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Morning Spew: Cuomo Tries to Sh*tpost His Way to Victory The former governor has a new online persona, and a new housing policy. And other news for your Monday.

Andrew Cuomo has a new social media team. In the last week and a half, the former-governor's X account—once populated with policy boasts and handshake photos—appears to have been taken over by an acerbic, millennial attack dog.

Tiny Bookshop: a green cart by the beach, with customers coming inside to buy books

Recommending books is the best part of Tiny Bookshop
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THEY'RE JUST *AROUND* LIKE WTF

A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors, but says it can file further challenges (Sam Tobin/Reuters)

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Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.

Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.

#NotATarget

Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

Nvidia and AMD agree to pay 15% of China chip sales to U.S. government The arrangement is highly unusual as U.S. tech export controls are usually based on national security imperatives rather than whether they can raise funds for Washington.

All of the Trump administration's scary national-security concerns about selling AI chips to China have faded away with a simple 15% cut of the action www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Sickening. Every journalist in America should think deeply about the fact that most American politicians are willing to accept and indeed facilitate the murder of our colleagues.

Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif killed in Israeli attack in Gaza City Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif has been killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside Al-Shifa hospital.

It's Time To Make Your Own Pizza - Aftermath You can do it at home, don't listen to the haters

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this is a lovely/sad story--i love the work you do to show how these laws live on the ground <3

A family opened a town’s first bookstore. A bathroom bill is driving them away. The Phelans ran the only bookstore in Vermillion, South Dakota. They sold it and moved after a new law would’ve required their daughter to use a boy’s bathroom.

Anti-trans laws don’t only affect trans people and their families. In Vermillion, South Dakota, a bathroom ban nearly cost a town its only bookstore. Then a young trans couple stepped up. My latest for @washingtonpost.com — wapo.st/4m3PuFP

Moby Dick in a 1902 edition I. W. Taber - Moby Dick - edition: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York Illustration of the final chase of Moby-Dick. Moby Dick, the great white whale, dominates the composition — massive, pale, and thrashing as it battles Captain Ahab's whaleboats. The whale is shown lunging or rearing from the ocean, its enormous body twisting, eyes fierce, and mouth open in defiance. The water surges violently around it, emphasizing the force of its movement. Around Moby Dick, tiny whaleboats are depicted — fragile and dwarfed by the whale’s size. Sailors are shown in disarray; some clinging to the boats, others tossed into the sea. Captain Ahab, distinguishable by his grim posture and harpoon, caught in the fatal moment of his obsession. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#/media/File:Moby_Dick_final_chase.jpg

With A Boat And Some Help, You Can Read Moby Dick In A Day

'All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad'

By Riley MacLeod

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Moby Dick at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701

#Books #Literature

lol ugh come on life is hard enough

I like when the plot summaries of new horror movies finally go up on Wikipedia so I can understand what you all are posting about without actually having to see a horror movie

Salesforce Is Using A Hallucination To Sell AI | Defector A lot is happening in the world of artificial intelligence, and not a lot of it makes sense. We’re told that AI is the future of business, yet it is wildly unprofitable; investment in AI companies is ...

It feels like a weirdo, "regular person" version of that Salesforce ad, like there's some massive logic hole in the middle we're just supposed to gloss over. Would love to know what it's like in the writer's room of these ads lol, I'm sure they're not easy to write
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YouTube video by Microsoft Copilot Curious Questions? Get fun facts with Microsoft Copilot

I got served this copilot ad on a cooking video and I'm obsessed. From most angles, it looks like the snail is winning, but AI says it won't, so they give up? AI has actively ruined their fun? It hasn't actually led to ice cream in a meaningful way?
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How Silicon Valley and Big Business Created The Next Lost Generation The kids aren't alright.

My latest newsletter is about how big tech and big business has guaranteed that the next generation to enter the workforce will be poorer, less secure, and lonelier.

And why every generation that follows will be a lost generation.

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one can't help but notice the PC *on the desk* in this image

What I like about this is that I've read it multiple times and I still have no idea what happened at the party besides... drinking and talking, a staple of parties

Boycott Microsoft. I am no longer asking Hey y’all, I am deep in the weeds putting together No Escape’s first major retrospective right now, a book I’m calling Escape Velocity, so I haven’t really been playing many…

I feel like this is pretty self-explanatory.

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TikTok sea shanties were a fad, but Assassin’s Creed sea shanties are eternal, according to sea shanty performers @rcmacleod.bsky.social talked to

Please Stop Quitting Before I Can Revive You - Kotaku I’m not the most aggressive battle royale player, but I put a lot of effort into supporting my team. I stick close to my squad, share my loot, and heal my

lol the eternal struggle kotaku.com/please-stop-...

hahaha yyyeessss

hi. looking to speak to folks in the games industry getting put through the wringer in the job application process rn. unpaid labour, multiple interviews only to get ghosted, sham job listings, scams, AI screening, any and all of that kinda stuff. DM or email at lukeATaftermathDOTsite, thank you!

haha a lot of people are promoting the "attach it to your desk" method!

Wait, Are We Not All Keeping Our PCs On Top Of Our Desks Riley MacLeod Of Course I Put My PC On The Floor, What Am I, An Idiot Luke Plunkett

I love our stupid website

Age Verification Is Sweeping Gaming. Is It Ready for the Age of AI Fakes? Discord users are already using video game characters to bypass the UK’s age-check laws. AI deepfakes could make things even more complicated.

Does age verification actually work? AI critics are skeptical. Users are tricking these systems with video game characters. “All you are doing by putting these laws into place is pushing young people towards corners of the internet the government can't police." www.wired.com/story/age-ve...

Two posts: one reads "Wait, are we not all keeping our PCs on top of our desks?" with a reply that says "Of course I put my PC on the floor, what am I, an idiot?"

The duality of man