Claude Cookbook
https://platform.claude.com/cookbook/

Patreon laying off 20% of staff
https://www.patreon.com/jackconte/posts/painful-update-164628951

Amazon Data Center Emissions Top Those Of An Entire Country
https://www.bgr.com/2217947/amazon-data-center-emissions/

New Jersey bans grocery stores from using shoppers' personal data to set prices
https://jerseyvindicator.org/2026/07/23/new-jersey-bans-grocery-stores-from-using-shoppers-personal-data-to-set-prices/

Exploring Hidden JPEG Features | Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/24/exploring-hidden-jpeg-features/

UK: How inheritance tax will apply to pensions - Which?
https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/how-inheritance-tax-will-apply-to-pensions-a7FkY9l4EdOT

US: Foreclosures on the rise nationwide, data shows - ABC News
https://abcnews.com/US/foreclosures-rise-nationwide-data-shows/story?id=134525683

New Method Accelerates Color 3D Printing | Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/23/new-method-accelerates-color-3d-printing/

CDC Adds 4 More States to Cyclospora Outbreak
https://www.newser.com/story/393444/cdc-adds-4-more-states-to-cyclospora-outbreak.html

Cyclosporiasis: Case rates rise in five outbreak states
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/23/cyclosporiasis-cases-rates-rise-outbreak-states

Bluesky's AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/blueskys-ai-assistant-attie-expands-into-an-open-social-research-tool/

Veterans Affairs signs $1.6B deal for an army of Salesforce AI agents
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/24/veterans-affairs-signs-16b-deal-for-an-army-of-salesforce-ai-agents/5278302

Mark Cuban Says AI Will Transform Worker Training With Job Simulators - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-ai-job-training-work-experience-simulators-careers-strategy-2026-7

Should you use AI for a task? Here's a simple way to decide | Bruce Schneier | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/24/should-you-use-ai

Behind the Curtain: The AI titans' biggest private fear
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/24/ai-risk-bioweapons

Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter
https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/07/24/google-meets-the-neighbors-and-gets-both-barrels-over-its-new-uk-datacenter/5277188

Amazon makes sellers label AI-generated people in images after NY law
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/23/amazon-makes-sellers-label-ai-generated-people-in-images-after-ny-law.html

OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/23/openai-wont-let-some-customers-export-their-chats-but-this-tool-will/5277795

Commentary: AI companies are creating 'all-powerful psychopaths.' Maybe not a great idea? - Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-23/chabria-column-ai-companies-are-creating-all-powerful-psychopaths

Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/tech/970570/meta-ai-chatbot-productivity-update

>  Job Simulators

That would be a good use. Cory Doctorow often talks about centaurs (horse lower body and human torso and head) vs reverse centaurs (human lower body and horse neck/head).

The point being that a centaur is a superior animal - the speed and power of a horse below, the manual dexterity and cognitive ability of a human above. In an idea world, AI is the below - it provides the, uh, horsepower and the top provides what humans do best.

But he sees most usages being reverse centaurs. The robot goes around the warehouse finding things and choosing what to grab and so forth, while the human is there to do things like get the conveyor belt unstuck.

He says that AI could be turning us all into centaurs, but more and more it is turning us into reverse centaurs. So AI is designing the fashion, but because sewing is really hard to automate, humans do the sewing.  And in that world, AI is being trained by humans, not humans being trained by AI.