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Bombshell: Greg Abbott’s senior team met secretly with Big Tech two days before the state made it easier and faster for data centers to connect to Texas’s electrical grid. In Greg Abbott’s Texas, billionaires come first and Texans come last.

Blocking the Wayback Machine won’t stop AI scraping, writes Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle in The Atlantic. But it can undermine a vital resource for journalists and researchers. Learn more 👇 www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... #NotAllBots #ProtectTheWayback

Take it to the ballot box, everyone. Go vote. Go in person or go early (if you can't on Tuesday itself). I am not confident in the Blue Wave because of statistical reasons and the psychology of Trump's voters. Please, please, please go vote and prove me wrong.

It's a law of academic physics that ten papers is a heavier lift than a hundred.

Vance's continued presence in politics is a hate crime against humanity.

I don't know which is the more humiliating part. That people believe this will have an impact on diesel prices or that your country is siding with evil.

This seems the like the kind of thing people buy to let you know they can afford to blow $2,000 on a phone.

When it comes to terrible practices by website operators, it takes a lot to shock me. I literally wrote the book on the subject.

Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. @latimes.com (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*.

Your Roberts Court decisions in action.

About as smart as Disney saying they can 💀 you, or your children, but because you subscribed to Disney+ you can’t sue. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

I'm a little curious about this number for Sales, Marketing and Partnerships. Are promotional credits to customers included?

Apparently model training is a current period expense. I probably agree with that treatment. They have a limited shelf life.

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Oh, dear. I had the good fortune to meet him a few times at conventions and had lunch with him once in Australia. Such a lovely fellow and of course an iconic figure in science fiction. RIP.

Choose your own adventure:

My initial impressions of the S-1 are that it's not a pile of dog shit like SpaceX. I've ignored the doom and gloom sections, as the best case is they don't believe it. And the most charitable interpretation is they want to use fear mongering as marketing.

An exercise for the reader?

We get the Mad-Libs portion of the S1

A reminder that buying US munitions can come with crazy strings attached. If a few counties in four or five states decide eggs are to expensive, you may find you can’t defend your own people.

From Zelenskyy. Patriot interceptors that could save innocent lives are sitting in European countries for weeks, which they paid for, unable to be transferred to Ukraine because Hegseth refuses to sign off.

Well, it looks like I have 300 odd pages of wishful thinking and science fiction to sift through.

The blue things aren’t washing machines, they’re disk drives. Likely 50 MB. Theres also another Cray in the background On the left.

👻 #Spookyseason continues at the Internet Archive! Today’s treat: THE LAUREL & HARDY MURDER CASE, a 1930 comedy that sends Stan & Ollie to a mysterious mansion, where a murder mystery brings plenty of eerie goings-on. 🕯️🏚️ Then things go batty!🦇 More Spooky Stuff: archive.org/details/@ias...

"Right now, we’re living in Trump’s world, in Vance’s world, in Hegseth’s world. This is what a world without empathy looks like. It’s a world of constant othering, of constant rage, of a constant belief that life is a zero-sum game. But nothing flourishes in that world." — @snipy.bsky.social

New in PN: In defense of empathy "Being aware of other people’s feelings, sensitive to them, and able to put yourself in another person’s shoes is pretty much essential for humans to function as a community. But the current conservative project has zero room for that sort of thing."

Cartoonist: John Deering

Cartoonist: Dave Granlund

Some psychiatrist should write a book about Texas Democrats' pre-election emotional trauma. I've been up and down so many times I feel like I'm trapped inside a broken elevator.

Cartoonist: Joe Heller

We opened up that can of worms with decapitation strikes. There’s always a threat to leaders but they are we’ve sent the signal they are as legitimate a target as a refinery.

What‘s left of the West needs a Starlink alternative not controlled by Musk. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"After fighting Chavistas and their Russian, Iranian, and Cuban allies for so long, nobody in Venezuela’s historically pro-American democratic opposition ever expected a U.S. administration to stand in their way. But if it does, they are preparing to fight that obstacle too."

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

When this goes to shit, and Amazon has to figure out what to do with a bunch of GPUs, they won't show up on Ebay. Unless you have (likely) three-phase power in your house and serious plumbing, they won't do you any good.

US nuclear revival faces scrutiny after incidents at flagship plant: worker falls into reactor cavity, tilted fuel rods, failed exams and staff hesitant to speak up on safety as.ft.com/r/7039148c-8... @financialtimes.com

What's the word I'm looking for that describes this sort of person.... Oh, yes, Liar

LMAO -- Exclusive Senior Adviser to First Lady Melania Trump Marc Beckman claims Melania is "negotiating a ceasefire" between Russia and Ukraine

Vote like this is the last election. Because unless Republicans lose their majorities in the House AND Senate, it very well could be.

In 2020, Jared Kushner was senior advisor to the president of the United States, a full-time employee of the United States government, and was subject to numerous disclosure requirements and ethical restrictions under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.