WHYY: New online resource aims to make recycling more accessible. This resource focuses on Philadelphia. “Users can look to sell, donate, dispose, compost, recycle or repair items they own, or if they are looking for something from someone else, they can choose from buy, rent or borrow options. People can also tighten their options by choosing what condition the item they’re selling or […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/14/whyy-new-online-resource-aims-to-make-recycling-more-accessible/

"We are in a constant dialogue with Internet search engines, ranging from the mundane to the confessional. We ask search engines everything: What movies are playing (and which are worth seeing)? Where’s the nearest clinic (and how do I get there)? Who’s running in the sheriff’s race (and what are their views)? These online queries can give insight into our private details and innermost thoughts, but police increasingly access them without adhering to longstanding limits on government investigative power.

A Virginia appeals court is poised to review such a request in a case called Commonwealth v. Clements. In Clements, police sought evidence under a “reverse-keyword warrant,” a novel court order that compels search engines like Google to hand over information about every person who has looked up a word or phrase online. While the trial judge correctly recognized the privacy interest in our Internet queries, he overlooked the other wide-ranging harms that keyword warrants enable and upheld the search.

But as EFF and the ACLU explained in our amicus brief on appeal, reverse keyword warrants simply cannot be conducted in a lawful way. They invert privacy protections, threaten free speech and inquiry, and fundamentally conflict with the principles underlying the Fourth Amendment and its analog in the Virginia Constitution. The court of appeals now has a chance to say so and protect the rights of Internet users well beyond state lines."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/eff-tells-virginia-court-constitutional-privacy-protections-forbid-cops-finding

VormWeb

Search engine for .onion domains. Not too many indexed sites, but there are Darkglossary definition hints.

https://vormweb.de/en/

Web Wistfulness

A great post about net nostalgia really got me thinking.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/07/11/web-wistfulness/

Is A.I. the Future of Web Browsing? - A test of the app Dia illustrates that the humble web browser may be the path to making a... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/technology/personaltech/ai-internet-browser-dia.html #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #contenttype:service #perplexityaiinc #anthropicaillc #searchengines #dia(browser) #browsercothe #webbrowsers #openailabs #start-ups

"Sixteen months have passed since we showed you how Google’s algorithm was killing independent websites by favoring big media publishers that were abusing their reputation to sell you bad products.

Since then, Google enforced a new spam guideline called “site reputation abuse” by removing entire sections of major websites from their search index… at least for a few months.

While this drama was unfolding, Google rolled out AI Overviews under the slogan, “Let Google do the searching for you.”

But are AI Overviews leading you to the best results on the web? Or is this just a new prime spot for selling you products you will regret buying? And how does this change affect the websites that made Google’s AI possible in the first place?

To find out, we spent weeks conducting research into air purifiers we reviewed (including models that don’t exist) to determine whether Google Search results and AI Overviews are leading consumers to good advice.

It turns out this rabbit hole is deeper than we thought, with ramifications that span major Reddit communities and could be leading you to scams and defamatory hallucinations.

I hope you’re ready for a long read because this article is packed with examples, fresh data and way too many screenshots."

https://housefresh.com/beware-of-the-google-ai-salesman/