State fairs, celebrations of local artistry, are drowning in AI-generated art
The prevalence of AI at festivals and fairs has even sparked a micro TikTok trend, with users attending local fairs and festivals and compiling sightings of “AI slop.”Continue Reading
How an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal reignited a debate about AI use in newsrooms
News outlets are being flooded with AI-written news articles. How should publishers respond to the stories?Continue Reading
FACT CHECK: Pia Cayetano quote on recent class suspensions is fake
Claim: Senator Pia Cayetano said that frequent class suspensions are affecting students’ education, and suggested that they should swim through floodwaters to attend classes. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: The quote stemmed from the TikTok account of PH Daily Inquiry uploaded on August 17. The account has around 1,000Continue Reading
Foreign Spies Don’t Need to Hack You Anymore
Andy Burnham was a few weeks into the job as the new Prime Minister of the UK when he found himself exchanging messages with someone claiming to be Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff. The exchange, first reported by Politico last week, was brief and apparently trivial. BurnhamContinue Reading
The Sovereign AI Tokenomics Trap
For US allies, the combination of geopolitics, ever-expanding risk surface and an unsustainable dependence on hyperscale cloud providers has created significant excitement about the potential value of AI data centers and sovereign digital infrastructure. Many of those nations and critical infrastructure owners are now starting to realize that the token,Continue Reading
Democrats Just Might Win the Senate
Strategists in both parties have long thought that everything would need to go right for Democrats to take over Congress this fall. Their map, though, is becoming more forgiving.Continue Reading
Waffle House Teleporter Gregg Phillips Is Still on the The Traitor Administration’s Payroll
In June, a FEMA official infamous for claiming to have teleported to a Waffle House was reportedly ousted. He’s still employed by the government, though—and meeting with a The Traitor fixer.Continue Reading
At least 98 killed and hundreds missing after flash floods in Nepal and China
The disaster is linked to climate change, with experts noting the region’s vulnerability to extreme weather. (Image credit: Niranjan Shrestha)Continue Reading
A Brief Look at the Wisconsin Gubernatorial Primary
The seven-candidate Democratic field is second largest in state history and includes four of the 12 major party candidacies for the office by women Wisconsin’s Democratic primary to vie for the seat of retiring Governor Tony Evers has entertained political observers with enough twists and turns worthy of a soapContinue Reading
The Worst of The Worst
Well damn, we sure feel safer knowing ICE pulled 5-year-old Liam Tadeo and his construction worker dad Victor off Austin’s streets on their way to a soccer game before Liam could start kindergarten the next day; also that they were held at a family concentration camp, ICE refused to letContinue Reading
Headlines for August 26, 2026
Iran Announces That It’s Resuming Negotiations with Oman over Strait of Hormuz, Palestinians Hold Vigil for Journalists Killed in Israeli Strike a Year Ago, Israeli Forces Storm Major UNRWA Facility in Occupied East Jerusalem, Far-Right Israeli Lawmaker Destroys Limestone Monument in Occupied West Bank, U.S. Delists Syria as a StateContinue Reading
A hidden Ubuntu feature I use to tidy up my desktop
Ubuntu’s Desktop Icons NG (DING) extension has a little-known way to bring order to a chaotic desktop: stacks. Stacks groups multiple files of the same type in a collapsible icon, e.g. images in one stack, PDFs in another and so on. Folders don’t get grouped, and if there is onlyContinue Reading
Meta’s plans to replace workers with AI fell flat, report says
Earlier this year, Meta, one of the industry’s loudest AI advocates, was ready to slash up to 60% of the members of some teams and replace them with AI, as part of what it called Project OT (Organization Transformation), an initiative to make Meta “AI native.” But it backed offContinue Reading












