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* It’s not just Figma https://economicpopulist.substack.com/p/its-not-just-figma

* These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency https://www.propublica.org/article/cfpb-budget-cuts-gop-darrell-issa-john-cornyn

* The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

* AI Is A Money Trap https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/

* Precarious Employment in Precarious Futures https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/precarious-employment-in-precarious-futures/

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* If you oppose the State of Israel, this post is not for you https://coreyrobin.com/2025/08/04/if-you-oppose-the-state-of-israel-this-post-is-not-for-you/

* Vote for the 2025 Tiny Awards Winner https://tinyawards.net/vote/

* In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/ (h/t Naked Capitalism)

* Debt's Grip Now Available! https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2025/08/debts-grip-now-available.html

* No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive https://colton.dev/blog/curing-your-ai-10x-engineer-imposter-syndrome/

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#10yrsago David Byrne explains the streaming music ripoff https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/opinion/sunday/open-the-music-industrys-black-box.html

#10yrsago The only furniture you need is a single smooth stone that reminds you of your mother https://web.archive.org/web/20150809132854/http://the-toast.net/2015/02/24/get-rid-clutter-live-abundantly/

#10yrsago WATCH: Elizabeth Warren rescues Planned Parenthood, excoriates misogynist GOP creeps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeilHs9kZ2g

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* Xiaomi users stole their phones from the service center to unlock the bootloader https://xiaomitime.com/xiaomi-users-stole-their-phones-from-the-service-center-to-unlock-the-bootloader-58781/ (h/t Ishan)

* AI Agents have, so far, mostly been a dud https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/ai-agents-have-so-far-mostly-been (h/t Naked Capitalism)

* USAID Shield Shirts https://usaid-shirts.netlify.app/

* The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mothership-vortex-an-investigation

* FULL HOPE SCHEDULE IS LIVE https://www.2600.com/content/full-hope-schedule-live

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#10yrsago Proof-of-concept firmware worm targets Apple computers https://www.wired.com/2015/08/researchers-create-first-firmware-worm-attacks-macs/

#10yrsago What happened when we got subpoenaed over our Tor exit node https://memex.craphound.com/2015/08/04/what-happened-when-we-got-subpoenaed-over-our-tor-exit-node/

#10yrsago EFF and coalition announce new Do Not Track standard for the Web https://www.eff.org/press/releases/coalition-announces-new-do-not-track-standard-web-browsing

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#10yrsago NSA conducted commercial espionage against Japanese government and businesses https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/wikileaks-says-us-spied-on-another-ally----this-time-japan/2015/07/31/893e1207-9b4e-4c88-80ad-c8eb79f8df2e_story.html

#10yrsago Windows 10 defaults to keylogging, harvesting browser history, purchases, and covert listening https://www.bgr.com/general/windows-10-upgrade-spying-how-to-opt-out/

#10yrsago UK ECHELON journalist: “Snowden proved spies need accountability” https://theintercept.com/2015/08/03/life-unmasking-british-eavesdroppers/

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* How 'paper terrorism' hijacked a state system with bogus claims https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-30/fake-filings-real-consequences-how-paper-terrorism-is-burying-a-state-system-with-bogus-claims (h/t Super Punch)

* The Right of Return, from Arkansas to Israel https://coreyrobin.com/2025/08/02/the-right-of-return-from-arkansas-to-israel/

* We Need a Strategy to Win Zohran’s Agenda. Call It Plan Z. https://jacobin.com/2025/08/zohran-bernie-party-power-strategy/

* Bottom of the Rabbit Hole https://welovetheswitch.com/theswitch/episodes/

* The Ancient Order of Bali https://www.damninteresting.com/the-ancient-order-of-bali/ (h/t Pete Harbeson)

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* Technically Radical: On the Unrecognized Potential of Tech Workers and Hackers https://wedontagree.net/technically-radical-on-the-unrecognized-potential-of-tech-workers-and-hackers (h/t Danny O'Brien)

* Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens The Floodgates To U.S. Surveillance https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/30/canadas-bill-c-2-opens-the-floodgates-to-u-s-surveillance/ (h/t Naked Capitalism)

* Epic just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again https://www.theverge.com/news/716856/epic-v-google-win-in-appeals-court

* Once Upon a KATAMARI https://www.gematsu.com/games/once-upon-a-katamari

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