Anyone meeting with Netanyahu on friendly terms after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for him over war crimes and crimes against humanity has no place in government, in any country and at any capacity. Vote them out.

Ricardo Hernandez-Navarrete is only 18 years old, but he says he was subjected to horrid conditions at six different ICE detention centers in the span of two months. "One day I was a senior in high school." "The next day, I was in detention."

Esquire: A Shocking New Book Reveals Why JD Vance Might Be Even More Dangerous for America Than We Thought. “Duran gets inside the heads of our potential overlords and finds that they're full of spiders, snakes, and poison toads.” via @theshebeen.bsky.social www.esquire.com/news-politic...

A Shocking New Book Reveals Why JD Vance Might Be Even More Dangerous for America Than We Thought

Let’s hope the vice president’s is so unlikeable that it keeps him from climbing the ranks any higher.

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"Abundance!" Tech layoffs have already surpassed all of 2025. California is at the epicenter www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article...

Tech layoffs have already surpassed all of 2025. California is at the epicenter

California has seen more than 16,000 tech workers let go over the past seven months, yet experts suggest the overall job market is healthy and that AI could actually lead to more hiring.

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Don’t look away. Look up (or something like that). Resist as if your life depended on it. Sadly, that doesn’t require any imagination. And whatever you do, read @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

Quicksand

Gen X was right after all.

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The estimated global spend on so-called “AI” between 2023 and 2026 is between 4 and 6 trillion USD. To end global hunger for a single year was costed recently at roughly 6 billion USD. Instead of feeding us AI slop, the “wisdom” of the capitalist system could have fed the world for hundreds of years

Bonus edition of No Shit Sherlock today.

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 6d ago

Most teens still on social media three months after under-16 ban began, study finds

This has really pissed me off, if you're in the area and can afford it go and give the cafe owner some money to help fund the kids meals. And if he refuses buy yourself a nice coffee and tip him as much as you can. Fuck Reform taking food from kids in need. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform council chief threatens to report café boss who fed kids for free to cops

EXCLUSIVE: Barry Ashley, who runs the Grumpy Cook café in Hastings, and Labour MP Helena Dollimore have been told by East Sussex County Council chief Andy Woolley that he plans to contact police after...

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This particular elephant in the room actually defines the room. Huge thanks to Bhaskar for naming it. You can’t talk about AI without addressing its effects and not merely its capabilities. Who it harms, and who it benefits. Beyond its claims of democratization, whether it empowers or enfeebles.

Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র@bmitra.bsky.social · last wk.

This is not happening in a void. It is challenging but we must acknowledge the 🐘 in the room: Big Tech / Silicon Valley's growing alignment with authoritarian actors across the globe and their complicity in building digital infrastructure used for large scale human rights abuses and oppression. 11/

This. 👇🏽 Absolutely this. And 🙏🏼 to @timnitgebru.blacksky.app for her advocacy on this. The current AI ecosystem is rooted in exploitation and reifies bias. Those are the things demanding our attention.

Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র@bmitra.bsky.social · last wk.

AI is built using uncompensated appropriation of works by writer, artists, and coders and underpaid crowd work. Who gets to labor for AI and who gets to benefit from it (note: I didn't say "use") mirrors racial capitalism and coloniality. Relevant read: "Ghost Work" by @marylgray.bsky.social 16/

This is good, necessary, common sense" www.banfacialrecognition.com/venues/

Ban AI Surveillance at Live Events

Artists and venues take the pledge: no facial recognition at shows.

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If you ever feel unqualified, remember that a gang of billionaires spent $900 million for 60,000 acres with no water, no infrastructure, a roster of endangered species, and a voter-approved ordinance that specifically bans building a city there. Now they’re begging politicians to bail them out.

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 6d ago

Looks like Gavin Newsom is going to bat for California Forever, the Network State "tech utopia" project backed by Marc Andreessen and other tech billionaires. 70% of local residents oppose it. But the billionaires hired Newsom's favorite lobbyist. Welcome to Sacramento. nypost.com/2026/07/29/u...

Just sitting on the pavement and clapping is now terrorism. Not saying anything, not holding or displaying any signs, just sitting on the pavement & clapping. Andy Burnham can stop this. But he isn't. Reporting by Steven Methven for @novaramedia.com

Brilliant from @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social The University of Excess: On Education and its Employment happyhourathippels.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/t...

"To demand education as a means of empowerment is not simply to demand it as a means of employment, but also to pursue and seize it as a defiant luxury which employment would deny us." A piece developed from recent AHRC panel "University of Excess" happyhourathippels.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/t...

The University of Excess: On Education and its Employment

The title of this piece originally came together from a conversation I had with Stevphen Shukaitis in the wake of the waves of redundancies at the University of Essex, from which he pitched the rat…

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DevLog 07-26 → ca-n.in/devlog0726 Two months, four big wins: Archives Browser rebuilt with a 3D Semantic Space, API docs reborn as an interactive browser with a new Search API, Activity turns one year old, iOS app hits 2.1.0 and gets faster with in-app Search + Liquid Glass. 🚀

Hey friends Im collecting money for my Haitian friend. Im hoping to raise enough where he doesn’t have to think about rent/ daily expenses for 2 months, so our goal is $5,000 between here & offline networks. If you want to support (lmk if you prefer paypal or zelle): venmo.com/u/Heba-Gowayed

Heba Gowayed | @Heba-Gowayed

Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

Whether it is spitting out the next audio slice, next pixel, next word, or next human target, the predictive apparatus of so-called AI was always a genocide machine.

Stereogum@stereogum.com · last wk.

Boy George says he created his new pro-Israel reggae song with AI

"I think the problem for Andy Burnham, and where I plan to step up, is that his solutions aren't going to fix things. For instance If we brought in rent controls, we could save the average UK household up to £2,400 a year and the government £2 billion a year." Zack Polanski on BBC Newsnight.

If you appreciate journalism by humans who are willing to make phone calls I have one request: please sign up for my newsletter. There are no paywalls. popular.info

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · last wk.

1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.

What’s the collective noun for Génocidaires?

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · last wk.

Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel is now meeting with Trump at the White House. The meeting is closed to the press, but the PM’s office released photos.

1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.

I didn't think it was possible to sum up a half-century and change of American foreign policy that succinctly, but here we are.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last wk.

Heckler: Pedophile protector! Trump: He’s a communist!

AI has become a blunt instrument in the enterprise to impose this form of sanctioned ignorance about America’s past...Taken together, [Trump’s & Musk’s] plans amount to a one-two punch, history in the hands of the corporate state. My piece on how AI’s intervention in history threatens democracy.

Salon.com@salon.com · last wk.

The frenemies' strange obsession with historical "accuracy" has disturbing connections to big AI.

The challenges faced in trying to reclaim cultural sovereignty were beautifully explored by @karenattiah.bsky.social in an earlier essay… open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

I’m worried that more and more of an already struggling education sector is being pushed to cater to a business-first approach instead of one which actually values education as an end goal in itself

Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · last wk.

I don’t have anything close to a knowledge base that would allow me to evaluate this from and education pov. BUT I am fascinated by one aspect. 1/n www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

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Yes. Once again thinking about Kate Losse’s work: modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-m...

The Male Gazed

Surveillance, Power, and Gender

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

FWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.

“Technology, after all, is fundamentally about power– it refers in the most elemental sense to the development of tools that extend the power of their owners.” Truer words were never spoke.

Once again, @hkesvani.bsky.social has been proven right. The most effective mobilising force for radicalisation in Britain is the politicisation of being a cunt.

Esheru@esherukweku.bsky.social · last wk.

Far-right agitator Kellie-Jay Keen deliberately disrupting two Muslim men, as they prayed in a corner of Hyde Park. When government, politicians, media and pundits stay silent about this, they’re condoning it. As this would never be allowed, had these been Jewish worshippers