This is the part that breaks my heart. "Generative AI has broken the sacred contract between professors & students: that the professors are there to teach and the students are there to learn. The understanding has been broken...That’s a very deep part of the grief” www.chronicle.com/article/thes...

These Professors Are Retiring Early. AI Was the Last Straw.

What is the point of teaching, they ask, if students are just pretending to learn?

chronicle.com

When I unexpectedly lost my best friend to a brain aneurysm at 37, her donated organs saved seven lives plus someone’s eyesight. This is monstrous.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h ago

RFK Jr: "I'm announcing that HHS has begun the decertification of Network for Hope, the organ procurement organization."

"Milei introduced the Super RIGI project in an op-ed for The Financial Times, opening with praise for the Dutch East India Company (VOC) [which] fused corporate and governmental power. It was granted a commercial monopoly, its own army, currency and legal system, and the power to declare war." 😵‍💫

Latin America is becoming a laboratory for tech-supremacism

Trumpism, corporate deregulation and biometric surveillance are converging into a new model of control in the region.

aljazeera.com

On August 5, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is predicted to crash onto the Moon. What has crashed on the Moon before? The very first human object to touch the Moon - Luna 2 in 1959. A probe, 3 bombs, and a rocket body! 🧪 🔭

1959: Luna 2 (USSR)

YouTube video by International Astronautical Federation

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Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

bloomberg.com

The end result of decades of hollowing out mechanisms for popular control of warmaking is on display in Trump’s market manipulations over Iran.

The Markets Matter For War—You Don't

Not only has Iran controlled the escalatory ladder, it's exposed another symptom of American decline

forever-wars.com

An incredible nation

slate@pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 3d ago

my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop

My favourite instagram account is the one that posts pictures of sports mascots taken during serious moments of silence

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

This sentiment comes up again and again. Engineers getting skinner-box addiction to chatbot-based coding. "Just one more prompt and it might fix the problem!" Is this really what we want in classrooms?

Mike Riverso@mikeriverso.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is exactly how people talk about gambling and drinking.

Ok so this lady says solar panels are getting built on "the most productive farmland" in her area. Which just ain't true at all. It ain't true here in NC either. Where I ALSO hear that talking point over & over again. Smells like astroturf! So let's get the dirt on solar farms & dirt ✨

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 6d ago

I genuinely don't know what to do about this. In our diseased information environment, one MAGA-adjacent "influencer" can do more to shape public opinion than mountains of studies or facts. Where are the pro-clean-energy influencers to counter this shit?

Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

Scotland's Football Association has backed Uefa's declaration that all European nations will boycott the World Cup until Fifa drops its plans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 They have called for the 'Corinthian spirit which underpins the beautiful game – invented here in Scotland and shared with the world' to be protected

A group of film producers urged the British culture minister to intervene in the proposed merger of ‌Paramount and Warner Bros and protect access to historical news footage used by documentary makers reut.rs/4yTkAqE

Film producers warn Paramount-Warner merger could restrict access to news archives

A group of film producers has urged the British culture minister to intervene in the proposed merger of ‌Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery and protect access to historical news footage used...

reut.rs

that would be because china is a capitalist market economy with extremely terrible labour conditions and they like when capitalist market economies with extremely terrible labour conditions do well. happy to help

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 6d ago

sometimes The Economist surprises you with the absence of its usual ideological blinders. The shock of China making high-end chips has done it... "The Chinese state’s investment in CXMT is delivering the state a vast financial windfall. But the chipmaker is only one of the govts many bets."

“…the same mechanisms that drive people to grow wary of — and hostile toward — friends, co-workers and family members with different political beliefs are beginning to shape attitudes toward AI.”

AI Adoption Is Dividing Friends, Families and Co-Workers

As artificial intelligence becomes ingrained in daily life, disagreements over the technology are increasingly becoming disagreements over values.

bloomberg.com

UEFA has just unanimously decided to boycott both men's and women's World Cups over FIFA's attempt to sell the global game to private equity. Damn.

If you were wondering where your data went.

DOGE Veterans Are Landing Big Jobs at Prediction Markets

Polymarket and Novig have both recently brought ex-DOGE affiliates onboard as scrutiny of the industry intensifies.

wired.com

"The very existence of Rep. Rulli and Rep. Emmer – as Italian-American and German-American members of Congress – proves that the arguments of nativists are bankrupt to the core."

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.

In recent weeks, congressmen like Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) and Rep. Michael Rulli (R-OH) have leveled racist attacks against immigrant communities in their districts. As I note in CAMPAIGN TRAILS, a century ago those same racist attacks were being made against people named Emmer and Rulli.

Q: "When you say [Blanche was] condescending, can you give us some examples? Epstein Survivor Dani Bensky: "He actually said the words 'get to the point' to us survivors who've been waiting to meet with him for eight months. He said 'can you get to the point already? What are you getting at?'"

The hidden cost of America’s supermarket sushi boom Myanmar refugees face exploitative working conditions as the backbone of the multimillion-dollar grocery store sushi industry, according to a lawsuit filed in San Diego County prismreports.org/2026/07/29/g...

The hidden cost of America's supermarket sushi boom

Myanmar refugees face exploitative working conditions as the backbone of the grocery store sushi industry, according to a lawsuit

prismreports.org

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

futurism.com

The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.

Bookmark this! Happening tomorrow!

404 Media@404media.co · 2w ago

By filing Freedom of Information requests, 404 Media has obtained bodycam footage and documents that uncover stories about tech that powers ICE and how cops abuse Flock. You can FOIA too! On July 30th at 1 pm ET, we will teach you how to file a FOIA request live: www.404media.co/our-new-foia...

there is basically no book evangelicals ignore in the bible more than Matthew which is where all the "don't be an asshole" stuff is

New: I spoke to Samuel Tunick, the man the U.S. is charging with allegedly wiping his GrapheneOS phone before CBP could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people against protecting their data and their privacy.” www.404media.co/the-governme...

‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone

The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to ...

404media.co

New: Former intel officials call for probe into CIA note at heart of Trump’s 2020 election document dump The CIA doc in question is on China’s alleged efforts to undermine Trump in ‘20 Intel vets want to know when/why it was written, and who requested it www.ms.now/news/cia-not...

Former intel officials call for investigation into Trump's 2020 election document dump

One of the 58 documents Trump declassified and published online is drawing scrutiny from former intelligence officials who want more public information about when and why it was written.

ms.now

Awful stories like these are what Trump & co. basically want for Haitians and others. We know sending people back to certain places likely means death. The cruelty is the point.

Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · last wk.

Tragic: Overland couple killed in Guatemala after being deported by ICE | STLPR www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

An entire article about the ways #ClimateChange is decimating the Bourdeux wine region of France — that never mentions the words “climate change.” This is journalistic malpractice. Not even high-school papers leave out such necessary context. #EndClimateSilence www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/w...

Fire Raging Near Bordeaux Brings More Bad News for Its Vineyards (Gift Article)

One of the largest fires in modern French history is raging near the vineyards of Bordeaux. That is just the latest problem for France’s embattled wine industry.

nytimes.com

Love this: “Pet dogs trained by their owners can detect lanternfly eggs with accuracy comparable to professional detection dogs... In fact, these dogs correctly identified spotted lanternfly egg masses 82% of the time in controlled odour-recognition tests and 61% of the time in field trials”

The spotted lanternfly is ravaging the eastern US. Pet dogs are coming to the rescue

Spotted lanternflies are an invasive pest and a multimillion-dollar disaster for the US's wine industry. Meet the good boys and girls of the resistance.

bbc.com