Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can’t catch arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/h...
Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can’t catch
Slop" isn't the only problem.
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Read @markfollman.bsky.social lastest piece on how ChatGPT is reinforcing suicidal and homicidal thoughts among vulnerable people that go on to be mass shooters: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT
A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.
motherjones.com
Update: “President Javier Milei’s latest push to lure private [tech] investment to Argentina suffered a setback Wednesday as lawmakers watered down,” but did not eliminate, apparently Thiel-aligned “legislation to ease limits on foreign land ownership in response to fierce backlash.” 8/5/26… 1/
Milei Guts Bill to Ease Property Laws in Face of Public Uproar
President Javier Milei’s latest push to lure private investment to Argentina suffered a setback Wednesday as lawmakers watered down legislation to ease limits on foreign land ownership in response to ...
bloomberg.com
Rick Scott on Democrats in Michigan nominating El Sayed: “that’s who they are. I mean, they're anti-Semitic. They they want to destroy this country. They want to open borders. They don't care if criminals come in the country and rape our rape our wives and our daughters and our granddaughters.”
I was really afraid this latest redesign would make the Lexus ES too sporty or modern. I was wrong. It’s the perfect car to electrify. youtu.be/k-K98HeDzqg
Lexus Finally Gets Electric Right: 2026 Lexus ES 500e | Talking Cars with Consumer Reports #518
YouTube video by Consumer Reports
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After Rev. Adam Hamilton's win in the Kansas Democratic Senate primary to take on GOP Sen. Roger Marshall, we shift the race into a more competitive category, from Solid to Likely Republican. Read this from @jessicataylor.bsky.social:
With Hamilton’s Primary Victory, Kansas Senate Shifts from Solid to Likely Republican
After Rev. Adam Hamilton's win in tonight's Kansas primary to take on GOP Sen. Roger Marshall, the state with a nearly century-long Senate losing streak for the Democratic Party is moving into a poten...
cookpolitical.com
ICE has now spent over $2.2 BILLION on purchasing 4 private prisons from CoreCivic, with the company banking half a billion dollars on the most recent sale. Of course, ICE will not actually operate these facilities; CoreCivic keeps the contracts to run these places for the foreseeable future.
Sweden ranks top 5 globally for military aid to Ukraine per GDP—and Ukraine is delivering real-world value in return. 🧵 1/9 ⬇️
Politicians are starting to realize that it’s not enough to merely complain about corruption — the public wants them to actually do something about it. A new ethics agency proposed in a Senate bill responds to that call. bit.ly/45JqoFy
Confronting Corruption
Across the political spectrum, the public wants action from politicians to rein in rampant self-dealing.
brennancenter.org
We wrote about this at the time. Including how Rogers appeared stunned by Steve's response that people who don't know their privacy had been violated... can still have their privacy violated. www.techdirt.com/2013/10/30/m...
Mike Rogers: You Can't Have Your Privacy Violated If You Don't Know About It
We already wrote a bit about yesterday’s House Intelligence Committee hearing concerning NSA surveillance. There were two sections to it: the first three hours were the top government spooks …
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Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 6h agoWhen he was Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Rogers (the Republican candidate for Senate in Michigan) publicly took the position that "you can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy is violated." Colbert had some fun with that: crooksandliars.com/cltv/2013/10...
Wow! @menendez.house.gov says that the EXACT scenario I flagged two months ago, where ICE "releases" someone having a medical emergency solely so their death won't be recorded as occurring while in custody, happened last month at the infamous Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ.
Matt Shuham@mattshuham.bsky.social · 19h agoDays before the death of Edwin Jeovanny Lopez Cornejo, ICE officials did not report the death of another man who’d been detained at Delaney Hall — because they had technically “released” him in the middle of a medical emergency, Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ) alleged. www.huffpost.com/entry/delane...
Billionaire David Ellison wants us to see him as an everyday person looking out for everyday people (and our democracy). But critics aren't buying it. More from Free Press' @timkarr.bsky.social:
Trust Regular Guy David Ellison with Our Democracy? No Thanks!
Billionaire David Ellison wants us to see him as an everyday person looking out for everyday people … like him. But critics aren’t buying it.
freepress.net
Only real heads will get this, but: The documents helpfully released today by John Solomon appear to indicate that the FBI never continued its counterintelligence investigation against Trump once Mueller was appointed www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...
Todd Blanche ain’t ish and ain’t never gonna be ish. My column: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/05/o...
Todd Blanche is unfit to head the Justice Department - The Boston Globe
His record shows a willingness to bend the agency to Trump’s political agenda and inch the nation closer to autocracy.
bostonglobe.com
Jay Clayton has been sworn in as Director of National Intelligence (DNI). What’s next for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act? 1/17
Trump's ongoing lies about Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan's administration of elections aren't going unnoticed.... by the voters of Detroit and Wayne County A boost for Abdul El-Sayed As I discussed with @hcrichardson.bsky.social today ====>
Small Texas law firm run by Trump ally wins contract for legal aid to immigrant kids www.newsfromthestates.com/article/smal...
Small Texas law firm run by Trump ally wins contract for legal aid to immigrant kids
WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services plans to award a $150 million contract to a small Texas firm — with no specialty in immigration law and run by a former Trump official — to pro...
newsfromthestates.com
Pretty sure the answer to Americans objecting sending money and weapons to Israel isn't to knit our militaries together but what do i know www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
Why Congress Wants a Closer U.S.-Israel Defense Partnership
A proposal making its way through Congress would integrate the U.S. and Israeli defense and intelligence apparatuses more tightly. Some worry that it is a bad idea.
nytimes.com
the current left/liberal position on ai feels a lot like the liberal position on talk radio in the mid-80s to early 90s: ignore it, it will go away, nobody pays attention to that. fast forward to 1994 and newt fucking gingrich is speaker of the house.
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 1h agoAnd I worry that there are a lot of people on the left who don't care about this problem because they hate AI. But the truth is that as this technology continues to get jammed into everything from customer service to banking to fast food orders, having built-in fair right bias is bad.
Why are there so few prosecutions in the US of people with links to Jeffrey Epstein? Journalist Vicky Ward joins our friends at @revealnews.org to discuss why the Epstein files fallout looks different in America than it does in Europe.
The secrets behind “The Talented Mr. Epstein”
Journalist Vicky Ward on what she knew about Jeffrey Epstein years before his sexual abuse became public.
motherjones.com
This is so over the top it looks like a Michael Bay movie
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h agoBLUMENTHAL: Judge Cook, was the Capitol attack on January 6? COOK: I hesitate to use the word 'attack'
It's a year and a half after i highlighted the issue, but nice to see: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets
Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.
arstechnica.com
Molly White@molly.wiki · 2y agowhat could go wrong with running betting markets like this?
"Earned rank built the most professional fighting force the world has ever known. Patronage will destroy it." Read our latest on politicization in the military, authored by Glenn Schatz of @vetsforrl.bsky.social:
The Military’s Senior Leadership is Being Politicized
Stars should be earned, not granted.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
Also, you would think this story would get play, given how endlessly the enthralled media repeat the claim that Trump has this amazing endorsement record. Hard not to think that racist GOP voters saw a Black man with an Arab-sounding name and just went, “Nope, voting for guy who dropped out.”
Joe Adalian@tvmojoe.bsky.social · 4h agoAbsolutely wild that the first hit you get when Googling the results of #MI8 and Trump is a Fox News headline claiming the Trump-endorsed candidate won. He *lost*, badly, to someone who had dropped out of the race! The actual story has the news right, but the Google hed is a total fabrication.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... The report concludes that “top executives at major Wall Street banks were aware of Epstein’s suspicious financial activity for years but withheld information from the U.S. government, protecting Epstein from federal scrutiny” as they sought access 1/2 ...
August 4, 2026
On Friday night, a court filing from Capital One denied there was any political motivation behind the closure of more than 380 bank accounts in the names of Donald Trump and the Trump Organization.
open.substack.com
NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
wired.com
DURBIN: You wrote an article in which you claimed 'Black inmates are most like to become sexual aggressors.' Why should people of color believe you've changed? CRONAN: I co-authored the article. I haven't re-read it in a long time. DURBIN: Do you believe it? CRONAN: I'm not in a position to opine
That’s almost as crazy as contemplating the idea of a President Hussein Obama! The horror!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "