Daily Archives: August 16, 2026

Weekend link dump for August 16

Posted on August 16, 2026 by Charles Kuffner

“How Universities Won Their Battle with Trump”. “Generative “AI”: The Guitar Hero of Creativity”. “Pizza Hut’s Book It! program for kids is officially back this summer.” “LinkedIn is taking aim at the “AI slop” — low-quality, artificially generated content — … Continue reading →

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Fifth Circuit tosses the rest of the mail ballot ID requirements lawsuit

Posted on August 16, 2026 by Charles Kuffner

You can always count on them (to be awful and lawless). The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday restored several pieces of a 2021 Texas election law that overhauled mail-in and assisted voting, overturning a lower court’s block on those provisions. Five years … Continue reading →

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We’re gonna get election-audited again

Posted on August 16, 2026 by Charles Kuffner

Feh. Harris County has again been selected for a state-mandated elections audit following a random draw conducted by the Texas Secretary of State Tuesday. The audit is the county’s second in four years stemming from a 2021 bill the Legislature … Continue reading →

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Data center secrecy

Posted on August 16, 2026 by Charles Kuffner

This is also a problem. Last year, Mason McCallister saw survey markers on a property near his home in a rural community about an hour north of Dallas. He suspected it might be for a new data center he’d heard … Continue reading →

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