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A New Declaration of Independence from Tyranny
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/a-new-declaration-of-independence

A New Declaration of Independence from Tyranny
Effective July 4, 2025

One Million Rising:
Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism
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https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/803953/

One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · Indivisible
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and full-scale attacks on our democracy. We don’t have to wait until it’s too late. We can stop this. But it’ll take all of us—not just on single days of mass action, but through sustained organizing in our communities. That’s why this summer, we’re launching One Million Rising—a national…

More time should be devoted about the (near) future businessmodels of AI and how it collects data/content. Just trying to prevent AI models from scraping data will be futile.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-no-ai-crawl-without-compen…

Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!
It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.

A look at India's push to compete in the global AI race, as the country's vast linguistic diversity poses a core challenge to building foundational AI models (Shadma Shaikh/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/0

Inside India’s scramble for AI independence
Structural challenges and the nation’s many languages have made it tough to develop foundational AI models. But the government is keen not to be left behind.

I can finally say I've had a small piece of the web that's all mine for a **decade** as of today 🥳
It's a little indulgent, but I decided to mark the occasion by piecing together a rough timeline for my personal site. It ended up being quite the fun thread to pull on 😁
An Ad Hoc Decade: #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #PersonalSites

Is This America’s Last Independence Day?
https://michaelpopok.substack.com/p/is-this-americas-last-independence

ICE Is Suddenly Showing Up in California Hospitals.
Workers Want More Guidance on What to Do
https://www.independent.com/2025/08/28/ice-is-suddenly-showing-up-in-california-hospitals-workers-want-more-gu…

ICE Is Suddenly Showing Up in California Hospitals. Workers Want More Guidance on What to Do
As federal immigration agents appear more frequently at California medical facilities, workers are increasingly concerned about patients’ rights and their own.

Great Barrier Reef sees sharpest annual coral decline in nearly four decades | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/great-barrier-reef-mass-bleaching-coral-decline-b2802690.html

Food truck companies face backlash for catering ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/food-trucks-alligator-alcatraz-b2782975.html

Greg Abbott just gave Democrats eyeing 2028 the ‘knife fight’ they needed | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/abbott-texas-redistricting-newsom-pritzker-b2802534.html