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I hear that, occasionally. I countered that mindset early by posting a giant “WHAT IF EVERYBODY DID THAT?” sign in the classroom. It came up again the other day regarding leash laws. Reasoning: Why are you mad? His dog is behaving very well without a leash. Rebuttal: *Taps the sign*

Bank of Korea warns country's chip exports could fall by up to $100 billion if AI spending slows reut.rs/3Wx1ibD

NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

- Peter Sellers - Yeah - Genius? - Yeah - Comic? - Yup - Genius? - Yeah - Dark side? - Crazy - Crazy? - Certifiable - Certifiable? - I think had he not been Peter Sellers he very likely could’ve ended up in an institution. Blake Edwards on PETER SELLERS.

No one had that legal authority.

you're never gonna believe it but this was also 4o

Still not one story on the NYT, WSJ, or WaPo homepages about the alleged rapes committed by Donald Trump. Comparatively, independent media like @zeteo.com, @popular.info, and @marisakabas.bsky.social have been all over this, and the Miami Herald.

It's amazing how editors will say "we can't see inside this public figure's mind," "we can't assume their intentions" — and then write stuff like this.

Alex Pretti’s parents held a press conference in Minneapolis Tuesday morning to call on federal agencies to investigate their son’s killing by Border Patrol agents — and to share more about who Alex was.

Via Sofia Resnick: The Pregnancy Justice report found that 902 women faced a total of 955 charges related to their pregnancies in 23 states, but the vast majority of cases were in South Carolina (381), Oklahoma (222) and Alabama (204). https://ow.ly/wSWz5101kCM

Try to imagine how science professors decorate for the season. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

Mother I must zoom

Dudes online are doing sex macro spreadsheets and smashing their faces with hammers to impress each other and mainstream America is like we want the fifty-something with the sad eyes who cries when he holds the baby

Silly bear cub wins award for being terrible at hide-and-seek www.popsci.com/environment/...

Julie K. Brown at the Miami Herald is still doing the heavy lifting on keeping the story alive. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

#NYC's first subway line ran along a 9.1 mile route extending from City Hall to 145 Street and had 28 stations. The line ran under Park Avenue South to Grand Central, across 42 Street to Times Square, and then up Broadway to 145 Street.

🎂 Happy Birthday, #NYCsubway! 📽️ Behold! The first-ever known footage of the subway, and we're sharing it today on the subway's 122nd birthday. #TodayInHistory: #OnThisDay in 1904, New York City’s first rapid transit subway, the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) opened.

Quick and dirty, but here's a false-colour timelapse view of Finland's forest destruction for a data centre using Copernicus images. Red = vegetation No red = human structure link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/ravk Google's reporting here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How the People of Brazil Went to War With a Billionaire and His Algorithm What Lula’s digital resistance can teach us about saving democracy from tech fascism.

Per info received from the Davis campaign, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (a contender for the 2028 presidential race) will be rallying alongside Davis today in NOLA.

Apple IIGS Confidential: The lowdown in '86. 📺: Apple IIGS Welcome Tour

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Not on the New York Times home page apparently, but it is on the People home page.

Meta suspended @nokingscoalition.bsky.social’s account for over an hour during one of the largest protests in U.S. history. Democratic AGs are demanding answers.

Asked how he felt about President Trump suggesting he would have to go through a metal detector, Abdul El-Sayed joked, "He knows I got those Wolverine claws." Mercado Media

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Check out this AI Tattoo pain chart. And stop eating with your groins. Use a fork like a civilized person.

wsj is wsj'ing at unprecedented levels

Mayor Mamdani and Councilmember Kayla Santosuosso visited the New York Aquarium to meet some seals and celebrate the impact of the administration’s $2 million investment in the aquarium.

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

It's really amazing how vile Trump's orbit is in general, and what a positively wretched group of legal "professionals" he has employed over the course of his presidency. I feel like practically every major legal scandal of the last decade has ended with the person at the center working for Trump.

"[NYT]—and all of the media—could have investigated Lindsey Graham’s denials decades ago. It’s clear to me that Washington reporters, like the rest of us, had heard the stories for many years. Yet they thought it was an “invasion of privacy” to go there, even as he was harming the community"

“They essentially made the cardinal sin of forgetting that pendulums reliably do one thing — and it swings back most of the time. They’ve got a very rough couple years ahead.”

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

Anthropic is relying more and more on Google, Amazon and Microsoft to sell its AI technology to customers, despite the three companies being rivals, investors and key suppliers of computing power.

TBH, with a literal handful of exceptions, you can have the old high street back if you are willing to knock down and densify the actual buildings on, in and around the high street.

It's great how both my partner and I work in very different types of industries and yet "AI" is ruining both our careers (despite not being able to actually do any of the work we do, doesn't stop companies trying to replace workers). Just trying to outlast until the bubble pops. But I'm stressed. 🥲

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

Roughly 1/4 of its workforce. $MSFT

NEW: A federal judge has now ruled that former SDNY prosecutor, Maurene Comey, was UNLAWFULLY fired by the Trump DOJ. He orders her retroactive reinstatement and back pay. Comey alleged in her lawsuit that she was fired for politically motivated reasons. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/m...

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

Two THOUSAND Dollars!!!