Exclusive: A rare bookseller suspected his books were being bought by AI companies. He stuck an AirTag in a book and we tracked it to a secretive Amazon facility in Las Vegas where they scan and destroy books called VGT3: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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SCOTUS lets @ejeancarroll.bsky.social’s verdict against Trump stand. He is formally out of excuses.

ATLANTA CALL TO ACTION BN will move in, bring identical stock, and undersell until the indie folds. Then they'll raise the prices and only sell bestsellers and cheaply made bargain books. You'll lose access not just to selections made just for you, but also to the owners and this gorgeous cat

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15h ago

shop name: tall tales book shop (talltalesatlanta.com) cat name: mr. marlowe call to action: barnes and noble just announced they want to open a bookstore *in the same shopping center* 😤 if you live in atlanta, please help keep tall tales open by shopping there! support your local indie bookshops!

Extreme heat continues to impact the Southeast this week. Folks are advised to follow proper heat safety tips by limiting outdoor activity, staying hydrated, ensuring access to A/C or cooling centers & checking on vulnerable friends, neighbors, and family members. More tips weather.gov/safety/heat

Yale study: “A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace.” [ysph.yale.edu]

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

Healthcare costs have been rising faster than inflation, and a staggering share of that spending is consumed by administrative middlemen, soaring drug prices, and emergency care for conditions that should have been treated earlier and for less.

ysph.yale.edu

Donald Trump is a crook. And he’s trying to steal American taxpayers blind. It will take the overwhelming turnout of American voters—who have eyes to see this theft—to stop this non-stop criminal operation.

The real refugee crisis is the failure to make peace. Refugees flee war, conflict and persecution. End the wars that force people to run for their lives.

Have a look at these old maps maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/... A composite of an English map series and Scottish map series. The railway does not line up (the English one is correct) #Maps, #borders #WestCoastMainLine The maps predate the construction of #Gretna in WW1

Had a friend reach out to me today who has been suffering with long covid and is struggling to find community. Does anyone know of any LC support groups near Paris?

Public in England and Wales wrongly think most killers are minority ethnic

Public in England and Wales wrongly think most killers are minority ethnic

Research from King’s College London finds that Reform voters’ perceptions were furthest from the truth The public overestimate how many minority ethnic people are killers, as well as how many foreign national offenders there are, a new study has found. The research from King’s College London tested knowledge and perceptions of crime at a time when radical right parties are trying to link offending to ethnicity and nationality to gain votes. Continue reading...

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My naughty driver reeducation course dug deep into the physics of going just one or two mph over the speed limit, and the statistics that go with it, and Jesus fucking Christ nobody should fucking speed.

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

ysph.yale.edu

I miss Slate Culture Gabfest.

People are SUFFERING. We have to stop acting like everything is okay. It’s not okay. The conditions under which we ALL are living are killing us.

Van Gogh’s Church at Auvers leans and breathes, its walls quivering in uneasy color. The building feels alive—pulsing with the artist’s own unrest near the end of his life.

“The manosphere routinely sells a model of hyper-masculinity that capitalizes on young men's insecurities. Many of the terms we now hear — looksmaxxing and mogging — are traditionally from the incel community and used by them to reinforce misogynistic beliefs.” An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social

Treat incels as the violent extremists they are

Misogynistic incel subculture — elements of which have become disturbingly mainstream — is a serious public safety threat.

cultmtl.com

ICYMI, over the past two weeks, English-language Wikipedia editors have engaged in a successful effort to change the first paragraph of the Republican Party entry to reflect its current status as a "neo-nationalist" political party. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi...

Absolutely fucking gutting

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 12h ago

Actress Hayden Panettiere has died, her representative confirms. She was 36 abcnews.com/US/hayden-pa...

From The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Curious why so much of #Europe is on fire 🔥 right now? NASA GRACE Soil moisture is in the bottom 1% across the vast majority of the Continent. This is what happens when the climate warms at 2X the Global rate, with 5 #heatwaves so far this summer.

www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...

Subsidiarity: The Catholic principle guiding popes through tech upheavals, from the Industrial Revolution to AI

Writings by St. Thomas Aquinas laid the groundwork for the concept back in the 13th century, but the Industrial Revolution prompted theologians to refine the idea and develop Catholic social teaching.

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That’s the gist of it.

Our Common Defense@ourcommondefense.bsky.social · 16h ago

50 Senators let a Weekend News Anchorman run the Pentagon because they were afraid a gameshow host would yell at them

Indeed

Chloe Fineman as Ooli: Wow Pretty Cool!

Alt: Chloe Fineman as Ooli: Wow Pretty Cool!

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 17h ago

it's pretty cool that we just saw the largest shift in U.S. defense posture in decades declared via spiteful post.

For the first time in US history, America betrays South Korea, one of our closest allies for over 75 years. These exercises in various forms have taken place every year since 1974.

Our servicemembers deserve so much better than this. When I get to the US Senate, we’re going to investigate Hegseth for these and so many other failures.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3d ago

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Military families and service members are now describing horrific conditions across MULTIPLE ships: human waste flooding bathrooms, virtually no food, water or soap, months without port calls, exhausted crews, and no end in sight. This crisis is far bigger than just the Lincoln.

Babies were found with dead brain tissue similar to what follows cancer and the kind of bleeding seen after a stroke. Their autopsies all came to the same conclusion: Their deaths could have been prevented with the long-standard vitamin K shot. (Published May)

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

propublica.org

Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.

The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact

Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.

wired.com

We don't even need to do these scenarios anymore... one wearing a tan suit was a scandal & the other one couldn't occasionally stumble over a word without it being news for a week.....

Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 16h ago

If Biden, Obama, or any other president had done something like this, it would be a nonstop story for months, with every member of Congress & every “conservative” talking head going on about the president’s weakness, the betrayal of our allies, and the damage it would do for years to come.

This guy DOES NOT WORK FOR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT & therefore has no #oversight or #guardrails & no obligation to the people of the #US #JaredKushner Meets With #Hamas to Advance Trump’s #Gaza “Plan” #Trump’s son-in-law met the #Palestinian militant group’s leaders in Egypt, officials […]

apnews.com/article/colo... Powell hits record low, threatening key water and electricity supply for millions

Lake Powell hits record low, threatening key water and electricity supply for millions

The water level at Lake Powell has fallen to a record low in another sign of crisis along the Colorado River.

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