Wagers I'll Makeflaminghydra.com by Hamilton Nolan
Those Krispy Kreme donuts are tasty. But I’ll bet that behind the scenes, things aren't as straightforward they seem. I’ll bet that if you got into the back room, you’d be in for ...
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Don’t count on any more Trump tax cutsfinance.yahoo.com Tax hikes, not cuts, may be needed during the next presidential administration to deal with massive amounts of debt neither party can control.
Library Futures | Stepping Down as Co-Chair of the National Information Standards Controlled Digital Lending Working Groupwww.libraryfutures.net Championing the right to equitable access to knowledge.
Corruption Law Allows Gifts to State and Local Officials, Supreme Court Ruleswww.nytimes.com The court, which has limited the sweep of several anti-corruption laws, distinguished after-the-fact rewards from before-the-fact bribes.
Opinion | New weapons will eclipse atomic bombs. Their builders ask themselves this question.www.washingtonpost.com Autonomous weapons will be built. The only questions are who will build them and for what purpose.
Life Outside (and Inside) Gazaflaminghydra.com by Moh Telbani
It’s been two months for me here in Egypt, and I really cannot hide that I miss my home country very much and am trying very hard to get along with the people here, even though we sh...
Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza Warwww.nytimes.com Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effor...
The Doubts Were Not Reasonable | Defectordefector.com Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics and coverage of Campaign 2024. Donald Trump committed crimes and a...
Biden should have pardoned Trump on federal charges, Mitt Romney sayswww.theguardian.com Republican senator tells MSNBC that ‘frankly, the country doesn’t want to have to go through prosecuting a former president’
INDIGNITY MORNING PODCASTpodcast.indignity.net Tom Scocca reads you the newspaper.
Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be Itwww.wired.com What I love, more than anything, is the quality that makes AI such a disaster: If it sees a space, it will fill it—with nonsense, with imagined fact, with links to fake websites. It is simply put: sha...
Romney Admits Push to Ban TikTok Is Aimed at Censoring News Out of Gaza | Common Dreamswww.commondreams.org A conversation between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the Republican senator offered an "incredible historical document" showing how the U.S. views its role in the Middle East.
Ethereum’s Cofounder Says SEC Is ‘Gaslighting’ Everyone About Cryptowww.wired.com Joe Lubin cofounded Ethereum. Now his company is suing the Securities and Exchange Commission, and he says the future of the internet is at stake.
Internet Archive Stands Firm on Library Digital Rights in Final Brief of Hachette v. Internet Archive Lawsuit | Internet Archive Blogsblog.archive.org
The Hacking Lawsuit Looming Over Truth Socialwww.wired.com The founding CEO of DWAC has accused his former assistant of hacking into his accounts as part of a “coup d'état,” the latest legal mess for Truth Social.