Meta continues to facilitate criminal activities targeting minors. Not shocked, disgusted. The ads use terms including "rape video" and "child video", link users to channels on Telegram, where they can buy material for as little as 99 rupees (about 80p). www.bbc.com/news/article...

NEW: This is too much. The DOJ accidentally emailed copies of Volume II of Jack Smith's final report to the lawyers representing a woman they charged with obstruction of justice for emailing Volume II of Jack Smith's final report. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/doj-accide...

"While MMOs, RPGs, RTSes, and all kinds of other acronyms have happily enabled my lifelong war with goblinkind, Flask is the rare sort of game that's prompted me to ask instead what's in a goblin's heart. The answer, of course, is valuable goblin blood."

According to his lawsuit, Lines' relationship with ChatGPT deepened between Dec 2024 - Feb 2025. Despite not being religious, started asking probing questions about spirituality and Christianity. In Feb 2025, he experienced a manic episode during a flight that prompted an emergency landing:

NEW: A bipolar man's mental health was deteriorating. ChatGPT affirmed his religious delusions, telling him that he was Jesus Christ and that it was God, according to a new lawsuit. When the man became suicidal, ChatGPT told him: “You've made your choice." futurism.com/artificial-i...

Irish leadership brings people together. You help find common ground. And get things done. When Europe has faced moments of change, Ireland has so often helped chart the course. Including through your successful EU Presidencies. link.europa.eu/xBHyHw

Excellent. First of many at this level of financial hit for big Tech, I hope.

“Companies across tech, entertainment, banking, and many other industries are throttling their employees’ use of AI and pleading with workers to use less powerful models to stop AI costs from spiraling out of control…”

What’s wild is all the companies in the story refusing to confirm this, or even lying and denying that they are blocking model access or capping AI use, despite internal screenshots proving it. The emperors will not admit they are out here buck naked, cheeks flapping in a very expensive breeze

Looks like a ☕️☕️ read. ☕️ first.

Today's newsletter is about how the AI industry is losing - its economics don't work, its leaders can only sell its product through swindling and egregious forward-looking statements, and the largest financial institutions in the world are wising up. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-losing/

There should be new circles of hell in Dante’s Inferno for this administration

Isn’t supercharging surveillance already here? Palantir? ICE??

SCOTUS refused to hear E. Jean Carroll. So it’s official: he is a predator.

Yup. Almost all my media is physical

Must read.

Coney Island beach!

OMG NO

If you were scrambling to make your submission — reprieve! Submission deadline for the Senate Inquiry into AI & Data Centres now extended to 1 Sept 2026 www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

'The Torch' Photo taken this morning at sunrise on Glastonbury Tor. Have a fabulous Friday and weekend ☀️

I’m haunted by our future. #AbolishICE

Had to! "So we sailed on to the sun 'Til we found a sea of green" 🎵🎼🎶

Tenants erupted into cheers when the motion passed inside a packed Museo del Barrio in East Harlem. “I kept saying, just like the Knicks won the championship, let’s make history today. We did,” said Sarah Delany, a rent stabilized tenant from the Bronx. citylimits.org/mamdani-gets...

Hey hey. Rarely do you see such a valuable delivery to a political base. Well done, Ontario killers.

💗💗💗 I wonder how long these stuffies last??? 5-6 min with my dogs lol

Scammers, consider this your red card. Report false advertising and deceptive business practices at nyc.gov/DCWP. This World Cup, everyone plays by the rules.

One of my "favorite" dumb Musk things is his deeply held belief that other people aren't real. One of his first moves after taking over Twitter was to try to fire "ghost employees," of which he thought they were many. He's a murderous bigot but he also thinks Fake People are robbing him blind.

Africa is becoming an EV growth story. The FT reports that the energy crisis has supercharged African demand for electric motorbikes and buses. Start-ups rolling out charging infrastructure are raising record sums. The transition isn’t just a Europe, US and China story anymore.

People making $$$$$

The intentionality behind storyboarding is so metatextual there's really next to no chance it's actually going to succeed at doing this. AI can only emulate surface level aesthetic, it will have no idea why a shot is framed from below or whatever. It will just make shit up

Animated forecast from @ecmwf.int showing 500 hPa geopotential anomalies for the next 15 days. Very stable Ω blocking over central Europe with "cold feet" west and east of it. For large parts of Europe this means a strong heat wave over the next two weeks.

“I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said ‘Welcome, Pope Leo,’ and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed. “As a Church, I say again: as a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war.” — Pope Leo XIV

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Yes! Canada 🇨🇦 take note please!

Just jaw dropping.

❤️❤️❤️ the Reflecting Pool’s reflecting deeper truths! Visiting Team Algae feels peak 2026

Believe that when….

🇺🇸 getting crazier every day.

This cartoon is a beauty. Art: @danboriscreates.bsky.social (USA)

I still have my copy

Oh no! What a loss.

I wrote about SpaceX. SpaceX the rocket company, SpaceX the suspicious financial instrument for Musk to create value out of thin air. SpaceX the meme. SpaceX as the 7-headed hydra at the end of capitalism. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Franchise hand-me-downs. Best term ever for sequel exhaustion.

President Obama chose 300 of his favorite books for the Chicago Public Library branch inside his presidential center. I look forward to his reading list every year. They are reliable choices for refilling anyone's TBR list. theliterarylifestyle.com/obamas-readi...

OMG Obama reading Where the Wild Things Are????? Life is complete.

This appears to be the president’s "proof" that vandals are sabotaging the Refelecting Pool.

Trump visits new Air Force One, a luxury gift from Qatar, and a violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...