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July 2026
metafilter.comTestosterone Nation?A MetaFilter post highlights a controversy around mandatory testosterone screening for military service members, touching on debates about whether men should monitor their levels at all. The discussion reflects tension between manosphere-influenced anxiety about declining testosterone and scientific✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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wtop.comTrump is expected to make election conspiracies a focus of his national addressPresident Trump plans a primetime national address focused on election machines and voting integrity, revisiting unproven claims about the 2020 election. Democrats warn he's attempting to delegitimize the 2026 midterms, while Republicans distance themselves from relitigating past elections. The spee✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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Francisco de Zurbarán, Hercules and Cerberus, 1634, oil on canvas, 132 cm x 151 cm. © Photographic Archive Museo Nacional del Prado
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futurism.comAI Is Pushing Older Employees Straight Out of the Workforce, New Report FindsA Boston College study found that after ChatGPT's 2022 release, workers 55+ in AI-exposed white-collar jobs (coding, tax prep, accounting) are leaving the workforce at significantly higher rates—often into unemployment rather than retirement. This contradicts the narrative that AI primarily threaten✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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themarginalian.orgThe Art of Dignity Beyond Pride: How to Move Through Heartbreak Like Frida KahloMaria Popova examines Frida Kahlo's letters to photographer Nickolas Muray, written after he ended their affair to marry another woman. Kahlo's correspondence demonstrates a dignity beyond pride—she openly expresses devastation while simultaneously wishing him happiness, requesting mementos back not✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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npr.orgJustice Department subpoenas New York Times reporters over Air Force One reportingThe Justice Department subpoenaed four New York Times reporters over their anonymously sourced reporting on Air Force One security concerns, demanding they testify before a grand jury. Federal agents delivered subpoenas to journalists' homes after the FBI had previously asked the Times to withhold t✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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"You look like you
were carved from
Marble"

"You win best
body in here, for sure"
—The Boys

"I wish I had
put on more muscle
during this bring
phase"
— Me

Note to Self: Ask Yourself
this: What are you
doing it for?
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"You look like you
were carved from
Marble"

"You win best
body in here, for sure"
—The Boys

"I wish I had
put on more muscle
during this bring
phase"
— Me

Note to Self: Ask Yourself
this: What are you
doing it for?
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futurism.comFanDuel Is Using Personal Messages From Sports Stars to Keep Gambling Addicts HookedSports betting companies like FanDuel are using personalized video messages from star athletes to retain high-value users, including those with gambling addictions. A lawsuit accuses these platforms of deliberately fostering addiction, with surveys showing 42% of active bettors feel they spend more✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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thecancunsun.comCancun Projected To Be The Number One Destination In Mexico This SummerDespite headlines about decreased international flights to Mexico and travelers delaying plans around the 2026 World Cup, Cancun is projected to be Mexico's top destination this summer, contradicting the narrative of decline. The article highlights the disconnect between media framing and actual tra✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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Björk operates on instinct, Madonna on intellect.
In a 2001 Nylon Magazine interview with James Servin, Björk said she wrote “Bedtime Story” for Madonna hoping it would encourage her to be more intuitive and less logical.
That Nylon story included an incredible anecdote. Servin wrote:
“I sent a fax to Madonna via her publicist Liz Rosenberg, with the question: ‘Did singing the lyrics Björk wrote for Bedtime Story lead you in the direction of going more with the flow?’”
In response, Rosenberg wrote:
“I’ve never thought Madonna was a ‘go with the flow’ person before or after recording Bedtime Story. She goes with a flow — but it’s a flow of her own creation, if you know what I mean.”
What a perfect description of Madonna’s career: “A flow of her own creation.” But with “Confessions II” and its PR rollout, we’ve caught a few glimpses of instances where Madonna couldn’t create her own flow. Her inability to fully control her world is humanizing.
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Björk operates on instinct, Madonna on intellect.
In a 2001 Nylon Magazine interview with James Servin, Björk said she wrote “Bedtime Story” for Madonna hoping it would encourage her to be more intuitive and less logical.
That Nylon story included an incredible anecdote. Servin wrote:
“I sent a fax to Madonna via her publicist Liz Rosenberg, with the question: ‘Did singing the lyrics Björk wrote for Bedtime Story lead you in the direction of going more with the flow?’”
In response, Rosenberg wrote:
“I’ve never thought Madonna was a ‘go with the flow’ person before or after recording Bedtime Story. She goes with a flow — but it’s a flow of her own creation, if you know what I mean.”
What a perfect description of Madonna’s career: “A flow of her own creation.” But with “Confessions II” and its PR rollout, we’ve caught a few glimpses of instances where Madonna couldn’t create her own flow. Her inability to fully control her world is humanizing.
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popville.com“Museum Café (partnership with local coffee experts Slipstream) Grand Opening and Free Community Day” at The National Museum of Women in the ArtsThe National Museum of Women in the Arts opened a new café in partnership with DC roaster Slipstream, featuring a Colombian coffee line cultivated exclusively by female farmers. The opening coincided with a Free Community Day offering extended hours, drop-in art activities, gallery talks, and tours✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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“everything you hate about the internet is
actually everything you hate about people.”
Another is that the worst thing about the
internet is “knowing what everyone thinks about
everything.”
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futurism.comRich People Can Afford Good Education for Their Kids. They’re Raising Them on AI Slop Anyways.Alpha School, a $75,000/year private network backed by wealthy tech figures and promoted by the Trump administration, uses AI tutors to compress education into two-hour sessions. Former employees report the AI curriculum is poorly structured, students need far more than two hours daily, and the scho✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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futurism.comMeta’s AI Data Center Caught Infecting Town Water Supply With Deadly BacteriaMeta's data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming contaminated municipal wastewater with Cupriavidus gilardii, a rare multidrug-resistant bacterium with a 31% mortality rate, during a fill-and-flush cooling system startup. The incident prompted city officials to ban fill-and-flush discharge for all data cente✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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npr.orgMilitant LGBTQ+ rights group 'the Lavender Panthers' was founded on this day in 1973In 1973, gay preacher Ray Broshears founded the Lavender Panthers, a street vigilante group protecting LGBTQ+ people in San Francisco's Tenderloin from violent attacks. Though controversial and problematic, the group exemplified community-led mutual aid filling gaps left by a homophobic society, and✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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Though it seems nobody has contracted the potentially deadly bacterium as a result of Meta’s fill-and-flush, the city’s response to the incident underscores the degree to which people across the US are scrutinizing data centers — and the undeniable impact they have on their neighbors.
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Our friend and colleague Lucian Perkins opined on social media: “Unlike much of the country, the Fourth of July in Washington didn’t feel festive so much as surreal.

“The day began with absence. The annual Independence Day parade down Constitution Avenue — something I had planned to photograph — was canceled because of extreme heat. Washington had just endured some of its hottest days on record, with the heat index nearing 108 degrees.

Though it seems nobody has contracted the potentially deadly bacterium as a result of Meta’s fill-and-flush, the city’s response to the incident underscores the degree to which people across the US are scrutinizing data centers — and the undeniable impact they have on their neighbors.
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Our friend and colleague Lucian Perkins opined on social media: “Unlike much of the country, the Fourth of July in Washington didn’t feel festive so much as surreal.

“The day began with absence. The annual Independence Day parade down Constitution Avenue — something I had planned to photograph — was canceled because of extreme heat. Washington had just endured some of its hottest days on record, with the heat index nearing 108 degrees.
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futurism.comSomething Weird Is Going on With the 66 Billion Trees China Planted in a Huge WallChina's Great Green Wall—66 billion trees planted since 1978 to stop desert expansion—shows planted forests growing 66% faster in canopy density than natural forests, likely due to youth and active management. However, researchers note this advantage is temporary; natural forests remain superior for✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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Ironically, “poor people were
eating the stuff that now people
are paying a lot of money to have,”
Miller said, referencing
the current movement
against heavily processed foods.
They would also be eating more
pork, ham, bacon and sausage,
liver pudding and offal.

Tesla Will Make More from AI Than Robotaxi
July 5, 2026 at 3:12 PM by Brian Wang
NextBigFuture.com
AI data centers and compute represent a much bigger and faster-growing opportunity for Tesla than robotaxis. AI can generate $50–100 billion in annual revenue per gigawatt of power — dramatically outpacing typical robotaxi economics.
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Ironically, “poor people were
eating the stuff that now people
are paying a lot of money to have,”
Miller said, referencing
the current movement
against heavily processed foods.
They would also be eating more
pork, ham, bacon and sausage,
liver pudding and offal.

Tesla Will Make More from AI Than Robotaxi
July 5, 2026 at 3:12 PM by Brian Wang
NextBigFuture.com
AI data centers and compute represent a much bigger and faster-growing opportunity for Tesla than robotaxis. AI can generate $50–100 billion in annual revenue per gigawatt of power — dramatically outpacing typical robotaxi economics.
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futurism.comMajor Union Livid After 1,000 Factory Workers Were Replaced With 50 RobotsGeneral Motors idled over 1,000 workers at its Detroit Factory Zero plant after installing 50 AI-integrated manufacturing robots (called 'cobots') to bolt body panels onto electric vehicles. The UAW views this as retaliation for their 2023 strike victories and a cost-cutting measure to weaken union✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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"We hold these truths
to be Self Evident."

was almost

"We hold these truths
as SACRED."

Quite a difference it
makes -- power not from the
divine, but from the people
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At D.C. fair, evangelists see ripe soil to
spread the gospel
https://pressreader.com/article/281483578118622
The Washington Post Fri, Jul 3, 2026

At D.C. fair, evangelists see ripe soil to
spread the gospel
https://pressreader.com/article/281483578118622
The Washington Post Fri, Jul 3, 2026

At D.C. fair, evangelists see ripe soil to
spread the gospel
https://pressreader.com/article/281483578118622
The Washington Post Fri, Jul 3, 2026

At D.C. fair, evangelists see ripe soil to
spread the gospel
https://pressreader.com/article/281483578118622
The Washington Post Fri, Jul 3, 2026
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theguardian.com‘Vanishingly rare’ copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archivesA volunteer at the UK National Archives discovered one of only 11 surviving copies of an early printing of the US Declaration of Independence, found among papers seized from an American privateer ship captured by the British in 1776. The document's remarkable provenance traces its journey from a New✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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June 2026
arstechnica.comSony erases digital content from libraries; reminded we don't own what we buySony is removing 551 StudioCanal titles from UK PlayStation customers' libraries due to expired licensing agreements, with no refunds offered. The incident highlights that digital 'purchases' are actually long-term licenses that can be revoked when distribution rights expire, not permanent ownership✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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sciencedaily.comScientists may have finally found how Alzheimer's spreads through the brainResearchers discovered that Arc, a protein normally involved in neuron communication, helps toxic Tau protein spread between brain cells in Alzheimer's disease by packaging it into extracellular vesicles. Arc has a dual role: it helps diseased neurons expel excess Tau (protective), but this allows t✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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quantamagazine.orgAfter 80 Years, Mathematicians Give Famed ‘Erdős Method’ an UpgradePaul Erdős introduced the probabilistic method in 1947, proving certain mathematical objects (like clique-free networks) exist by showing random selection yields them with nonzero probability—without constructing them directly. For 80 years, progress on diagonal Ramsey numbers stalled until three ma✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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themarginalian.orgTrue Love Will Find You in the End: Kurt Vonnegut on When to Stop Trying and When to Try AgainMaria Popova uses Vonnegut's long, painful marriage to Jane Cox as a meditation on the hardest equation in life: when to keep trying and when to stop. She frames the question through an Andean image of treeline—the precise point where conditions turn inhospitable to growth—and traces how Vonnegut me✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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wtop.comHumor laurels for comedian Bill Maher as the Kennedy Center navigates Trump-era upheavalComedian Bill Maher will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center, an event happening amid significant institutional upheaval after President Trump installed allies on the board and attempted to close and rename the venue. Maher's selection is notable given his long, con✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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popville.com“D.C. Police Agree To Compensate District Resident Handcuffed for Playing Star Wars “Imperial March” Theme Near National Guard Troops”photo by Diane Krauthamer From the DC ACLU: "The District of Columbia has agreed to pay to settle a First Amendment lawsuit, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia (ACLU-D.C.), on behalf of Sam O’Hara, a D.C. resident who was handcuffed for playing the "Imperial March" from Star Wars while✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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blogs.bmj.comRole of the coachI coach them, I treat them, I listen to them’: the multifaceted role of the coach – a qualitative study on stakeholders’ perspectives on injury prevention and management in Senegal (Africa) Key words: Qualitative Research; Sporting injuries; Sports medicine; Prevention; Africa Why is this study important? This study addresses a critical gap in sports medicine: [...]Read More...✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
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