Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own

But his laptop

"Young mayor gets caught using police gym for pickup basketball" is the plot of a kids movie where the mayor is the hero

Uff. "The word algebra comes from the title of al-Khwarizmi's book Al-Jabr." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra

The Flock CEO and Lady Flockbeth.

If you want to ensure ads never use your personal data in this way, you’ll need to make sure Personal Intelligence is turned off: arstechnica.visitlink.me/0kCaFp

CNBC: Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/m...

The “protect the vulnerable” disinformation doctors are mad that anyone tried to protect the vulnerable.

5 mins to Mr Palantir (either one) going on again about how women shouldn't be allowed to vote.

The soaring costs of public universities is a political decision. When these schools predominantly served white students, they tended to be free (UC, CCNY, etc.) But as the number of students of color has increased, funding for the public universities has decreased. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/b...

Brazil and Serbia 💪🏻

A reminder from Lula in #Brazil that the real enemies of Big Tech are independent, sovereign nation states unwilling to simply get on their knees in the face of corporate power. Regulatory control over national information ecologies is a core part of democracy.

Putins Valdai residence now has 50 airdefense positions. Half of that of Moscow. Dudes terrified. www.svoboda.org/a/vokrug-rez...

“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”

Bookmarking #books

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JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Just a reminder that DN did a mys profile of Kulldorff just recently and never mentioned any of this.

An attempt to document important facts concerning AI Safety, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationalism and San Francisco Effective Altruism tldr definitely a millenarian death cult www.verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-...

Here and also comments, for those of us like me, who missed that Richard Dawkins went off the rails sometimes in the last decade, I guess, or two.

Oh, boy, feel this article nymag.com/intelligence...

True story

Technically, a dictionary is a book of spells.

I love taking photos out of train windows. And it's fodder for future painting.

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The Israeli Foreign Ministry is lying. No coordination was required, and we were never told that it was. We were not in a restricted security area. We did not pass any checkpoints.

Wild moment in Krugman’s post about Musk and Starlink today. Krugman actually says outright that the right to hold private property is not actually the fundamental right in a democracy. ‼️ This is new thinking and SO NECESSARY to normalize if one day we really are going to phase out fossil fuels.

Don't forget the clocks go back this weekend. But what are the pros and cons of daylight saving?

Republicans: "We will inspect all the girls' genitals allegedly so they could play sports safely and hide any resulting pedophilia - we promise! Just look at our track record!"

I replied by saying 3 things First, I recalled Elie Wiesel's 1986 Nobel Prize speech, during which he said: "Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere." eliewieselfoundation.org/about-elie-w...

Gary Tyler, a quilt artist who spent decades on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum

This is also insane.

I am down on globalization.

BREAKING: Police in Guinea-Bissau say they raided the offices of Bandim, the Danish research project, and seized hepatitis B vaccines at the center of global controversy www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

The iceberg comments on Titanic.

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

When I become a spy for Uqbar, I will definitely have a folder called Uqbar Gov Docs.

PAXTON: hey we're catching a lot of shit for holding our final rally at the alamo, the site of an infamous Texas doomed last stand TRUMP: