. Here's my 'Furious' review.

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Hayden Panettiere dies at 36

abcnews.com/US/hayden-panettiere-dies-36/story?id=135698473

Her representative confirmed her death to ABC News.

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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things

simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/

Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …

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wsj.com/tech/ai/china-wants-more-babiesso-its-cracking-down-on-chatbot-love-affairs-65cd6c82

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For Meta’s Smart Glasses, Access Is An Afterthought

techpolicy.press/for-metas-smart-glasses-access-is-an-afterthought/

Tech companies are using accessibility as a smoke screen to obfuscate the risks of AI wearables, writes Ariana Aboulafia.

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Systems Reference

rpg.actor/systems

Complete field reference for all supported stat systems in actor.rpg.stats.

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The System From Nowhere

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When Accountability Goes Rogue

💡I recently spoke with Dr. Zena Assaad for her podcast, Responsible Bytes. Video is above, below is an essay adapted from the conversation.

"The system from nowhere" is a way of talking about AI systems that excludes its origin as a consciously, human-designed product. It

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Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversion_of_writing

It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into the generation of text *for me* is patently offensive.

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How Australia’s data centre lobby is winning its fight to to freely pollute

ketanjoshi.co/2026/08/14/please-do-not-help-the-data-centre-lobby-fight-in-favour-of-pollution/

Data centre greenwashing is getting worse, alongside the tech industry’s hunger for fossil fuels. Why help them?

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Inside the Nationwide Resistance to the ICE Invasions

hammerandhope.org/article/ice-resistance-organizing

The mass popular opposition to ICE “surges” led to a sea change in public opinion. Now organizers are asking: What’s next?

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Epic Games Store Is Coming To Linux With Native Steam Deck Support

hothardware.com/news/epic-games-store-is-coming-to-linux-with-native-steam-deck-support

Epic has seemingly confirmed plans to bring its Epic Games Store to Linux and emphasizes that it won't stop at a working storefront.

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Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It’s Almost Hard to Believe

futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/young-people-ai-ceos-executives-poll

A new survey of 1,000 young adults in the US found that nine of the top tech executives are deeply loathed.

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Tell Them I Said No

sternberg-press.com/product/tell-them-i-said-no/

This collection of essays by Martin Herbert considers various artists who have withdrawn from the art world or adopted an antagonistic position toward its mechanisms. Providing a counterargument to this concept of self-marketing, Herbert examines the nature of retreat, whether in protest, as a delib

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How Cyclospora Evaded the U.S. Food Safety System to Sicken Thousands

nytimes.com/2026/08/15/health/cyclospora-invesigation-fda.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

“With the rapid nature of this outbreak and the number of people affected, we need to ensure we are completing traceback in a timely manner to preserve public health,” Lauren Edwards, an epidemiologist on the state’s rapid response team, said in an email to executives at Yum Brands, which owns Taco Bell.