Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Today's news and jokes

Sam Neill should have won an Oscar for this “help I’m being attacked by an invisible Chevy Chase” scene with a stupid looking plastic gun taped to the side of his head

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— Mike Ryan (@mikeryan.bsky.social) July 13, 2026 at 3:38 AM














NEW: SFPD left livestreams from their drones on the open web. Researchers Sam Curry and Maik Robert discovered the videos, captured 60 from ~20 flights, and shared them w/ @wired.com—revealing how invasive this surveillance can be. @agreenberg.bsky.social & @dmehro.bsky.social w/ the scoop:

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— Andrew Couts (@couts.bsky.social) July 13, 2026 at 5:34 AM








The suggestion is it's a pro-Israel group selling gas at a loss in the districts of vulnerable Republican congresssmen







You know democracy is "in a good place" when the person getting appointed to fill 1 of just 100 Senate seats has a Wikipedia page that did not exist before today and got published 6 minutes ago

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— Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) July 13, 2026 at 3:05 PM
("Trump publicly urged the governor to appoint Graham’s 'wonderful sister'")















("StubHub CEO is helping fund mass scalpers on his own platform")







Should I do a 🧵 on my just-published article on how one of the most trusted - and most expensive - antiquities dealers was faking the paperwork to make freshly looted artifacts look like they had long, legal ownership histories? I should. But I'm so tired. Tomorrow! hyperallergic.com/why-do-so-ma...

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— Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof.bsky.social) July 10, 2026 at 5:42 PM

A few days before Christmas 2016, a grey Land Rover paused in front of a bank of mirrored windows at this checkpoint on the border between France and Switzerland. What happened next revealed just how looted art worms its way into museums. A 🧵 about my article: hyperallergic.com/why-do-so-ma...

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— Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof.bsky.social) July 11, 2026 at 8:12 AM








("DC does not wish to support price-gouging of DC's customers", it "strongly encourages" a limit to five times the cover price for unsigfned books, ten times for autographed books, and DC says that they may discontinue future sales of exclusive variants to retailers that exceed those guidelines)







































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