Grokipedia hasn’t been updated in 3 months. Edit requests land in a queue and stall “In Review”. The autonomous edit bot is not editing itself, either. We did an analysis of edits, page view counts, and more. Auditability matters as agentic systems become reference infrastructure.

Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org · 6h ago

Grokipedia appears not to have updated any articles since April 24. @noupside.bsky.social and @rer.bsky.social explore why it matters that the encyclopedia hasn’t edited itself or processed edits from humans in more than 3 months. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/grok...

Because the Democrats are so solidly right if middle, nobody would notice a “shift”

Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · 2h ago

Will the Democrats shift left after El-Sayed’s win in Michigan? www.channel4.com/news/will-th...

One of the most brilliant essays we’ve published. Magdi El-Gizouli’s singular and utterly unique analysis of the war in Sudan, blending revolutionary theory, sociology and frontline reporting. This is the first part of two: www.equator.org/articles/kha...

Khartoum After the Storm • EQUATOR

How Sudan’s revolutionary generation was dragged into total war

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The basic chronology of his own account appears demonstrably flawed & inaccurate. The assassination of Jo Cox was in June 2016 yet the judge in December 2016 is criticising his remorseless smirking through the trial, + his enjoying the discomfort of his victims. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Seems like all the rage to give the hard right forgiveness and a pass to political influence around the world

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 12h ago

Conservatives challenged for selecting a man who formed a far right group + was jailed for serious antisemitic harassment of former MP Luciana Berger.Badenoch says he has reformed sufficiently to have a local candidacy, but should not have a national platform www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kemi-b...

Watching Treasures of Ancient Rome BBC 4 and there is only one question unanswered uk.saint-james.com/products/car...

Elbow patches cardigan (NAVY/NORMANDIE)

The Cardigan in wool knitted in 1x1 rib, featuring jacquard elbow patches and ribbed finishes on the sleeves and hem. Made in France.

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Runaway supermassive black hole. Irresistible force and immovable object simultaneously?

Science X / Phys.org@sciencex.bsky.social · 2h ago

RBH-1, a runaway supermassive black hole moving at nearly 1,000 km/s, may preserve clues to a merger from about 70 million years ago. Modeling points to a mass ratio below about 6:1. doi.org/rg6k

Hear hear

The Green Party of England & Wales@greenparty.org.uk · 5h ago

The science is crystal clear - there can be no new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. Andy Burnham must stop Rosebank, stop Jackdaw and make polluters pay for the destruction they are causing.

Blood boiling yet again

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h ago

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account

The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

texasobserver.org

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

Easily identifiable I expect

CNN@cnn.com · 2h ago

A new company called PriorityEvac, which launched in June, is offering private evacuation flights from Florida’s coasts. For $1,250 a year, a member is guaranteed a spot aboard an Airbus A320 aircraft to Atlanta for a maximum of two hurricanes per season. https://cnn.it/4cpbgkr

Scumbags

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h ago

Q: Any comment on Rep. Max Miller? TRUMP: I hope he's able to work it out. I feel badly for him.

The mighty Datblygu!

Vintage Obscura Radio@vintageobscura.net · 9h ago

Datblygu - Maes E [UK/Wales, Electronic, New Wave] (1992) https://redd.it/1mj1gog https://youtu.be/4tbW6KnrpQM

5 August 1928 | A French Jewish girl, Bella Rubin, was born in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 19 July 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy together white her mother Marta and a younger sister Micheline. They were all murdered in a gas chamber.

In memory of: Sabreen Jadallah Abdel Qadir Al-Houbi / صابرين جادالله عبد القادر الهوبي Age: 37 We will not forget you.

Poor Andrew Husband, Reform UK Leader of Durham Council. He complained to IPSO about the Sunday Times article “Reform council leader's firms went bust with £1.5m in debts”. IPSO ruled the article was accurate. Ouch.

00355-26 Husband v The Sunday Times - IPSO

Andrew Husband complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation that The Sunday Times breached Clause 1 (Accuracy) and Clause 2 (Privacy) of the Editors’ Code of Practice in an article…

ipso.co.uk

What are they there for? We know what they are there for

NOTUS Metro@notusmetro.bsky.social · yesterday

Trump’s decision to keep National Guard troops deployed to Washington, D.C., through the end of his term will cost an additional $1.4 billion in tax dollars, according to budget estimates provided to Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office and shared with NOTUS.

Based on fact not feels

Prison Policy Initiative@prisonpolicy.org · yesterday

❌ Myth: Guaranteed income creates a disincentive to work ✅ Reality: Guaranteed income actually helps people find suitable and sustainable work that leads to more stable employment:

It's obvious that Netanyahu is not going to withdraw until everyone in Gaza is dead. He's pretty close.

Netanyahu says no Israeli withdrawal from Gaza until Hamas has been completely disarmed

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not withdraw from its current lines in Gaza until Hamas has completely disarmed.

apnews.com

Another Israeli airstrike in Gaza. More people murdered. Since the ‘ceasefire’ over 1,230 Palestinians have been murdered in Gaza,and over 4,000 injured. There is no ‘ceasefire’ Stop selling UK arms to Israel.

Hear hear

chiller@chiller.eurosky.social · yesterday

"If we don't let the prisoners out we won't have a functioning prison service" do we still have people in prison for protesting peacefully? #c4news

Trump Admin Sends Flight With Deportees to Venezuela for First Time Since Quakes without new information about the prior deportees reported trapped and killed in the quake: still no complete passenger manifest, official death toll or list of survivors from the flight. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/w...

U.S. Sends Flight With Deportees to Venezuela for First Time Since Earthquakes

A plane with 147 Venezuelans landed on Monday in the South American country amid criticism over the deaths of deportees housed in a collapsed building during June’s quakes.

nytimes.com

The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.

There is a terrible precedent of targeting government workers

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

ICE's inhumane detention of Gabriel Johnson must end NOW. Read my full statement.

Recent reporting by the Washington Post found that the Trump administration's DOGE effort last year delayed a $10 million grant that was supposed to help thin out dead trees in the Superior National Forest as a way to reduce the fire risk.

DOGE cut delayed northern Minnesota wildfire prevention funding

MPR News host Emily Bright spoke with Washington Post reporter Brianna Sacks about the DOGE cuts and their impact on the Superior National Forest.

mprnews.org

August 3, 2026

August 3, 2026

Just before midnight last night, news broke that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche had rescinded the order of May 18, 2026, establishing a $1.776 billion slush fund for those who claimed that the D...

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

This short story, written by a 26-year-old woman, means a thousand words: "August 4, 1988 – I am Maliheh Aghvami. I went to court at 3:00 p.m. & was sentenced to death. At 7:00 p.m., I am going for execution" She was hanged a few hours after writing it🌹💔 #1988Massacre wncri.org/2023/02/10/m...

Maliheh Aghvami

Maliheh Aghvami, a resistant prisoner who firmly defended her cause August 4, 1988 - I am Maliheh Aghvami. I went

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