Say hello to a revamped collection of perfectly proportioned 38-mm Speedmasters.
WIRED
• Jeremy White
Omega Just Released a Mini Moonwatch
John Singer Sargent, Study of Two Bedouins, 1905 #johnsingersargent #museumarchive
🦍 Mitchellaneous 8.24.2026
“Burlington, Vermont, circa 1911. ‘City Hall Park.’ Hotel Vermont in the background; bench-warmers in the foreground. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.” I like zooming in on the people so I can see their faces and body language. A couple of them are giving the photographer the stinkeye. www.shorpy.com/node/2792… _
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
August 24, 2026
On Friday night, Prime Minister Mark Carney instructed Canadian negotiators to walk away from talks with officials from the Trump administration over new tariffs of 50% Trump had imposed on $28 billion of Canadian products.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Kit Harington Replaces Nicholas Hoult in the Harry Potter Reboot
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Who’s being asked about transphobia now?
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Copying? Definitely. Infringement? Maybe.
Artist Elizabeth Peyton faces a copyright infringement lawsuit over a photographer's image of Oasis brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Behind the scenes of Picle, our picture-perfect hit game
The Times and Sunday Times archive is being used to turn readers into detectives scanning skylines and hemlines to guess where and when photographs were taken
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Never Apologize For Being a Class Traitor
All rich kids should be socialists.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Exclusive: GOP warns AI companies that data centers are politically radioactive
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
The Data Center Backlash Bursts Into the Midterms
nytimes.com/2026/08/23/us/politics/data-centers-midterm-elections.html
One new ad in Texas begins with someone typing into a chatbot, “Why is my electric bill going up?
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Most GOP politicians now talk negatively about data centers, data shows - The Washington Post
In the past six months, Republicans' public statements about data centers have turned sharply negative, according to a Washington Post analysis.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Workers in China worry over being replaced as they adapt to the growing impact of AI on jobs
apnews.com/article/china-ai-jobs-unemployment-youth-a44bfac3488adba00d641a3ce0fab702
Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape China's job market, supported by state policies that some economists believe might undermine the overall strength of its economy.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Why nearly 3 million Teslas are being recalled in China
Other brands affected by the recall include Chinese carmakers XPeng, Xiaomi and Geely.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Why are there suddenly so many data centres planned in Canada? Your questions answered
The sudden spike in AI data centres that are planned or under construction in Canada is sparking controversy among those hesitant to have the massive buildings that power this technology humming away in their backyards. We answered some of your questions here.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
How Big Tech Captured American Schools
nytimes.com/2026/08/23/business/schools-big-tech-google-microsoft.html
One humid afternoon in the summer of 2025, representatives from Microsoft were waiting as some 200 teachers trooped into a conference hall in downtown Manhattan.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Read American Science, Shattered
An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that
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• Dave Winer
Scripting News: Monday, August 24, 2026
Monday, August 24, 2026
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One reason I want AI-assisted writing to be identifiable is that it devalues the idea of Claude et al to be quoted in public. What can it teach us? What it is relative to a human being. I know the doubters sniff at that, ...
The Rouart's Dining Room, 1880 #morisot #impressionism
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• Molly Taft
Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US
There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.
On Oct. 8, 2025, Lexie was placed on suicide watch after self-harm behaviors, strip-searched by a male guard, handed an itchy padded smock, and put in a small padded cell with the lights on 24 hours a day and nothing to read. Every meal was a peanut butter sandwich.
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