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In the spring, the federal government finalized regulations requiring millions of people who receive Medicaid benefits to prove they’re working, volunteering, or going to school to keep their coverage.
States have until January to begin those checks.
Montana, Arkansas, and Nebraska have already started implementing them.
The Trump administration’s federal work requirements exempt certain groups of people:
those with disabilities, those older than 64, pregnant people a…

Medicaid Work Rule Leaves Homeless People in the Cold - KFF Health News
Conservatives who have long pushed for Medicaid work requirements often said vulnerable people would get a pass. But the federal government’s list of exemptions left off homeless people.

4 Cowboys Set to Work on Pass-Rush Moves With Future Hall of Famers Ahead of Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/4-dallas-cowboys-set-to-work-on-pass-rush-moves-with-future-hall-of-famers-ahead-of-camp

Lee Enterprises journalists face layoffs again, months after David Hoffmann's investment raised hopes that cuts could ease; he has called layoffs a "bad word" (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/lee-enterprises-layof…

Seven months after its new chairman called layoffs a ‘bad’ word, Lee Enterprises cuts staff - Poynter
Those affected include veteran copy editors and the sole remaining newsroom employee of a North Carolina paper

OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6, and launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that can gather context across apps and files to create documents, on Mac and Windows (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/09/ai-openai-gpt-release

OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work tool
The leading players in AI are all speeding forward at breakneck speed.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Blondshell:
🎵 Heart Has to Work So Hard
#Blondshell
https://blondshell.bandcamp.com/track/heart-has-to-work-so-hard
https://open.spotify.com/track/4wwOje67xW4mPCf8JvmWYK

No GPS tracker for Arnold, can work out for teams https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49325177/no-gps-tracker-terrion-arnold-work-nfl-teams

Republicans are discussing work requirements for seniors on medicare.
I want to see work requirements for members of congress.

Work/Life balance
Your work
Their life

I told Caroline, a current art handler, when she was an intern, to go to a big city where there’s more than one art museum and gallery, so you can network. However, she didn’t need to do that; she pulled it off. It’s not unheard of to get a full-time job if you can intern here, but my belief is that if you want to work as a handler, you have to work in New York or D.C. or Atlanta, somewhere where there’s more than just one museum.
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Please consider this powerful essay for your Best Related Work lists next year.
@… https://wandering.shop/@therisingtithes/117069141711…

Derek Carr joins UCLA football staff as special adviser, will work with QBs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7504898/2026/08/10/derek-carr-ucla-college-football-staff/

@… I’m working with a client right now that is *heavily* in the LLM kool aide. So much so that it’s impossible for me to avoid interacting with LLMs while performing my work.
I absolutely feel like a disgustingly gross person after I’m done with work.

Home office layout. Why does work think RTO is better than what I have at home?

Like the Claude app it imitates, the new ChatGPT "Super App", which merges Codex with ChatGPT, is a tangle of toggles and strange UI decisions (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/chatgpt-gets-to-work/

The ChatGPT "Super App" Sort of Super Sucks
Even if it's ultimately the right call, the new Mac app is a mess...

Finally after a decade of thinking, I have a new website. I'd love if you can give me some feedback: https://talkweb.eu/

➡️ CHIEF O'BRIEN AT WORK
#bookmarks

Impressive work on #cycling network development by @… at @… building the data and algorithm foundation for active mobility planning and resea…

"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work."
—Meryl Streep
#acting #coaching #inspiration

A proposed constellation of satellites has astronomers very worried.
Unlike satellites that reflect sunlight and produce light pollution as an unfortunate byproduct,
the ones by US startup
"Reflect Orbital" would produce light pollution by design.
The company promises to produce “sunlight on demand” with mirrors that beam sunlight down to Earth so solar farms can operate after sunset.
It plans to start with an 18-metre test satellite named Earendil-1

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?
Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

What on earth is this?
A small, hand pulled cable ferry.
And yes, I did go back and forth. Fun but a lot of work.

Patreon Blocks Crawlers From Stealing Creators' Work for AI Training https://www.404media.co/patreon-cloudflare-partnership-ai-crawlers/

youtube, give me an option to skip the 10 second to TWO MINUTE video intros. they will never work on me and just confuse me later when they say the same words again later.

So BGAs have been a bit of a pain in my behind for a while from an IC RE perspective.
Specifically, wirebonded BGAs with multilayer organic substrates. I use 70% nitric acid at home for decapsulation rather than fuming (more stable in storage, safer to work with, and far easier/less expensive to source) which doesn't do a great job of etching the BT resin compared to the silica filled molding compound.
Usually what happens is that the overmold disintegrates rapidly leaving th…

Nearly 5 years of work later, I've successfully closed the Node.js TLS fingerprinting issue: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/41112.
As of Node 26.4.0, it's possible to match most common TLS fingerprints in Node directly. I've published a library to do all the hard wo…

Quite happy with my work mapping Dadal mongolia on openstreetmap, it's not perfect as aerial imagery was old and cloudy.
#osm #mongolia #дадал

#GitLab at work got updated to v18 and I see that rounded corners are back in vogue. They used to be very popular in #MediaWiki monobook circa 2008. Italian #Wikiquote never removed them, so we're now fashionable ag…

Track Changes On Podcast
Musings on the future of work, corporate accountability and burnout from an office escapee who thinks we can and should expect better...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/track-changes-on/

Work on Trump’s E. Jean Carroll Defamation Case Divides Sullivan & Cromwell
Law firm’s co-chairman assured partners it would stay out of the president’s appeal of sex-abuse and defamation cases. It reversed course after being asked by Trump’s personal lawyer.
https://www.wsj.co…

I was trying to explain to someone that virtual appliances can't be patched using 'yum update' and had the lead of our change review board not understand.
He was insisting that it would work, so I had to throw down the gauntlet and say "I'm sorry your wrong."
In which he retorted like a child, "well, this is my meeting so I that means I'm right."
This is the type of toxic shit that drives me crazy, but I'm taking this as a win. …

#squirrelcontent in @…'s latest work! 😍
https://www.c82.net/naturalists-li…

I just found out about howsketchy.org by @…
That's super cool. I have asked for editor access and will enter a few band later (now I must go to work...)

I giganti dell'intelligenza artificiale lavorano a stretto contatto con il Pentagono: svelati i contratti
L'Intercept ha intentato causa per ottenere documenti che rivelino una relazione intima tra l'esercito e OpenAI, Anthropic, Google e xAI
https://theintercep…

I look forward to receiving (and, above all, reading) your work!

More soccer this weekend, and now despite a state holiday it’s back to work. Starting with Marie’s pancakes, bacon egg tea coffee. Bad pic because I forgot. Board games later! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/58gHGGy2eyHfh8DL9

"From ‘heat panic’ to ‘sacrificed at the altar’: Europe’s air conditioning culture wars heat up"
#Europe #AirConditioning

From ‘heat panic’ to ‘sacrificed at the altar’: Europe’s air conditioning culture wars heat up
Cooling down has become political amid record highs, as experts say row is distracting from work of protecting lives

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Good win. For a work in progress there is plenty to be happy about. For starters, the intensity is massively improved over last season.
Szoboszlai is my MOTM, but a special shout out to Isak and Wirtz for some terrific pressing.
Jacquet and Araujo look very promising. As much as I was sorry to see Konate leave, I'm thinking #LFC has a good replacement.
Hope those who limped off …

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Elevator replacement work starts at Royal Oak Station on July 28. The elevator closure at this station is expected to last less than four months:
Customers who require elevator access can take the #148 Edmonds Station/Royal Oak Station bus.
Customers should plan for roughly 30 minutes of extra travel time.

The ongoing Expo Line Elevator Replacement Program is upgrading 21 original elevators across 15 stations with modern replacements that have 20 per cent mor…

Working on career development materials (think: résumé, LinkedIn, hire-me page, etc.).
I think I am much better at my actual work than convincing people I am good at my actual work. There doesn't seem to be a great solution to this particular problem…

With less than two months until the launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace #Roman Space Telescope, engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are preparing the observatory for its trip to space: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/2026/07/09/nasas-roman-launch-preparations-proceed/ - inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians used large cranes to carefully lift Roman and place it onto a specialized work platform, known as the Pantheon.

OpenAI merges Codex and ChatGPT desktop apps for Mac and Windows under a new ChatGPT desktop app, allowing users to switch between Codex, Chat, and Work (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/09/openai-announcing-the-next-chapter-for-ch…

OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Work agent, GPT-5.6 models now available - 9to5Mac
OpenAI held its second livestream this week today at 10 am PT. The video teased that the company was “introducing...

Me: There's no f-ing way I'm compiling GoldenDict from git just because it broke for the n-th time. I'll just work in Windows.
Me: Compiling GoldenDict from git.

someone went to work some day and did chernobyl... you will never do as bad as that person, hence, you did good every day of your life ❤️

woke up with a sour shoulder, I'll be soldiering on, but.... I guess it'll be a bit slower until both arms work equally good again... But enough about me - how are the rest of the fediverse doing today?

🎯 Core systems already work: query planner, buffer cache, storage engine, B-tree indexes, wire protocol (psql connects), JSON/JSONB, window functions, foreign keys, EXPLAIN / EXPLAIN ANALYZE, regex, PL/pgSQL pieces, and standard SQL with transactions, aggregates and joins.

#Upcoming “Viva Negativa! The New Blockaders: The Noise of Art and Nothing” by Nick Soulsby is the most extensive consideration given to everything from their groundbreaking 1982 LP, “Changez les Blockeurs” to their most recent work. Limited to 400 copies, the book is 416 pages and the deluxe edition comes with a CD/DVD. Available via

Viva Negativa! The New Blockaders: The Noise of Art and Nothing. By Nick Soulsby - PC Press
The book presents the story of The New Blockaders' work from the groundbreaking 1982 LP Changez Les Blockeurs to their most recent Antibox. Forensically detailed and beautifully written by Nick Soulsby, this represents his latest infatuation after groundbreaking books on Coil, Lydia Lunch, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Swans and Centre Iberico. Limited to 400 copies, this beautiful volume is 416 pages, with full-colour printing throughout, on 130gsm art silk paper, board cover 350gsm silk board, featur…

This was pretty fascinating
Also [looks around at everything] probably useful
The simple words that can expose any liar, according to a forensic linguist - BBC Science Focus Magazine https://apple.news/AB1geR701QH6-VOOt5iYZzQ

The simple words that can expose any liar, according to a forensic linguist — BBC Science Focus Magazine
Lie detectors don’t work. Body language is unreliable. But there are ways to tell if someone is lying. You just have to listen carefully to what they’re saying

#EroticMusings 63: Do you create cultures, ethnicities, or even sentient species for your work? How do you go about it?
Yes and no. I didn't create the place and species specifically for the novels - the first Moonmoth was my text-RP character who really wanted to become a vampire and fled to a community where plenty of those lived. She was lucky and became the servant of a very…

"Windows ran into a problem and needs to restart. You have 1 minute to save all your work". I guess that's progress, or something.
No stress, I only have like 15 different programs running at the same time.*Most* were saved recently...

'It's all about sacrifices': Tonka Hemingway's leap is the product of months of intentional work https://www.raiders.com/news/tonka-hemingway-s-leap-is-the-product-of-months-of-intentional-work-2026-training-camp…

When building new tools, consider adding "no ai" as a feature ;)
https://mas.to/@markwyner/117239941694616193

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4 Cowboys Set to Work on Pass-Rush Moves With Future Hall of Famers Ahead of Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/4-dallas-cowboys-set-to-work-on-pass-rush-moves-with-future-hall-of-famers-ahead-of-camp

I recently received this sheet of stickers for free in with something I ordered. Would you guess it's AI slop, the work of someone whose first language is not English, or both?

It's summer holiday time and we're back on the train, this time in 5 changes from Copenhagen to Amsterdam via Hamburg - so far (🤞) mostly on time. I'm astonished too. So let's try not to curse it.
I had planned board games, reading books, having a picnic and photo sorting for this trip. But work is unfinished and since leaving at 6am I've managed to finish two reports, clear some emails and now it's time to look at budgets.
Annoying to work on holiday but everyone else is on a screen too and at least this way I can catch up.
#LifeOfAscientist #FlyingLess

Yup, throwing the towel. Won't install, this is more work than Gentoo. Done. A cold beer I guess. It was nice as long as it lasted.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
LCD Soundsystem:
🎵 I Used To
#LCDSoundsystem
https://ah-mashups.bandcamp.com/track/i-used-to-work-in-the-record-store-lcd-soundsystem-vs-the-beta-band
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In its lawsuit, Apple chronicles in vivid detail how its former employees that went to work for OpenAI allegedly violated their confidentiality agreements (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-sues-openai-trade-secret-theft

Apple Sues OpenAI for Trade Secret Theft
Apple sued OpenAI on Friday, accusing the AI startup of stealing Apple trade secrets as part of a “systematic effort” to develop its own AI-powered devices for consumers. The lawsuit says that OpenAI has recruited more than 400 former Apple employees to work at the company and names two of those ...

Earlier in the week I decided I should ride my bike to work on Friday... then today I was asked if I could be in by 7:30am on Friday.... can I do both? We'll find out tomorrow!
#bikeTooter

'It's all about sacrifices': Tonka Hemingway's leap is the product of months of intentional work https://www.raiders.com/news/tonka-hemingway-s-leap-is-the-product-of-months-of-intentional-work-2026-training-camp…

I’m impressed by all the work that I’ve ended up handling. I think it just motivated me to stay involved, and sort of do my part, but not have any unrealistic expectations of myself. You witness a lot of geniuses when you’re working at the museum.
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Patreon CEO Jack Conte announces a partnership with Cloudflare to block AI training crawlers at the network level for all posts published on Patreon (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/patreon-cloudflare-partnership-ai-crawlers/

Patreon Blocks Crawlers From Stealing Creators' Work for AI Training
“Creators deserve credit, compensation, and consent. If that's not on the table, the crawlers can stay the fuck off Patreon," CEO Jack Conte wrote on Thursday.

Y'all I think I found a way to get rid of chatbot fields / popups in online scientific journal pages (or elsewhere)!
many journals now have them, something like "have questions? ask our ~bot~ I mean, AI Companion"
If you have the extension u Block Origin Lite: "create a custom filter" and select the offending popup / field / image; I think it prevents the associated code from executing?! It seems to work for similar pages once you've done it for one page!?
AND it also…

NFL Network: Buccaneers in no rush to work out Baker Mayfield, Vita Vea extensions https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-network-buccaneers-in-no-rush-to-work-out-baker-mayfield-vita-vea-extensions

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/117066183348062085
This remind me of a similar problem with stock photo companies (I used to work for them) where they actually didn't guarantee the photos on the site were not stolen. They did a bes…

Storylines: Offseason work leads to this point https://www.giants.com/news/week-1-season-opener-dallas-cowboys-john-harbaugh-jaxson-dart-malik-nabers

TransLink is continuing to modernize SkyTrain stations and improve accessibility across the system. Later this month, elevators will be replaced at Burrard and Royal Oak stations on the Expo Line; while escalator replacement work starts at Gilmore and Production Way–University stations on the Millennium Line.

These upgrades are replacing decades-old equipment with new infrastructure designed to reduce disruptions and ensure service reliability. Additional staff and signage will b…

At least the company building Skynet wasn't bragging about how dangerous their work is and everyone could live in bliss instead of constant fear of the inevitable.

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Me, jokingly asking someone: “Do you know any cocaine users?”
Them, answering seriously: “Yeah, I work at Amazon.”

My mother brought me to this country from Peru as a young boy.
She always told me that we need to work hard, give back, and help our community,
because that is what it means to be an American. 


When she died of COVID-19,
I promised I would fight like hell for every family like ours.
In 2022 my community sent me to Congress - the first openly LGBTQ immigrant ever elected - to do just that. 

I’m Robert Garcia – now the top Democrat on the House Ov…

Robert Garcia for Congress | Democrat for California's 42nd Congressional District
I'm running for Congress so that every kid can have the same shot that my mother—and this country—gave me.

And they want us back to work four days a week,but the transit system is late, cancelled or the trains break down. Please explain why remote working is not the preferred option and RTO is so good?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/o…

Q: How did you get your start in museum work and art handling?
A: I had gone to art school at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. After that I was doing odd jobs, restaurant jobs, one prop painting job and one dock building job, but mostly restaurants. Then a friend told me about opening at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and I applied and got that job.
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CAA calls out Meta over Muse Image and Muse Video's opt-out policy, which lets users generate new content from public Instagram profiles that don't opt out (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

CAA Calls Out Meta For Making Its Muse AI Video and Photo Tool Opt-Out
"No one’s name, image, likeness, voice, or creative work should be used by any third party, including AI models, without clear, documented consent," the talent agency said in a statement Wednesday night.

The Trump administration is working directly with a powerful Venezuelan leader who is under investigation for an alleged political killing in Chile.

Diosdado Cabello remains the interior and justice minister, even though he is the target of U.S. drug trafficking charges and a $25 million bounty.

🔥Washington exploits the U.S. indictment to ensure Cabello’s cooperation,
while he shields himself with his power over Venezuela’s stability, former officials say.

He’s Suspected of Hiring a Venezuelan Gang for a Political Killing. Trump Officials Still Work With Him.
Authorities say former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s regime hired Tren de Aragua to kidnap a dissident who had taken refuge in Chile. The suspected mastermind, Diosdado Cabello, remains powerful in the new U.S.-backed government in Caracas.

Apple alleges that a former Apple engineer kept a work-issued Apple laptop and exploited a bug to access Apple's cloud file storage while employed by OpenAI (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trade-secret-theft

Apple sues OpenAI over trade secrets
Apple has lost significant talent to OpenAI as the frontier lab prepares to unveil its first hardware device.

Am I too late for a #BikeNitePQ ?
My neighbor was complaining about squeaky disc breaks on his bike. I mentioned that I read you can use a high-grit sandpaper to sand the disc a bit and that might fix it... then I offered to help.
Does that work? Is it a good idea to try it?

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I am taking advantage of work courses. Quiet time so I am upgrading my office suite skills. I know much of the content, but learning new things so bonus.

Explaining the NFL's commissioner's exempt list: How does it work? Who is on it? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7559695/2026/09/03/nfl-commissioner-exempt-list-2026/

No day is the same, so that is one thing to keep you interested. When we’re not too busy, I get to remind myself that I work in a museum packed full of artwork, so it’s not like a stuffy old office, you know?
Q: You have a unique position where you get to see the art up close and personal, and I understand you’re also a musician and painter. How did that access shape or change your own view of making art?
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Journalists, OSINT specialists, and nonprofit leaders discuss the future of visual investigations with the rise of AI manipulation and declining reader trust (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/the-future-of-visual-investigat…

The future of visual investigations, if we can’t trust our eyes.
Journalists and other experts tell us how, in the age of AI, technology is transforming the work of visual forensics. “We might have to be a little bit more imaginative,” Emily Tripp, of Airwars, says.

Canada seizes its chance to lure U.S. researchers
Canada has awarded 64 global scholars $362 million in funding to relocate their research work to Canadian universities in fields such as health, the environment and artificial intelligence, among others.
Forty-eight of the researchers were poached from the U.S., including from elite institutions such as Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The other 16 are coming from 12 other countries, includi…

Google Quantum AI COO says the company declined funding from the $2B Trump administration grant because "conditions" attached would have slowed its work (J.D. Capelouto/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/10/2026

Google quantum exec: US government funding would’ve come with ‘conditions’
Google’s Charina Chou said the government “can do more” to invest in and support the sector.

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Federal agents did not have body-worn cameras when a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a Mexican homebuilder who was driving a work van they tried pulling over in Houston, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday.
Prosecutors in Houston said they are investigating the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo,
whose family has joined Democrats in calling for an independent probe over Tuesday’s early morning shooting in one of the city’s heavily Hispanic …

Mexican man killed in Houston ICE shooting was not the target, lawmaker says
A Texas congresswoman says a Mexican man living in the U.S. who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was not the person federal authorities had been targeting in a Houston operation. Democratic U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia said Thursday that the acting ICE Director told her the agency has confirmed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo “was not a target.” A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately return an email seeking comment late Thursday. The dep…

Our own #FlagpoleMagazine covers our new book on artist #HaroldRittenberry with a great interview of the man himself in which he talks about why art _isn’t_ fun, his advice to young artists, what he thinks of the book and more…

Anthropic catalogs multiple misuses of its models that it blocked, including Russian media using Claude to create propaganda disguised as independent reporting (Dustin Volz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…

Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons
In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine if the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work.

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI (Andrew Ackerman/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20

Fed chief taps Trump ally Marc Andreessen to advise on how AI reshapes work
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh named venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to co-lead a task force on AI's economic impact — a technology his firm has bet billions on.

Naïve, which provides infrastructure for AI agents to handle most business operations, raised a $28.5M Series A led by Nexus, bringing its total funding to $32M (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/naive-…

Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company | TechCrunch
Taking vibe-coding a step further, Naïve claims its infra can automate most of the work in setting up and running a business.

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Over the past few years the labor movement has taken a series of body blows which have sapped its strength and have put it on the defensive.
These attacks originate in the White House and trickle down to the lowest regional office of the National Labor Relations Board.
They begin in corporate offices of companies like Louisiana-Pacific and Phelps Dodge [that was the enemy that month] and work their way down to even the smallest employers.
We are concerned about the future …

Chinese tech giants are hiring skilled professionals as specialized AI trainers to build high-quality datasets, mirroring efforts by US platforms like Mercor (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-expert-ai-trainers/

Now it’s China’s experts who are gig workers training AI data
Squeezed by a stagnant economy and state directives, China's underemployed lawyers, architects, and engineers are taking cheap gig work to teach AI their exact trades — just to pay this month's mortgage.

Democrats highlight Epstein files and Trump investigations during GOP convention in Dallas
House Democrats descended upon Dallas to speak about their investigations into the president
and their long-standing investigation into convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

On Wednesday, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-California), the top Democrat in the House Oversight Committee,
stopped by an art exhibition featuring the work of Annie Farmer,
who accused Epstein of sexual assau…

Democrats play up Trump investigations, Epstein files during GOP convention in Dallas
The countermessaging includes speaking to Texas voters about affordability issues and Democratic efforts to regain control of the House.

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Work is mostly good for our brains.
The evidence is strong that cognitive decline speeds up after retirement.
Now some people with hard physical jobs simply can’t keep them up.
The point here is what retirement means.
If you move from your job to other work such as volunteering,
new leisure activities,
learning new and complex skills,
then that’s actually not retirement.
You’re still at work.
Retirement to the couch and Netflix is a …

Let your mind wander, don’t retire and stop worrying: surprising ways to help save your brain from the cognitive cliff
In his new book The Brain Cliff, Dr Norman Swan outlines the science of brain ageing and strategies for staving off cognitive decline

How AI gutted Kenya's essay-writing industry, which at its peak paid 40,000 people in Nairobi to do overseas students' homework, leaving few paths back to work (New York Times)
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Kenyans Made a Living Writing College Essays. Then A.I. Arrived.
Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline.