War Spend

• Top 100 Contractors of the U.S. federal government - Wikipedia
  • Top 100 Federal Contractors 2019 - Defense Security Monitor
• Trump Approves $2.8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel, Including 40,000 One-Ton Bombs - The New York Times
  • [cracked] Trump Approves $2.8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel, Including 40,000 One-Ton Bombs - The New York Times

US federal contracts

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• Department of Defense (DoD) Warning and Consent ~ DIBBS

Drop Site News

• Trump approves $2.8 billion arms deal for Israel, including 40,000 bombs; Building collapse in Gaza kills at least 21; U.S. diesel prices top $6.30
• U.S. Makes, Israel Takes: The Real Story of U.S.-Israeli Military Cooperation
• Palestinian-American Journalist Naqaa Hamed Detained by Israeli Forces After Settlers Targeted Her
• Got Oxy? How Michigan’s Mike Rogers Helped Fuel the Opioid Crisis
• How Jeffrey Epstein’s Israeli Network Shaped Congo’s Deadly Mineral Trade

Cyber Secure

• British Library hack

• Snowden Documents Show NSA Can't Keep Its Eyes On Its Own Papers; Harvests Data From Other Surveillance Agencies | Techdirt

• You’re Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype | by Lee Vinsel | Medium

• The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling | Project Gutenberg

• FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses – Krebs on Security

• Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight – Krebs on Security

• A Close Up Look at the Consumer Data Broker Radaris – Krebs on Security

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• FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses – Krebs on Security

Modern Cyber

• How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI? | Pew Research Center
• Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic \ Anthropic
• [2605.23135] The Impact of AI Coding Assistants on Software Engineering: A Longitudinal Study
• [2511.12884] Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding
• [2601.20112] Usage, Effects and Requirements for AI Coding Assistants in the Enterprise: An Empirical Study
• DORA | State of AI-assisted Software Development 2025
• Online hate researcher keeps hammering X despite deportation threat - Ars Technica
• Imran Ahmed - Center for Countering Digital Hate | LinkedIn

Social Publications

• How to Vote / Cómo Votar — A free field guide

• Field Notes: Making indoor air healthy for children — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation

• Making Government Work From Within

• Reading the TA leaves: How technical assistance can improve the odds of successful policy implementation - Niskanen Center

• Meta Trial Opens as States Demand Age Verification

• New ‘LinkedIn for government’ helps Americans get into public service - Fast Company

• The richest Americans are people you've never heard of | LinkedIn

• Journalists cry foul as White House blocks press access | LinkedIn

• The State of Public Trust in Government 2026 - Partnership for Public Service

• 2 New Jersey municipal water systems targeted in cyberattacks - ABC News

• Ill-Prepared: How We Have Unlearned the Lessons of 9/11  - Partnership for Public Service

• How NYC’s PIT Crew Plans to Drive Civic Tech Forward

• How Global Economic Policy Can Serve the Common Good

• Margaret Mullins - Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator for Political Economy and Regulation (April 2025-), Director, Public Options and Governance - Biography | LegiStorm

• Will Trump Allow Private Equity to Gut the Army Too?

• LegiStorm: Congress Revealed

Anthro

• Perception of group membership from spontaneous and volitional laughter | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society

Journals

• Technology news and analysis | The Register
• ProPublica — Investigative Journalism and News in the Public Interest
  • Questions Grow Over FBI Investigation of Omar al-Bayoumi 25 Years After 9/11 — ProPublica

Podcasts (un-sampled)

• No, AI Is Not "Autonomously Ha… - Better Offline - Apple Podcasts
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Conferences

• Climate Week NYC 2026 | September 20–27, New York City

Companies

• Mapbox | Maps, Navigation, Search, and Data

  • BUILD with Mapbox 2026
  • mapbox.com/blog/new-road-detail-in-mapbox-standard

• Searchlight Institute

• Tech Viaduct - Searchlight Institute