Sanders Vows to Introduce Legislation to Stop Flock’s “AI Mass Surveillance”
“You may not know it, but you may already be being tracked by artificial intelligence,” the senator said.
Fox host: WNBA players are "proving that women shouldn't have a league. It's too dramatic."
August 24, 2026
On Friday night, Prime Minister Mark Carney instructed Canadian negotiators to walk away from talks with officials from the Trump administration over new tariffs of 50% Trump had…
RFK Jr. Says SNAP Cuts Won’t Have “That Much Effect.” 5 Million Have Lost Aid.
SNAP enrollment nationwide has fallen to a 17-year low following enactment of the Trump-GOP budget law.
SCOTUS sides with Trump administration in mail-in voting dispute
Plus, what Justice Thomas said on Sen. Ted Cruz’s podcast.
OpenAI Releases Its Official Report On the Hugging Face Breach
TechCrunch reports that OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, "offering the clearest picture yet of how an unusual chain of events allowed an…
Tales of rebellion against externally-opaque meritocracies
A basic problem in metascience / intellectual progress is that it’s hard to tell, from the outside, whether a group that you disagree with is: “A self-dealing cabal enmeshed in…
Patent Troll SLAPPs Lawyer For Saying His Shell Companies Never Pay Up, Loses, Now Owes Her Money
With everything else going on in the world, it’s been a while since we’ve dug into a good old-fashioned patent troll story or a bogus defamation SLAPP. Today we’ve got a…
Why did 1,000 world citizens bury their underpants?
Study: Land use is the biggest factor in determining decomposition rates of organic cotton underpants.
States Can Regulate Prediction Markets As Gambling, Federal Appeals Court Rules
A federal appeals court has ruled that states can regulate prediction markets like Kalshi as gambling, handing state regulators their biggest legal victory yet against the booming…
Book Notes: Chokepoints
[ Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare by Edward Fishman (2025).] There are different ways state A can make state B do something that the state B doesn’t…
Important Monday Update: Supreme Court Gives Trump Major Election Win, Canada Unites Against USA & Threatens Electricity, and More
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Operation Bluebird Launches New Twitter
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Operation Bluebird, the Virginia-based startup trying to revive the allegedly abandoned "Twitter" name and logo, announced…
GOP Senate candidate, campaigning as truck-driving everyman, travels by private jet
North Carolina Senate nominee Michael Whatley’s committees have spent over $100,000 for use of a private jet linked to a convicted felon
Bentley takes us for a ride in its new EV, the Torcal
The electric Torcal will be Bentley's entry model and cost less than a Bentayga.
ClownAss DOJ Reduced To Quoting James Comey’s Novel As Evidence In ‘8647’ Case
The first attempted revenge prosecution of former FBI director James Comey has gone nowhere. Whatever the DOJ didn’t botch directly was undone by Trump’s persistent refusal to…