Glyn Moody

Wear Meta’s AI creepshot glasses — or be left behind! Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has long been completely out of ideas. Meta makes a frickin’ bundle from selling ads on Facebook and Instagram and its numbers for second quarter 2025 were really g…

Wear Meta’s AI creepshot glasses — or be left behind!

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this was a crime against humanity, and the prosecution of that should fall to the ICC, imo. he should also be prosecuted federally for the myriad national security laws he violated. these crimes are as serious as it gets. we have to see justice

The looming Trumpcession Orange man bad (for the economy).

The looming Trump-cession www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-jobs...

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Don't just Google legal information. Try these reputable, user-friendly legal research sites instead!

Trump team loves the most unqualified attorneys, and Democrats sue HHS Injustice for All is a weekly series about how the Trump administration is trying to weaponize the justice system—and the people who are fighting back. Eighth Circuit keeps vying to be the worst ...

⚖️ Injustice For All ⚖️

The Eighth Circuit is gutting the Voting Rights Act. DHS is ignoring laws passed by Congress. Trump’s nominating judges with zero experience but plenty of misogyny. And his unconfirmed pals are now “acting” U.S. attorneys. America: now with 100% less rule of law!

I would love to see many of these candidates prevail. We need more people with integrity and a sense of civic duty in Congress—especially if they oust feckless GOP members.

that's pathetic and dangerous, but we'll just do it everywhere else... #boycottisrael #bds

Biologists react:

Glad to see @knightcolumbia.org write this thorough analysis of the problems of Columbia's capitulation to Trump. But, still not sure what it means for the org itself which is based at Columbia.

#musk must never be forgiven for this... #usaid

Office of Special Counsel Investigates Ex-Trump Prosecutor Jack Smith Read more here.

Office of Special Counsel Investigates Ex-Trump Prosecutor Jack Smith www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Digital blackout: How internet shutdowns devastate the economy and daily life in North Waziristan, Pakistan A ten-day internet and mobile shutdown in North Waziristan from July 7-17 severely disrupted the local economy, education, and businesses before partial restoration following negotiations with Jirga (tribal council).

A ten-day internet and mobile shutdown in North Waziristan from July 7-17 severely disrupted the local economy, education, and businesses before partial restoration following negotiations with Jirga (tribal council).

he wants violence, he wants disorder, he wants hatred...

A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police records For Immediate Release August 4, 2025 Contact: Journalism@berkeley.edu A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police records   ...

New database just published by @latimes.com, @sfchronicle.com, @kqednews.kqed.org + CalMatters and built by Berkeley Journalism's IRP, @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social BIDS + @biglocalnews.bsky.social makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police records. journalism.berkeley.edu/police-recor...

Project 2025: The Shadow Presidency of the Heritage Foundation From climate rollbacks to baby deportations—how Trump is enacting the Heritage Foundation’s extremist vision

You’ve heard of Donald Trump. But have you heard of Russell Vought?

He’s the man behind Project 2025—a 900-page roadmap for dismantling democracy and rebuilding it in the image of the far-right. Six months in, Trump is executing this plan step-for-step.

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Aalborg zoo wants donations of unwanted pets. The cats are hungry. The Aalborg Zoo has beasts to feed, and chickens and certainly horses make fine eating for captive predators.

Aalborg zoo wants donations of unwanted #pets. The cats are hungry. - boingboing.net/2025/08/04/a... "The animals are gently euthanized by trained staff and are afterwards used as fodder." I predict an outcry...

Lyft and China's Baidu look to bring robotaxis to Europe next year | TechCrunch The companies want to launch the robotaxi services in Germany and the U.K. first, pending regulatory approval.

#Lyft and #China’s #Baidu look to bring #robotaxis to Europe next year - techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/l... yeah, sure, why not..._

Is 3I/ATLAS, the latest interstellar object, an alien spaceship? If you assume that 3I/ATLAS is in fact a hostile alien spacecraft intent on our death, destruction or assimilation, then that's what it is.

Is 3I/ATLAS, the latest #interstellar object, an alien spaceship? - boingboing.net/2025/08/04/i... "3I/ATLAS, the recently discovered interstellar interloper, has displayed various anomalous characteristics, determined from photometric and astrometric observations."

this initiative seems worthwhile...

By the way, lads. We're on the clock...

We Will Not Be Complicit In The Destruction Of Our Own Communities How Texas Democrats are putting their bodies between us and authoritarianism.

Breaking quorum is permitted by the Texas Constitution.

If there is a chance of saving the remnants of representative democracy we will have to do some things. Texas Dems are doing some things. Stand with them. Here’s a very good piece by @lonestarleft.com. www.lonestarleft.com/p/we-will-no...

171. Partisan Gerrymandering After Rucho The Supreme Court isn't responsible for partisan gerrymandering. But current events in Texas underscore how much its 2019 ruling in Rucho has left (some) states free to radically abuse the practice.

#SCOTUS may not be directly responsible for what's happening right now in Texas.

But the Court's 5-4 2019 ruling in Rucho necessarily cleared the way for legislatures in at least some states to race to the bottom when it comes to maximizing partisan political advantage.

Me, in today's "One First":

'Only appropriate way': On Tisha b'Av, these Israelis mourned Palestinian suffering too ***

Rather than gather in their local synagogues to read the Book of Lamentations, as is customary on the fast of Tisha B'Av, a group of Israeli activists visited different sites of destruction and demolition – mostly Palestinian villages.

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Freedom To Report : Gaza Mission media enquiries: gazapressmission@pm.me Instagram The Issue What’s happening in Gaza today reveals a far broader crisis: the erosion of press freedom as a pillar of democracy. The people most directly...

I have signed this petition alongside more than 200 of my colleagues demanding Israel allow the foreign press into Gaza immediately with no restrictions.

I urge my colleagues to join me in signing it below:

freedomtoreport.org

American Jews’ Support for Israel Is Near Its Breaking Point The big legacy groups remain mostly silent. But nearly everyone else now agrees: Netanyahu’s Gaza war is one of the great catastrophes in Jewish history.

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First-of-its-kind footage captures bizarre sea creatures flourishing in extreme depths of the ocean Scientists have filmed odd communities of life flourishing deeper in the ocean than ever before. The chemosynthesis-based life-forms get their energy from chemical reactions, powered by gases seeping ...

Don't mess with #Biodiversity we don't understand: #NoDeepSeaMining

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"The tablet was mentioned in a publication by esteemed Assyriologist Samuel Noah Kramer in the 1950s, though it was not fully studied until Matuszak’s recent research. The text conveys a tale of how the Sumerian storm god Ishkur was trapped in the netherworld, causing chaos on earth due to the lack of rain. Ishkur’s father Enlil, the king of the gods, summons a divine assembly and asks one of the gathered deities to retrieve Ishkur. No gods volunteer, but, surprisingly, a lone fox does. The fox slyly enters and maneuvers through the underworld on its journey, but the broken tablet unfortunately ends the narrative"

Wake up honey new Sumerian underworld myth just dropped, translated by the Assyriologist Jana Matuszak!

This is a really, really important story, which is why I provided a gift link. Many people, when they think of higher education, think of elite universities. But most higher education is nonselective (i.e., they admit everyone), and a lot of it is community colleges.