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The latest posts from my subscriptions, as of Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 11:15:31 AM.

Sources: the DOJ issued a subpoena to NYT freelancer Matthew Cole, seeking to force him to reveal his sources about a failed top secret mission in North Korea (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)

Mediagazer , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 10:35:01 AM

Finished reading: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚So good that I immediately ...

Crank.report Survey , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 6:25:06 AM

We made a different bet. We believed the future of professional AI would requir...

Crank.report Survey , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 6:21:56 AM

Something I’ve come to appreciate about MCP is that it’s much easie...

Crank.report Survey , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 6:13:32 AM

Digital Tools Every Writer Should Know

Wonder Tools , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 6:04:19 AM

August Newsletter 2026

https://roundup.reclaimhosting.com , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 6:00:42 AM

Does Spider-Man Make the Most of His Brand New Day?

io9 | We Come From the Future , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 6:00:40 AM

Last Week in WTF: July 27-31

What The Fuck Just Happened Today?, Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 6:00:00 AM

The possible fine? $192. His crime? Being a tennis dad

The San Francisco Standard , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 6:00:00 AM

Can love make up for a $45 billion hedge fund blowup?

The San Francisco Standard , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 6:00:00 AM

An Outer Sunset church will be housing — someday. For now, let’s use it to party

The San Francisco Standard , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 6:00:00 AM

The cowboy beach town that’s quietly becoming California’s coolest getaway

The San Francisco Standard , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 6:00:00 AM

Kawakami: The emergency Deebo/Pearsall flip-flop and more 49ers notes from camp

The San Francisco Standard , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 6:00:00 AM

How wildfire smoke is reshaping childhood

Grist , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 6:00:00 AM

Sensor Tower estimate: ChatGPT advertisers grew from around 300 in April to more than 820 in July; retail shopping remains the biggest sector by ad spend (Stephen Council/Business Insider)

Mediagazer , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 5:50:01 AM

Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026)

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 5:29:28 AM

If you have a Poem/1, pls run this firmware update

Interconnected , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 5:29:27 AM

As AI reshapes newsrooms, leading media outlets are charting different paths for its use

Dan Kennedy , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 5:00:38 AM

August 2026 books: Anarchitecture After Everything, Impossible Choices, Help Wanted, and more

MIT Press , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 5:00:00 AM

Gadget Review: HIKMICRO D02 Thermal Camera ★★★★★

Terence Eden , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 4:25:03 AM

Welcome to Dubai: Kinahan Cartel’s Visas Revealed

bellingcat , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 4:03:00 AM

Interesting Links for 01-08-2026

Very cool, if true , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 4:00:09 AM

More math breakthroughs from GPT models

Marginal REVOLUTION , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 3:53:40 AM

Lit Hub Weekly: July 27 – 31, 2026

Literary Hub , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 3:30:22 AM

Styling the Navigation: Declarative Route and Navigation Matching in CSS – Bram.us

Adactio: Links , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 3:24:29 AM

We Need to Quarantine Aliens on the Moon, Scientists Propose

404 Media , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 3:00:47 AM

My Smallest David Hockney Exhibition

Interdependent Thoughts , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 1:27:47 AM

Issue 787 Table of Contents, August 2026

Locus , Saturday, Aug 1, 2026 12:02:24 AM

After Macmillan's Minotaur Books signed a two-book, $2M deal with author Jerry Falade, his agency, Europa Content, withdrew support over concerns he used AI (Melissa Korn/Wall Street Journal)

Mediagazer , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 11:50:00 PM

Immigration and Macroeconomic Outcomes in OECD Countries

Marginal REVOLUTION , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 11:48:26 PM

Underblogged July

diamond geezer , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 11:00:00 PM

Photo Post

Anthony Ciccarello , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 10:50:51 PM

OTR Links 08/01/2026

doug — off the record , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 10:30:48 PM

Tesla Spyware

Matt Mullenweg , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 10:27:00 PM

Weeknotes: July 25-31, 2026

Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 10:08:10 PM

New Cover Song: “Ode to Somewhere”

Whatever , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 10:01:00 PM

ITV reports H1 2026 revenue up 2% YoY to £1.9B, ITV Studios revenue up 2% to £912M, and ad revenue up 3% to £850M, with digital ad revenue up 13% (K.J. Yossman/Variety)

Mediagazer , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 9:50:00 PM

Emergent Ventures India, 18th cohort

Marginal REVOLUTION , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 9:24:42 PM

You only get one chance to make a zeroth impression

Unsung , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 8:35:45 PM

Made 62 tofu waffles. Not sure why they came out denser than usual, I thought I ...

Aaron Parecki , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 8:33:36 PM

July 2026

Joe Woods , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 8:18:42 PM

DNA Lounge: Wherein the Surveillance-Industrial Complex is asking for volunteers

jwz , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 8:01:49 PM

You May Be Severely Injured and Anemic but Don’t You Dare Skip Gym Day.

daniel.industries , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 7:51:23 PM

A US judge largely denies Perplexity and three data scraper firms' bid to dismiss Reddit's lawsuit over claims of copyright law violations under DMCA (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)

Mediagazer , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 7:50:00 PM

RFK Jr., Who Is Definitely Not Checked Out Of His Job, To Host A Cooking Show

Techdirt , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 7:39:00 PM

The Bear (2022-2026)

Justin Cox , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 7:11:50 PM

Death and How to Be More Alive: Carl Jung on Immortality and the Rebirth of Middle Age

The Marginalian , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 7:10:36 PM

New Attack Puts Arch’s AUR Into Lockdown… Again

https://fossforce.com , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 5:56:18 PM

Googly-eyed Kremlin bitch loses defamation lawsuit

jwz , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 5:32:28 PM

DirecTV and EverPass make a multiyear deal letting bar owners show NFL Sunday Ticket via satellite or streaming; DirecTV becomes EverPass' main sales partner (Jacob Feldman/Sportico)

Mediagazer , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 5:15:00 PM

Nesting Behavior of Imported Species Troglodytes aedon on Planet Americearth by R.L. Meza (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction & Fantasy , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 5:12:45 PM

Ginger Snaps Reviews

https://jenmyers.net/, Friday, Jul 31, 2026 5:00:00 PM

Rebecca Solnit The Road Made By Walking

https://jenmyers.net/, Friday, Jul 31, 2026 5:00:00 PM

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

Simon Willison's Weblog , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 4:59:44 PM

OpenAI Finds Evidence It Failed to Monitor Other A.I. Agents

Pixel Envy , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 4:49:04 PM

Dulles Airport does need a reboot, but the two dumbest parts of its $22.5 billion redesign need to get the boot first

Rob Pegoraro , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 4:40:53 PM

She Fought to Wear Tribal Regalia at Graduation. Then She Helped Change California Law.

The Fault Line | California, Below the Surface , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 4:35:28 PM

Lurie has spent $1.22M on private consultants since taking office

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 4:23:49 PM

SerpApi’s Motion to Dismiss Reddit Lawsuit Fails

Pixel Envy , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 4:18:00 PM

Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)

Simon Willison's Weblog , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 4:13:22 PM

MAGA Media’s Fauci Fever

Status , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 4:10:02 PM

How to be a petty motherfucker

Mike Monteiro’s Good News , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 4:08:36 PM

weekend open thread – August 1-2, 2026

Ask a Manager , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 4:07:35 PM

llm-mcp-client 0.1a0

Simon Willison's Weblog , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 4:03:47 PM

at Lloyd Center

Aaron Parecki , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 3:50:59 PM

Emptywheel Fridays with Marcy Wheeler on the Nicole Sandler Show 7-31-26

The Nicole Sandler Show , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 3:33:13 PM

How Fred Warner and Dre Greenlaw’s ‘menacing aura’ started a fight at 49ers camp

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 3:20:00 PM

Eulogy for Dr Geoffrey Butcher

Mike Butcher , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 3:18:31 PM

Amgen says cloud data breach exposed patient health, proprietary info

BleepingComputer , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 3:16:42 PM

What Ukraine’s Battlefield Openness Can Teach Washington About AI Access

Techdirt , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 3:14:27 PM

US Virgin Islands need transparency to weed out corruption

Freedom of the Press Foundation , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 2:59:07 PM

This Week in the IndieWeb

https://indieweb.org/this-week/, Friday, Jul 31, 2026 2:50:09 PM

The Mask In the Mirror

Hey Loura!, Friday, Jul 31, 2026 2:45:12 PM

Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption to stop malware flood

BleepingComputer , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 2:38:08 PM

Cheltenham police looking to identify elderly woman found in Elkins Park

Glenside Local , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 2:35:18 PM

Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison

Simon Willison's Weblog , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 2:33:13 PM

Sam Raimi to Produce New Stephen King Adaptation From ‘Final Destination’ Directors

io9 | We Come From the Future , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 2:30:28 PM

Google Earth AI Fiasco Underscores Why Tech Firms Must Listen to Outside Experts

Tech Policy Press , Friday, Jul 31, 2026 2:20:27 PM