Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New @bloomberglaw.com article by Olivia Carville - TikTok experimented on users, putting 10% (about 15M people) in a "filter bubble" exposing them to repetitive content that the algorithm thought they wanted, but was toxic. If you want to know why these cases are going to be massive...

Svært at se hvordan man sparer en halv milliard i Lolland kommune uden udsigt til at situationen bliver meget bedre. #dkpol www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

'Rædselsscenarie': Kommune skal spare flere hundrede millioner og må skære på 'alt der ikke er lovpligtigt'

dr.dk

We need to stop these people from naming things. Also, lmao: > HDR10+ ADVANCED will not work when Filmmaker Mode is enabled.

VideoCardz.com@videocardz.com · 10h ago

Samsung becomes first TV maker to launch HDR10+ ADVANCED

sandberg always at the scene of the crime

Sarah Szalavitz💡@dearsarah.bsky.social · 23h ago

Lean In To Fascism

If you enjoy playing video games in the US you should be paying attention to this and contacting your reps if you're into that sort of thing or like personal rights or whatever.

404 Media@404media.co · yesterday

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

FT: UAE's imperial push into Africa UAE is now a bigger investor in Africa than China,UK,France,US! UAE's dark king MBZ is supporting/extracting from african actors (particularly in north africa) with investments in logistics, gold, copper, arms, farming www.ft.com/content/a4c6...

is this good:

"This really feels like the ultimate admission that we, as hosts of AI infra, can't afford our own AI products. And if that's even partially the case, how could the companies we sell it to manage?”

404 Media@404media.co · yesterday

Microsoft is introducing budget limits for AI use but says it still wants to be an ‘AI-first’ company.

When will Bluesky management deal with its Columbo echo chamber.

Two weeks before the recent influx of tens of thousands of Moroccans onto the territory of Spain—a NATO member—the US House passed a bill asserting for the first time that “Ceuta and Melilla are located in Moroccan territory” and allocating $20 million to Morocco. (www.congress.gov/119/crpt/hrp...)

Jeg syns det er bra at man setter søkelys på religiøs intoleranse, men jeg syns det er litt påfallende at når muslimske trossamfunn er mot homofile får de masse kritiske spørsmål, men når kristne trossamfunn er det får de noen hundre tusen på Spleis og en invitasjon til #Dax18.

Dette meiner muslimske organisasjonar om homofili

NRK har spurt sju store muslimske organisasjonar i Noreg kva dei meiner om homofili. Berre to svarte.

nrk.no

Surely the responses to this will paint a broader picture.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

This is Tom Holland's world, and we just live in it. variety.com/2026/film/bo...

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Sets Imax Release as ‘The Odyssey’ Exclusive Run Ends

"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" will (finally!) swing to Imax on Aug. 6.

variety.com

Henry Cavill threatens to adapt beloved franchise.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 2d ago

'‘Warhammer 40,000’ Animated Series in Development at Amazon, Henry Cavill to Produce' 'The animated project will serve as a spinoff of the Amazon animated anthology series “Secret Level"' variety.com/2026/tv/news...

NEW: In 2025 ICE obtained DNA from nearly one million people and funneled it into an FBI criminal database. The collection likely included DNA from young children and was backed by the threat of criminal prosecution. The raw genetic material is stored indefinitely. Free to read:

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

wired.com

Some people still need to realize just how evil these people and companies are. Regulation should only be the beginning. www.modelrepublic.org/articles/the...

The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI’s super PAC appears to be funding it. - Model Republic

An interview request from a bot posing as a reporter revealed an AI-generated news site with articles attacking AI industry critics. For the second time this month, we found links to Targeted Victory,...

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Europe’s weak reaction to Spain’s migrant crisis ft.trib.al/xD4t6rT

Europe’s weak reaction to Spain’s migrant crisis

Pedro Sánchez is being unfairly singled out for a liberal immigration policy

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Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, one of our most-read stories was about Google burning through cash for the first time since going public decades ago as it raised its spending forecast for AI infrastructure. ft.trib.al/9z6a5Ym

Full-on Nazi shit. Modern day yellow star patches.

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 3d ago

Am told at the blue ash Ohio ICE office today that a bunch of springfield Haitians were told to just “check in” at are now having ankle monitors put on them, which, uh….. they’re not supposed to be fucking doing that

> In a study published on Friday, eSafety also found most children aged between 10 and 15 were using social media just as frequently in March as they had before the ban came into force on December 10 last year, while parental awareness of their habits decreased. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Most Australian teens still on social media three months after under-16 ban began, study finds

More than 8 in 10 ​Australian teenagers were still using social media three months after the government's landmark ban on the platforms for under-16s took effect because the ‌tech firms failed to impl...

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for a very long time the republican party has been moving towards people who actually believe the slop they consume instead of people who view it as a tool, but the slop has been moving as well the fox news grandpas are now being outflanked by the groypers in the fever swamps

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d ago

Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Big fan of doing the videogame equivalent of the Criterion closet. youtu.be/iHrip8y5oz0

Samara Weaving just wants to be a naughty cowboy in Red Dead Redemption | Shelf Quest

YouTube video by Polygon

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> On July 27, 2026, BMW began delivering a full-screen [Spider-Man] movie advertisement to the dashboard Control Display (the car's main center screen) of customer BMW vehicles, placing a branded third-party advertisement in cars their owners had already bought. consumerrights.wiki/w/BMW_Spider...

BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising

On July 27, 2026, BMW began delivering a full-screen Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie advertisement to the dashboard Control Display (the car's main center screen...

consumerrights.wiki

Twitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.

I'm sure European politicians and commissioners updating people on the facts about Ceuta on X is going to be what clears up any confusion and dispels all disinformation.

For over a decade, @redbull.com funded studies that disputed the risks of consuming energy drinks and alcohol together — and research tied to the company has been used to roll back public health regulations in Canada and elsewhere. Read our latest investigation:

Is it safe to drink Red Bull and vodka? Dubious research tied to the company has shaped energy drink policy.

The company paid scientists whose studies largely found that mixing energy drinks and alcohol isn’t harmful, contrary to most research.

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Bellingcat's @godin.bsky.social spoke with NPR about Google's now paused new feature that allowed users to create AI-generated satellite images.

Geoff Brumfiel@gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 5d ago

UPDATED STORY! Google has paused a tool that allowed users to briefly create deepfake AI satellite images with the click of a button. www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...

Never a bad idea to cast a Weaving when a baddie needs to serve face.

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 5d ago

Samara Weaving has been cast as Emma Frost in the new ‘X-MEN’ movie. (Source: Deadline)