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Disney announces a global deal with TikTok to bring "thoughtfully curated" fan-created short-form videos based on Disney's IP to Disney+'s vertical Verts feed (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Aug 5, 2026 3:17:26 AM

James Talarico Accused Ken Paxton of Voter Fraud. His Own Voter Registration Is Raising Questions.

ProPublica , Wednesday, Aug 5, 2026 3:00:00 AM

Growth without work: The human cost of the AI revolution

Rest of World , Wednesday, Aug 5, 2026 3:00:00 AM

US celebrity blogger Perez Hilton is recovering in hospital after members of the public reported that he had appeared to self-harm during a TikTok livestream (Charisma Madarang/Rolling Stone)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Aug 5, 2026 2:50:00 AM

What I’ve learned: Computer Weekly editor Bryan Glick who exposed Post Office IT scandal

Press Gazette , Wednesday, Aug 5, 2026 2:03:33 AM

Lead Contamination Is Still a Problem in Omaha. Why Is the City Cleaning Up Some Yards and Not Others?

ProPublica , Wednesday, Aug 5, 2026 2:00:00 AM

Awake Awake

Literary Hub , Wednesday, Aug 5, 2026 1:58:10 AM

Michigan winemakers have a new climate worry: More wildfire smoke

Grist , Wednesday, Aug 5, 2026 1:45:00 AM

Live blogging mastery: Tips for publishers from Guardian’s Andrew Sparrow

Press Gazette , Wednesday, Aug 5, 2026 1:44:43 AM

Wildfire season is changing. Spokane is showing how.

Grist , Wednesday, Aug 5, 2026 1:30:00 AM

A controversial plan to update Line 5 just suffered a major loss at the Michigan Supreme Court

Grist , Wednesday, Aug 5, 2026 1:15:00 AM

SEARCH: How much supplemental money did your Pa. school district get?

Spotlight PA , Wednesday, Aug 5, 2026 12:57:02 AM

Is this why China finds it so hard to inflate producer prices?

Marginal REVOLUTION , Wednesday, Aug 5, 2026 12:20:41 AM

Film Review: Spider-Man: Brand New Day

nerds of a feather, flock together , Wednesday, Aug 5, 2026 12:00:00 AM

Paddling out of the doldrums

Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 11:55:01 PM

Total Eclipse in Europe

diamond geezer , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 11:48:57 PM

How Reddit moderators are battling AI-powered astroturfing ad campaigns that exploit the platform's trusted reputation to promote skincare and other products (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Mediagazer , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 11:45:01 PM

The integrity layer: using assessment to scaffold peer learning at scale

Reda Sadki , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 11:23:52 PM

Victor Niederhoffer, RIP

Marginal REVOLUTION , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 11:04:51 PM

Gluttony and the guillotine

Start here , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 11:00:00 PM

Couch to 4K

bavatuesdays , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 10:39:07 PM

OTR Links 08/05/2026

doug — off the record , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 10:30:56 PM

The Value of Behavioral Policies

Marginal REVOLUTION , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 9:51:59 PM

Q&A with Richard Rushfield, founder of The Ankler, on starting The Ankler because Hollywood trades were "captured", the value of niche newsletters, and more (Meredith Klein/Meredith & The Media)

Mediagazer , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 9:45:00 PM

Preprints Without Curation Are Increasingly Cited by Journals

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 9:37:00 PM

Return-to-office mandates are killing workplace trust

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 9:37:00 PM

Not all collaboration benefits from competition: Collaboration modes in a computational thinking game

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 9:37:00 PM

How To Give Everyday People A Say In AI Governance

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 9:37:00 PM

At 45-Years-Old, C-Kermit Gets Its First New Release in 15 Years

https://fossforce.com , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 9:29:29 PM

team brings an anti-surveillance lens to everything I want to do, coworker makes loud noises every few minutes, and more

Ask a Manager , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 9:03:10 PM

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https://crowdersoup.com , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 9:01:24 PM

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https://crowdersoup.com , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 9:01:12 PM

Titanium Milanese Loop Sizing

Superdavey , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 8:55:19 PM

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https://crowdersoup.com , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 8:54:32 PM

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https://crowdersoup.com , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 8:54:24 PM

Handwriting a blog post

Superdavey , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 8:49:15 PM

The Ellison Credibility Crisis

Status , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 8:02:02 PM

RFK Jr. Just Embarrassed Himself Publicly On CNN

Techdirt , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 8:00:01 PM

Michel the GOAT

Matt Mullenweg , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 6:58:57 PM

What Mueller She Wrote’s Allison Gill’s FOIA Request Turned Up Might Make You Cry- and Should

The Nicole Sandler Show , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 6:35:24 PM

Cori Bush’s primary loss further hurts Black women’s chances for representation in Congress

The 19th , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 6:30:01 PM

The State Decoded v1.2.

https://waldo.jaquith.org/, Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 6:25:24 PM

Bummer and Lazarus appreciation post

jwz , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 6:17:34 PM

13 new SF/F books to check out in August 2026

Transfer Orbit , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 6:16:20 PM

Kansas voters reject another attempt to reshape the state’s abortion landscape

The 19th , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 6:15:02 PM

AMD Earnings and SpaceX Call Takeaways

https://firstadopter.substack.com , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 6:07:44 PM

A US appeals court overturns a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tools on Amazon's platform (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Mediagazer , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 6:05:00 PM

Polymarket expands its live sports offerings, including partnering with the ATP Tour to integrate official tennis match streams into its platform (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Mediagazer , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 5:45:00 PM

The most honest thing in SF’s AI hype cycle? A fake chatbot written by one guy

The San Francisco Standard , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 5:37:10 PM

I’m a film podcaster now

Hapgood , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 5:24:04 PM

Tomorrow’s U.S. Senate Vote: Four Internet Bills, One Wrong Direction

Electronic Frontier Foundation , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 5:15:11 PM

The disconnect between effort and value

Seth's Blog , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 5:13:52 PM

New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging

Simon Willison's Weblog , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 4:58:24 PM

OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents targeted real people and systems in cyber tests

BleepingComputer , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 4:39:59 PM

"Real Talk" from Kamala Harris on the Voting Rights Act Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

RSS Feeds , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 4:36:00 PM

Subscription Tiers for Truth API, President Trump’s New Premium Data Feed

McSweeney’s , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 4:30:00 PM

INTERVIEW: “I, for one, know I’m a prisoner of War,” Herbert X. Blyden, 1973

RSS Feeds , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 4:28:00 PM

Chooseday

Doc Searls Weblog , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 4:26:33 PM

The Commodification of Social Justice: (Or, Saving the Data Center Subject from the Elite Capture of the Climate Industry)

RSS Feeds , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 4:17:00 PM

Day 2023: “Things aren’t looking good.”

What The Fuck Just Happened Today?, Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 4:07:14 PM

Substack's legal support program wins its first federal court case, helping SpyTalk EIC Jeff Stein beat a defamation lawsuit filed by ex-CIA official Keith Bass (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Mediagazer , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 3:55:00 PM

This week's CSA

Aaron Parecki , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 3:48:57 PM

Internet Archive to New York: Don’t Kill the Good Bots in the Fight Against Bad Bots

Internet Archive Blogs , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 3:48:36 PM

What’s with a Pomade Man’s testosterone obsession?

RSS Feeds , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 3:44:00 PM

Using Trust & Safety Tycoon In The Classroom

Techdirt , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 3:38:52 PM

A Tribute to Johanna Fernandez

RSS Feeds , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 3:38:00 PM

Appeals Court Agrees with EFF that Building a Web Browser Doesn’t Violate the CFAA

Electronic Frontier Foundation , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 3:32:39 PM

TP-Link patches Omada ZTP flaws allowing hackers to breach networks

BleepingComputer , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 3:18:20 PM

White House Readies A.I. Framework to Review Security Risks

NYT > Kate Conger , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 3:17:11 PM

Kawakami: Buster Posey’s bonanza Giants selloff means he might never have to do it again

The San Francisco Standard , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 3:15:22 PM

llm-anthropic 0.26

Simon Willison's Weblog , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 3:00:58 PM

Ghost Pipes being pollinated

Chuck Grimmett , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 3:00:49 PM

Memo: E. W. Scripps Company is laying off 268 workers across its broadcast TV operation; sources: workers at stations in NY, NE, OK, and TX were among those cut (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)

Mediagazer , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 3:00:00 PM

‘Section 415’ podcast: Analyzing the Giants’ dizzying trade deadline

The San Francisco Standard , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 2:46:35 PM

In recent years, science has been learning more and more...

kottke.org , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 2:46:00 PM

Phishing service spoofs RingCentral to steal Microsoft 365 accounts

BleepingComputer , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 2:45:36 PM

Gov. Shapiro signs executive orders to strengthen PA’s disaster preparedness, make school-level vaccination data available online

Glenside Local , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 2:45:30 PM

When I Heard of the Passing of Johanna Fernandez

RSS Feeds , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 2:41:00 PM

Hearst announces an agreement to acquire Disney's 50% interest in A+E Global Media for around $1.2B in cash and expects to close the deal in September (Nellie Andreeva/Deadline)

Mediagazer , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 2:38:18 PM

2026 Dream Foundry Contest Finalists

Locus , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 2:32:11 PM

‘The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn’ Has a Perfectly Creepy Trailer

io9 | We Come From the Future , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 2:30:35 PM

"For Your Eyes Only": Israel’s Mole Inside the United Nations

Drop Site News , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 2:27:52 PM

Nolan Painting opens new Willow Grove office, open house on Aug. 7

Glenside Local , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 2:24:53 PM

Validation Machines: Why AI Chatbots Might Harm Teens

Proof , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 2:09:15 PM

‘The Mummy 4’ Cast Unwraps a Few More Old and New Faces

io9 | We Come From the Future , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 2:00:31 PM

Progressives prevail in a Michigan House primary that divided moderates — and women’s groups

The 19th , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 2:00:13 PM

Huh, here’s the trailer for a new director’s cut (of...

kottke.org , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 1:50:00 PM

No, Israel does not have ‘a right to exist.’ Quite the contrary, actually.

RSS Feeds , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 1:49:00 PM

Potentially Pregnant? Try Sheep’s Blood: A Real Future Unicorn Pitch a VC Might Have Gotten in 1976

Blog - Charlie O'Donnell - Coach, Author, VC , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 1:47:12 PM

Airtable alternatives available from Agaric

Agaric - Building the open web , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 1:38:15 PM

Paramount reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $6.91B, vs. $6.88B est., streaming revenue up 9% to $2.47B, TV media revenue down 9%, and raises its FY 2026 guidance (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)

Mediagazer , Tuesday, Aug 4, 2026 1:37:37 PM