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The Big Mac Index is here, the police used Grok to edit an evidence photo, Linkedin is now offering users the opportunity to report slop, Google pulled its disastrous AI image editing tool they put into Google Earth, you can now bet on wild fire outcomes, and more. We discuss.

Stories read and referenced:

Employees from the world’s biggest AI companies want the US to be ready to slow AI development

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/28/tech/ai-development-tech-employees-open-letter

Linkedin Adds Slop Detection Report Button

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/linkedin-adds-a-button-to-report-ai-generated-slop/

Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It’s Immediately Used to Fake Terror Attacks

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-pulls-down-google-earth-ai-feature

Wildfire Betting now on Prediction Market Apps

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/17/climate/betting-wildfires-polymarket-prediction-market-platforms

Vancouver Police use AI tool to fabricate drug bust photo

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/vancouver-police-explain-made-with-ai-image-of-seized-drugs-cash/

The Fake Influencers Selling Wellness on Your Feed

https://www.nytimes.com/video/technology/100000011001849/ai-influencers-health-supplements-fake-ads.html

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The right-wing noise machine spent months trying to destroy Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey. The film opened up to enormous critical and commercial success, so it would seem that they failed. But did they really? Let's talk about it.

Note: this discussion is about the discourse surrounding the film, so spoilers shouldn't be a major issue. But beware, we do talk about aspects of the film in a limited capacity.

Read Parker's article: https://www.readtpa.com

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Michael Maurino aka Iron Stylus is a veteran game developer who has worked on a number of large projects over the years, he walks us through the current landscape of the gaming industry, layoffs, bisexual lighting, what to look forward to in the future, and more.

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MLYP takes us through America 250's origins through today, and all the baggage that came with it.

Slideshow: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AN-XayXaUfaKngfY_ghphiayJaJ-6WTcIVp9bWeOums/edit?slide=id.g36f69057379_0_79#slide=id.g36f69057379_0_79

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Conservative dark money is funding a network of so-called "pink slime" websites that sell influence to the fossil fuel industry and far-right special interests, where candidates and PACs can simply buy the coverage they want on hundreds, perhaps thousands of websites, and hundreds of millions of impressions across their ad networks. These sites look innocuous, but they're filled with undisclosed press releases, bylined to newsrooms or individuals that often don't exist. What's worse: they now outnumber the country's remaining local newspaper sites, and when Yale researchers put them side by side with the real thing, nearly half of Americans preferred the fake ones. Let's talk about it and what this means for the upcoming midterm elections.

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