Various & Sundry, 7/10/26

Oh God, here we go again: Trump’s New Air Force One is a Sitting Duck: More specifically, it “lacks the defensive measures of the previous model,” which might be an issue when one has foolishly started an unnecessary war with an enemy that feasibly has the capability to at least take a fair shot at you. The President had to swap his shiny new bribe/toy with an actually useful version of the plane. I have some thoughts about this whole thing but I don’t want to get visited by the Secret Service, so I will just say that for the sake of everyone else traveling with the President, I’m glad he was advised to take another aircraft. Instagram turning your photos into AI slop without your consent: Yes, you can opt out, but the vast majority of Instagram users who are not terminally online will probably not hear about this in the one week it’s going to be news. Meta is doing this as a way get people to use their new video “AI” to generate all manner of slop with any image they find, and not…