I haven’t been able to eat dark chocolate since trying this 126% cocoa.

And for my own safety I won’t be going near the Chandrasekhar blend again either. Made my whole face pucker.

Half the town too.

Understanding common tech features and marketing terms:

Safety: surveillance

"Smart": surveillance

Connected: surveillance

GPS-enabled: surveillance

Personalized: surveillance

AI: surveillance

Integrated: surveillance

Partner: surveillance

Free: surveillance

Collaboration: surveillance

At this time, 47 years ago today, July 9, 1979, I made my closest approach to Jupiter, coming within 570,000 km / 354,000 mi of the cloud tops, or 4.89 Jupiter radii.

ukpol (rubbish) 

BBC, 2026-07-29, "Farage's by-election in Clacton officially confirmed": bbc.com/news/articles/cwylzxw7

Notable quote:

Green Party MP Hannah Spencer said: "We get to spend the summer watching Clacton, a farce of a by-election where one of the candidates is a joke character filled with rubbish and the other is Count Binface."

"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."

404media.co/we-are-living-in-a

Librarians removing AI from phones and teaching people they have a choice. Not political. Just information literacy, same as fighting book bans. The real work was always about helping people think critically.

bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02

Excellent @jasonkoebler piece in @404mediaco about the cultural shift in real-world and online flyers ...

... as people start posting AI-generated ones that all have the same bland creepy look

404media.co/we-are-living-in-a

(unpaywalled just in case: archive.is/pNTQh)

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