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‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
theguardian.com
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
thenerve.news
"two young female staffers, including showering them with 'lavish and recurrent gifts,' including jewelry totaling over $1,000, designer purses, guns, shoes, flowers, a laptop and cell phone, KitchenAid mixer, www.npr.org/2026/08/03/n...
N.C. Republican Chuck Edwards to end his campaign after facing harassment allegations
Edwards made the announcement after the House Ethics Committee recommended he be censured over "persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct towards two young female staffers."
npr.org
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h agogood. bring back shame
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 18h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
This is 💯 not true. It is never a choice between ‘taking big tech’s money and doing nothing’. A stronger moral imperative is NOT to take the money and the strings attached to it - particularly if you do not and cannot yet understand the implications
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h ago“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
If we abandon Miller for breaking his daughter’s collarbone? Next they’ll come for everybody who has sent their children to the ER? Is this the world liberals want?
breaking a baby’s collarbone isn’t a bridge too far!!!!! i know i shouldn’t be surprised but FUCK that’s too dark for my soul to handle
I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.
Journalism has become the art of stubbornly refusing to draw the obvious conclusion
A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
Congratulations @abdulelsayed.bsky.social! Outspent 11 to 1, Abdul proved that people-powered campaigns can still beat big money. Michiganders chose hope over fear, and a future rooted in dignity, justice, and opportunity.
Invisible Drones: A New Flying Robot Spins So Fast It Hides In Plain Sight www.iflscience.com/invisible-dr...
Invisible Drones: A New Flying Robot Spins So Fast It Hides In Plain Sight
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a faintly ominous buzzing blur?
iflscience.com
New blog post: Drones: now invisible, in a weird way! 🧪 skullsinthestars.com/2026/07/23/d...
Drones: now invisible, in a weird way!
Thanks to my friend Darlene for pointing me to this article! I’ve talked a lot about invisibility on this blog and have written papers on invisibility physics and even written a book on the h…
skullsinthestars.com
“It’s almost like where gaming and school safety collide,” Curtis Lavarello, CEO of the School Safety Advocacy Council, told WaPo. “I have some really serious reservations about the deployment of drones in schools.” futurism.com/robots-and-m...
Schools Deploying Pepper Spray Drones to Attack Mass Shooters
Schools across the country are turning to emplacing a mini-army of pepper-spray drones on campus to subdue school shooters.
futurism.com
"the Shajareh Tayyebeh #girlsschool, in a bombing that killed at least 156 people, including over 100 children [using] #Claude ...the Pentagon[] let slip that #Grok was used to fire over “2,000 munitions at 2,000 distinct targets within 96 hours.” futurism.com/artificial-i... #noiranwar #nowar
The US Military Has Been Using Elon Musk's Grok AI to Bomb Iran
For the first time, a top US military official has admitted that Grok was a key tool in the devastating war on Iran.
futurism.com
NEW: Israel has imprisoned an American teen. Soldiers raided Adam's West Bank home right before his sister’s grad party. They ignored his US passport. As they took him, they blew kisses at his mom. Adam is now the second American in Israeli prison. Trump just hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.
Israel Has Imprisoned a 16-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy for Two Weeks
Adam Karakrah is one of at least two Americans in Israeli prison – both held while Trump hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.
zeteo.com
"trigger-happy Border Patrol grunts evidently thought they were firing at drug-smuggling drones, their real target turned out to be a kids’ party balloon...Unfortunately, the disoriented crew ran... futurism.com/science-ener...
It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico
A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.
futurism.com
“Whatever they do on that well affects everybody in this basin,” one rancher said in the meeting. He added that, from his conversation with border patrol, he believed that “they really don’t even understand what an aquifer is”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Crews building Trump border wall in drought-hit New Mexico ordered to stop drilling wells
Residents and farmers say contractors have tapped border aquifers that threaten water supply for those nearby
theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detainee reveals video of drinking water apparently contaminated with worm-like creatures
‘Disturbing’ footage shared by California detainee surfaces amid wider complaints about conditions in ICE detention
theguardian.com
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 4d agoLittle worms in water: ICE detainees in Adelanto say poor conditions persist despite court order
AdImpact's graphic of the MI-SEN spending through the end of July. I think we need some campaign finance reform in this country
The “Why would a woman I’ve made worry that I will hurt her if she displeases me cook to placate me?” question is only asked by the least self-aware domestic abusers.
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
We opened an ICU that had been shuttered for well over a decade so that a hospital that has 18 MICU beds could fit 46 patients on ventilators
Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d agoRFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>
