Article link: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/11/headlines/noaa_july_was_the_hottest_month_ever_documented_in_the_us

I actually came back to ask “is that an Aerosmith ‘Livin On the Edge’ reference in the wild?!”

I loved it.

Companies may send emails to [companyname]@noreply.net or similar variations believing they aren’t going anywhere, or could not be monitored in any way. Broadly it’s also possible that they may transform a person’s individual email address to send to one of these placeholder style domains if someone leaves a company or deletes their account.

Damn. People are genuinely stupid.

The best part about this is that cars with combustion engines are worse for the environment in every way, just like adding lead to gasoline was.

No one cared about lead gasoline until corporations were forced to remove the it because of changing environmental standards in the 1970s.

Literally no one cared that it made a generation or two stupid. Or caused a bunch of other issues.

Because, after all, it saved them money! It helped their engines run great.

Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

I initially misread “soul” as “snout” and I like “snout” just as much.

Note that pretty much only the worst news sources are covering this right now and are intentionally using a misleading “Democratic house candidate” headline.

Honolulu Civil Beat is the only honest source so far who put “longshot” into the title.

This guy has been arrested three times this year and has restraining orders. He was never an actual “candidate.”

Several people have taken out temporary restraining orders against him, including Maui County Council member Thomas Cook, who said he was worried about his personal safety and for his staff after Basin disrupted a meeting in May.

Cook said Basin “became aggressive and confrontational” and “threatened violence against the police” and a council ambassador.

Two days later, on May 29, reports circulated that Basin “brandished a weapon in a county office building in a confrontation with county employees.”

That was in May.

Midwestern solidarity folks

From the article:

the only people that even tried to help us were the people, the patrons that were standing outside

This is awesome, thank you for sharing!

I will never get enough DIY simulators. The more niche, the better!

It’s never about range. People who want fossil fuel cars will always find a reason to use one.

It’s about maintaining their own personal status quo, it has nothing to do with practicality.

This is delightful, thanks for pointing it out!

This is a new low for OpenAI!

It’s so shitty of these employees and OpenAI that I feel like I must be misreading. “Oddly personal”?! Their employees literally stole company secrets.

An Apple developer leaves to go to OpenAI. Days after they leave Apple, they realize they can still access files, so they start downloading.

The former employee(s) left a massive trail of texts, and OpenAI are releasing those texts… so they can say “it was a known flaw they didn’t fix, so…”

This is literally a “go to prison” crime, and OpenAI isn’t denying it happened at all.

But OpenAI claims that Apple’s own security lapses allowed Tan and Liu to access Apple’s systems, and that this was a previously known issue.

OpenAI also released what it says are text messages between Liu and Apple employees after he left Apple. The messages show Liu’s correspondence with an unknown Apple employee on his last day at Apple, arranging file transfers. The texts continue after that day, addressing file transfer issues and seeking Liu’s advice on redacted Apple projects despite Liu no longer working there. OpenAI says that Apple’s “residual access” issues let Tan, Liu and other former Apple employees improperly access company files.

Apple also referred to Liu’s text messages, which it included in its preliminary injunction filing, where Liu said he found a way to access the company’s third-party cloud storage system without authorization, to which he said: “LOL.” Apple claims he coached other Apple-to-OpenAI job hoppers on how to access Apple files in that way “to avoid trouble with the security team,” the filing says.

If they didn’t work at OpenAI they would be in jail. It says a lot about OpenAI as a company that these assholes might still work there.

Legitimately insane. I’m going to pretend I’m misreading it.

This is all insane, but the best part is that the complaint sounds so sensible.

Defendant did not inform [Figueroa] prior to his acceptance of Defendant’s offer of employment that the Comcast Store has a policy of subjecting Retail Sales Consultants to public assaults by co-workers at the direction of… the store manager-for the purpose of increasing Defendant’s sales and profitability,” the complaint contends.

So this poor person is literally like “look… I don’t even care if you do this to each other, I just wish you’d told me before I got hired.”

It took me a couple reads of the headline too! It’s a garden path sentence.

This feels remarkably dishonest.

This Futurism article completely ignores the human error that caused the crash, laid out by the original Wired article, the details of which are behind a paywall.

The pilots slowed their descent, even climbing a little, but it wasn’t enough. They kept flying straight toward the mountain. “When you are in that state of mind, you climb as high as you can,” Krentsa says. “And you circle. You stay in one place until you figure out where you are. You don’t just keep pressing forward, blindly.“

But that’s what the King Air pilots did. They flew straight into the rising slope and hit it at full speed. All four occupants died instantly.

“You don’t just keep pressing forward, blindly.” Oh yeah they did! It’s everyone else’s fault though.

Holy shit that image.

That’s the tackiest AI image I’ve seen yet.

How Rogue Officers Turned a Nationwide Camera Network Into a Tool for Stalking

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

Why does this sound like the authors are surprised? This has been happening for decades with license plates and finding addresses. This is how you know a journalist is truly shitty, by the way: they pretend they have amnesia.

Flock should literally have built protections in from the start. They only added protections when?

In April, the company rolled out a new voluntary “audit assistance” feature, which agencies can choose to enable, that automatically scans officers’ searches for suspicious activity, such as queries repeatedly targeting the same vehicle or run by officers off the clock.

In an interview with The Post, Flock chief executive Garrett Langley said misuse of its systems is inevitable

Thanks for waiting to add voluntary protections for regular people from the very worst of society! Very cool.

I agree with the article’s takeaway, but the sub-headline is making a dishonest extrapolation based on the information given.

When asked if anyone wanted to harm her daughter, her mother said “The whole f**king country” did.

This implies something the mother may not have intended to imply. The real quote is right in the article, and it involves context:

When a detective asked her parents whether anyone might have wanted to harm May, Thorpe responded that “A lot of America” did.

This is where an honest quote would stop! Note the difference to what was quoted in the sub-headline above. The “whole country” bit is in a different sentence, which involves context the author ignores.

“There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids,” an angry and grieving Pollard told the detective. “The whole f**king country. The whole f**king administration, every single f**king day.”

The beginning of the second sentence starts a new context, which is obvious by “there is a huge amount of animosity thrown at trans kids,” which to me implies that she’s talking about all over the country. Which is also accurate and correlates directly with her quote of “a lot of the country.”

But this author or organization took the question, and cherry-picked “The whole f**king country.”

At best it’s an honest misquote, but this kind of clickbait is infuriating no matter who does it.

Shut up, she lives in Canada, you wouldn’t know her. She goes to a different school!

Yep! I saw and rewatched tons of movies this way as a kid. We had two VCRs and my stepdad copied most of what we watched for a handful of years, but I can’t remember when exactly it started. We had Road House on a copied tape, so it was likely in the early 90s.

He also had some copied Betamax tapes from the 80s too, so he was a pretty early adopter of piracy. I first saw Labyrinth on Betamax!

Booster Gold” was one of the first projects announced by James Gunn when he took over creative control of DC Studios, naming it one of the shows that would be part of the DCU’s first chapter, “Gods and Monsters.”

I remember hearing about this and thinking “that’s a bad idea!”

I like Booster Gold, but to me he should probably stay in the comics. A lot of stuff should.