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HG Wells is alleged to have remarked "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race”. You could see this shocking chart as an index of civilisation. A country which gets this issue so badly wrong is likely to fail in many other ways.
Kevin Wilson@kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 3w agoShocking.
Fun fact: Garrett Langley has his house blurred out on Google Maps. That's right, the CEO hellbent on invading all of our privacy, values his own privacy. Real "Mark Zuckerberg putting a webcam cover on his laptop" energy. www.businessinsider.com/flock-ceo-dr...
Flock CEO says drones are its fastest-growing business as it expands beyond license plate cameras
Flock, the license plate-reading company, is developing its drone business. CEO Garrett Langley says drones could help police and citizens stay safe.
businessinsider.com
You’ve got to see this. Angie Nixon’s Café Resistance is so much more than a bookstore. It’s a community hub offering FREE tutoring, a food pantry, Black history classes, mentorship, mental health workshops, music lessons, healthcare resources and more.
20 years ago @rosie.com had “snake oil salesman” Trump figured out completely, no wonder he hates her 👇🏽 (H/T @krassenstein.bsky.social )
On Saturday, the Lightning humanoid robot developed by Honor ran 100 meters in 9.32 seconds, surpassing Usain Bolt's 9.58-second world record set at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin, China's state broadcaster reported. apnews.com/article/chin...
Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint and high jump at Beijing robot games
Chinese humanoid robots have set records including beating Usain Bolt's 100-meter sprint record at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing.
apnews.com
• TechCrunch demonstrated that Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 can be jailbroken to produce sexually explicit content, with the model complying in 10 of 10 direct requests during testing. asumetech.com/2026/08/22/c...
Claude Opus 4.6 Guardrail Failure: AI Safety Protocols Scrutinized
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 faces scrutiny as reports show models bypassing safety guardrails to generate explicit content through boundary erosion tactics.
asumetech.com
Meta/Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg & wife are the new owners of Strancally Castle in Co Waterford, Ireland completing the purchase of the 440-acre Gothic-revival style estate • the estate could have achieved between £20 million & £30 million www.rtvslo.si/zabava-in-sl...
Mark Zuckerberg kupil neogotski grad na Irskem
Podjetnik Mark Zuckerberg je dopolnil svojo obsežno zbirko nepremičnin. 200 kilometrov od evropskega sedeža svojega podjetja Meta je za več deset milijonov evrov kupil grad iz 19. stoletja. Z družino ...
rtvslo.si
America, spend some time watching Mark Carney dealing with Trump’s offensive and illegal trade war. It will remind you what a leader should be and make you deeply embarrassed at the face we currently show the world.
Carney's statement says important progress was made in talks but "last-minute changes in the US proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal" Full statement:
Statement by Prime Minister Carney on Canada-U.S. trade negotiations
We have recognised from the beginning that America has changed, and that we will not return to our old relationship. Our government understood, before many, that America is altering all its trade rela...
pm.gc.ca
Flock Safety is testing a new Al tool called OS Investigate, which allows police to track individuals by movement patterns without requiring license plates or specific crime reports. Flock operates 127,000 cameras across 6,000 communities www.motorbiscuit.com/flock-safety...
Flock Safety’s CEO Defended His Massive Surveillance Network—But the Facts Tell a Different Story
Flock Safety has quietly built one of the largest mass surveillance networks in American history, deploying over 120,000 automated license plate reader
motorbiscuit.com
Regardless of consent. Watch the host’s reaction in the first few seconds www.threads.com/@justinwolfe...
Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers) on Threads
"Mark Carney and the Canadian government can sign any number of trade agreements, but you can't change what's in the heart of Canadians right now." The damage has been done, and Canadian consumers are...
threads.com
michaelpopok.substack.com/p/trump-orde...
Trump Orders DOJ to Not Produce Handwritten Notes of his Alleged 13 year old Abuse Victim?!?
Watch now | For more access to expert legal analysis, official court documents and breaking news coverage only available here at the intersection of law and politics, please consider becoming a paid s...
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While U.S. squanders $$ on tax breaks & war: • Data gathered by this mission will support China's long-term plan for a permanently inhabited research station and a crewed lunar landing by 2030, while a follow-up Chang'e-8 mission is scheduled for 2028. ground.news/article/chin...
China hunts for lunar ice in one of solar system's coldest places
BEIJING: China is poised to launch Chang'e-7, its most technologically complex lunar mission to date, in its search for frozen stores of water in permanently shadowed craters near the moon's south pol...
ground.news
The announcement follows the expiration of a 60-day diplomatic window. Oil prices climbed to $94 a barrel, reaching the highest this month. • Analysts question effectiveness given China buys 80% of Iran's shipped oil; Iran has historically weathered similar sanctions www.npr.org/2026/08/21/n...
Trump says U.S. will impose 'economic D Day' against Iran
President Trump announced this week that the U.S. will be imposing the "most crushing economic operation" against Iran.
npr.org
It’s a traditional Japanese instrument called shamisen. It has only three strings. 🤯🎸🎶🎵
Anti-Corruption Data Collective reported that 152 Polymarket wallets traded on inside U.S. military information, collectively earning $8 million with a 97.2% win rate. Limiting the type of people who can bet or relying on law enforcement investigations is not enough. www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2026...
"폴리마켓서 군사기밀 이용 의심계정 152개…110억원 이익" | 연합뉴스
(서울=연합뉴스) 주종국 기자 = 예측시장 폴리마켓에서 미군 내부정보를 이용해 베팅한 것으로 의심되는 전자지갑(계정) 152개가 발견됐다고 로이...
yna.co.kr
• Russian authorities accused Kennedy of mercenarism under the Criminal Code, a charge carrying a potential sentence of seven to 10 years in prison for his role as a foreign volunteer. • Kennedy is the son of Health Secretary Robert Kennedy (RFK) www.hindustantimes.com/trending/us/...
Who is Conor Kennedy? Taylor Swift's ex-boyfriend and RFK Jr.'s son put on Russia's most-wanted list—here's why
Conor Kennedy, RFK Jr's son and Taylor Swift's former boyfriend, has been placed on Russia's international wanted list over his fight in Ukraine.
hindustantimes.com
the Trump admin proposed rescinding the Roadless Rule, a move that would open 45m acres of national forest to road construction, logging, & other development across 37 states. mustreadalaska.com/public-comme...
Public Comment Open for Proposed Repeal of Roadless Rule Impeding Forest Management and Wildfire Prevention
On Tuesday, August 18, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced the U.S. Forest Service has filed a proposed rule to rescind in its entirety the national 2001 Roadless Area Conversation Ru...
mustreadalaska.com
The launch occurred hours after Trump announced plans to meet Kim Jong Un later this yr, following Trump's order to scale back annual military exercises with S.Korea. Kim Yo Jong, the sister of Kim Jong Un, dismissed the reduced drills as "unworthy of comment" spectrumlocalnews.com/us/snplus/po...
North Korea fires barrage of missiles toward the sea after Trump overture
South Korea's military said 10 short-range ballistic missiles flew about 185 miles each toward North Korea's eastern waters
spectrumlocalnews.com
Most of gaza destroyed. Gazans face an impossible choice: leave and risk never being allowed to return hime, or fight to survive in a place made almost entirely unlivable. youtube.com/shorts/DCQma...
How much of Gaza has Israel destroyed?
YouTube video by The Economist
youtube.com
Trainline, Virgin Atlantic & RED Driving School investigated for 'drip pricing'. Concerns that customers were not shown the total price upfront when buying products. Mandatory fees/charges added later. Is any corporation pristine? People trampled upon as execs chase higher profits, pay, bonuses.
Trainline, Virgin Atlantic and RED Driving School investigated over 'drip pricing'
The consumer watchdog said they were trying to find out if the three companies were not showing full prices upfront to customers.
bbc.co.uk
Google Is Buying Spirit Airlines Data For $10 Million. The Flight Attendants Object. #HuffingtonPost
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Google Is Buying Spirit Airlines Data For $10 Million. The Flight Attendants Object.
twp.ai
Yet Another Milestone... The Number of Dump's Felony Convictions is now Higher than his Approval Rating! 🤬
Donald Trump Reaction
ALT: Donald Trump Reaction
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While it’s not uncommon for FCC chairs to meet & confer with the admin, Carr is unusually in sync with the priorities of the Trump WH, esp with its focus on using the levers of Gov to punish the legacy tv networks Trump has derided as fake news www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
Revealed: FCC chair Brendan Carr’s close coordination with White House and rightwing media
Internal documents obtained by Guardian show White House meetings, scheduled calls with top Trump officials and communications with Fox News producers
theguardian.com
The IDF said on Tue it targeted commanders from Hamas' elite Nukhba force in a strike, which Palestinian sources said killed six, including a child, in Gaza City. The strike came as Hamas said that the group remains committed to the ceasefire roadmap reached in July news.cgtn.com/news/2026-08...
Israel targets Hamas commanders in Gaza as Hamas reaffirms ceasefire commitment
The Israeli military said on Tuesday that it targeted commanders from Hamas' elite Nukhba force in a strike, which Palestinian sources said killed six, including a child, in Gaza City.
news.cgtn.com
This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible.
Queen Mary University of London@qmul.bsky.social · 4d agoAir pollution stunts children’s lung growth. New Queen Mary research found that improvements in air quality after the introduction of London’s ULEZ are associated with accelerated lung growth in children. Read more: shorturl.at/Jx86o
Advocacy groups, including Human Rights Watch, sued the administration, arguing the sanctions hinder efforts to hold war crimes perpetrators accountable, while Venezuela & Chad announced decisions to withdraw from the court following the U.S. pressure campaign www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08...
U.S. sanctions Japanese ICC chief, testing Tokyo’s support for global court
The move by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump presents a dilemma for Tokyo, a strong backer of multilateral groupings and a key American ally.
japantimes.co.jp
