British Columbia sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over Tumbler Ridge mass school shooting
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/22/british-columbia-sues-openai-sam-altman-tumbler-ridge-school-shooting?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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‘Literally growing the future’: volunteers help save Scottish rainforest by collecting 11m seeds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/29/growing-the-future-volunteers-help-save-scottish-rainforest-collecting-seeds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
A year into a national guard deployment, DC residents say they live in ‘a city under siege’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/18/washington-dc-national-guard-deployment?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D. | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/the-human-cost-of-doges-war-on-usaid?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_07122226&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_term=tny_daily_digest&bxid=6075fcd43eaffa323315ef6b&cndid=64211724&hasha=fd2e90b13179143a4cd68b8fc717a951&hashb=8f6b2b82df6c011b4a72db1adac3e15eb6f9a81f&hashc=efa89c2ca4d403f0d6af335ceb7089f3080862c5651d87cb627253e369276136&esrc=subscribe-page&mbid=CRMNYR012019
What went wrong in Israel? A genocide scholar examines ‘what Zionism became’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/omer-bartov-israel-zionism-genocide?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
What happens when private equity takes over a UK care home?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/28/private-equity-uk-public-services-care-homes-children?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Albanians in UK scapegoated by rightwing media and politicians, says ambassador
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/21/albanians-uk-scapegoated-rightwing-ambassador-uran-ferizi?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Emus once faced down the Australian army—and won | Popular Science
https://www.popsci.com/environment/emu-wars-australia/
Rubio Suggests U.S. Return to Global Vaccine Program in Rebuke of Kennedy https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/us/politics/rubio-kennedy-vaccines-gavi.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Deepfakes Are Coming for Your Bank Account - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/chatgpt-images-deepfakes-fraud/687023/
Politics Home | Train Teachers To Identify Antisemitism In Classrooms, Says Independent Advisor
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/train-teachers-in-identifying-antisemitism-says-lord-john-mann
#Antisemitism
Russian submarines ‘tried to spy on UK while world distracted by Iran’
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/russia-underwater-cables-submarines-healey-putin-szqgkn5xz
NYTimes: Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture.
Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/magazine/ai-apocalypse-brain-rot-memes.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Some Marines graduate without their parents present amid ICE fears
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/marines-graduation-ice-fears-parris-island-rcna266019
[The Washington Post] Trump administration’s secrecy on health deals alarms experts, governments
Trump administration’s secrecy on health deals alarms experts, governments
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/06/trump-global-health-deals/
Going to Europe This Summer? Good Luck. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/opinion/summer-travel-planes.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Finland is Europe’s most digitalised country – but older people are still left behind
https://theconversation.com/finland-is-europes-most-digitalised-country-but-older-people-are-still-left-behind-279901
When ICE Shows Up to Family Court - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/ice-deportation-domestic-violence-victims/686629/
Jon Lee Anderson: ‘America’s treatment of Afghanistan was...
https://observer.co.uk/culture/interviews/article/jon-lee-anderson-americas-treatment-of-afghanistan-was-morally-bankrupt
The right’s exploitation of the Ceuta migrant ‘crisis’ almost guarantees that it will happen again
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/03/right-exploitation-ceuta-migrant-crisis-happen-again-eu?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
[The Washington Post] He survived working for Elon Musk. Here’s how.
He survived working for Elon Musk. Here’s how.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/04/06/elon-musk-tesla-management-style/
ICE Agents Detain Newlywed Spouse of Soldier Training to Deploy https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/us/ice-detains-military-wife-soldier-deployment.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/us/fema-gregg-phillips-waffle-house-teleportation.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
NYTimes: What Trump Is Doing to the English Language
What Trump Is Doing to the English Language https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/opinion/trump-speech-language-verb.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
The Toll of a ‘Missing Scientists’ Conspiracy Theory on the Families Left Behind https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/science/missing-scientists-conspiracy-theory-families.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
She Helped the Authorities Deport Her Abuser. Then They Deported Her Back to Him. – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/u-visa-t-violence-against-women-act-ice-trump-deportation-lawsuit/
[The Washington Post] Viktor Orban’s illiberal nationalism has failed Hungary
Viktor Orban’s illiberal nationalism has failed Hungary
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/04/06/viktor-orban-hungary-election-trump/
Colombia convenes climate ‘coalition of the willing’ to break global fossil fuel deadlock
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/17/colombia-convenes-climate-coalition-of-the-willing-to-break-global-fossil-fuel-deadlock
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted
America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/opinion/project-2025-2029-democrats.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Operation Epic Fury, Meet Operation Colossal Blunder https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/opinion/iran-us-israel-war-drones-strait-of-hormuz.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Pushing Treatment, Trump Administration Limits Housing Aid for Homeless https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/us/politics/housing-first-homeless-hud.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
War Crimes Rhetoric to Battlefield Reality: Slippery Slope to Total War
https://www.justsecurity.org/135797/war-crimes-rhetoric-power-plants-iran/
Why was an Egyptian mummy stuffed with a fragment of Homer’s Iliad?
https://theconversation.com/why-was-an-egyptian-mummy-stuffed-with-a-fragment-of-homers-iliad-282190
NYTimes: Teaching in an American University Is Very Strange Right Now
Teaching in an American University Is Very Strange Right Now https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opinion/college-uncertainty.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Who Are the Victims of ‘Weaponization,’ According to Trump? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/02/us/trump-weaponization-political-victims-biden.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
On the pain of exile
Darde Ghorbat — Off Assignment
https://offassignment.com/noequivalent/yasmin-roshanian
NYTimes: A Novel as Slim as an iPhone Has a Lot to Say About Technology
A Novel as Slim as an iPhone Has a Lot to Say About Technology https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/books/review/ben-lerner-transcription.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
#BenLerner
Murder Case in Which Police Handcuffed Victim Fuels Outrage in Britain https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/world/europe/henry-nowak-murder-uk-stabbing.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
[The Washington Post] Their tiny church is on the cover of JD Vance’s new book. They don’t know him.
Their tiny church is on the cover of JD Vance’s new book. They don’t know him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/04/03/vance-book-cover-church-photograph/
White House Seeks to Impose Political Test on Billions in Federal Grants https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/us/politics/trump-budget-grants-omb-vought.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
‘We don’t have another country to run to’: Kenyans fear US plan for Ebola quarantine site
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/02/kenyans-fear-us-plan-for-ebola-quarantine-site?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Trump Has Failed as Commander in Chief https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/opinion/trump-corruption-allies.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Feeling Nihilistic? You’re Not Alone. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/opinion/american-dream-politics-negativity.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Farage cries ‘witch-hunt’ but this may be Reform’s Partygate moment
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/06/nigel-farage-witch-hunt-reform-partygate-moment?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Heatwave in Banda: A day in the hottest place in India
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmp0krp98ro
NYTimes: After 11 Years in Court, Heir Reclaims a Modigliani Looted by the Nazis
After 11 Years in Court, Heir Reclaims a Modigliani Looted by the Nazis https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/arts/modigliani-nazi-court-ruling.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Cory Doctorow: Hell is other people – so billionaires are using AI to replace them
https://www.thenerve.news/p/cory-doctorow-column-ai-inconvenient-humans-billionaires-sam-altman-bezoz-migrants
