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* Apple’s Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/

* Auditors can’t save carbon offsets https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4864 (h/t Slashdot)

* A course on political analysis based on these social media posts https://www.superpunch.net/2025/07/a-course-on-political-analysis-based-on.html

* The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work https://www.404media.co/the-medias-pivot-to-ai-is-not-real-and-not-going-to-work/

* Banking the Unbanked* https://fintechdystopia.com/chapters/chapter3.html

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* FCC will allow prison phone gougers years of ripoffs https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/07/18/fcc-vote/

* Mitch Kapor finally completes MIT Master's after 45-year detour https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/30/mitch_kapor_mba/

* Ted Chiang on Superintelligence and Its Discontents https://lithub.com/ted-chiang-on-superintelligence-and-its-discontents-in-j-d-beresfords-innovative-work-of-early-20th-century-science-fiction/ (h/t Kottke)

* AI warnings are the hip new way for CEOs to keep workers afraid of losing jobs https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/18/business/ai-warnings-ceos (h/t Ed Zitron)

* Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup/AI catchphrases https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases

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* How Bezos and Sánchez’s Venetian Bacchanal Delivered a Pitch-Perfect Ad for Socialism https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-jeff-bezos-and-lauren-sanchezs-venetian-bacchanal-delivered-a-pitch-perfect-ad-for-socialism/ (h/t Metafilter)

* Facebook’s Enshittification Continues Apace by Penalizing Link Posts https://opus.ing/posts/facebooks-enshittification-continues-apace-penalizing-link-posts (h/t Roz Doctorow)

* Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach https://global.oup.com/academic/product/law-and-technology-9780197526149

* Stop Destroying Videogames https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

* Fall '25 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Politics & Current Events https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/98114-fall-2025-fiction-nonfiction-preview-politics-current-events.html

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* What's a democratic socialist? https://coreyrobin.com/2025/06/26/what-is-a-democratic-socialist/

* Republicans flagged more often than Dems for sharing misinformation on X’s Community Notes https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2502053122 (h/t Marginal Revolution)

* Emergency decontamination tool for Chemical Crowd Control Agent (CCCA) exposure and app for protestor mobilization https://nedc.mesausa.org/team/california-2025/ (h/t Ray Gulick)

* Promises The Trump Phone Would Be ‘Made In USA’ Lasted 1/100th Of A Scaramucci https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/27/promises-the-trump-phone-would-be-made-in-usa-lasted-1-100th-of-a-scaramucci/

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* Jailbroken: A Story of Corporate Overreach, Police Abuse of Power, and Modern Tech https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-selfpublished-author-spread-his-story

* Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser – The Blockbuster to End All Blockbusters https://nordiclarp.org/2025/06/20/star-wars-galactic-starcruiser-the-blockbuster-to-end-all-blockbusters/

* MIT student prints AI polymer masks to restore paintings in hours https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/mit-student-prints-ai-polymer-masks-to-restore-paintings-in-hours/

* Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice https://theonion.com/letter-to-congress/

* Dems’ Crypto Schemers Have Entered The Chat https://www.levernews.com/dems-crypto-schemers-have-entered-the-chat/?utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=social-link&utm_campaign=social-link-buffer

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* The Stark Fist of Removal (1982) in book form with many new extras https://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/books.htm

* Scrambled Eggs and Paralyzed Policy: Breaking Up Consummated Mergers and Dominant Firms https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3736613 (h/t Matt Stoller)

* The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo: a treatise https://www.patreon.com/posts/mcmansionization-126873692

* SnapNotSell https://snapnotsell.netlify.app

* Engineered Estrangement https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/engineered-estrangement-an-interview

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* Don't Rank Cuomo, the game https://radiatoryang.itch.io/cuomo (h/t Super Punch)

* FTC competition comment jointly submitted by EFF and Authors Alliance https://www.eff.org/files/2025/06/05/ftc_competition_comment_jointly_submitted_by_eff_and_authorsalliance.pdf

* McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC https://mcmansionhell.com/post/786540193484341248/mcmansion-hell-urges-all-new-yorkers-to-rank

* Arbitration Information https://arbitrationinformation.org/docs/problems/

* Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/apple-australians-youre-too-stupid-choose-your-own-apps

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* Corporate Lawlessness Comes Next https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/corporate-lawlessness-comes-next

* Deconstructing Housing https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/76/deconstructing-housing/

* What Happens When Private Equity Owns Your Kid’s Day Care https://jacobin.com/2025/04/private-equity-day-care-childcare/

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