Saturday, July 26, 2025

Today's news and jokes















(A write-up)







Page One in Scotland.

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM




Another officer says, “They’re starting to resist more now,” to which an officer replies: “We’re going to end up shooting some of them.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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— Sarah Smith (@sarahesmith23.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
("Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use 'funny' and quipping: 'You can smell that … $30,000 bonus.'")



“I was threatened with being referred to the FBI... They also threatened to stain my record so I would never get a job again. They also threatened with an extended detention if I didn’t give them the passwords to the student information or to my district files."

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— Chris Morran (@themorrancave.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 4:34 AM
(“I asked whether I was being detained, and she said 'You’re not being detained,'" [the superintendent] said. "I said, 'Then can I go?' And she said, 'No, you may not go.'")







What happens if courts start finding this invalidates cases brought by her office?

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— Mike Jensen (@mikejjensen.bsky.social) July 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM




Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy has sent his first communique to the agency's workforce

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— Tim Fernholz (@timfernholz.com) July 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM




Small/weird detail: the mic flags in the NELK Boys interview with Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this week are advertising Happy Dad, their hard seltzer brand.

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— Dave Infante (@dinfontay.com) July 25, 2025 at 7:36 AM

Happy Dad has been remarkably successful, in some part because of the NELK Boys massive social-media footprint. They've been in the tank for Trump since at least 2020, as I detailed in this 2024 column for Fingers:

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— Dave Infante (@dinfontay.com) July 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM




NEW: Some Republicans push to undo gambling tax hike they passed in Trump's megabill House tax-writing W&M Chair Jason Smith told me Wednesday it was a “mistake” by the Senate and needs to be undone. TED CRUZ wants it gone: "None of us knew about it" www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
(“Nobody really takes responsibility for introducing it,” Cruz said. “None of us knew about it. It’s a very big, beautiful bill, and so there are lots of provisions there that at the end, things were moving very fast. I don’t know of anyone who was aware of the provision at the time it passed.”)







Texas state legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom (@governor.ca.gov) met in Sacramento on Friday to discuss a national political fight over electoral maps that could alter the outcome of the 2026 midterm elections: www.latimes.com/california/s...

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— Laura J. Nelson (@laurajnelson.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
("At the urging of President Trump, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called his state Legislature into a special session this week that includes a call to redistrict the Lone Star State to help Republicans pick up seats in Congress. The move is part of a gerrymandering effort pushed by Trump to prevent the GOP from losing control of the House of Representatives next year.")









Vietnam will purchase helicopters from the U.S. for its police force, as Hanoi—historically reliant on Russian weaponry—deepens its partnership with Washington. Reuters also stated that Vietnam is negotiating with Lockheed Martin over the purchase of C-130 aircraft. www.newsweek.com/vietnam-russ...

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— Ryan Chan 陳家翹 (@kakiuchan.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM








This is funny, and I DO recommend having a VPN. But when I was given options for proving age, it gave me the option to just look at my face through my phone camera and guesstimate if I was old, before deleting the photo. My face is easily googled, so fuck it. First try, it didn't think I was real.

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— Dominic Tarason (@dominictarason.com) July 25, 2025 at 4:34 AM


Oh my god

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— Voraciousopolis (@voraciousopolis.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM








Schemes to validate adults and their IDs are possible but they will NOT be run by those capable. All private data exposure is itself a breach already.

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— SwiftOnSecurity (@swiftonsecurity.com) July 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM








Every time I look at Youtube in Incognito mode, I am exposed to new horrors. Today, a minute-long ad where an AI-generated grandpa rambles in a mechanical monotone about how you don't need hearing aids, just to wave spoons past your ears to cure hearing problems. This is Youtube Default for many.

— Dominic Tarason (@dominictarason.com) July 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM






Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit. It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.

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— Paris Marx (@parismarx.com) July 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM




An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

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— Clara Murray (@claradoodle.bsky.social) July 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM

While you're here please read my article at this paywall free link!! Is AI killing graduate jobs? - on.ft.com/3TWSU0I via @FT

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— Clara Murray (@claradoodle.bsky.social) July 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM








I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.

— Gareth Watkins (@garethwatkins.bsky.social) July 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM








He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

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— Jim Waterson (@jim.londoncentric.media) July 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM








not to "ruin" tmz for you (lol) but real american beer was *pitching* this story to journalists today. i saw the press release come through and it was one of the grimmer things i've laid eyes on in 15 years of covering the beer industry. which is why i did not write about it!

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— Dave Infante (@dinfontay.com) July 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM








(“They did clear the stands unbeknownst to me,” crew chief ... said)







They ran a TV ad *during Wheel of Fortune* once and I’ve thought about it every day since.

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— Oscar Goff (@theoscargoff.bsky.social) May 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM

OH MY GOD I FOUND IT. My jaw was HANGING open!

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— Oscar Goff (@theoscargoff.bsky.social) May 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM








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Seared my arm hair off and sizzled our eyeballs but all good

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