Silicon Valley has realized bragging about how AI will cause mass unemployment is terrible marketing. Given the backlash which has led to data center buildouts being blocked and the fact you can’t actually replace workers with Claude, the pitch has softened to AI augments versus replaces workers.

California Cops Tracked Protesters Using Orange County Sheriff's Flock System For over 19 months, cops across the Golden State continuously used OCSD’s Flock system to track protesters, almost all linked to anti-ICE demonstrations.

Here’s confirmation that Jeffrey Epstein bought a $50,000 table at a 2017 event honoring Howard Lutnick, who’s now Trump’s Secretary of Commerce.

"Nameless Flowers" (名もなき花) by the contemporary Japanese artist Ono Tako (おのたこ).

#Sunset over #GlacierNationalPark last night. #Nature #Landscape #Photography #PhotOfTheDay #SkyWatching #SkyWathers #Outdoors #Montana #PacificNorthwest

I'm so old I remember when the American media made fun of Russia for pretending obviously dying politicians were fine and dandy and just taking a spa break

ICE arrested more than 10,000 people last week. We cannot ignore their continued abuse and violation of human rights. It’s time to abolish ICE and replace it.

Hiking in the Brooks range last month took us along a river that sliced a gorge through rock cliffs. Gates of the Arctic, National Park, Alaska #NationalParks #Hiking #Trails #Alaska #Mountains

An investigation by Mother Jones confirms that the FBI used software from the Israeli firm Cellebrite to secretly extract data from the phones of at least a dozen other protesters.

Let’s go L.A. !!!!!!!!!!!

Going from tokenmaxxing to tokenminning is no longer just for developers. Microsoft is allegedly updating the AI models used by Excel and Outlook from OpenAI & Anthropic's models to their homegrown AI models to reduce costs. I suspect this is likely more about dogfooding internal models than costs.

What will happen to him? Nothing as the U.S. is a broken, lawless nation that does not hold its officials to the paths they took.

We need mega scale desalination capacity run on green energy, particularly in SoCal, ASAP. We are going to get ever less of the Colorado River going forward and we will need to fill that gap in water supply. #ClimateCrisis

Akrata Beach, Northern Peloponnese, Greece. 🇬🇷 📹 me

* DANISH PRIME MINISTER: I EXPECT ALL ALLIES TO RESPECT DENMARK'S SOVEREIGNTY, GREENLAND IS NOT FOR SALE @reuters.com

The deceptively-named "Save Our Sequoias Act" (S. 4103) would do immense and unnecessary damage to the wild groves of giant sequoias, including in Wilderness. wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/s4103/index....

Sarinda's progress 📷 Fuji GS645S 🎞️ Kodak TMAX 100 - Rodinal 1/100 #BelieveInFilm #filmphotography

Desolation Wilderness

Good morning world! This mornings stop on my run, time to head back for breakfast… and nothing else for the day 😁 have a good one! #laketahoe #tahoe #summer #oursky #nature #wildlife #lakelife #happy

This is surreal. Kind of like the ending of "The Americans." Subscribe to The Warning at steveschmidt.substack.com.

Did Mitch's wife bolt for China specifically so no one is legally positioned to pull the plug, because a dead McConnell means a special election in Kentucky that could actually flip blue? I'M ONLY ASKING QUESTIONS.

WASHINGTON, July 7 (Reuters) - Fuel costs for U.S. airlines jumped 85% in May to nearly $6.7 billion as the Middle East conflict drove up prices, the U.S. Transportation Department said Monday. @reuters.com

I understand that James Comey did not intend or anticipate changing the course of history for the worse in massive ways, but he did just that.

So - trump is claiming that the election held while he was President was rigged but the election held while Biden was President was not rigged. Could just one reporter ask him about that?

On #RockinTuesday, a different perspective of "Monument Valley" showing the huge size of these #rockformations. See the tiny little cars in the foreground. #rock #monumentvalley #Arizona #desert #landscape #photography #Bluemoonistic

Trump is a Russian asset & traitor to the US. History will prove this. He always calls Putin before a NATO summit, & true to form, yesterday he spent 90 minutes on a phone call with him. Russia helped Trump get elected in both 2016 & 2024. He’s already criticizing our NATO allies before the ⬇️

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbandoned #ColorADay #BlueTue #TextureTuesday Remains - March 2025 #Phonetography #whatthe #eck #doorsofMoscowID #stillstanding #frontporchview #gestureswildly

"...vehicle buyers are paying more than ever before to finance their purchases as average monthly payments hit a record $777 in the second quarter of 2026. That's the third consecutive quarter of increases, according to data from Edmunds." An *average* of $777/month!

Himalayan Monal national bird of Nepal from Afghanistan and Pakistan through the Himalayas in Nepal, India, southern Tibet and Bhutan 📷: Sreeradha Rai #birds

Funny how masks stopped being “impossible to breathe in” the moment white supremacy wanted anonymity… Isn’t it?!

#RockinTuesday Pa'rus Trail, Zion N.P., #Utah May Day 2026, we had the trails to ourselves for about half an hour. #photography #ECK

We haven’t had a good fake one in a while

🏔️ Where the Bow River meets the Canadian Rockies.

Ukrainian artist, Aleksandra Plis

“Beginning on July 20, all eyewear or headwear that contains cameras, microphones or other recording technology will not be allowed inside any Unified Court System facilities, according to a memo from the Office of Court Administration.”

The American people are sick and tired of Maine voters supporting awful politicians

Democrats - knock off the stupid ideological food fight. Find someone who can speak articulately about housing and gas costs, corruption, doesn't have a Nazi tattoo, and isn't over 80. It's not that hard.

Good morning 😘 have a great day 😊☀️☕️🥐🦋🌳🪻🌿✨🐝💜

Capitol rioter's dating sob story instantly backfires: 'My J6 story sends women running’ www.rawstory.com/jan-6-267716...

Mount Kilimanjaro, at 19,340 feet, Africa's highest mountain 🏔️ in Northeastern Tanzania 🇹🇿

Japanese Government Bonds have now generated a negative return over the last 10 years, the worst return in history 🚨 🚨

Scientists cataloged 239 human-infecting viruses, finding 90% (215 species) also exist in animals. This means many viruses can jump from animals to us, highlighting the need to track animal diseases closely to prevent future pandemics and keep everyone safer.

"Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain." Carl Sagan

Corporations don't GAF about you - but their AI robots...

So trump spoke with Putin for 90 minutes on July 4th. And now he’s on his way to NATO Summit. Wonder what his marching orders are?

Do we think that Chuck Schumer has no inside information? Why is he not screaming bloody murder?

True story, sad to say...