🔖 Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per Month: Some employees who spend as much as $1,000 on Claude usage each month are scrambling to find ways to maintain access to the tool | 404 Media https://www.404media.co/accenture-tells-employees-they-can-now-spend-only-29-on-claude-per-month/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 Dutch tax authorities cancel Microsoft 365 cloud rollout - and turn toward open source: Another European move toward digital sovereignty has curtailed adopting the US workplace suite | ZDNET https://www.zdnet.com/business/dutch-tax-authorities-cancel-microsoft-365-cloud-rollout/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/owners-mourn-spoiled-food-after-firmware-update-bricks-samsung-smart-fridges/ #BookmarkShare

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117313716231482340

The government once claimed to protect life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Now it mostly protects mergers, margins, and the pursuit of money.

🔖 ID verification giant IDScan confirms data breach with more than 150 million driver's licenses stolen: The ID checking company said the data breach included people's full names and driver's licenses and other government-issued identity documents. | TechCr https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/id-verification-giant-idscan-confirms-data-breach-with-more-than-150-million-drivers-licenses-stolen/ #BookmarkShare

My summer project this year was Five Thank Yous. The tagline describes it as a quiet, curated collection of anonymous gratitude threads—short reflections that trace one good thing back through people, labor, nature, place, memory, timing, and care.

The project has been in a quiet launch period as I finished up the site mechanics, and there are a few threads of gratitude in addition to my own. Check it out at https://fivethankyous.org/ — read a bit and if moved to do so, send in your own thread.

🔖 Meta glasses banned from courts in England and Wales: Court service says anyone trying to enter buildings with glasses will have them confiscated and returned when they leave | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/11/meta-glasses-banned-from-courts-in-england-and-wales #BookmarkShare

🔖 Online advertising giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are necessary: The hacked digital advertiser was caught serving malicious ads that allowed hackers to steal a victim's cryptocurrency | This Week in Security https://this.weekinsecurity.com/online-advertising-giant-adform-was-hacked-proving-once-again-why-ad-blockers-are-necessary/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 For sale: early access to Trump's Truth Social posts: The president's media company is offering investors early access to his Truth Social feed for up to $100,000 a month; experts say the service may violate insider trading laws | NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/08/01/nx-s1-5912219/trump-truth-social-access-insider-trading #BookmarkShare

🔖 Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search: The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators | Adweek https://www.adweek.com/media/publishers-opt-out-google-search/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags: The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/influential-study-touting-chatgpt-in-education-retracted-over-red-flags/ #BookmarkShare

The idea came from noticing how often a story dominates the news cycle and then just... disappears. Not because it resolved. Just because something else came along.

I'm finding that "one year ago today" next to a headline I half-remembered is a surprisingly useful feeling. It tells me something about how much has changed — and how much hasn't.

Over the past year, I've been quietly building something...and it's ready enough to share. 🧵

It's called https://ThisWas.News — every day, it shows you the lead headlines from one week, two weeks, one month, three months, six months, and one year ago today — with a short summary of what was actually happening.

🔖 Why Has the US Banned Foreign-Made Routers?: The FCC just banned the sale of new consumer-grade Wi-Fi routers manufactured outside the US | Wired https://www.wired.com/story/us-government-foreign-made-router-ban-explained/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 What’s the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework? The creator of the AI agent “Einstein” wants to free humans from the burden of academic labor. Critics say that misses the point of education entirely | 404 Media https://www.404media.co/whats-the-point-of-school-when-ai-can-do-your-homework/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 The political effects of X’s feed algorithm: “Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions” | Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2 #BookmarkShare

🔖 LLM-generated passwords 'fundamentally weak,' experts say : Seemingly complex strings are actually highly predictable, crackable within hours | The Register https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/generating_passwords_with_llms/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 Instagram’s ‘pay or consent’ approach to ads is coming to UK after being rejected in EU: Facebook and Instagram users face a choice: subscribe, or deal with personalized ads | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/news/786313/meta-pay-or-consent-uk #BookmarkShare

🔖 Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT during sessions. Clients are triggered: Some therapists are using AI during therapy sessions. They’re risking their clients’ trust and privacy in the process | MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/02/1122871/therapists-using-chatgpt-secretly/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 AI is doing job interviews now—but candidates say they'd rather risk staying unemployed than talk to another robot: Job-seekers tell Fortune they’re outright refusing to do AI interviews, calling them dehumanizing and a red flag for bad company cultur https://fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai-interviewers-job-seekers-unemployment-hiring-hr-teams/ #BookmarkShare