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". . . pulling out a keffiyeh and shouting, “Free Palestine!” But his depraved actions, like theirs, expose the lie of his lofty words. Neither Palestine nor Israel will ever truly be free until their societies are liberated from megalomaniacal men who perpetrate demonic acts in their name."

The D.C. Jewish Museum Shooting and a Dangerous Disguise for Anti-Semitism
The person charged with attacking an American Jewish gathering and killing two Israeli-embassy aides disingenuously invoked the Palestinian struggle as a pretext to harm Jews.

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Source: OpenAI is planning to launch GPT-5 in early August, complete with mini and nano versions that will also be available through its API (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/712950/openai-gpt-5-m…

OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August
OpenAI is getting ready to launch its next-gen AI model. GPT-5 is tentatively scheduled to arrive in early August.

OMFG
"A hacker compromised a version of Amazon’s popular AI coding assistant ‘Q’, added commands that told the software to wipe users’ computers, and then Amazon included the unauthorized update in a public release of the assistant this month"
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Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent
The wiping commands probably wouldn't have worked, but a hacker who says they wanted to expose Amazon’s AI “security theater” was able to add code to Amazon’s popular ‘Q’ AI assistant for VS Code, which Amazon then pushed out to users.

Wired expands its offerings with five new weekly newsletters, livestream AMAs running at least twice per month, and narrated audio versions of many articles (Katie Drummond/Wired)
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Playbook: Mission accomplished? (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/06/23/mission-accomplished-00417937
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p9#a250623p9

How Brett Kavanaugh Is Putting His Thumb on the Scale for Trump | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/198304/trump-tariff-lawsuit-brett-kavanaugh?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily

Hillsdale's lobbying pays off (Caitlin Oprysko/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2025/06/24/hillsdales-lobbying-pays-off-00422218
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p171#a250624p171

Uncle Sam Accepts Venmo, But Don't Ask Him for Health Insurance (Jessica Karl/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-07-24/uncle-sam-accepts-venmo-but-don-t-ask-him-for-health-insurance
http://www.memeorandum.com/250724/p114#a250724p114

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https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends-20f067c0-502a-11f0-9079-cb3e3eb54f52.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p137#a250624p137