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The crazy part: Microsoft’s Copilot Cowork, launched in March, runs on Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT—not Microsoft’s own model. Microsoft is cutting jobs while funding AI infrastructure and selling an agent built on technology licensed from others. That’s truly wild. apnews.com/article/micr...

Yesterday in Beitillu, an Israeli🇮🇱settler mob, w/guns, terrorized Palestinian🇵🇸olive harvesters, stole olives…The army came & kicked the Palestinians off their lands stopping the harvest #ACT work w/member states: enforce ICC warrants, SUSPEND the EU-ISRAEL AA… @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @cnn.com

Serbia, Brazil, refreshing news.

The nerd reich, indeed

Is this even legal?

Corruption

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A debate in the European Parliament on global AI governance exposed divisions over how far governments should go in regulating AI and how much responsibility should fall on the companies developing it, Joana Soares reports.

Dur réveil à Nice, avec la sensation de vivre dans un futur dystopique où l'extrême droite est au pouvoir. Hier, une milice de 100 fascistes, armés de barres de fer et de couteaux, a descendu un grand axe, discuté tranquillement avec la police avant d'aller frapper des manifestants pacifistes.

“Why Trump Is The Worst US President Ever” — Jeffrey Sachs Jeffrey David Sachs is an American economist and public policy analyst. He is a professor at Columbia University, at which he was formerly director of The Earth Institute and currently director of the Center for Sustainable Development.

A 21-year-old Palestinian seized in the dead of night, and his relatives are then told he died in prison. No body will be turned over, because that would show how he was killed in prison. This is a pretty routine thing these days in Israel. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Exclusive Senior Advisor to First Lady Melania Trump Marc Beckman: "Yesterday she single-handedly brokered a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine"

Ah tiens. Et quand elle renommera le lac du Bourget lac Bousquet ils vont embrayer aussitôt? Toute ressemblance.. etc. www.liberation.fr/economie/med...

Anyone surprised that Jared Kuschner has secret overseas bank account used to collect huge payments from foreign dictators seeking policy changes in the USA?

Sunday’s vote decides who leads Brazil — but the questions about tech companies including Meta as “stewards of civic spaces” will outlast the election and reverberate well beyond Brazil’s borders, writes Daniel Arnaudo.

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Peter Thiel not beating the Nerd Reich charges. On the left, the stage where he delivered his Nashville Antichrist lectures. On the right, the cover of "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy." 🤨

Kenyan startup turns invasive water hyacinth into biodegradable packaging. Original post

«Teachers who make physics boring are criminals» Original post

Most state attorneys general released Meta from Cambridge Analytica-related claims as part of the child safety settlement. New Mexico wasn't part of that deal, and a jury there found 26 of 29 past statements about Cambridge Analytica, hate speech and misinformation willfully deceptive.

We don't lack solutions. We lack accountability. We have solar. They invest in oil. We have conservation. They have deforestation contracts. We have climate science. They have PR firms to deny it. Name the system. #ClimateJustice

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"When you've got a trillion dollars and prefer flying cars as opposed to solving global child hunger with your loose pocket change" via The UK Against Hate #BlameMilionairesNotMigrants #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence

“Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT told the shooter, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.” Our investigation uncovers how OpenAI's chatbot fed a school shooter’s violent fantasies and planning for a massacre

@franceculture.fr Au journal de 18h, faire deux minutes avec reportage a Washington sur ce que dit Trump des evenements en France, c'était obligé ??

MAGA so dumb The defunding of public education is bearing it's inevitable, predictable fruits

Larry Ellison’s TikTok has shut down the promotional account for Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary. www.theverge.com/tech/1013453...

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

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Cette constante de l'extrême droite de tangenter l'insulte de l'adversaire avec ce qu'ils pensent être des mots d'esprit. On a les mêmes ici et c'est insupportable.

U.S. Deploys Hundreds of Soldiers to Assist “War on Drugs” in Colombia and Honduras

Russia, Russia, Russia was not a hoax. Trump signed an EO tonight exempting Russia from new sanctions legislation that Congress passed last month. The law was designed to squeeze the financial lifelines sustaining Russia's war against Ukraine. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

Massive Google data center project faces growing opposition in central France

So much for Israeli military efficiency and morality. They never had either. It was destruction on a mass scale, of people and infrastructure. War crime.