States Sue to Block Paramount-Warner Bros Merger, Defying DOJ
A coalition of 12 states led by California is suing to block the $111 billion Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. merger, arguing it would reduce competition in theatrical…
The Sunday — July 12
This is the Tangle Sunday Edition, a brief roundup of our independent politics coverage plus some extra features for your Sunday morning reading. What the right is doodling. Al…
Engineer identifies and explains every '90s computer seen in Jurassic Park
Yes, it was, in fact, a Unix system.
The Types of People to Keep Around
Molly Burford, author of Moments to Hold Close , writes list poetry (is that a thing?) about the kinds of people that you want in your life. From Types Of People You Need To Hang…
Right-wing media have filled the void of Mitch McConnell’s absence with conspiracy theories and criticism
After Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was hospitalized for almost a month without releasing any details about his health to the public, CNN’s Scott Jennings and multiple GOP senators…
Pluralistic: Workplace "flexibility" isn't (11 Jul 2026)
Today's links Workplace "flexibility" isn't: What the gig economy calls flexibility is just risk-shifting. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Alanya to…
Refusal Is Redundantly Distributed, Not Localized: A Per-Layer Ablation Study on Llama-3.1-8B
TL;DR This work replicates and extends the findings of Arditi et al. [1] , who studied the refusal mechanism and found that a single direction , obtained through…
First Draft: Trump Makes Lindsey Graham’s Death All About... Himself
News of the South Carolina senator's demise shocked DC but the president seemed most concerned about what it meant for his voter suppression bill. In Michigan, a big endorsement…
RFK Jr. Cut Funding For FoodNet, Making It Harder To Figure Out Why You’re Shitting Yourself Uncontrollably
Are you currently pooping yourself uncontrollably and want to know why? Well, the CDC made that slightly more difficult last year, but you might just have cyclosporiasis, the…
DHS Plans “All-Out War” on Immigration Scammers as Fraud Complaints Double
The post DHS Plans “All-Out War” on Immigration Scammers as Fraud Complaints Double appeared first on ProPublica .
OpenAI's first branded hardware is... a light-up keyboard?
The Codex Micro is designed to monitor multiple agentic threads at a glance.
Community Activism Forced Federal Government to Abandon Plans for ICE Warehouses
Activists are now watching to see whether the Trump administration will instead further privatize immigration detention.
100000% this: I Hate The Way We Talk Online ....
100000% this: I Hate The Way We Talk Online . “Let’s discuss topics without feeling the need to win a non-existent argument. Hot takes? No. Engage with nuance. Show the grace you…
Trump’s Intel Pick Played Key Role in NYT Subpoenas — But Some Democrats Still On the Fence
Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence is seen by some Democrats as a safer alternative to Trump loyalist Bill Pulte. The post Trump’s Intel Pick Played Key Role in…