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How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job
Clara Shih on how AI will soon displace the first few rungs on the career ladder — and why she left Big Tech to do something about it -
I read Bill Gates' memo, and there's one thing almost no one has mentioned about AI systems, is how dependent we're getting on them. What if one day they stop working. What's the backup plan?
When we started up with PCs and then the web, it took a long time for us to build mission-critical systems around them. But this is happening very quickly.
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Comparing Nixon’s Attacks On The Press To Trump’s
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In his White House Correspondents’ Association dinner speech on July 24, 2026, President Donald Trump made his usual diatribes against the news media. He derided the “failing” New York Times and reiterated his complaint that CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins doesn’t smile enough. He […] -
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LA Mayor Karen Bass The Latest Democrat To Wimp Out On Paramount Merger
The unpopular Paramount Warner Brothers merger should have been a perfect opportunity for Democrats to demonstrate they are finally serious about stuff like media consolidation, right wing propaganda, media reform, and antitrust after decades of policy incoherence. Instead, numerous prominent California Democrats have been buckling to Paramount demands aimed at settling a 12-state antitrust lawsuit […] -
Dear Apple and Google if you do this:
To this:
It won’t just be me that’s pissed.
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The AI ‘Ghosts’ Contaminating Academic Publishing
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Oracle Helped Kneecap Section 230, Then Bought 15% Of A Company That Needs It.
Six years ago, when Trump first tried to force ByteDance to sell TikTok’s US operations to his billionaire buddy Larry Ellison at Oracle, we wondered if this would finally get Oracle to change its tune on Section 230. While not as widely known outside of Silicon Valley, Oracle has been a driving force behind the […] -
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Take your design skills to the next level with the 2026 Canva Creator Mastery Bundle, a powerful all-in-one course for modern creators and business owners. This program teaches you how to use Canva effectively to produce professional-quality visuals for any purpose. You’ll explore practical design techniques, creative workflows and branding strategies that make your content […] -
Flock Claims It’s The First Company To Expose Police Misuse Of Surveillance Tech
Flock Safety is hurting. It spent the early part of its career pitching plate reader tech to people who honestly didn’t need it: HOA supervisors and gated communities. Then it realized there was far more money to be made by courting governments, rather than the richest parts of the private sector. A few years later […] -
The Tragedy and Ecstasy of AI Companions (with Bridget Todd)
In her new audiobook, Love at First Prompt: AI and the Future of Intimacy, Bridget Jones and Michael Amato unpack how real people are using chatbots to seek connection, in an era when tech companies are constantly trying to exploit our innermost worlds. -
Cocomelon's Studio Tells Its Artists to Start Experimenting With AI
Moonbug Entertainment, which makes Cocomelon, Blippi, and other popular content for children, says it will begin using AI but will always have a 'human in the loop.' -
Businesses Go Viral for Making Signs Without AI
In the wake of the ChatGPT flyer pandemic, some businesses are differentiating themselves by making signs the old school way. -
Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute
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My WordPress mirror site stopped updating on August 12. It's now updating once again. I'll try to watch it more carefully.
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Iowa AG Brenna Bird Makes Silly, Empty Legal Threats To Try And Save Larry Ellison’s Paramount Merger
As we’ve been noting, billionaire Larry Ellison’s effort to dominate what’s left of corporate media is facing some headwinds after 12 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against his planned $111 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Brothers. As we’ve also noted, this is a giant turd of a deal, the debt from which will indisputably […] -
FeedLand Rivers for WordPress
I've released a WordPress plugin that shows a FeedLand river on a page or post: feedland-rivers.
Drop the shortcode `[feedland-rivers]' onto a page, point it at your FeedLand username in the settings, and it fetches the river JSON server-side and renders it in an isolated iframe. No FeedLand front-end scripts, no third-party fonts or stylesheets beyond an optional favicon lookup. Here is an example.
You can also show more than one river on a site by overriding the username, category or server per shortcode instance, e.g. '[feedland-rivers username="alice" category="tech"]'.
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Familias Horribles: Alicia Markowitz on No Contact and Finding Freedom from Family Abuse
Family is supposed to be your safe place—but what happens when home is the original high-control group? In this episode, Alicia Markowitz, co-host of the Spanish-language podcast Familias Horribles, joins us to talk about growing up in an abusive family system, becoming the scapegoat, and slowly realizing that the “family rules” were really just coercion, control, gaslighting, triangulation, and a whole lot of “because I said so.”
Alicia gets refreshingly real about trauma, religious guilt, emotional and physical abuse, fawning, zero contact, and the terrifying business of choosing yourself after a lifetime of being told you’re the problem. We talk about how family cults mirror other high-control groups, how to recognize the red flags, why boundaries don’t magically work on narcissists, and how therapy, trusted people, good information, and a little hard-won self-compassion can help you rebuild the person you had to hide to survive.
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Trigger warning: This episode contains frank discussion of childhood abuse, physical violence, psychological and emotional abuse, narcissistic and controlling parents, family estrangement and zero contact, gaslighting, scapegoating, panic attacks, depression, trauma, and suicidal fear.
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MI6 Spymaster: Was Israel Serious About Regime Change in Iran? (Ft. Ronen Bergman & Mark Mazzetti)
How did a Holocaust-denying, hardline former president of Iran become the centerpiece of an Israeli plan to topple the regime in Tehran? Former head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove and co-host John Raine sit down with New York Times investigative journalists Mark Mazzetti and Ronen Bergman to detail the high-stakes intelligence mission that preceded Operation Epic Fury. They explain how Israel’s Mossad groomed former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad into an intelligence asset, and how Mossad director David Barnea Ahmadinejad to the White House in February 2026 as part of a plan for rapid regime change in Iran. They also discuss the plan’s collapse within days of the decapitation strikes, why the plan to use Kurdish forces as a ground proxy was a non-starter, how the political fallout from the war may forever change US-Israel relations, and the electoral implications for both US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this fall. (00:00) Legacy of the Iran War (02:30) Origins of Ahmadinejad Plot (05:10) Planning Iranian Regime Change (08:08) Was Ahmadinejad a Double Agent? (12:45) Why Recruit Ahmadinejad? (15:34) Selling Trump on Regime Change (25:12) Credibility of Kurdish Option (33:27) War Planning vs. Reality (35:32) Legacy of Ahmadinejad Plot (38:55) Did Israel Manipulate the US? (41:44) Mood of Iranian People (43:58) Deal Prospects (46:18) Maximum Pressure on Iran (48:05) Impact of Israel’s Coming Elections (49:03) Takeaways, Audience Comments, and Wrap Up Hosted by Sir Richard Dearlove (former MI6 Chief) and guest co-host John Raine (International Institute for Strategic Studies) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicespdrl.fm -
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How Mass Layoffs Changed Working in Tech w/ Clarissa Redwine & JS Tan
Not long ago, tech jobs were sought after for their security, benefits, wages, and the progressive values promoted by Silicon Valley companies. But now workers are barely hanging on. Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan join Paris Marx to discuss the state of worker organizing in the tech industry, including how it’s changed since the mid-2010s and where it needs to go from here.
Clarissa Redwine is a tech worker and labor activist. JS Tan is a PhD candidate at MIT and writes the Value Added newsletter. They are the authors of Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson. Support the show on Patreon.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- You can now pre-order Paris’s new book Hyperscale.
- Learn more about Kickstarter United in Clarissa’s oral history podcast.
- Layoffs in 2026 have surpassed last year.
- Tech workers are pushing back against AI use.
- Paris talked to JS last year about the connection between tech and oil & gas.
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Stop Wasting Your Time: How to Deal With People Who Won’t Change & What to Do Instead
There’s someone in your life you wish would change.
You’ve pushed, reminded, and given advice. You’ve had the same conversation over and over.
And somehow, you’re still stuck in the same frustrating cycle of fighting, nagging, lecturing, and hoping they’ll finally do something differently.
There is a better way.
In today’s conversation, Mel sits down with renowned behavioral scientist and award-winning NYU professor Dr. Dolly Chugh to unpack the surprising science of why people resist change and what really works.
You’re going to walk away with some of the most powerful, research-backed tools Dr. Chugh teaches at NYU – tools that will change how you see difficult people, frustrating relationships, and your own ability to influence how others behave.
You’ll learn:
-The 3 things that really do help when someone you love won’t change
-The simple question to ask before giving advice – so it doesn’t backfire
-The 4-option question that reveals what someone needs from you in a difficult moment
-The relationship tool that keeps small problems from turning into 10-out-of-10 fights
-How to tell when “helping” someone is keeping them stuck
-The 2 “bodyguards” in your brain that explain why you know better but still don’t do better
-Why your brain can fight change even when you desperately want it
-The surprising role “unlearning” plays in changing a habit or behavior
If you’re exhausted from trying to change someone you love, this conversation will give you a different way forward – starting today – that feels lighter, more hopeful, and extremely doable.
Your relationships will never be the same. And neither will you.
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Pourquoi les hommes sont plus riches ?
Pourquoi en France les hommes sont-ils plus riches que les femmes ? Et pourquoi le sont-ils de plus en plus ?
Si les inégalités de revenus sont bien connues, on ignore souvent que les inégalités de patrimoine entre hommes et femmes sont en train d’augmenter en France. L’inégalité patrimoniale entre hommes et femmes est passée de 9% en 1998 à 16 % en 2015.
Céline Bessière est professeure de sociologie à l’Université Paris Dauphine, Sibylle Gollac est sociologue et chercheuse au CNRS. Elles signent ensemble un livre, Le Genre du Capital, publié aux éditions La Découverte, résultat de quinze ans de recherche passées à fouiller dans les rapports statistiques, s’entretenir avec des notaires, des avocats et des juges.
Dans cet épisode, elles expliquent et démontrent les mécanismes qui favorisent l’appropriation masculine du capital et leur lien avec les inégalités entre classes sociales. Il est question de travail domestique, des origines des inégalités de revenus entre hommes et femmes, de pension alimentaire et d’héritage.
Elles montrent comment le droit est appliqué de telle sorte à ne pas fragiliser les patrimoines masculins. Le fait qu'une famille puisse transmettre sa richesse de génération en génération passe par l'intérêt des pères, des fils et des maris contre celui des mères, des filles et des épouses. La transmission des inégalités de richesse entre classes sociales, de génération en génération, repose sur cette appropriation masculine du capital.
A la fin de l’épisode, on se demande quelles seraient les politiques publiques à mener pour contrer ces effets, et aussi ce que nous pouvons faire, chacun et chacune à notre niveau, pour tenter d’échapper à ces mécanismes.
Cet épisode a initialement été diffusé le 23 avril 2020.
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Ma mère m'a volé mon ex - teaser
Morane a 16 ans quand elle tombe amoureuse de son premier amour.
Quatre ans plus tard, ils se séparent, mais lui, ne part pas vraiment.
Parce qu’Antoine va tomber amoureux d’une autre femme...La mère de Morane.
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Two Die In Pennsylvania Of Measles Marking The First Deaths Of 2026
Last year, as decades of work by RFK Jr. to undermine vaccines with false links to deaths and autism culminated in his appointment to lead HHS, America saw the largest resurgence of measles cases in something like three decades. Three people died, including two children, all unvaccinated. Kennedy mostly ignored the outbreak from the beginning […] -
Meta settles with the states over child safety failures
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Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform
By now you’ve almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued the company in some form or another over child safety on Meta’s platforms. The headlines are all covering the basics: the years-long case these states filed against Meta ends, and Meta pays somewhere […] -
Les enfants de mon père
Sarah a six ans quand elle est brutalement séparée de ses frères jumeaux, Arthur et Hugo, après la rupture de leur père et de sa compagne. Du jour au lendemain, ce dernier lui impose un silence absolu avec l’interdiction de prononcer leurs prénoms, ils ne doivent plus exister. Malgré les années qui passent et ce secret de famille bien gardé, Sarah refuse de les oublier et se fait une promesse : retrouver leur trace.
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Presidential Self-Soothing
Kate and Josh discuss South Carolina's esteemed new Republican Senate candidate, Trump's Canadian tantrum and the right's fixation on the WNBA.
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ICE Tries, Fails To Illegally Raid An Immigration Law Office; Settles For Empty Threats Instead
The thing about raiding law offices is that they tend to be filled with people who actually know the law. A bunch of opportunistic ICE officers thought they might be able to talk their way into an illegal search, but that initiative (is that the word for this?) died out almost immediately when the interloping […] -
I wonder if you install Apple‘s public beta now you could essentially queue jump the waitlist for Siri when it goes into production❓
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It’s not all going up …
Noting that the new 🍎 🔗 Polishing Cloth costs less than the old one. It’s still overpriced by around $9.
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Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, is preparing what he calls an “economic D-Day,” economic sanctions that will bring the Iranian regime to its knees — a tricky proposition since, according to those same officials, Iran is already on its knees.
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#560: Building a Research OS: From Django to 30,000 Samples
In 2020, a gastroenterologist in Glasgow did the math on his new research study and came up with 30,000 samples, arriving over two years from three cities and a dozen hospitals. He asked around about how researchers keep track of that. The answer was Microsoft Excel. Shaun Chuah had written some HTML by hand in Notepad back in high school and that was about the whole of his programming experience, so he opened the Django tutorial and started reading. Six years later that app is Foundry120, holding 10 terabytes of clinical and genomics data with an agentic AI running on top of it.
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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 photograph. -
Historical news upto 1 year through api free. Intention is to create co relation with stock
Hi, Is there a way to get historical news data free?
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I have been using google news rss and newsapi org
both has its own restriction, large number of google news call result in ip getting marked as spam and news api can go back only 1 month in free tier.
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Another reason to leave WordPress behind
So today it was fires both at work and privately :
I successfully intercepted what appears to have been an attempt to compromise chardonsbleus.org.
Two administrator accounts were created within a very short period of time. At first, I assumed the usual suspects: an outdated WordPress plugin, WPML, or some other vulnerable component.
But that doesn’t appear to be what happened.
The traces left in the logs and database indicate that both administrator accounts were created through a backend API request with administrative privileges. Everything I have found so far points toward the WPMU DEV API key as the attack vector.
What surprised me most is that I had no idea credentials associated with that service could potentially be used in a way that results in the creation of WordPress administrator accounts — apparently without needing the password of an existing administrator.
There is still another possibility: that my main administrator account itself was compromised. It uses a strong password, though, and based on the traces I have, I consider that considerably less likely.
So I’m not claiming to have reconstructed every step of the attack yet. What I do know is that two unauthorized administrator accounts appeared, and the database and logs point to an API-level administrative operation rather than a normal WordPress login.
I don’t know how many people will ever read this, but for me the conclusion is becoming increasingly obvious:
WordPress has to go.
The main reason chardonsbleus.org is still running WordPress is GiveWP. It is a genuinely good donation plugin, although an expensive one, and replacing that functionality has always been the main obstacle to migrating the site.
I’m going to find another solution for donations.
After that, I’ll probably move the site to Indiekit and finally decommission the WordPress installation altogether.
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Scientists Discover Vast Underground 'Anomaly' on Mars
Scientists have used a novel technique to detect a major temperature asymmetry under the surface of Mars that could shed light on the evolution and past habitability of the red planet. -
How AI Watermark Mandates Could Unmask Journalists Who Never Touched AI
Imagine a scenario where a documentary filmmaker, in the course of making the documentary, captures some damning footage of corporate malfeasance, which she wishes to share with an investigative reporting organization anonymously. Should we be concerned that mandates on AI watermarking might reveal who she is, even if she’s not using AI at all? Last […] -
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How do you handle geotargeted news aggregation for a global UI on a $0 budget?
I'm building an interactive macroeconomic world map. I've hit a dead end with raw web scraping, Google News search parameters (which fail to isolate country context), and GDELT.
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I need to surface 3–5 fresh macro/econ headlines when a user clicks a country. Since commercial APIs are expensive and client-side RSS is unreliable:
1 - Is caching pre-fetched direct national RSS feeds (WSJ, BBC, Reuters) via a daily cron job the standard pattern here?
2 - Are there open-source scrapers or self-hosted news aggregation pipelines (like FreshRSS/Miniflux setups) that handle geographic mapping cleanly?
Idk what to do anymore at this stage, any ideas?
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As Flock Vandalism Goes Mainstream, One Grand Jury Says Alleged Flock Vandal Did Nothing Wrong
Flock Safety has been on the wrong side of the press cycle — if not the wrong side of history — for most of the last couple of years. Flock’s automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are more comprehensive than many of those previously deployed by law enforcement agencies. Not only do they capture plate/location data, […] -
Flock’s CEO Is Lying to Cops About 404 Media's Reporting on Abortion Case
Garrett Langley, Flock’s CEO, told cops that a 404 Media story about cops using Flock to track someone who self-administered an abortion was "entirely false." He's lying. -
Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training
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Podcast: Cops Are Making Fake Flock Cameras and Amazon Packages
Cops making fake Flock cameras to catch people, Darth Vader unmasked, and our three year anniversary. -
Bill Gates' concerns about AI
After reading Bill Gates' story, I concur.
I have seen bad behavior by Claude Code where it was doing tests of our S3 support, and it overwrote files that were critical to our apps, knocking at least one of them off the air.
I'm at a loss as to what I should trust it with, because this was in violation of an explicit rule I gave it and a broader one that it added itself.
On the other hand, the project I'm working on couldn't happen without the use of AI. Far too much code for one person to manage. A program that took several of us years to write, being converted in a matter of weeks to run on modern systems. I'm pretty sure that without AI this work would have been lost, and lots of innovations.
We humans are doing a fine job of wrecking everything, all on our own, denying climate change, giving into the same old tricks that lead to WWII and the Holocaust, so maybe it isn't the worst idea to turn management of everything over to the machines.
I don't recall a science fiction story in which the machines took over and they were the good guys in the end, saving us from self-destruction. Aliens, yes -- machines, no.
And when I'm working with Claude Code I recognize that it's a new form of intelligence, and may be the closest our species ever gets to First Contact. We could embrace it as such. What choice do we have?
And to Bill Gates, I wish when you were trying to own the web in the 90s, you had thought through the dangers, as you are doing now, and maybe not tried to own it, rather to foster its independence from big tech. Now we have the medium owned by the worst people possible, we exist here mostly to keep them in power, when it had so much promise when you really could have done something real to protect our freedom. I have no idea where we would be now if you had, but it has to be better than this.