Rest in peace to one of the best to ever do it.

New: a student said he was just taking photos of planes for his hobby. Turns out he was in secret communication with a suspected Chinese official, who told him to go to the U.S. and take photos of particular planes and airports. Told to only use a Huawei phone too www.404media.co/a-student-sa...

A Student Said He Was a Hobby Plane Spotter. He Was Allegedly Taking Photos for the Chinese Government

Weiheng Zeng originally said he took photos of planes for an aviation fan website. Later he admitted a suspected Chinese government official had given him specific locations in the U.S. to go photogra...

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This right here is a campaign issue the entire Dem party should be running on right now. Invoke our beloved Dolly and point out Republicans don't want you to read ... for obvious reasons. www.rawstory.com/dolly-parton...

GOP lawmakers quietly slash funds for Dolly Parton children's book charity

Republicans this year quietly cut millions of dollars of funding for the late and beloved Dolly Parton's children's book charity, according to multiple reports.Imagination Library, the nonprofit found...

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'Playdate maker Panic is refunding tariff fees to customers' "It's just not our money to keep, and it felt really good to give it back. That's an easy way to know you made the right decision." - Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser www.gamedeveloper.com/business/pla...

I have never appeared as a friendly guest on authoritarian ultra-nationalist, white supremacist "GB News" to defend AI datacenters, slop, etc in response to a Chinese robot running.

RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT

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NOT DOLLY PARTON

This situation is so crazy. Man arrested for breaking cop's hobby 3d printing art project / sting operation then charged with felonies. Police are dedicating so many resources to protecting surveillance tools that people hate. Can't imagine these charges stick: www.404media.co/man-charged-...

Man Charged With 3 Felonies For Breaking 3D-Printed ‘Decoy’ Flock Camera

Police are devising sting operations to catch Flock vandals, then charging them with felonies.

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Israel is running a synthetic think tank. AI written articles designed to be read by AI and populate chatbot search results

Israel Is Running a Synthetic Think Tank to Influence AI Search Results

An Israel-funded think tank is churning out AI written essays to catch the attention of AI chatbots and warp search results.

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When Trump took office, most of the people ICE arrested were convicted criminals. Today, only about 1 in 5 are. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-summe...

Backshots – an adult film about getting it on in liminal spaces; on an empty furniture store where the owner likes to film with his employees. Pirate booty included.

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ALT: captain clark

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Don’t do this. “Entries become the property of Game Informer”. NEVER submit your art to a contest that tranfers ownership of it to the corporation.

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🎨 Game Informer Reader Art Spotlight: Artwork by Sagori Nori Want your artwork featured on our social media or in our magazine? If so, submit your art to our Reader Art contest at readerart@gameinformer.com. Entries become the property of Game Informer.

Seemingly inspired by Nintendo Power, the officially licensed Sega Visions ran in the U.S. from 1990 to 1995 - and the first issue has big '90s Sega energy. The full magazine set: https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/8448d8d8-778d-4917-a6cd-99ddd4dc301a

Trump Is Spending Nearly $1 Billion in Taxpayer Money on Gaudy White House Renovations: Report The White House is funneling millions into executive maintenance accounts without oversight or approval from Congress, The Washington Post reports. Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!

Two security researchers shipped me a pink plastic kid's smartwatch from Amazon. When I wore it, they tracked my movements, surreptitiously took photos of me, even listened to my conversations. The same backend they hacked is used by 30+ watch brands for kids. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/hacker...

Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids

Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.

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We wouldn't have an entire genre without this one great game. It's right there in the name.

40 Years Ago, a Nintendo Classic Kickstarted a Genre That’s More Popular Than Ever Today

We wouldn't have an entire genre without this one great game. It's right there in the name.

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Metroid at 40: happy birthday to Samus Aran, gaming’s greatest badass and my personal heroine

Metroid at 40: happy birthday to Samus Aran, gaming’s greatest badass and my personal heroine

Being a woman who loves video games has often felt lonely, like being on a hostile planet – but Metroid’s female space hunter has been with me all the way

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BIZARRE: Earlier this year, the Trump administration was sued for violating protesters' First Amendment rights in Maine. Now, they're trying to use that lawsuit to obtain Signal group chats that the protesters were in, which attorneys say is itself a 1A violation. www.wired.com/story/dhs-wa...

DHS Wants Protesters’ Signal Group Chats

A lawsuit accuses Homeland Security of violating protesters’ free-speech rights—but the agency is using it to try to get access to the plaintiffs’ encrypted communications.

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"...prompting your way to art or to writing is not the same as having a new tool that allows you to make art or tell a story. AI, here, is not a tool — It’s not allowing you to do the work. You’re allowing it to do the work. Which is to say, you’re the tool." 🔥

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 3w ago

Professional writer organizations should not send out pro-AI propaganda in the form of tantrum-having "essays" to their members, and I don't think that's controversial.

Crops grown underneath solar panels produce more, require less water and are more resistant to extreme weather, even during a hot, dry summer. We need agrivoltaics to be rolled out asap, for both the electricity and the better growing conditions. microgridmedia.com/solar-panels...

Solar Panels Are Helping Crops Grow Better, Global Studies Show - Microgrid Media

For farmers worried about losing land to solar energy, new research brings surprising news: many crops actually produce more food when grown beneath solar

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Max Miller released audio recordings of conversations he has with his ex wife. In one of them, she accuses him of clandestinely recording their conversations. “I have never recorded our conversations” he says, while recording their conversation. This is domestic violence. Ask me how I know.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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These .0001% who control as much wealth as 1/2 of humanity, they are obsessed with plundering the earth, it's animal life, and its resources, & with relentlessly impoverishing, squeezing, and degrading the lives of the 99.999%... so they can increase their already grotesquely inflated bank accounts.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 9mo ago

There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

So, ok, a thing about telling yr audience "i use AI for my info gathering/research but then I look over it and fix any errors" is that you unfortunately told me youve outsourced your knowledge base on this subject to the machine, and therefore I have no reason to believe you CAN catch those errors

New research from the U.K.’s Imperial College and France’s Emlyon Business School mapped out how Silicon Valley founders commit fraud — and the role investors play.

VC-backed startups commit more fraud, and researchers think they know why   | TechCrunch

New research from the U.K.’s Imperial College and France’s Emlyon Business School mapped out how Silicon Valley founders commit fraud — and the role investors play.

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nothing matters to anyone anymore

For those in UK, hourlong BBC investigation into Leto now available. in US/elsewhere, 15 min version of the film on YT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XW5... The hope is that the full documentary will be available internationally some time soon, will post if that happens. I worked with this film's team +

Hollywood’s darkest open secret

YouTube video by BBC deepwatch

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Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 4w ago

New BBC investigation. Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

one of my most strongly held beliefs is that a hell of a lot of people haven't been told to their face that they sound like a slower-than-average third-grader often enough

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 4w ago

“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.