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Except, (1) the only reason they are cash-flow positive is that they are getting discounts on virtually all inputs from their Big Tech investors; (2) their revenues stopped growing in Q3; and (3) they have taken on $800B+ in future contractual commitments (50x their now-stagnant operating revenue).

BREAKING WaPo: Brazil's right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro just effectively conceded defeat to the incumbent left-wing president — minutes after Trump indicated he would not intervene on his behalf.

so a couple racist cops got mad about the brown, muslim mayor using the gym at night so it wouldn’t disturb anyone and now we have this story that makes zohran look cooler than ever. good job to everyone involved

Ding ding fucking ding.

Polls are still open in municipalities across Ontario. I voted. Make sure you do, too.

“The Navy lost three ships looking for us - ActBlue found us in six minutes.”

So if Britain 🇬🇧 now wants to move beyond those Brexit red lines, the democratic answer is obvious: Ask the public what they want now. Not what politicians claim they meant ten years ago.

👉 He says the British public must be the bosses. 👍 2016 asked whether Britain should leave the EU. It did NOT ask whether we should leave the Single Market, end freedom of movement, leave the customs union, or adopt the hardest possible version of Brexit. Those choices came later.

🤩 This is a significant moment. Burnham says openly that Brexit has weakened 🇬🇧 economy, failed to deliver promised control over immigration and produced a harder Brexit than many people were led to expect in 2016. On rejoin EU: “I would like to see that happen in my lifetime.” And next 👇 🧵

Taking their place alongside Nader voters in 2000 and Stein voters in 2016 as the stupidest motherfuckers on planet Earth.

Anyway, go see #Wildwood in Theaters instead.

"Harvard's Gary King and Steven Worthington say AI-generated article reviews outperform expert reviewers"

China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

On Firefox (Android) (also with a scratched screen), and getting something akin to that. Didn't do that a few hours ago.

he's taking a break from defending the "bodily autonomy" (yes, that is the actual phrase he used) of smokers (while never caring about the bodily autonomy of women) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

How are you still writing this shit www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Using Bluesky on Chrome now when I scroll down on a post to repost or share-as soon as I click the mouse, it scrolls to the top. Then when I click again, it bounces back to the page position I was at. I try again, it pops back up to the top of the page. WTF is wrong?

Oh, honey . . . your own mother shipped you off to a reform school (with cute little military costumes) after you were caught throwing rocks into a baby carriage and she realized you were too twisted to deal with.

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Huge event. Failed Jared Kushner/Trump luxury hotel project planned for Belgrade played a role in starting expanded protests against Vucic.

Prime Minister Mark Carney congratulates President Lula from Brazil on his historic re-election victory. 🇨🇦🤝🇧🇷

I have seen some people mention it, but not nearly enough: The reason why so many middle managers are so excited by LLMs is that the models tend to generate the kind of barely-there pseudo-significant miasma that they've been repeatedly told is How Effective People Talk.

"your daughter is special because she has the qualities of most every other ten year-old girl out there. But you wouldn't know this because you've been having me scour her online presence and order her gifts instead of putting in the BARE FUCKING MINIMUM. YOU KNOW WHAT, FUCK YOU."

Mother consults AI because she struggles to name three positive qualities in … checks notes … her own daughter? WTF?

cool, cool

Bluesky has four kinds of users

"Every AI tool that we tested produced convincingly false content" about our elections, AI expert Abdiaziz Ahmed wrote in @techpolicypress.bsky.social. "Until companies fix these performance gaps, voters will have to take on the brunt of fact-checking themselves."

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Miller deserves everything that's coming. He's afraid of state prosecutors because a presidential pardon only covers federal offenses; and beyond prison, there's also future congressional investigations and civil lawsuits. www.rawstory.com/rs-exclusive...

NEW: DOJ just admitted in court that their lawsuit against California is not about outcome determinative issues, it's simply saying that a single non-citizen voting causes the government irreparable harm. That's bananapants.

Twenty-four years ago today, on October 25, 2002, Minnesota lost Senator Paul Wellstone. We also lost his wife, Sheila, and their daughter, Marcia. Campaign staffers. Today, take moment to honor Wellstone's amazing legacy.

A letter sent to Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles by several House members, incl. Ro Khanna, demanded “an immediate, govt-wide investigation into the decision to restrict SpaceX's Starshield satellite-based intelligence & military support services in Ukraine.” www.americaamerica.news/p/how-long-c...

🔥 @rolandsmartin.bsky.social encourages Black voters to back @abdulelsayed.bsky.social: “We cannot play games with this election.”

pardon power should only apply post conviction and/or *maybe* post indictment. The way to get the supreme court to sign off on this is to explicitly threaten to go after corruption on the court itself

Sherrod Brown: Elon Musk Crowd: BOO!!! Sherrod: Peter Thiel Crowd: BOO!!!! Sherrod: Donald Trump Crowd: BOOOOOOO!!!!

Read more: variety.com/2026/biz/new...

Protect your work from AI before sending it out to agents, producers, actors and others. Add Cloak when you register your script with the WGAE to receive a copy of your file that it is resistant to AI analysis, scraping and training. www.wgaeast.org/mo/script_re...

You can read the full story here (w/ @propublica.org + @nytmag.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/m...

Alexander said he moved back to Ingram, where he started his law enforcement career years earlier, after losing his last job at the county sheriff’s office.

I found that one Ingram officer was clocking in far more hours and raking in more funds working for ICE than his coworkers, according to paystubs and timesheets I later acquired. Sometimes, he spent an entire 12-hour shift working for ICE.

Everyone I talked to had, in some way, been impacted by whoever was driving the black Dodge Charger. Some Latino residents moved to nearby cities. One Mexican restaurant went from 200 daily take-out orders to just 50.

The cop was handing them off to federal immigration agents. As early as a month after the flood, laborers were adding an extra 90 minutes to their daily commutes, just to avoid Ingram’s five-minute stretch of highway.

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

It’s weird, every time I visit L.A., all the cars are parked on the freeway. They must hate cars

NEW: Archbishop Jeffrey Grob of Milwaukee apologized on Sunday for praying over President Trump in the Oval Office last week, and he accused the White House of posting video of the prayer without the bishops’ consent.