The feeling of unity soon gave way to anger and division,
in large part due to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars,
begun by the George W Bush administration
and framed as necessary conflicts to help the US win the "war on terror".
“We launched two forever wars that were wholly ineffective at making us safer militarily,
and only sank our prestige in the world
– especially [in] Europe and the Middle East
– at the cost of thousands of American sold…
"Switzerland’s largest battery storage facility goes online"
#Switzerland #Batteries
https:…
Patriots' Efton Chism takes high road in response to Bills DB C.J. Gardner-Johnson's trash talk https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-efton-chism-takes-high-road-in-response-to-bills-db-c-j-gardner-johnson
Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK government's science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/…
ATM I am rage quitting FF6. I keep getting stuck on boss fights that I feel under leveled for but am not in a position to go grind anything. I hate this feeling.
#jrpg #finalfantasy
The US Ninth Circuit rules an Idaho policy restricting public access to new court filings violates the First Amendment, in a case brought by Courthouse News (Bill Girdner/Courthouse News Service)
https://courthousenews.com/ninth-circuit-de…
Wtf is happening in northern nj?
#newJersey #tornado
OpenAI says it learned this week that its AI agent hacked Australia's NSW state government in June, following a similar hack on Australia's federal government (Henry Belot/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
Radio presenter Tony Livesey leaves the BBC after claims he introduced a woman to accused sexual predator David Sullivan while at Sullivan's Sport Newspapers (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/03/tony-…
Feels illegal to say "Tale as old as time" without following it with "Song as old as rhyme"
straight to jail.