Australia is planning some of the world's toughest AI regulations • Water usage will be limited • AI data centers will be required to become net producers of energy • AI companies can't train on Australian creators' work without their permission • Proposals expected to be introduced in 2027

they are ugly winners too. Remember all their racist slurs against the French player in 2022, their goalkeeper "fucking" the world cup live on tv

Violent Argentinian players stained the biggest professional moment of Spanish players' lives and set the worst possible example for hundreds of millions of children on how to handle defeat in sport. Reprehensible. Appearing in the World Cup should be a privilege, not a right. Ban them outright.

His ass should have been thrown the fuck out when he shoved an españa player to the ground on top of an injured player TWICE. Argentina should have had AT LEAST two red cards that game

Spain won multiple times against Argentina in this game. They out-passed, out-played, out-cooperated, and out-worked a team with so many cheating advantages, overlooked fouls, and free kicks. The Trump curse is real. The fascist curse is real. Amazing victory by España!

Beautiful, España. Good for you, good for sport, good for the world.

España, first country to simultaneously be Men’s and Women’s World Cup Champions.

Broke some news tonight that the 30 year old federal court, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, got its first case ever and created a hastily made website. www.courtwatch.news/p/alien-terr...

Court Watch started a slack like channel to push out breaking court filings and scoops. We posted the details and the court order by the Alien Terrorist Removal Court there, under the national security channel Www.CourtWatch.news/community

Scoop: Created in 1996, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court was formed to “to review applications for the removal from the U.S. of alien terrorists”. The Attorney General submits applications for consideration. The Court has never received a submission. Until this week... 1/2

Also, this was great reporting by @thomasgermain.bsky.social on Mozilla's latest research out today on the privacy problems with period trackers. @swodinsky.bsky.social, who did the app testing for Mozilla, found one period tracker Stardust was sharing users' health data with a third-party.

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.

New: Coca Cola discloses ransomware attack on its Fairlife dairy subsidiary, says it's "temporarily suspended" U.S. operations after its production systems were hit. Disruption to dairy systems could see potential product shortages on shelves. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260716...

Read our story from July 9 about how an MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”

It's *insane* that a private company like Thomson Reuters can collect and store massive databases of Americans' private data — names, addresses, SSNs, ethnicity, social media posts, and their granular location — and the gov't can just buy it, no warrant needed. The data broker industry needs to end.

From me, overnight: A politician who was part of a European Parliament committee tasked with investigating spyware abuses had his own phone hacked with Pegasus spyware. Stelios Kouloglou told me the hacking was "reckless" and likely due to his work. He plans to sue NSO, which develops Pegasus.

Dozens of wildfires burning in central and eastern Oregon are billowing a blanket of smoke that’s now among the worst in the nation. https://www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/2026/07/eastern-oregon-has-some-of-the-worst-wildfire-smoke-in-the-country-right-now.html 

And are we helping the Canadians as they helped us when California was on fire? Or are we just threatening them?

Nobody seems to be covering the fires in the western US. We have over 1 million acres burning in our own country.

Rough week to be a climate crisis denier (especially if you’re doing it without even getting paid by the fossil fuel industry— at least Trump got a Billy from them to do it! 🤷🏼)

Once again, I will note that literally every problem people rightly worry about now with 🇺🇸 competitive authoritarianism is significantly worse in 🇨🇳 under Xi Jinping's full-on, increasingly personalist authoritarianism: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”

We can all cackle but this is important and should be celebrated: The final day of the Far Right CPAC conference with Liz Truss and Aus’ Pauline Hanson speaking had just 100 people in the audience.

Saka!

the championship match gonna have a hard time being more fun than this lol

Friends, the plumber would like your personal information. They are trying to bully states into turning it over to him. Do not give in because Democracy and your rights are at stake. We have voices that are needed to end this corruption. #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

¡Vamos Espaňa!

When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

In yesterday's news: bsky.app/profile/npr....

You are the top Dem recipient of Palantir cash. That's despicable. purgepalantir.com/the-palantir...

That's cool. Now quit taking money from Palantir. And give what you've taken back. bellevueseattle.com/community/ad...

On Madison Metro bus 55, running past farm fields. (I’ve said before that light rail past farm fields is probably a bad project, but local bus past farm fields is a sign you’re actually serving the whole city.)

ICYMI: The Trump administration’s recent announcement calls embryos “children” — which could have enormous consequences on access to abortion, IVF treatment, and birth control nationwide.

Why is Hegseth sooo low-T?

Also known as “work requirements,” community engagement reqs expect those they define as able-bodied adults to either work at least 80 hr/month; be enrolled at least half-time in school; perform 80 hrs of community service; have an income of at least 80 hrs/month at fed min wage; or a mix of these.

One of the most popular memes ever

“The votes weren’t there.” Yes, I know. And ultimately 20 GOP Senators are the true guilty cowards. But you have to set the agenda & make the case & the fact is they didn’t try & if we get a mulligan in 2029 the platform must be elite accountability & institutional reform. Immediately.

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I hope our leaders are cognizant of the fact that Iran is clearly forcing these deployments to Israel on purpose. Going after Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan depletes interceptors that were being used to protect Israel. Now our assets are moving to a less-defended Israel. 🙃

Now they're doing what we call "trace forward" in the food biz. "Now that we have a suspect [lettuce from X farm].....where ELSE did that lettuce go?" In other words, a whole lot of companies were probably serving that lettuce! Taco Bell just had a good tracking program, so they found it first!

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

It turns out everyone seriously underestimated China's degree of electrification. The dumbass who started this crisis keeps cancelling wind and solar projects, while China has made themselves nearly immune to the problem. The 2024 election will be seen as a pivotal moment in the decline of the US.

China had built up an enormous reserve, which warped their imports figures and disguised how astonishingly successful their demand destruction policy has been. The SPR situation in the USA is bad though...because quite a lot of it cannot safely be extracted from the salt caverns.

China's strategic reserve has been the wild card. And China's oil demand is blunted by their phenomenal rate of vehicle electrification, giving them more flexibility to use releases, well, strategically, to bolster other economies and presumably gain international favor.

I'm not an expert in this particular area, but my understanding is that China had much larger reserves and more flexibility than anyone really knew. So the big question is when that slack runs out. And I'm not sure anybody knows except the Chinese.

I keep hearing that oil reserves are about to run dry and yet it keeps not quite happening.

#ELB: “Democrats’ Nebraska Senate Nominee Wants Off the Ballot. The State Might Not Let Her.” https://electionlawblog.org/?p=157499