NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...

On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads

and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses

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It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)

Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments

When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.

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Lindsey Isaacs was falsely arrested and imprisoned after authorities used Flock’s system to pull over the wrong person in a hit-and-run that killed three people. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social spoke to Lindsey and her lawyer about the ordeal. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc_6...

The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse. www.404media.co/florida-depu...

Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute

The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.

404media.co

RIP real human voice in marketing and news. Let me tell you why that matters. It’s not just a change in aesthetics. The loss of content is the loss of accountability. 🙄😒

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people. www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit

ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.

404media.co

This is wild: restofworld.org/2026/mexico-se…

A Mexican surveillance giant you’ve never heard of is now watching the U.S. border

Grupo Seguritech quietly built a $1.27 billion surveillance empire. Now it's expanding into the U.S. and across Latin America.

restofworld.org

I wonder if Chinese officials also have meetings debating which highly efficient energy infastructure technology options are unacceptable on account of being too woke and gay.

If you’ve never watched the Savannah Bananas, you’re missing something special! ⚾🍌 Incredible athleticism. Spectacular trick plays. Music, dancing & nonstop energy. Every game is entertainment from first pitch to the final out. ❤️⚾ #SavannahBananas #BananaBall #BaseBall #SheShed

This is a triggering image of a museum display in the natural history museum in DC about life before smartphones. Me and a fellow 40+ person were laughing at how we are now LITERAL MUSEUM PIECES. MY teen was like did you have a clear phone? An address book? A book of maps. Yes, yes I did. 🫠🫠🫠

How many bytes do we just send around the Internet, over and over again for basically no reason? Every deploy that downloads & installs NodeJS. Every unchanged asset loaded for the thousandth time while checking your email. And who pays for all of it? Seems pretty wild.

Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...

‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech

"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...

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@bsky.app How many times are y’all going to ask me to share my age range? Texas. iPhone 17 Pro. iOS 26.5.2

The biggest threat to aviation safety in the u.s. is air traffic control. They’re short-staffed, overworked, and working with outdated technology and bad culture has developed. viewfromthewing.com/america-keep...

America Keeps Throwing Billions At Broken Air Traffic Control — Canada Built A Better System 30 Years Ago

The U.S. keeps pouring billions into FAA-run air traffic control while staffing, technology, and accountability lag. Canada’s nonprofit NAV CANADA model shows a better path: separate regulator from op...

viewfromthewing.com

A dark money campaign is offering influencers $1,500 per post to attack Abdul El-Sayed and support Haley Stevens. Same exact dollar figure that was paid to attack @katmabu.bsky.social (Nobody ever found out who was paying for that campaign.) Gross, lazy and above all cynical shit.

Secret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate race

Rep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her.

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Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Today I asked if any Congressmember on @energycommerce.bsky.social would want to live next to a data center. The silence in the hearing room reflected the realities of working people across the country. We must address the real, dangerous health impacts of data centers on our communities.

“Narcissists' desire for attention, affirmation and control makes them more likely to favour in-person work because it ‘offers richer channels for controlling and commanding reverence from employees.’”

Boss wants you back in the office full time? New research suggests there may be personal motives behind it | CBC News

As more employees are being ordered back into the office full time, new research suggests the rationale may be more about bosses' desire for power and status than productivity.

cbc.ca

Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a Utopia of peace, unity and happiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology.

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

Guy on the radio earlier saying we should all save our shower water and use that to flush the toilet. Around 60 companies are responsible for 80% of all global carbon emissions; telling us as individuals to do something without addressing that is just gaslighting and guilt tripping.

Can I run an LLM model locally? llmrun.dev

🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down

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The largest part of the Supreme Court's 194-page decision on birthright citizenship is Justice Clarence Thomas's dissent. To Thomas, the 14th Amendment applied only to the freed people after the Civil War. In a concurrence, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson takes on Justice Thomas.

Current Claude mood: “Big finding — I have egress”

You know you should be working on Marketing, not features. You build new features anyway because (a) it's fun and (b) you know how. Whereas the business usually needs you to learn marketing and get another customer today.

Put down the compiler until you learn why they’re not buying

Technical founders, step away from the code. Gather insights from non-buyers, rather than just adding more features.

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With AI you can make products no one wants faster than ever!