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Bloomberg News/ Anthropic's IPO: "The risks run across almost 100 pages of the 335-page [IPO] prospectus, and they include a lengthy discussion of the possibility that Anthropic’s AI software is so effective that it accidentally ends the world and takes the company’s lucrative business with it."

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www.reuters.com/business/aut... Wait, isn't that US policy? Now China is withholding its presumably superior AI, biotech and solar because these are "being used in sensitive areas like aerospace and national ​defense"?

reuters.comChina proposes export controls on solar-manufacturing technologiesChina has proposed export controls on 12 technologies used to make solar equipment, citing national security concerns, as part ​of a broader revision that also covers AI and biotechnology.

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Leah Sottile
@leahsottile.bsky.social

Doing a panel this morning about the decade since the Malheur occupation, and I just realized it was exactly 10 years ago today that the jury in the first trial, involving the Bundys, was given the case and started deliberations. I wrote this earlier this year: www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-cit...

pdxmonthly.comThe Takeover of Malheur Kicked Off a Decade of LawlessnessThe wildlife refuge occupation set the stage for Trump, January 6, and so much more.
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apnews.com/article/wisc... Republican Tiffany says Zuckerberg money was the reason he tried to overturn 2020 election. It appears to be Zuckerberg Week in the news,

apnews.comWisconsin Republican Tiffany says Zuckerberg money was the reason he tried to overturn 2020 electionThe Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor who supported President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn his 2020 loss in the battleground state says he did it because of concerns with election fun...

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OPB
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Surviving family members, lawyers representing workers and state officials interviewed for this story all pointed to a pattern: The DOE systematically challenges and then drags out workers’ compensation claims for years with recommended denials and subsequent legal appeals.

opb.orgNuclear weapons waste made workers sick. Despite a law meant to help, the DOE keeps fighting their claimsA 2018 Washington state law was supposed to help workers who got sick cleaning up Hanford, a former federal nuclear weapons site. Eight years later, the DOE has spent nearly $12 million fighting to deny them benefits.

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ACLU
@aclu.org

The Trump administration's plan to deploy these brutal weapons on people at the southern border is a deeply cruel and inhumane.

cnn.comPentagon grants DHS permission to test heat ray weapon for potential use at border | CNN PoliticsThe Pentagon has given the Department of Homeland Security permission to test a military-grade heat ray and develop tactics to potentially use it in operations at the southern US border, according to a memo signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last month and obtained by CNN.
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/t... It's all in the headline and subhead.

nytimes.comHow Mark Zuckerberg Pushed Meta to Shield Him From California’s Proposed Wealth Tax (Gift Article)The billionaire told Meta’s board that he planned to list his Silicon Valley home for sale. The company remade its stock structure to help him pay the tax if voters pass it.
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www.utilitydive.com/news/utiliti... “Most utilities could not reconstruct what an AI system read, what it did and why..." “...the hardest roles for companies to fill right now are domain experts with AI fluency, data engineers and architects, and AI/machine learning engineers.”

utilitydive.comUtilities turn to AI to manage rising power demand — from AIApplications include maintenance prioritization and demand forecasting, but AI outputs that are uneven, or those that can’t be audited, constrain broader deployment. “Most utilities could not reconstr...
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www.utilitydive.com/news/new-yor... NY state regulators say AI is “susceptible to hallucinations, algorithmic biases, transparency issues, data privacy concerns, misconfiguration errors, cybersecurity attacks, and functional brittleness.” NY is asking WTF electric companies are entrusting to AI.

utilitydive.comNew York audits utility AI use, cites risk in ‘growing dependency’Increasing use of AI systems to manage public utilities creates new risks for critical infrastructure, regulators said.
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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing www.propublica.org/article/gene... Swirlies by General Dynamics! One would THINK a project like DOGE would have been eager to seek out and prevent such waste, fraud,and abuse. Must have had a different motive.

propublica.orgFiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made NothingGeneral Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...

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lynda williams
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Wow, this is fucked up. Holtec Palisades employees in the supply chain and quality assurance departments “are hesitant to raise safety concerns using all available avenues without fear of retaliation” - not good at a nuclear reactor. www.mlive.com/environment/...

mlive.comPalisades workers afraid to raise safety concerns, say NRC inspectorsNuclear safety inspectors found a “chilled work environment” in departments overseeing quality and equipment for the Holtec plant’s restart.
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China’s solar capacity remains twice the size of global demand. ("China Solar Giants Shed Another 40,000 Jobs Last Year as Oversupply Persists") The next life form that passes through here will note that our extinction was largely voluntary. Reuters, subscription required 10-13-2026

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"The economists Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, who helped devise Proposition 40, estimated the combined income tax paid by California’s billionaires over the past three years. In 2025, their portion accounted for only 2.4 percent of the state’s income tax revenue." NY Times October 14, 2026

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Public Citizen
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​​The Trump admin sent federal agents to raid the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar. Trump is once again trying to use intimidation tactics against his perceived political enemies. This isn't normal - this is a disgusting abuse of power by a mad king.

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"In February, one [Meta AI] agent took over the work computer of a Meta safety researcher, deleting her emails uncontrollably. “I couldn’t stop it from my phone,” Summer Yue, the researcher, wrote on social media. " NY Times October 9, 2026