Pixar used an Elastigirl-branded letterhead to notify California state officials that over 100 employees will be laid off.
The affected employees are expected to leave the company on September 26th.
So AI labs are buying old books by the pallet, slicing them apart, scanning the pages, and pulping what's left. The orders are keyed to ISBNs and blind to scarcity. Nobody in the pipeline checks whether the book being shredded is one of the last copies on earth. Some of them probably are. 1/6
ICE has shot and killed yet another man, this time a 26-year-old Colombian in Maine who was not the target of their investigation.
This comes after they killed a Mexican man, who was also not the target of their operation, in Houston last week.
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In all honestly, after being incredibly clean and consistent every week I could tell the girls were RATTLED. I wanted to be a sister and make them feel good so I pulled the dancers aside and said, “I don’t want to land ANYTHING. Make me look heavy, do whatever you need to do.” 💗
"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"
David Sedaris thinks that if we just lived for the plot, we'd have material to write anything. He explains:
"My friend asked me what I did in the afternoon. I said, 'I went to the post office.' He replied, 'Why would you do that? You don't even need to go to the post office. If you have something you want mailed, you have the hotel called FedEx and they come and pick it up.'"
"I don't want to live like you. I want to go to the post office. And I went to the post office and it was remarkable. Or sometimes you go to the post office and the person is just grumpy and you can even get something out of that."
"I wanna live. I wanna be out there. I don't wanna sit at home and order everything online, and use all the shortcuts."