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Observing how AI shifts the conditions under which people perceive, decide, and coordinate. Not the technology. The drift. cityzero.substack.com
We’re about to find out just how much more “winning” the US consumer can endure. Because trust us: Canadians can take a lot of pain when sovereignty is on the line.
Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 2d ago"Yes, Trump can hurt Canada more than Canada can hurt Trump. That part of Trump’s thinking is true. But wars are not decided only by the question Who can inflict more pain? Wars are also decided by the question Who can endure more pain?" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Scott Bessent said we don't need more jobs though. Just learn to code and buy crypto.
The best design is one that leaves room for a peaceful life.
#BruceSterling@bruces.bsky.social · yesterday*You really shouldn't put "enemy" skulls on your morale patches, that's unlucky. You'll likely end-up as a skull yourself before the end of even one single war *What you want is a *pretty girl* on your morale patch, because you plan to survive the conflict, like a postwar Baby Boom thing
China's 5-year insurance plan (Aug 19) treats AI as fiscal plumbing, not diagnostics: fraud-detection models across DRG/DIP payments, plus scaling long-term care insurance against demographic aging. No "AI doctor" narrative — just infrastructure absorbing verification load quietly.
The latest “Spider-Man” sequel has broken nearly every box-office record imaginable. David Sims on why the masked web-slinger’s popularity endures as support for other superhero movies wanes:
Hollywood’s Most Indestructible Superhero
Spider-Man has always found success, no matter how moviegoers feel about his cape-wearing peers.
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Those town hall scenes aged from satire to documentary)), Still, I choose Leslie's optimism. We need more people who believe public service can do good.
Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · yesterdayIn retrospect, I think the town hall scenes from "Parks and Recreation"--which concluded its run in 2015--may be the most prescient fiction of this era. At the time, we laughed and joked about how close they hewed to reality. We had no idea.
The job application got faster. The job search got worse. www.axios.com/2026/08/21/j...
The job application got faster. The job search got worse.
AI interviews, auto-rejections and ghost jobs are eroding trust in the job hunt.
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Over 27 million people are now under hosepipe bans yet government pushes ahead with its data centre boom. ICYMI 👇 citizensreunited.substack.com/p/the-eye-07...
The Eye 07: Millions face hosepipe bans as government pushes ahead with data centre boom
As England runs dry, campaigners tell The Citizens why government's AI ambitions are putting our shared resources at risk
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😺 These flowers are the tallest weeds around the pond, and this is their time to shine. 🐸
Yes, that’s right. And most importantly, they will no longer consider America invincible.
The Economist@economist.com · 3d agoAmerica and its allies should expect Iran’s new leadership—a crop of battle-hardened military men—to be more uncompromising than the previous one
The question is no longer whether AI harms people. It is whether we still know where the person ends and the system begins?
For the first time in 13 years of collecting the data, the CBRE has found there are now more tech workers in New York than San Francisco. This seems to have been driven by AI in two ways; AI-driven layoffs in SF and hiring for AI jobs in Finance in NY. AI giveth and AI taketh away.
New York unseats San Francisco as the top market for tech talent, CBRE reports
AI-related roles now account for nearly one-third of all tech-talent job listings in the U.S., per the new CBRE report.
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Google Discover is getting an AI chatbot-tuned feed www.theverge.com/tech/983088/...
Google Discover is getting an AI chatbot-tuned feed
You can get more control over your Discover feed.
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The pattern holds because charm and misconduct sit on different evidence tracks — one personal and immediate, the other public and mediated. Reporting the first doesn't cancel the second, but it keeps getting circulated as if it does.
Nadine Batchelor-Hunt@nadinebh.bsky.social · 4d agoOne of the things us an industry need to stop doing is perpetuating the 'they say this on social media, but they're a sweetheart in real life' about awful people I've had other journos say this to me about some of the most pernicious grifters over the years, some of who crossed many lines this week
The data center fight is hitting a fever pitch. Here's how they actually work www.axios.com/2026/08/19/a...
The data center fight is hitting a fever pitch. Here's how they actually work
They're often big, windowless warehouses without any humans in sight.
axios.com
Why birding is drawing a younger crowd in San Antonio www.axios.com/local/san-an...
Why birding is drawing a younger crowd in San Antonio
Birders say the hobby helps their mental health.
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AI creates a strange legal problem: speech without an obvious speaker. A human prompts. The model produces the words. The user publishes them. So who spoke? Maybe the answer lies not in the output, but in the procedure. That changes how we think about authorship, responsibility—and trust.
Cloud, AI models, chips and satellites look like commercial infrastructure—until someone else can decide whether you keep access to them. That’s when dependency becomes leverage. And sovereignty becomes a question of who controls the failure mode.
Sherlock uhhh *googles "Rabbit Names What Start With H"* uhhh Sherlock Holland Lop. Sherlock Harlequin? Sherlock Hulstlander
Berry 🍇@nyamukoneko.bsky.social · 7d agoDetective Costume For Rabbits
This impressionist painting of sunflowers was inspired by Provence, France. The golden blooms caught the first rays of morning light, one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Sunflowers in Gold by Erin Hanson, 2026 Oil on canvas 16 x 20 in www.erinhanson.com/portfolio/su... #art #france
It’s OK to be a Trump voter who regrets their vote, like these people who were just interviewed. Don’t be afraid to speak out and admit that you made a mistake. It gives you integrity. "He's robbed more people. I'm not his fan anymore. I was. I thought he was for real but nah.
these are bad and dangerous people doing bad and dangerous and frequently illegal things and they’re doing it with our tax dollars often against our will, you *should* think ill of them
Behind the Curtain: The new existential threat to AI www.axios.com/2026/08/19/d...
Behind the Curtain: The new existential threat to AI
Republicans and AI CEOs are in full panic mode.
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ZKP’s Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
ZKP’s Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets
Age verification (laws and regulations requiring platforms and websites to assure or estimate that a user seeking to use an online service is of a certain age) is everywhere. At the time of writing, a...
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