New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...

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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Embittered Raisin Won’t Shut Up About How It Could Have Been Wine https://theonion.com/embittered-raisin-won-t-shut-up-about-how-it-could-have-1827840677/

NEW: A series of issues in Apple’s web browser engine — the tech underlying all browsers on iOS — means that Apple’s iCloud Private Relay tool, which is supposed to hide a user’s IP address, in many cases doesn’t actually work. In fact, its exposing users' real IP addresses.

Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses

Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.

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Amid a decline in foreclosures citywide, the number of homeowners in The Bronx facing such cases has nearly doubled from the prior year, highlighting worrying economic trends in the borough. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/05/b...

Bronx Foreclosures Have Doubled. Experts Say Many More Are Coming.

For advocates, red flags abound for a coming crisis for the borough with the lowest rate of homeownership.

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"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

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Another L for Gen X

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Cat Power is antivax

The power infrastructure in ATL is abysmal and it’s wild to me that no one talks about it

Stop saying "log into a portal." Sounds way too cool for what's happening.

Usher had HITS

Scapegoats are emotionally cheaper than systems. Blaming the left asks nothing of you. It feels good and righteous and right. Asking whether your institutions and your party failed you requires dismantling beliefs you have spent your lifetime building. That is emotionally expensive.

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Showing your ID to a bartender isn’t the same as uploading your ID online and having it saved in a database. If the SCREEN Act passes, that’s what many adults will have to do to see lawful content online. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites

The Senate Commerce Committee is set to consider S. 737, the SCREEN Act, a sweeping age-verification bill that would require online services to verify users’ ages before they can access any sexually

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There he is! There's our guy!

Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now

The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.

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the plan is to spend $0 (zero) dollars today

The diversity of horizontal navigation in 2004

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

Peeking back at Season 10 of Project Runway and wow it used to be good

We tried to rescue an abandoned newborn bunny this weekend, but I don’t think it will make it

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Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d ago

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.

no one has ever known why halo is good. it all happened by accident. its too insane. bungie got scared. microsoft got scared. the fans got scared. no one on any side of the creative process has actually been able to handle just what the fuck halsey, john and cortana have going on

Oh great. An untreatable, possibly fatal virus passed by ticks is spreading in the USA. Good thing we have the CDC looking out for us, am I right?

First Case of Bourbon Virus, Which Is Untreatable and Potentially Fatal, Confirmed in New York

The first confirmed case of the tick-borne Bourbon virus, which is extremely rare and potentially fatal, has been identified in New York.

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If you think garbage containers will ruin "the beauty of a street" and permanently alter the city's "character and history" but don't address how cars and SUVs affect those same qualities, you are telling on yourself.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️@jgbollard.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...