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Trump quietly shutters the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions.

Hazardous chemical accidents happen in the U.S. about every other day. Who will investigate them now? #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

https://grist.org/energy/trump-quietly-shutters-the-only-federal-agency-that-investigates-industrial-chemical-explosions/

Trump quietly shutters the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions

The Chemical Safety Board, a federal agency that investigates large-scale industrial chemical disasters, will close under Trump's orders.

Grist

In May, I published a deep dive on a Pakistani firm that had just been charged w/ shipping fentanyl analogs to the US and was behind a sprawling empire of scam ghostwriting, app and logo design companies that were spending millions on Google ads to promote their scam businesses.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/pakistani-firm-shipped-fentanyl-analogs-scams-to-us/

The story received a decent amount of attention, but it almost immediately dropped off Google search entirely. Searching for the headline brought only links to other sites covering my report. This persisted for almost two weeks and I never got a satisfactory answer from Google about why the story dropped from search.

Just read a story at Ars Technica about how a tech CEO who was trying to quash reporting about his alleged misdeeds used a feature in Google known as Refresh Outdated Content to trick Google into deindexing the unflattering stories about him. The method he reportedly used was working until last month. Makes me wonder how widely known this bug was.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/google-tool-misused-to-scrub-tech-ceos-shady-past-from-search

https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/114512527951494345

Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US – Krebs on Security

With the launch of Ghost 6.0, every publication that runs on Ghost becomes part of the #fediverse. You can follow and comment on Platformer or 404 Media articles without leaving your Mastodon feed. This is the future of social media.

Congratulations to @johnonolan and all the team at Ghost!

https://ghost.org/changelog/6/

Ghost 6.0

Networked publishing, native analytics, and $100M earned by indie publishers

Changelog
ICE is out of control. They must be reined in.

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain

🔗 https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destroying-search-the-internet-and-your-brain/

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain

Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

404 Media

Over the next few days, people that have accounts on mastodon.social and mastodon.online may see a donation banner in our official mobile apps. Here's the background on this small message.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/a-nudge-to-fund-our-future/

A nudge to fund our future

We’re rolling out a donation banner in our mobile apps, to help us test funding options for the future of Mastodon.

Mastodon Blog
Our team is obsessed with what the future looks like when we get things right. We're determined to build a better future and with your help, we're not backing down. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/future-worth-fighting
We're Envisioning A Better Future

Whether you've been following EFF for years or just discovered us (hello!), you've probably noticed that our team is kind of obsessed with the ✨future✨.From people soaring through the sky, to space cats, geometric unicorns, and (so many) mechas—they're always imagining what the future could look...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

My favorite part is "the Labor Department would rescind a requirement for most employer-provided transportation to have seat belts for those agriculture workers."

Those poor landowners having to pay for seatbelts 

#news #apnews #laborrights

https://apnews.com/article/labor-department-deregulation-worker-safety-wages-223309692fecb3721ef377154e7689ed

US Labor Department picks more than 60 rules for Trump's deregulation mandate

The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations adopted under previous presidential administrations. The wide-ranging rollbacks range from minimum wage requirements for home health care workers and people with disabilities to standards governing exposure to harmful substances to working conditions at constructions sites and in mines. The Labor Department says the goal is to deliver on President Donald Trump’s commitment to restore American prosperity through deregulation. Critics say the proposals would put workers at greater risk of harm, with women and members of minority groups bearing a disproportionate impact.

AP News
A Startup is Selling Data Hacked from Peoples’ Computers to Debt Collectors

Infostealer data can include passwords, email and billing addresses, and the embarrassing websites you use. Farnsworth Intelligence is selling to divorce lawyers and other industries.

404 Media

My friend David had his id stolen.

Now he's just Dav.