Marcos Paulo has been making all sorts of phone-sized wallpapers for the World Cup and posting them to Threads. You have to poke around to find them in his account, but here are a few direct links: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

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How to talk about “AI” without adding to the anthropomorphization. Suggestions: “artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation” & “AI agent → probabilistic, unverified software manipulator”. Seems like the horse is out of the barn on this though…

Val and Isaac by Tred is an ongoing space comedy webcomic about the titular space commando and wizard. Also cyborg engineer Minnow, shapeshifting assassin Space Dread and their friends. Mostly standalone gag strips or very short arcs. Tumblr-hosted so forgive some oddities with strip navigation.

Main strip link goes to a point where it's mostly settled into its current rhythm. Skip back to the start for the completionist experience punctuated by lots of character art.

Op steeds meer plekken wordt wegwerpplastic uitgebannen. Toch worden in Nederlandse ziekenhuizen nog altijd jaarlijks zo’n vijftig miljoen plastic wegwerpbekertjes gebruikt voor het innemen van medicijnen. Dat kan anders, dachten Joram en Jason, en zodoende vonden de twee Rotterdammers een duurzaam alternatief uit: “We horen vooral dat we nog niet genoeg cups aanleveren”.

Op de Burgemeester van Haarenlaan in Schiedam is een man aangehouden na een melding over een vuurwapen. Bij zijn aanhouding loste de politie een waarschuwingsschot.

Op de Dorpsweg in Rockanje is een man gewond geraakt bij een steekpartij. Hij is met spoed naar het ziekenhuis gebracht. De politie heeft drie verdachten aangehouden.

Op de Dorpsweg in Rockanje is een man gewond geraakt bij een steekpartij. Hij is met spoed naar het ziekenhuis gebracht. De politie weet nog niet wat er precies is gebeurd.

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Switzerland’s route to the last 16

Group B – P3 W2 D1 L0
Drew 0-0 v Qatar, San Francisco Bay Area
Won 4-1 v Bosnia and Herzegovina, Los Angeles
Won 2-1 v Canada, Vancouver

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Exclusive: Latest Guardian revelation about gift from cryptocurrency tycoon comes as Reform UK leader forces byelection

The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money, the Guardian can reveal.

The disclosure will put further pressure on the Reform UK leader, who is awaiting a decision by the standards commissioner over whether his failure to declare the money breached parliamentary rules.

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The golden rule of football? Never write off Lionel Messi. Just when it looked like his dream of leading Argentina to the bicampeonato was in tatters, the 39-year-old came to his country’s rescue for the umpteenth time in spectacular fashion.

With 11 minutes to play and still reeling from Yasser Ibrahim’s early header and a second from Mostafa Ziko – named after the Brazil legend – Lionel Scaloni’s side were heading for the mother of all upsets against Egypt. Mostafa Shobair, whose father, Ahmed was the Pharaohs’ goalkeeper at the 1990 World Cup and whose time-wasting tactics against the Republic of Ireland resulted in the introduction of the back-pass rule two years later, seemed set to write a more positive chapter in his family’s history after a brilliant performance that saw him repel everything that the world champions could throw at them.

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Egypte is uitgeschakeld door Argentinië in de achtste finales van het WK voetbal

Marine Le Pen werd dinsdag ook in hoger beroep veroordeeld voor fraude met Europese geld. De leider van de radicaal-rechtse Rassemblement National gaat in cassatie en voert intussen campagne voor het presidentschap.

Het IOC schorste het Russisch Olympisch Comité in oktober 2023 en adviseerde andere sportbonden hetzelfde te doen. Nu heft het comité de schorsing op en kunnen Russische sporters weer meedoen aan de Olympische Zomerspelen van 2028.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: These may be the last days of Amazon's Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new customers. Amazon Web Services says the decision was made after "careful consideration," adding, "Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. AWS continues to invest in security and availability improvements for Mechanical Turk, but we do not plan to introduce new features." In other words, Amazon isn't completely pulling the plug, but the service is very much on life support. Further reading: Horror Stories From Inside Amazon's Mechanical Turk (2020)

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