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1. White House Aide Natalie Harp Is at Center of Messy Brawl | WSJ Politics Newsletter for Aug. 18 - WSJ
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2. Music activates brain networks for imagination and meaning
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** News-Medical
In a new paper appearing Aug. 18 in Nature Communications, Princeton University researchers show how music produces distinct patterns in the regions of the brain associated with imagination and meaning, similar to those prompted by spoken narratives.
3. How to Run a Local LLM on Your Phone (and Why You’d Want To) | Lifehacker
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Lifehacker
✍️ **Author Reference:** David Nield
You can now run a local LLM on your phone, and there are good reasons to. Here's how it's done.
4. Giant underwater plume blasts into swirling cloud ‘street’ in the East China Sea — Earth from space | Live Science
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 18, 2026, 11:47 AM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 18, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Live Science
✍️ **Author Reference:** https://www.livescience.com/author/harry-baker
A recent satellite photo captured a series of clouds sculpted by von Kármán vortices from a volcano on South Korea
5. 0bserverx/Qwen3.8-27B-Heretic-Abliterated-Uncensored-GGUF · Hugging Face
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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
6. JonathanColetti/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-GGUF · Hugging Face
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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
7. Qwen3.8-27B runs frontier-class coding agents and reasoning locally, no cloud API required | VentureBeat
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Venturebeat
The small size and accessible hardware requirements mean that enterprises, indie developers, and even curious consumers can easily deploy the model locally without worrying about their data leaving their machine.
8. NASA’s Viking 2 lander photographed frost forming on Mars in the 1970s. Nearly half a century later, a University of Arkansas researcher fed its old weather measurements into a model and found something Viking’s scientists never knew: for roughly 30 Martian days each year, the frost around the lander may have created tiny pools of liquid perchlorate brine.
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 18, 2026, 11:10 AM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 18, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Space Daily
A modern model built around Viking 2's frost photographs and weather record finds a narrow 30-sol season when microscopic calcium-perchlorate brines may briefly form in Martian soil.
9. POKER PRO THREATENS TIM POOL - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 18, 2026, 11:07 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
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10. mradermacher/gemma-4-12b-heretic-styletune-head-i1-GGUF · Hugging Face
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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
11. MARKET COLLAPSE COMING And Gen Z Is CELEBRATING | Tim Pool - YouTube
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12. MARKET COLLAPSE COMING And Gen Z Is CELEBRATING | Tim Pool - YouTube
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13. Grok Bot Lets Users Build Persistent AI Agent Teams for Real Tasks / X
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14. Wall Street Apes on X: “WOAH 🚨 Lead Anchor at CNN Jake Tapper comes out and admits THEY ALL KNEW Joe Biden wasn’t really President and calling the shots He says there was an elite inner circle of advisors who would make the decisions and “steer the country.” He gives the names of the people in that https://t.co/b3A0YotCBS” / X
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15. Melik Abdul on X: “The Left/media insults Natalie Harp’s character. But these folks consider it heresy (and sexist/racist) to even mention Kamala Harris and Willie Brown in the same sentence. They are hypocrites. BTW, opposing sides can disagree w/o performing disagreement for the camera’s sake. https://t.co/SDyantFist” / X
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16. Newt Gingrich on X: “Jon Ossoff owes Natalie Harp a personal apology for having smeared her. If a conservative Republican had attacked a liberal Democrat working professional woman the way Ossoff smeared Natalie Harp there would be cries to kick them off the ticket and reject this kind of” / X
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17. Ossoff Criticizes Trump Over Aide Natalie Harp at Rally, Draws Backlash / X
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18. mradermacher/gemma-4-12B-it-abliterated-uncensored-i1-GGUF · Hugging Face
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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
19. Alex Jones BETRAYS Tim Pool, HE GOT THE CALL | Tim Pool - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 18, 2026, 09:10 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEW SHOW - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-BbfaMLtfthVAtMq_zeZnA?sub_confirmation=1Alex Jones BETRAYS Tim Pool, HE GOT THE CALL | Tim Poo…
20. Trump Declares ANNEXATION Of Hormuz Strait, WW3 IS HERE | Tim Pool - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 18, 2026, 08:28 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEW SHOW - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-BbfaMLtfthVAtMq_zeZnA?sub_confirmation=1Trump Declares ANNEXATION Of Hormuz Strait, WW3 IS HER…
21. Cathy Devine on X: “@DAaronovitch Well it’s not about EDI but is about the DEI industry, including in academia. That & the identitarian take over of humanities & social sciences in lieu of structural analysis of the relations of power along the axes of class, sex and ‘race’. Recommended: https://t.co/WnRhdlWL4S” / X
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22. David Aaronovitch on X: “The Arday affair isn’t about DEI, or woke gone mad, however much some people want it to be. It’s about something much more universal… https://t.co/VeMobVgA4e” / X
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23. Sarah Ditum on X: “Since this has a pop at me unnamed, I might as well point out that Arday’s recruiters at Cambridge did not have to sappy liberals themselves to value the way his appointment would be received by sappy liberals. I’ve been in academia, I’m fully aware it’s a shark tank.” / X
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24. Jason and the fabulists
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 18, 2026, 08:24 AM✍️ **Author Reference:** David Aaronovitch
No it wasn't race, or DEI, or sappy liberals
25. The Press Didn’t Kill Jason Arday - by Sarah Ditum
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 18, 2026, 07:52 AM✍️ **Author Reference:** Sarah Ditum
The institutional failures that elevated Jason Arday to Cambridge without vetting his work are what demand accountability, writes Sarah Ditum.
26. Peter Yang on X: “I think Grok @Bot is a glimpse into the future of personal AI agents. Here’s my new tutorial where I show you how to set up 5 useful bots: 1. An advisor to create and manage your bots 2. A YouTube researcher to find outlier videos 3. An X scout to find viral and funny tweets 4.” / X
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27. Grok Bot: 5 Must-Try Use Cases for Work and Life (Full Tutorial) - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 18, 2026, 06:48 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
📌 Copy the AI system I use to run a one-person $1M+ business: https://www.behindthecraft.com🤝 Subscribe to my practical AI newsletter read by 150K+ profess…
28. Julian Goldie SEO on X: “Grok 4.6 did something more interesting than simply score higher. It became much more efficient. 🧵 1/ xAI kept the same basic foundation. 2/ They trained it harder instead of making it dramatically bigger. 3/ Intelligence scores moved into frontier territory. 4/ Context https://t.co/lcaohNAKYp” / X
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29. Gavin Baker on X: “I think @bot is another “Claude Code” moment for AI. I would estimate my personal AI usage is up something like 100x. And for everyone who reached out about how to build a “podcast summarizer” it took me about 15 seconds in Grok Bot and is better than what I had before. https://t.co/AaoeHbEqtl” / X
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30. Shruti on X: “Elon is after Microsoft now!! Cursor is planning to kill Github Yesterday GitHub went down for 7 and a half hours. Website, Actions, Copilot, code merging, all of it. 15,000 developers reported outage. GitHub’s own CTO admitted they planned for 10x capacity and realized they https://t.co/8RvyPttrFC” / X
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31. John Daniel Davidson on X: “Notice how these “Vance is a socialist” types conflate things that are categorically different, opposed even. The centrally planned economy the left wants, for example, and a government that secures the common good, as Vance and the postliberals want. We’re meant to think that” / X
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32. Bees Don't Actually Build Hexagons. Physics Does - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 18, 2026, 06:32 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
Most people assume bees are nature's perfect engineers. But what actually creates the honeycomb's perfect hexagonal shape has nothing to do with the bees the…
33. How to make a piano from popsicle sticks that actually sounds good - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 18, 2026, 06:28 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
A better version of popsicle stick piano. Or a wooden kalimba if you will.Share if you like it!Fun fact - despite the similarities in layout, this instrument…
34. UK PM Duped by Wiles Impersonator, Clancy Defense Begins, Lifeguard Honored at WH: AM Update 8/18 - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 18, 2026, 06:26 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham reportedly exchanged messages with someone impersonating White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles before becoming suspicious of …
35. Trump Threatens To BOMB Oman To HELL As Iran War DRAGS ON Threatening GOP Midterms | Timcast IRL - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 18, 2026, 06:25 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
Visit http://keet.io/timcastirl - Download it free, invite one person you trust, and start a conversation that belongs to you.SUPPORT THE SHOW BUY CAST BREW …
36. THEY SAID HE RAGE QUIT - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 18, 2026, 06:23 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
Watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADLsSaXI5E8SUPPORT THE SHOW BUY CAST BREW COFFEE NOW - https://castbrew.com/GET OUR MERCH - http…
37. Linux can be your college PC—and these 4 apps prove it
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 17, 2026, 10:54 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 17, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** How-To Geek
✍️ **Author Reference:** Dibakar Ghosh
Everything you need for your classes, notes, and deadlines are already in Linux.
38. DeepSeek's Peak-Hour Pricing Betrays Where Its Users Really Live, Calming US Fears of a China AI Takeover, Even As Alibaba's Qwen Models Bury Meta On Hugging Face
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39. Quote of the Day by Pythagoras: ‘Do not say a little in many words but a great…’ - Why there is always a need to value quality over quantity - The Economic Times
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 17, 2026, 10:49 PMPythagoras, the ancient philosopher, championed the idea of conveying profound messages in a few words. This advice is incredibly relevant in our modern context, where clear communication stands out amidst the noise of information. Prioritizing concise, thoughtful dialogue not only enhances interpersonal connections but also shows a deep respect for the time others invest in our conversations.
40. What Is El Niño, and What Does It Mean for Weather, Water, and the Global Economy? | WIRED
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 17, 2026, 10:48 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 17, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** WIRED
✍️ **Author Reference:** Ritsuko Kawai
This year’s El Niño is shaping up to be the strongest on record. Here’s what to expect.
41. Male Neanderthal pelvises resemble those of modern females, challenging decades-old assumptions
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 17, 2026, 10:46 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 17, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Phys.org
A new study by the Department of Anatomy and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University, published in Scientific Reports, offers an explanation for one of the striking differences between men and women: the evolutionary development of the modern human pelvis.
42. X Freeze on X: “We’re getting very close to Starship Flight 14 and this is going to be something very special For the first time, SpaceX plans to catch Starship itself with Mechazilla chopsticks Super Heavy has already been successfully caught 3 times Now it’s Starship’s turn… Flight 13 https://t.co/ho52c8eS6k” / X
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43. ‘Bikini farts’ are the loud, smelly side effects of Brazilian waxing
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 17, 2026, 10:35 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 16, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** New York Post
Sarah Baus, a content creator from South Carolina, virally warns that "bikini farts" are a potential side effects of getting Brazilian bikini waxes, promoting women online to agree.
44. Oprah washes her hands of Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz over their pro-Trump politics: ‘Not one thing to do with me’
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 17, 2026, 10:31 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 16, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** New York Post
Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is washing her hands of Dr. Phil McGraw and Dr. Mehmet Oz over their pro-Trump politics.
45. The Nation may be next lefty outlet to fire Mamdani-loving Ross Barkan after NY Mag catches plagiarism 67 times
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 17, 2026, 10:30 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 17, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** New York Post
The Nation is reviewing work by lefty columnist Ross Barkan after he was axed by New York Magazine on Friday for ripping off other authors’ work dozens of times.
46. AI and Subtractive Innovation | Psychology Today
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 17, 2026, 10:27 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Psychology Today
What happens when technology gives us more by requiring less of us?
47. New hairy-leafed plant species confirms another of Darwin’s predictions
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 17, 2026, 10:23 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 15, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Earth.com
Saxifraga candelabrum is a newly confirmed carnivorous plant. Its sticky hairs trap small insects, while its flowers attract them with scent.
48. Netanyahu puts Mamdani on billboard with Ayatollah Khameni, Hezbollah chief
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 17, 2026, 10:20 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 17, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** New York Post
The massive sign, slapped in the middle of Tel Aviv’s Ayalon highway, shows Mamdani with Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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