NEW: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to determine that a man “travels to Michigan frequently,” where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisconsin, where it is illegal. They then used his travel across state lines as tracked by Flock as part of the probable cause justification to search his car.

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

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Ban “A.i.” from the schools.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 15h ago

The role of ChatGPT in the accused FSU shooter’s case goes beyond providing tips, our investigation reveals. In the 12 months before his attack, he messaged with ChatGPT more than 6,600 times—including conversations revealing he was aggrieved, focused on extremist violence, and suicidal.

"I first met the Luddites a week earlier in Tompkins Square Park, for a press conference hosted by their official spokesperson: a puppet made of garbage." www.404media.co/luddite-even...

Being a Luddite Is Fun Again

As tech backlash hits the mainstream, the ‘Summer of Ludd’ proves we don’t need social media to hang out and have a good time.

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companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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One of the funnier and more unexpected life updates IMO is that I'm biker chic now.

Modern hiring is such a scam.

No offense but finding out someone you knew died on a site with terrible UX seems just like, the most mundane thing ever idk. Random thought from paying closer attention to obituaries after writing one a few years back. Nothing recent! Just thinking in front of my puter.

A bit of wisdom I’ve learned as an archivist: Everything is always falling apart. You can’t ever stop it because that’s what matter does. Your job is to slow the process down as much as you can. It’s true with documents, books, and art. And with life too- falling apart is what we do.

A person from the New York Public Library Comms team tried to get me to remove a link from last week's book censorship news roundup. Through my personal email. Through a private phone call.

kelly jensen@heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 3w ago

What Goes Into Tracking Censorship, With an Update From the New York Public Library Comms Team. Immense work goes into reporting on and tracking censorship, so when we're asked to pull that work, we take it seriously. If you read one thing from me this week, this pls. bookriot.com/what-goes-in...

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

WA Whistles@wawhistles.bsky.social · 4w ago

ICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week) Do you have your whistle with you?

this is so boulder boulderreportinglab.org/2026/07/07/b...

Why did Boulder put a giant boulder in a bike route? Cyclists want answers.

The city says cyclists can still use the route. Initial signs and emails suggested otherwise.

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Get Loud: Public Library and School Internet Access Is Under Threat The FCC wants to change the e-Rate program, which could eliminate discounts libraries and schools get to provide internet to their community. bookriot.com/proposed-fcc...

Get Loud: Public Library and School Internet Access Is Under Threat

The FCC wants to change the e-Rate program, which could eliminate discounts libraries and schools get to provide internet to their community.

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1/ Important new investigative report from my colleague @jbeowulf.bsky.social about "Maestro," advertised as "the AI University" on TikTok, that turns out to be a chatbot bolted onto a failing for-profit business school in order to illegally harvest Pell grants. www.newamerica.org/insights/the...

The AI College: How One For-Profit School Substituted Instructors With a Chatbot

An inside look at AI-powered Maestro University exposes a pattern of policy failures, potential legal violations, and widespread frustration among students—acting as a warning sign for higher educatio...

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Trans rights are human rights

Really not a bad day to revisit this essay, which I’m very proud of

What Does A Great Trans Athlete Deserve? | Defector

Once every week or two, I swim molasses-slow laps at the YMCA. I’ve been on something of a fitness journey this year, testing out different forms of exercise to see what sticks—what feels the least to...

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Yes, please!!💥

Haymarket Books@haymarketbooks.org · last mo.

ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through August 21st! ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

im so sorry to nina totenberg but i really needed this laugh

So far I'm listening to a lot of music from undergrad this summer and I've concluded it's healing and good.

One thing about me is I love an excuse to drop a "I read foucault in college" line into the conversation. I get how annoying it is, but I still love doing it 💁‍♀️

Between this and the stellar WSJ story about Polymarket's fake bettors, it really feels like we have completely given up on requiring influencers to disclose paid partnerships. It only hurts consumers.

Mia Sato@miasato.bsky.social · last mo.

This weekend DoorDash tweeted about the World Cup but repeatedly tagged T-Pain, as if they were mixing him up with NZ soccer player Tim Payne. T-Pain got in on it too, acting confused. Turns out it was all a "partnership." No ad disclosure on any of the posts. www.theverge.com/news/954145/...

Fabulous talking with @andizeisler.bsky.social about J is for Justice and book bans. www.salon.com/2026/06/20/w...

Why not just ban all the books?

Keyword searches for "justice" and "pride" drive what ideas are being kept from kids.

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What a loss for the edtech beat. I was thrilled to have a chance to write for EdSurge in 2025 after years of being a fan of the team's work over there. Proud of my work there. The need for that type of reporting right now could not be more obvious. alexanderrusso.substack.com/p/how-iste-t...

How ISTE turned EdSurge into slop

The EdSurge I once knew and worked for would be telling the story of this year’s edtech backlash with accuracy and honesty. Instead, ISTE has turned the site into AI slop.

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I have a new piece out today with @404media.co . The headline is a question that came to me as I was reading yet another batch of public records where YA books were being relocated to adult sections. Tfg there are experts who could set me straight. Ty @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social for editing me.

404 Media@404media.co · last mo.

Books written for younger audiences are being relocated to adult sections at alarming rates. We asked experts to predict what that means for the rest of us.

But what is so compelling about the ability to see these two paintings together at last in person is the fact that Van Gogh chopped off his ear in between painting them.

Misery And Memory In Two Van Goghs | Defector

Beneath soaring ceilings, in a small, darkly painted gallery off the main hall of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, two immense sunflower paintings hang side by side. The paintings are bigger than I…

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On Juneteenth, we celebrate Colorado's historic Black newspapers as digitalized in the Colorado State Library's Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Outlets like Denver Urban Spectrum and African American Voice continue to serve communities of color. ⬇️ www.historycolorado.org/colorado-his...

"These are not states struggling against limited resources; they are states that have made active, sustained choices to abandon their public schools while directing public money toward private alternatives with documented records of fraud, discrimination, and academic failure,” the report states.

WFIU/WTIU News@wfiuwtiunews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Indiana has received an F for public education support from the 2026 Network for Public Education report on Public Schooling In America. Read more: www.ipm.org/news/2026-06...

General PSA: If you're having a party and a guest wants to bring the current or former ICE agent they're related to or dating, you can absolutely say fuck no!!!

Is there a good word yet for the mental tax that comes with trying to discern if a hallucination is AI or human made that workers forced to use the tool have experienced? I'm sure there is and I've just missed it or forgotten.

This is the sort of thing I wrote about from CES back in January of 2025. A bunch of weird/creepy tech stuff that no one wants, and which they also cannot yet do, escalating endlessly to no obvious end or audience. Just make your toilets, dude. (This is a gift link) defector.com/the-future-i...

The Future Is Too Easy | Defector

LAS VEGAS — There is something unstable at the most basic level about any space with too much capitalism happening in it. The air is all wrong, there’s simultaneously too much in it and not enough of ...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

The Standards Committee of the ABA's legal education arm has recommended that the section repeal its law school accreditation standards relating to DEI.

ABA Advises Nixing Law School DEI Rules Under Scrutiny - Law360

The Standards Committee of the American Bar Association's legal education arm has recommended that the section repeal its law school accreditation standards relating to diversity, equity and inclusion, saying that in the face of new government scrutiny, maintaining these requirements for law schools would jeopardize the section's status as a nationwide accreditor.

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