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Google Cloud is deploying context-creating AI agents within its tools to automate tasks handled by forward-deployed engineers; Google is hiring hundreds of FDEs (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-says-a…

Google Says Its AI Can Do the Work of Forward Deployed Engineers
Following the playbook Palantir pioneered, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon are investing billions of dollars to hire so-called forward deployed engineers to get newfangled AI to work in enterprises.Then there’s Google, which says AI can automate some of what these FDEs do.While Google ...

Hayao Miyazaki will return in Avengers: Doomsday.
https://geektyrant.com/news/hayao-miyazaki-is-showing-up-to-work-at-studio-ghibli-every-day-but-nobody-knows-what-hes-making

Hayao Miyazaki Is Showing Up to Work at Studio Ghibli Every Day, but Nobody Knows What He’s Making — GeekTyrant
At 85 years old, Hayao Miyazaki apparently still has somewhere very important to be every morning. The legendary filmmaker continues to report to Studio Ghibli on a daily basis, and while that might sound like confirmation that another Miyazaki movie is taking shape, there’s a wonderfully strang

The Australian state of Victoria was due to enforce a legal right to work from home starting September 2026.
But just weeks away from its implementation, the new premier, Ben Carroll, has announced a year’s delay in response to fierce business opposition.
Thousands of miles away, in Portugal, parents of young children already have a legal right to work from home without needing their employers’ approval.
All of these developments raise the question:
How should workers b…

Working from home should be a right, not a reward
An Australian state is set to introduce a law supporting the right to work from home, and it’s already in place for some parents in Portugal. Should it happen elsewhere?

Intrigued by workmen doing work things along the sidewalk of our street frontage, I went outside to see (they're laying neighborhood fibre).
My several decades older neighbour was also out there. Nodding towards the (entirely non-caucasian) work crew out of earshot, he says "Couldn't they find any real #Canadians to do this work?"
"They ARE

The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-is-about-to-sell-our-most-sensitive-data-to-the-us-for-visa-free-travel/

Okay so I park my bike in the back hall at work and I jokingly scrawled "Bike Parking" in the dust on a large door.
And today there was a second bike!
Keep in mind only 8 people work here. I knew who it belonged to... they didn't bike in but dropped it off in case they need it due to a shared car situation.
#BikeTooter

GitHub says its 7 hour August 17 outage was caused by a capacity failure when peak traffic overwhelmed an infrastructure component in a Central US data center (Vlad Fedorov/The GitHub Blog)
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-…

The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a postproduction tax incentive into law, rewarding productions that locate scoring, editing, or other post work in California (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Gov. Gavin Newsom Signs CA Postproduction Tax Credit Into Law
The bill, AB 2319, rewards productions that locate their scoring, editing or other kinds of post work in the state.

"Ebooks Are Books. The Law Should Say So." @ Katina Magazine
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2026/ebooks-are-books-the-law-should-say-so
"By treating

TidyX: screencasts explaining different aspects of the R language and the coding process. #rstats

TidyX
TidyX is a screen cast where we discuss how Data Science topics and code work line-by-line, explaining what they did and how the functions they used work. We also break down the visualizations they create and talk about how to apply similar approaches to other data sets. The objective is to help more people learn R and get involved in the TidyTuesday community. The hosts are Ellis Hughes (@ellis_hughes) and Patrick Ward (@OSPpatrick). Ellis has been working with R since 2015 and has a backgr…

Intelligence?
No, just the very great capacity to iteratively do tasks set by human operators.
"..the Hugging Face incident demonstrates the lack of any real agency even in the most sophisticated currently existing AI "agents", although this does not make the incident less concerning or important."
The Hugging Face Incident and the Future of Work - Social Europe

The Hugging Face Incident and the Future of Work
The agents hacked a global platform to hide their cheating from a scorer that did not exist.

I mentioned that we face a (voluntary) layoff. So alot of colleagues will leave soon and someone asked me about an alumni-group ...
My first reaction was "anything except a WhatsApp Group". But what would / could work? Anyone who tried that in the past?
I guess it'll boil down to Whatsapp/Signal? I would suggest Matrix but I'm afraid it might be too alien for some?
#work

Interviewer: “When you see Gaza destroyed like this, how do you feel?”
Katz: “What do I feel? Feel good.”
Hey boy, are you a work of art? Because you’d look great hanging in Nuremberg. @…

Drop Site on Twitter
🇮🇱 A new Channel 14 report shows senior Israeli government and military officials openly celebrating the destruction of Gaza, the mass killing of Palestinians, their forced displacement to the coast, and Israel’s permanent occupation of the territory. One senior officer described all 70,000 Palestinians he said Israel had killed as “terrorists.” The full video is linked below. Here are some of the remarks: 🔹 Defense Minister Israel Katz: “The important thing: those neighborho…

"Extreme weather is making work difficult for many people – this is what needs to change"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Extreme weather is making work difficult for many people – this is what needs to change
Climate change leading to extreme weather events is making life uncomfortable for many UK workers. A new survey reveals the depth of the problem.

Substack screwed up with its AI detection system, and it's making a lot of people leave. But it's a symptom of a bigger problem. I've said before that AI accusations are the modern equivalent of "She's a witch."
https://authorrachelmorton.substack.co

Stop Putting Authors on Trial Over AI
The detectors don’t work, the people who built them admit they don’t work, and careers are being wrecked by them anyway.

I'll generalize, apologies.
Broadly speaking, almost ever painting ever made is a work of art.
Photography made things much, much easier - you just need to be where what you want to photograph is - and perhaps one photo in a million is a true work of art.
GenAI made things even easier - you don't even to be there.
I don't think we'll ever see a true work of art from it.

Mick Shots: No matter surprises, back to work https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-no-matter-surprises-back-to-work

It's ternary time! Work it out and check the alt text afterwards.
#Ternary #WristCheck

Everything in life, at some level, is about storytelling, so they say. Yet, telling my own story, about my own work, the reasons/impetus, the processes, the details, mistakes, insights, lessons, connections etc. It is the hardest thing ever.
People don't buy the art, they buy the artist.
As much as I do love writing, I've always strongly disliked writing about my creative works/efforts, probably because I so often wanted The Work™ to stand on its own and also because I so frequen…

fillmore east/village theater update http://evgrieve.com/2026/09/work-starts-on-new-16-handles-on-2nd.html

Work starts on the new 16 Handles on 2nd Avenue
EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City.

Lotus club #Autocross at Salinas airport today. Lots of fun with friends but I left the Lotus at home and took our Taycan to give it a work out. Very fast but the weight was too much for street tires. Best time was an afternoon fun run with four of us in the car…

Organising conferences I've tended to do a call for full papers but it's always felt awkward. Like why require people to write 4 pages to apply to do a talk? Especially when it's unpaid work (sometimes even pay-to-speak), and when people generally don't just read out their paper anyway so the paper ends up fairly unrelated to the talk.. Like writing and speaking can be just very different things.
So I think for the next @…

#OTD 2012
Lass uns Freunde sein

Wenn Merz davon schwadroniert, daß wir mit 4-Tage-Woche und Work-Life Balance unseren Wohlstand nicht erhalten können: stimmt. Sie erhöhen ihn.
Eine 4-Tage-Woche ist Wohlstand – den sich auch aufgrund der aktuellen Regierungspolitik nur wenige Wohlhabende leisten können. Work-Life Balance ist nur ein anderer Begriff dafür, Zeit zu haben, den Wohlstand auch genießen zu können.
Alles andere ist ein abschätziges: die arbeitende Klasse muß von früh bis spät schuften, damit sie meinen…

@… Thanks! Makes sense. My main goal is to keep it as simple as possible, and since people work on different courses anyway, permissions shouldn’t be such a big issue.

@… Thanks! Makes sense. My main goal is to keep it as simple as possible, and since people work on different courses anyway, permissions shouldn’t be such a big issue.

The Sarah Hanson-Young Podcast
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Yesterday we had caramelized peaches and oatmeal with egg bacon tea coffee before I went and tested our monthly party bike ride route and then went to work, before evening mahjong. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/k5Y1Tp6XCbZrKgpu7

Time-shifted to watch with my son, who was at work today. We managed, somehow, to stay spoiler-free. 🎉 🙌
Spain were the better team, by far, although the first half was relatively even. Any real hope Argentina had evaporated after Enzo Fernandez’s ridiculously stupid challenge. That late, while carrying a yellow?!? The only question was whether Argentina could steal it via PKs. The way Martinez was playing, you could see it.
Happily, it was decided in open play.

Harvey announces Harvey Tenet, its first in-house, proprietary model for legal work, trained on mock disputes and case files using a version of Kimi K3 (Melia Robinson/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/harvey-builds-tenet-ai-model-for-legal-…

Harvey announces Tenet, its first in-house AI model for legal work
Harvey's first AI model, Tenet, is designed to take on more of the tasks typically done by lawyers over hours or days.

yesterday after much anticipation the proper futon arrived. not a squudgy foam foldable thing, a solid extremely firm not very thick actual futon. i only know one place in the uk that makes these. and I slept. i actually slept, and today my back does not feel like it has folds and twists, it's just a column of bones and muscles and nerves all stacked up.
for context, when I used to have travel for work, I would pull the hotel duvet onto the floor and sleep there.

Well well, a power cut. I've been out but my dad tells me it's been 90 mins so far. It's been ages since we had one but this one is badly timed as I have lots of computer work to do. Ho well.

Unreasonably excited about finally landing UI and Agent separation by network in my AI Harness and multiple concurrent input channels
Each talking to unique, isolated contexts, durable, relocatable and able to recover from crash without redoing any work.
Durable jobs, TUI, Slack, Discord app talking to hyper focussed private, local-first LLMs backed by knowledge and easy (very!) to write tools.

Amazing work by Spain! Out of this world control of the pitch. Zero chance for Argentina. 🔥🔥🔥

From The Conversation
Where else can you peer into the labs and lecture halls of Canadian researchers and academics, who draw on their life's work to explain what being sedentary does to your body, why male chimps repeatedly throw rocks at trees and how the international legal order has collapsed?
We share their vast expert knowledge to educate Canadians so they can make informed decisions about politics, their health, the environment, the education of their children and the…

Not getting enough physical activity may be harming your health: Here’s what being sedentary does to your body
From a biological perspective, being inactive is more than the opposite of being active. Being sedentary results in unique physiological changes that can lead to a variety of health risks.

Things I've learned today:
- Valgrind does not support AVX512 instructions. That was an adventure because I was writing purposefully bad code at the time...
- However, changed strategies and used `clang` with the `fsanitize=address,undefined` option which seems to work perfectly fine.
#clang

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Viss/117304298099612180
Wow! Interesting work is an understatement.

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At today's #IETF #hackathon I had the opportunity to talk about recent work done jointly with @… and @…

A bipartisan group of 18 former FCC officials files a brief supporting ABC's request to halt the FCC's early review of its broadcast licenses (Protect Democracy)
https://protectdemocracy.org/work/former-fcc-officials-abc-amicus-brief/

Bipartisan coalition of former top FCC officials back ABC's First Amendment lawsuit against FCC
A bipartisan coalition of former FCC officials filed an amicus brief supporting ABC’s request for emergency relief in its lawsuit challenging the FCC’s early review of broadcast licenses.

A lot of people are writing lots of things about A.I here already, all of which are more important than my complaint...but man, trying to buy a new NVMe drive at this juncture is utter insanity.
Really wish I'd gone for a bit more RAM and especially storage back when you could actually afford them.
Time to delete some of my praying mantis video collection to make space for less essential things, like work files.

Maya glyphic texts from the Classic period (250–900 CE)
typically chronicle the exploits of historical or divine characters;
everyday or functional records are rare.
Here, the authors offer a reconstruction and transcription of a ‘microtext’
painted on an interior wall of Structure 10K-2 at the site of Xultun, Guatemala.
The text records a unique astronomical formula that concludes with a name,
attributing the work to an individual named Sak Tahn Waax …

The identification and work of an eighth-century Maya mathematician | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
The identification and work of an eighth-century Maya mathematician

I've switched to Nova from VSCode as my primary editor on my Mac. When I made the switch about a month ago, I added this function to my .zshrc:
code () {
echo "use Nova instead \`nova\`, or if you really want VSCode, \`vscode\`"
}
Could I have just pointed a code alias at nova? Sure, but how then would this dummy ever learn?
I hit my function today, first time!
Context: My primary way of open a project to work on it is from my terminal now nova…

For my work machine at home I have been dual monitor for over a year. This year work upgraded us to dual monitors. It makes my work easier. Rather than tabbing between apps I organize them across monitors to make my work easier.
https://flip.it/ck9y2e

Federal and state fascists work together to pull a man, with wife and kids from his car, there was no warning (Lawrence, MA, 08/15/26)
Video Source
https://reddit.com/comments/1vpd545
Ice Out Report

Faraday Protocol (Multi, XPd on PC) Awoken on an abandoned alien space station, you must solve puzzles to work your way to the core and figure out what happened here.
Another Portal inspired thinky pain game, this one give you a "gun" to manipulate energy types (red/blue) that power the various devices making up the puzzles.
I quite dig the Egyptian motif (always been a fave era of mine). Interesting choice for a space station. Decent music. The voice acting is also go…

dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

'I'm here to win': Miller has big plans as Cowboy https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49651426/miller-begins-work-dream-being-dallas-cowboy

This week on #ProFed: two new developments in the web client.
ProFed is not a microblogging system. The web client is optimized for professional social networking - which means some things work differently than in Mastodon or similar systems.

Thankful for the people interviewed in this article, and other like them. Difficult, important work - with good results.
ICE raids forever changed the work of these gun violence prevention workers: ‘The panic is still there’
https://www.theguard…

ICE raids forever changed the work of these gun violence prevention workers: ‘The panic is still there’
Gun violence-prevention programs are another casualty of Trump’s immigration enforcement crackdown

Grist is a governed, on-prem spreadsheet-database that feels like a spreadsheet and works like one. Avoid shadow IT with a platform everyone wants to use. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/why-can-grist-secure-a-spreadsheet-when-…

Why can Grist secure a spreadsheet when Excel can't? | Grist
Why is it hard to secure an Excel spreadsheet? Because locking down a file that holds sensitive data doesn't work. You need governed structure.

@… meetings: the socially acceptable alternative to goofing off at work

"If any of the work, that any of us do, contributes to the stretching of culture, the stretching of boundaries of empathy that’s expected of an audience… that’s the holy grail."
—Riz Ahmed
#acting #coaching

Some of the storm damage I saw biking to work today. This is in my neighborhood about five blocks from my house.
#milwaukee

Logging in at work for the first time this morning, #Windows, #Outlook or #Teams just prompted me to "Sign in (to Microsoft) to enable offline mode."... for something.
<pained expression>

We expected rain (but no ⚡⛈️).
So we got our jackets, did our errands with our little bike trailer - and were lucky because it didn't even rain 💪
✅ Saved fuel again
✅ Physical activity
✅ Faster way to detach from work
✅ Saw a couple of cats
Totally recommended!
#cycling #BikeTooter

"Driving the speed limit could slash fuel use and emissions at the cost of only 54 extra seconds a day"
#Cars #Vehicles #Emissions

Driving the speed limit could slash fuel use and emissions at the cost of only 54 extra seconds a day
Speeding in your car to work, to pick up your children from school, or go from one errand to the next not only wastes money in gas and sends harmful emissions into the air, it barely saves you time, new research says.

So fellow #slackware users (I know we have a few of you on the fediverse), what are you installing on new machines these days. Still 15.0 or are you all moving to -current?
My main work machine on 15.0 is fine but I am thinking of setting up a new machine and 15.0 feels a little old now. I sometimes have to spend longer upgrading a bunch of stuff when I need a new version of one pack…

Mick Shots: No matter surprises, back to work https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-no-matter-surprises-back-to-work

In Conversations With...
Each episode features honest conversations with experienced professionals from commercial property and the wider business community about the people, decisions and experiences that shape the industries we work in...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greatau…

From Translink
#Vancouver #Transit
Expo Line weekend maintenance work resumes in downtown Vancouver
Service impacts on Saturdays and Sundays through this fall
Starting Saturday, July 25, Expo Line service will be temporarily reduced on weekends in downtown Vancouver through this fall. Servic…

Mistakes on a Neg 🙅
负错误 🙅
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Team, there is no “undo” button for irreplaceable landscapes, yet ConocoPhillips and other oil companies are trying to get their hands on one of America’s wildest and most fragile places: The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Despite overwhelming public opposition, the administration just announced it will hold an oil and gas lease sale next month, offering tracts on the refuge’s sensitive coastal plain.
We will not stand by and let corporate greed and this administration's …

Homepage | The Wilderness Society
Our Mission: United people to protect our wild places. Our Work: Climate Solutions, Landscape Connectivity, Community Led Conservation Each day thousands of acres of wild places are lost to mining, drilling, logging and other development. But we don't have to give it all away. Together, we can save our wildest lands for future generations.

Baking night tonight. New cinnamon roll recipe and new muffin tin (jumbo muffins). I suspect people at work will be happy for a early morning snack.
Tuesday will be muffins for the wife. She loves my oatmeal/bran mini muffins. I cheat there as she loves the bagged mix and I add extra oat bran for her.
#baking

Meta launches a Mac app for Meta AI and says Meta AI can now work directly with Instagram and Facebook accounts, Meta ad campaigns, and Google Workspace (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/982270/meta-ai-mac-app

Meta AI is getting a Mac app
Meta is launching a new app dedicated to its AI chatbot on Mac. The Meta AI app allows you to share your window with the chatbot and also provides dictation across apps.

dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

Fascist Paramilitary brutalized man on his way to work without ever asking for his ID (Chamblee, GA, 07/19/2026)
Video Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1v16yed
He is now trapped in a hospital bed in a cervical neck brace, with an ICE agent stationed right at his feet keeping him in cust…

Thankful for the people interviewed in this article, and other like them. Difficult, important work - with good results.
ICE raids forever changed the work of these gun violence prevention workers: ‘The panic is still there’
https://www.theguard…

ICE raids forever changed the work of these gun violence prevention workers: ‘The panic is still there’
Gun violence-prevention programs are another casualty of Trump’s immigration enforcement crackdown

Loose links sink sheets. Locking down a spreadsheet is harder than it seems, but what would a secure spreadsheet look like? https://www.getgrist.com/blog/why-can-grist-secure-a-spreadsheet-when-excel-cant-it-governs-the-field…

Why can Grist secure a spreadsheet when Excel can't? | Grist
Why is it hard to secure an Excel spreadsheet? Because locking down a file that holds sensitive data doesn't work. You need governed structure.

"Indonesian wildfires threaten leading orangutan research site in Borneo"
#Indonesia #Orangutan #Wildfires

Indonesian wildfires threaten leading orangutan research site in Borneo
Critically endangered Bornean orangutans flee forests as staff at Rangkong research station work round the clock to stave off blaze

Sources: YouTube is offering top creators millions to post videos exclusively on YouTube for a period and will penalize those that post to Netflix concurrently (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

How To Write Songs With Keppie And Benny
Dives deep into the art and craft of songwriting - through honest conversations about how songs get written, how songwriters think, and the questions that emerge when you commit to making creative work...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.great…

For years, Shaoping Wu was part of an increasingly endangered group of human rights lawyers in China.
His work culminated in 2019, when he attended a meeting with other prominent lawyers and activists.
Within days, the Chinese government began to detain the participants.
Mr. Wu quickly fled to the United States, where in 2020 he applied for asylum.
🔥On Wednesday, Mr. Wu was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Pennsylvania, where he had been living wit…

Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Seeking Asylum Is Arrested by ICE
Shaoping Wu was working as a contract delivery driver for Amazon when he was pulled over in Pennsylvania. He had championed personal and religious freedom for Chinese citizens.

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ING: India's software services exports have risen to ~5.2% of GDP from 3.3% before the pandemic, as AI pushes the country's IT industry toward higher-value work (Anup Roy/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

From Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
September 17 at 7 pm PT for this year‘s Rosenbluth Lecture with Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks, who will be speaking about their new book Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us. Linda needs no introduction as one of Canada’s top journalists and progressive commentators. Neil is a lawyer and academic, and his work was extremely influential to me when I was starting out as a progressive economist. They will be available to chat and sign…

Rosenbluth Lecture 2026: live at Vancouver's Harbour Centre | CCPA
Where: Challenge Theatre, Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre campus, 555 West Hastings Street, Vancouver

I remember back before I biked to work but I wanted to bike to work.
Today would have been one of those days where I was like "I'm too tired, didn't sleep well, my body is sore, there's no *way* I could bike to work today" and yet...
I biked to work today.
In a way, that's the exact kind of day I *should* bike to work.
#BikeTooter

#NOCTRANSPO does it again. Left work and first bus arrives on time. Arrived at transfer point at 15:40.
First bus due @ 15:50 - no show
Next bus due @ 16:07 - no show
Third bus at 16:24 showed up and fortunately there was room.
Please explain how it is better?

A team of companies and universities from the UK, Spain, Estonia and Sweden is exploring
whether old satellites could be taken apart and reused directly in space.
Their work, known as DEXTER, was launched in 2025 and is led by Leonard Felicetti,
a space engineering associate professor at Cranfield University in the UK.
“We are cluttering space with new objects,” said Felicetti.
“What we want to do is to try and reuse the material that is already there"

Rethinking space junk in an age of satellite overload
For decades, we have been littering space with decommissioned satellites and rocket parts orbiting our planet. Now this space debris poses a growing threat to the satellites and spacecraft we rely on. But researchers believe some of this debris could be turned into a valuable resource.

Mithrl, which integrates its proprietary biomedical world model with the R&D systems of pharmaceutical companies, raised a $20M Series A led by Obvious Ventures (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/biotech-deals/2026/09/15/mithrl-series-a-bi…

Exclusive: Mithrl raises $20M Series A for biopharma AI infrastructure
Mithrl is betting drugmakers need AI infrastructure that can work across their existing scientific systems and data.

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From Press Progress
Thank you for signing on to push back against SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) lawsuits that seek to silence dissent and critique of those in power.
This fight for us is personal. We are still at the center of one of the longest and most expensive media trials in Canadian history.
Lawsuits like this are designed to slow down the important work non-profit newsrooms like ours do by tying up our funds in lengthy lawsuits.
We won’…

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Support Our Journalism Defence Fund PressProgress is at the centre of what could be one of the biggest, longest and most expensive media trials in recent Canadian history. A former star candidate for Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party has launched a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against PressProgress and other trusted news organizations. This case has serious implications […]

OpenAI rolls out an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on macOS, letting ChatGPT read, search, and analyze chats, prepare and send messages, and more (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/20/chatgpt-update-adds-apple-messages-integration-on-mac/

ChatGPT update adds Apple Messages integration on Mac - 9to5Mac
Well, this seems interesting. ChatGPT’s latest update adds a new Mac integration: the ability to work with conversations from Apple’s...

Long after his death in 2010,
Howard Zinn's books and speeches
are frequently targeted by right-wing critics, MAGA book-bans, and fundamentalist politicians.
In 2020, Trump called out Zinn by name from the White House lawn,
smearing Zinn’s work as “propaganda… that tries to make students ashamed of their own history.”
So, who was Howard Zinn?
And why are his critics so determined to keep his work from the public?
In this live event, hosted at…

MAGA wants to ban his books. Who was Howard Zinn?
Long after his death in 2010, the books and speeches of Howard Zinn are frequently targeted by right-wing critics, MAGA book-bans, and even President Trump. Dave Zirin tells us why the right people fear what Zinn has to teach us.

Image is a bit blurry, but from starting up the new #linux laptop, check for software, install updates (includes kernel update) it was under three and a quarter minutes and includes time waiting for me to respond.
Work Win11 machine can take hours for simple updates to my installed apps and don't get me started on how long it takes for it to update system software.
I keep tellin…

A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/googles-new-ai-tool-help…

Google’s new AI tool helps fact-checkers investigate AI fakes
Backstory automates provenance checks, reverse image searches, and context tracing to speed up verification work.

A woman named Lanna shared that she left the United States two-and-a-half years ago and is now living in Germany.
She recently got a job as a part-time barista to make some extra cash.
The experience, even before she has started the job, has “broken” her—but “in a good way.”
Per her residence permit, Lanna cannot work more than 20 hours per week.
Rather than a traditional interview, the employer had her come in for a “try-out day.”
At the end of it, she was surp…

An American got hired as a part-time barista in Germany. The job benefits blew her mind.
A young woman living in Germany shared that her part-time barista job came with over a month of paid vacation and healthcare benefits.

Indeed: data center roles in the US offer a ~42% pay premium for hourly maintenance and installation workers compared with similar jobs at other businesses (Owen Tucker-Smith/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/what-its-like…

“Stand up if you know someone who’s been affected by community violence,”
Dr. Khalid Griffin prompted the group of Fort Wayne high schoolers. 
Almost all 60 teenagers who had been seated in the center of the downtown church stood up.
The teens, a predominantly Black group of students, were selected as part of a youth program that does violence prevention work with local high schools.
As area business leaders, city officials, judges, and police officers watched and too…

Teens in This Small Indiana City Want to Talk About Shootings. Adults Are Listening.
“Stand up if you know someone who’s been affected by community violence,” Dr. Khalid Griffin prompted the group of Fort Wayne high schoolers.  Almost all 60 teenagers who had been seated in the center of the downtown church stood up. The teens, a predominantly Black group of students, were selected as part of a youth […]

Sources: YouTube is offering top creators millions to post videos exclusively on YouTube for a period and will penalize those that post to Netflix concurrently (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Officially an engraver and accorded the lowly status thereof,
William Blake devoted his labors to realizing his elaborately idiosyncratic visions using images and words together in ways that no artist had done before.
Blake swam against the current “of modern human understanding, whose bedrock is the principle of specialization.”
Today, nearly two centuries after his death, that principle still obtains -- and in some ways more rigidly than ever.
But his work remains,

The Radical, Unclassifiable Art of William Blake
William Blake is a household name, or not far from it, but things get more complicated when it comes to professional description. He was a poet, a painter, and a printmaker, at least insofar as he wrote poetry, painted paintings, and made prints.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has engaged in a deadly immigration crackdown that has trampled the constitutional rights of migrants and US citizens.
During the operation, there have been 28 incidents where immigration agents shot at people,
resulting in eight deaths,
according to an analysis by The Trace.
On July 13, an ICE officer fatally shot Joan Sebastian Duršn Guerrero,
a 25-year-old delivery driver from Colombia authorized to work in the US…

How Many People Have Been Shot in ICE Raids?
The Trace is tracking gun incidents connected to Trump’s deployment of immigration agents. Know of an incident? Please be in touch.

“If we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we’re never going to get anywhere,”
says Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist
Rhiannon Giddens.
“That’s what music is for. …
We have to make music with people from different backgrounds because then we have that conversation.”
Giddens has had a wide-spanning career,
including her time with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an old-time Black string band,
and her work as a musical c…

“Hope Is the Thing with Feathers”: Rhiannon Giddens on New Album, AI, Ed Sheeran, Macklemore & Trump
“If we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we’re never going to get anywhere,” says Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. “That’s what music is for. … We have to make music with people from different backgrounds because then we have that conversation.” Giddens has had a wide-spanning career, including her time with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an old-time Black string band, and her work as a musical consultant on Ryan Coogler’s…

Bunkerhill Health, which uses AI agents for hospital tasks like managing wait times, raised a $25M Series B led by Khosla, bringing its total funding to $55M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/16/bunkerhill-health-raises-…

Bunkerhill Health raises $55 million to put AI agents to work inside hospitals
Backed by Sequoia's Alfred Lin and Khosla Ventures, this startup is betting that healthcare's real AI opportunity isn't diagnosis—it's process.

Anthropic says Claude "leads" 26% of its AI R&D work, up from 1% in March, and "collaborates" on 90% , doing large chunks of work under close human direction (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

InstaLILY, which develops AI agents to automate sales, operations, and service workflows, raised a $60M Series B led by Energize Capital (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/14/instalily-dev…

InstaLILY, a developer of AI teammates that can automate complex, business-specific work, raises $60M - SiliconANGLE
InstaLILY, a developer of AI teammates that can automate complex, business-specific work, raises $60M - SiliconANGLE

How Congressional lawmakers and aides are using AI tools with little oversight to write speeches and news releases, sort constituent mail, and more (Anna Liss-Roy/Washington Post)

Chatbots are doing the work of Congress with little oversight
From writing speeches to sorting constituent mail, AI is spreading through Congress faster than the rules governing its use.

Anthropic life sciences head Eric Kauderer-Abrams says the AI company set up a Bay Area wet lab for physical biology work, as it pushes into AI disease research (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/anthropic-quietly-sets-up-biology-…