Recent antitrust fervor is millionaire-on-billionaire violence. By Cory Doctorow. pluralistic.net/2025/08/0…
RFK Jr. wants a wearable on every America. That future’s not as healthy as he thinks. www.theverge.com/analysis/…
Victoria Song talks from personal experience how wearables can lead to obsessive thinking and create more problems than they solve. “My first three years with wearables wrecked my relationship with food.”
Song doesn’t even mention other important issues: RFK Jr. is a malevolent lunatic, possibly more dangerous than even Trump. RFK’s deranged theories about health could potentially kill millions of people. And he wants to put a surveillance device on every American.
One of the oldest known archeological sites on Earth, 12,000-year-old Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, meets up with conspiracy theorists and Joe Rogan. www.kpbs.org/news/inte…
Trump’s attack on Intel is a big dumb distraction. By my colleague Diana Goovaerts on Fierce Network. www.fierce-network.com/cloud/op-…
ChatGPT5 and other leading GenAI chatbots still fail hilariously at simple tasks like drawing maps and timelines of U.S. Presidents. But not always. www.theregister.com/2025/08/0…
On Reddit: What are some weird things you do at your desk because you WFH and would never do in the office? reddit.com/r/WFH/com…
Me: Nostril excavation. I’m a nose-pickin fiend. Gotta remember to keep my fingers away from my beezer when I’m on a video call.
A judge threw out the sex harassment suit against ex-San Diego county supervisor Nathan Fletcher. timesofsandiego.com/crime/202…
ChatGPT is bringing back 4o as an option because people missed it. People said ChatGPT 4o was their only friend. www.theverge.com/news/7569…
Masked government-employed thugs harassed and threatened a couple of American citizens for the crime of being brown while driving around looking for places they might want to go camping sometime. www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loca…
The couple, George and Esmeralda Doilez, voted for Trump in 2020 and 2024, and say they are surprised by his extremism.