Another thing that caught my attention is the Times, and one of their most straight-shooting hard news reporters, now calling aipac “hard right”

imagine thinking we get here w/o “normal police brutality”

Fantastic work by @thorinklosowski.com at @eff.org looking at the state of fitness tracker privacy. Most wearable makers don't end-to-end encrypt your data, so police/feds (and hackers!) can get your health data — and almost none publish a transparency report, so we may never know if they do.

The Pentagon is evaluating combat dropping the 101st Airborne into Cuba.

happy bastille day to that one episode of Legends of Tomorrow where the team fought a group of historical figures like Marie Antoinette in a museum while Sisqo sang The Thong Song

hmm

NEW: Meta's VP of comms claimed the company's NameTag feature "doesn't exist" in response to recent @wired.com reporting about it. Then Meta's CTO described it in detail on a podcast. Here's my attempt to explain 🫠: wired.com/story/heres-the-truth-about-whether-metas-nametag-face-recognition-exists

NEW: Meta keeps saying shifty and evasive things about the face recognition technology that @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social reported it embedded in its Meta AI app for use with its smart glasses, so @couts.bsky.social has helpfully clarified what’s going on here:

Join us on Thursday, July 23, at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn for our second WIRED @ Night event, a screening of the documentary “The Oldest Person in the World” followed by a post-film conversation with the director. Readers get early access to discounted tickets at the link. 👇

Hi! WIRED health reporter here. Looking to speak with people who got sick with cyclosporiasis and are willing to share the gruesome details. [email protected]

NEW MONKEY 🚨 defector.com/new-monkey-n...

KLOBUCHAR: Do you agree that it's unacceptable for federal agents to forcibly enter someone's home without a warrant and drag them onto the street without checking that they even have the right person? BLANCHE: Well, it depends on the circumstances. It's not a black and white answer

Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

NEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.

It’s convenient for both ICE and the facilities when they die during transport.

China now makes 75 percent of all E.V.s sold anywhere on earth. The United States makes around 5 percent. It is not just that China has lapped the US on E.V.s The US does not seem to have a plan to catch up.

wtf

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

been trying to figure out what it is people want youth to Do with every activity and space being taken from them, internet starting to be walled off, but adults not liking them at home either and i think the unstated desire is "some kind of constantly running summer camp, but one we don't pay for"

lol

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

New: The LAPD regularly pulls over innocent people because their license plates have been put on a license plate reader hotlist. In a two-month period, it "investigated" 161 innocent people whose cars were improperly put on Flock or Motorola hotlists: www.404media.co/lapd-regular...

NEW: SFPD exposed its live police drone feeds to the open internet. Color + thermal, 5,000 GPS points over 44 miles + pilots’ names and emails. No authentication. Found by a routine scrape of the manufacturer’s domain.

BREAKING A federal judge NULLIFIES the purported “settlement” behind Trump’s $1.776B slush fund, finding there was never a “case or controversy” — and referring his attorney for possible professional discipline. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICE shooting victim in Maine was a 26-year-old man from Colombia with work authorization and a Social Security Number, likely an asylum applicant. It'll be interesting to see how he came to be on ICE's radar.

Hugely embarrassing failure here, and great story by @ddimolfetta.bsky.social. www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

NEW: SFPD exposed its live police drone feeds to the open internet. Color + thermal, 5,000 GPS points over 44 miles + pilots’ names and emails. No authentication. Found by a routine scrape of the manufacturer’s domain.

this is just getting comical, we're witnessing innovations on the frontiers of journalistic absurdity

Federal immigration agents who killed a man during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday had been searching for a different person, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman.

Here's me on CBS News, talking about the Madison Square Garden surveillance state. Can you tell (a) the AC wasn't working in the room and (B) I'm sweating like a stuck pig? www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuOT...

both of my cats have abruptly become big nuzzlers. its been a regular head-butt fest over here.

it’s a terf paper. not a huge leap.

when u crave the violence but u also crave the scritches

This is my favorite thing I've written for @mcsweeneys.net in a while. Hope you folks enjoy it! I think the headline pretty much clears up what it's about.

Trump just fired all three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, leaving the agency with no commissioners just months before the midterms

Marsha Blackburn's new ad is so racist that it makes me wonder if mainstream Republicans could have gotten away with something like this back in the 1980s or 90s.

A scoop from this story: Eric Swalwell's drinking was such a problem that the House Intelligence Committee instructed staff accompanying him on foreign trips to monitor his drinking. You know, for national security reasons... www.thebulwark.com/p/drinking-c...

Bro what about the 75 billion-with-a-b dollars Congress gave you last summer

NEW: A flight attendant says Peter Thiel’s husband, Matthew Danzeisen, assaulted her on a private jet. He sued her claiming she was extorting him. The messy case involves two unusable airplane bathrooms, cooler bags from a private chef, and an allegation that another person was hit with a fork.

INBOX: Activists in Dallas have called a demonstration this evening to protest the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an ICE agent in Houston.

Smart glasses with cameras and microphones built-in and facial recognition to come are the latest fad in surveillance tech. For this.weekinsecurity.com, I wrote about why the backlash against smart glasses — aka "pervert glasses" — is justified from a security and privacy perspective. Please share!

Nigel Farage £5 million 'gift' from a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it was money laundering. The whistleblowers alerted the NCA as they were "not satisfied they could trace the ultimate origin of the funds."

Donald Trump’s son-in-law used his position to hop in bed with autocrats—and sell out America.

The Coward Matthew Yglesias

The facade is cracking

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

some people on here have never had to rely on a bonk withdrawal to make rent and it shows