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Last Days, by Fake Estates 2 track album

Reminds me of childhood memories where everything was as fresh as the bright blue sky. fakeestates.bandcamp.com/album/last-d... via @philipsherburne.bsky.social's newsletter.

If you can’t trust the fish doorbell…

Really not good!

Note from the editors: ProPublica is publishing the names of the two federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of Minnesota protester Alex Pretti. We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed. The Department of Justice said it is investigating the incident, but the names of the two agents have been withheld from Congress and from state and local law enforcement. The policy of shielding officers’ identities, particularly after a public shooting, is a stark departure from standard law enforcement protocols, according to lawmakers, state attorneys general and former federal officials. Such secrecy, in our view, deprives the public of the most fundamental tool for accountability.

A note from our editors:

The whistleblower, for his part, worked to amp up the pressure. He told me he had shared the document with other reporters, putting me into a competitive crunch. He asked when I thought I would publish. I asked him if he could point me to any current or former coworkers of his who could help me understand the document better. “Not really,” he said. By this point, alarm bells were starting to ring. I wondered if the employee badge the whistleblower had shared with me might have been AI-generated. While AI systems are notoriously unreliable at identifying their own outputs, Google Gemini can detect SynthID watermarks embedded in images that it produces. I uploaded the badge to Gemini and asked if Gemini had made it. “Most or all of this image was edited or generated with Google AI,” it said.

The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age of AI www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...

“Frosty the Snowman” is the saddest of sad bangers. 🎩💀

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

This could be useful when you get to photoblogs! (Toots own horn.) petapixel.com/2011/03/03/i...

This is bonkers.

I have had a similar reaction to magazines: wow, excellent resolution, no latency.

There was one in the basement of our apartment in Amsterdam when we moved in and it took me a while to figure out that it wasn’t a decorative… something.

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

this is why layout matters

Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”

NEW: We asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies.

The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”

Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists: Adrian Holovaty added ASCII tab importing to Soundslice to avoid user complaints and confusion, but has mixed feelings about it https://www.holovaty.com/writi

www.lightningfield.com/05/04/061059...

Screenshot of lightningfield.com on April 15, 2005

lightningfield.com on April 15, 2005
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They’re Over 80. You Can Find Them in the Club.

That time @jggross.bsky.social went out clubbing with a pack of senior Belgians. It's good for you! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...

Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner

SCOOP: Less than 3 weeks before Trump pardoned Paul Walczak, his mother, Elizabeth Fago, attended a $1M/head fundraiser with Trump at Mar-a-Lago for MAGA Inc.

Walczak's pardon application emphasized Fago's financial support for Trump, & her connection to a plot to publicize Ashley Biden's diary.

Sorry @ashleevance.bsky.social

I tried the phone number. Still works!

I need BeeBot!

People of all ages and abilities ride bicycles along a green- and orange coloured dedicated and elevated cycle path in Beijing.

People of all ages and abilities ride bicycles along a green- and orange coloured dedicated and elevated cycle path in Beijing.

People of all ages and abilities ride bicycles along a green- and orange coloured dedicated and elevated cycle path in Beijing.

People of all ages and abilities ride bicycles along a green- and orange coloured dedicated and elevated cycle path in Beijing.

If there are Seven Cycling Wonders of the World, then Beijing’s elevated bike expressway deserves to be near the top of that list: a six-metre wide, 5.4-km long piece of show-stopping infrastructure that is quickly become an important form of transportation and recreation for 12,000 users each day.🧵

Anyone can make a Mickey movie now. So far they're all terrible horror films.

They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed. Three users who disagreed with the site’s owner saw views for their posts plummet.

I really appreciate news stories that take a phenomenon we all generally implicitly understand or assume but don't have any hard data or evidence for, then meticulously prove it. Well done @stuartathompson.bsky.social.

Old newspaper cutting: a photo of some people standing around for some reason, plus text: PETERBOROUGH STANDARD — Friday, April 18th, 1980 The memories live on CROWLAND’S Silver Jubilee committee was finally wound up on Thursday evening with a presentation ceremony at the library.. The Jubilee fund, described by chairman Frank Parnell as ‘one of the finest efforts in Lincolnshire’, fremony at the library. The Jubilee fund,. described by chairman Frank Parnet s ‘one remony atremony are sony at the library. The jubremony at the library. Tremony at remony at the library. Thrremony at tremony at the liremony at the libraremony at the library. Theremony at the library. The Jubilee fund, described by chairman, Frank Premony rremony at the remony aremony at the libremony atremony at tremony at the library. Tremorremony at the library.remony at the library. The Jubilee fund, described by chairman Frank Parnell as ‘one of the finest efforts in Lincolnshire’, fn he latched onto a through ball. Although be was hauled down by the keeper he still managed to stroke the ball home. But for the second week running Durant had to leave the field injured, this time suffering eye trouble. The winning goal was another 25-yard shot — again from Blackstones’ central defender — coming from their second chance of the game. Gary Cooper, recently signed from Old Boys, had a good debut.

Well, as I’m sure you all know, we mark something important today. Yes: happy 45th anniversary of the thrremony at tremony at the liremony at the libraremony to all who celebrate

A poster that reads 'GEFELICITEERD [aka happy birthday] FIONA' with a watercolor profile of a woman, next to a canal in Amsterdam.

Off topic: The kids and I made something fun. fionaproject.com

For about a year, I worked with a retired British academic named Alasdair Spark to solve a mystery: where did the original photo from the end of The Shining come from, and where/when was it captured?
Last week, we finally found the answer.
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Only at the scale of the city itself.