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More than half of America’s parks are near toxic chemical sites https://www.earth.com/environment/more-than-half-of-americas-parks-are-near-toxic-chemical-sites/

More than half of America’s parks are near toxic chemical sites
Thousands of public parks across America sit near toxic-release facilities and Superfund sites, revealing a hidden overlap in communities.

OpenAI renews its investment in the American Journalism Project by committing an additional $5M in funding and $3M in tech credits over the next two years (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/openai-local-news-american-journalism-project…

Exclusive: OpenAI renews $5M bet on local news
OpenAI is committing an additional $5 million in funding and $3 million in tech credits to AJP over the next two years.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/putin-casts-online-vote-using-unlicensed-windows-on-an-american-dell-pc-…

Putin casts online vote using unlicensed Windows on an American Dell PC — 'Activate Windows' watermark visible in official Kremlin clip, uses foreign Dell PC despite Russian tech mandate
“You can’t go wrong,” says the Russian president squinting at the screen to check that he didn’t go wrong, before thanking the computer.

And, yeah, there are both anarchists in Ethiopia and anarchist adjacent ideas. This was a good interview. I'd love to read or listen to more (if anyone knows any):
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anner-an-ethiopian-anarchist-perspective-on-the-war-in-tigray

OpenAI renews its investment in the American Journalism Project by committing an additional $5M in funding and $3M in tech credits over the next two years (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/openai-local-news-american-journalism-project…

Exclusive: OpenAI renews $5M bet on local news
OpenAI is committing an additional $5 million in funding and $3 million in tech credits to AJP over the next two years.

For those interested, all the animation news from the middle of this year, and everything coming up - so much good! https://animatedtvblog.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/mid-to-end-of-20…

Mid to end of 2026 animation news roundup – American Dad, Kevin, Alley Cats, King of the Hill, Futurama, Breaking Bear, Conan
Lots of animation things happening lately! American Dad! has been airing new episodes here and there– the show is back on FOX, and then of course the episodes air the next day on Hulu. Here&#…

The people have moved on.
Americans are not just fed up with pandering to Israel by politicians beholden to funding from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
The people have moved on from this notion that things need to move slowly or worse yet, nothing can be done at all.
The current fear-mongering about democratic socialists overshadows the fact it started in the early 1980s,
a time when Americans struggled to make ends meet.
And the current scare f…

Granderson: Voters want what the Democrats' left wing offers
The emergence of democratic socialists has caused some soul-searching, but the answers aren't mysterious. Just ask the public.

Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/…

American Open-Source Labs Think They Can Beat China’s Best AI Startups
Chinese open-source models like Kimi and Deepseek are now dominant AI tools. American startups like Thinking Machines, Reflection AI and now Poolside are trying to challenge that.

Source: OpenAI's VP of sales in the Americas, Kaylin Voss, resigned a week after Denise Dresser left, prompting others on the sales team to consider resigning (Laura Bratton/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclus…

Exclusive: Key OpenAI Sales Executive Kaylin Voss Resigns
Kaylin Voss, OpenAI’s vice president of sales in the Americas, has resigned a week after her former boss, Denise Dresser, left the company, according to a person familiar with the matter. Voss had been at OpenAI for just five months. Dresser, who was chief revenue officer, had left after nine months at OpenAI. The company hired Dali Rajic from Wiz to replace her. Like Dresser, Voss had come

Brazil announces ~$444.2M in AI investments split between US and Chinese companies, including ~$250.3M for a supercomputing project with Huawei and iFlytek (Marcela Ayres/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bra