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Was not expecting to read the Silmarillion and see Tolkien absolutely nail the American tech-worshipping billionaire class and our warped transhumanist greed. 1951!

Big news from the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain: Employees at Rockstar Games in the UK will hold a union vote next month, just as they release Grand Theft Auto VI

The NBA has reached deals with Kalshi and Polymarket to make them the league's preferred prediction markets partners. The companies can now use NBA IP on their platforms, while the NBA gets right of approval on markets that they offer. That and more: www.nytimes.com/athletic/772...

The thing about Zuckerberg's idea of Everything Platforms is that they inevitably become the most watered down malls of lowest-common-denominator content and community. Nothing makes Facebook Facebook or Instagram Instagram; they just exist to imitate and absorb their competitors.

I'd like to know what equivalent to Sorkin's West Wing mythos of journalism and politics the mainstream media like the BBC subscribe to when they do stuff like this constantly.

Owner at my local cafe in Berlin came to take my order and within a minute she was saying “oh my god Brazil gives me hope”. She was overflowing with joy. Something extraordinary happened last night. I keep thinking about the alternate timeline, if Bolsonaro had won, and I shudder.

Anthropic S-1 is out, time to spin up your take machines.

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

In his talk at Princeton, @marcelias.bsky.social noted that the election suppression he worried about was less ICE at the polls and more ICE putting up traffic checkpoints and other things that made access to the polls much harder. And it looks like we’re seeing a version of that in Brazil.

After Hungary and Poland, Serbia becomes the third Central/Eastern European country in few years where massive youth mobilization has contributed to the electoral defeat of the ruling autocratic party.

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Looking like record-low voter turnout in B.C. tonight. With 97.3% of ballot boxes reporting, Elections B.C. reports a turnout of 46.63%.

Hearing report after report. Bolsonaro’s allies are doing everything they can to suppress the vote. It’s the engine of fascism in action.

BBC report sanitises the overt racism: It notes that organisers warned marchers not to talk to journalists, then gives the "anti-immigration group"'s own sanitised description of itself. It does not report they chanted "England for the white man" in the streets. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

> In January, [Meta] will issue a new class of stock to shareholders, which Mr. Zuckerberg can sell to pay the potential wealth tax without cutting into his 60.6% voting power (…) It also helps the tech giant fund its enormous investments in artificial intelligence. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/t...

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...

Lyder det her bekendt? #dkpol

Very amusing that the plot for the latest season of Slow Horses is based on the esoteric idea that high-ranking government officials taking foreign money to fund their political machinations would be a five-alarm scandal legally tantamount to treason.

Jason Clinton is the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer at Anthropic.

Vivek Ramaswamy is going after the abusive parent vote: defector.com/vivek-ramasw...

Krugman is a liberal economist but even still 10 years ago I couldn't imagine him calling for expropriation and (temporary) nationalization of a major company. What stage of capitalism is this? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-time-t...

The Wall Street Journal says Trump called Musk and “asked” him to lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Starlink

This may sound terrible, but have you considered this is a great opportunity for SpaceX to acquire them.

The most profitable job in tech right now is not working in AI, but consulting for migrating companies off PHP.

Of course the optometrist appointment is right after the PHP armageddon, which means all the eyewear stores for checking out new glasses are down. Maybe running your store on Shopify isn't so bad after all.

Likely the most important thing I've ever written — if you're an academic and the AI mania unsettles you, here's my best shot at presenting some intellectual tools that might help you articulate why. arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251

FCK's bøde er fra DBU, i sagen 6/2023. Der stod “Til den danske presse, jeres løgne fodrer politiets brutalitet, Først når I selv bliver ramt taler I sandt, Adam Tatt: Dit mareridt – vores hverdag”. Der er meget sjovt i DBU's afgørelser. #dkpol #dkmedier #dkjura #politivold

New Novo Nordisk leak reveals rankings of ~7,000 Danish doctors and nurses, effectively based on "commercial value and loyalty" in getting patients to use Novo's products like Ozempic. Less a dedication to medical science than affiliate marketing. www.dailynorthern.com/35941/novo-l...

The capexmaxxing continues.

We finally got our answer! arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/...

> Elon Musk will put up to $10 billion into Skydance to help the media giant pay down debt while also giving SpaceX satellite subsidiary Starlink a foothold in the entertainment business. > > That was the eye-opening prediction offered Wednesday by John Malone (...) www.resetera.com/threads/dead...

A judge on Wednesday ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about privacy and content moderation policies on Facebook.

The RFK Jr-funded Danes who wanted to fly in to Guinea-Bissau to withhold the hep B vaccine birth dose from newborns have (finally!) thrown in the towel They are, of course, framing it as a great loss to science & arguing how unethical it is NOT to do the trial 🤯 It’s good the trial was stopped

I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

Glad to see the EU are finally investigating Booking.com. Better late than never. The investigation is based on DSA compliance. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...

As we all know, it worked out tremendously the last time. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

CERT-EU on Mastodon outright telling people to unplug their PHP server from the internet, in the absence of a fix today, in case you wondered how bad #PHP2Shell is. infosec.exchange/@cert_eu/117... cert.europa.eu/publications...

A lot of poorly maintained websites are about to get hacked in a really bad way due to this PHP vulnerability. Probably a good idea to tell everyone you know with IT obligations about this. Some websites have been outright taken down to focus on patching this instead of risking any hacks.

Coming soon: Al Jazeera uncovers disturbing links between British right wing activists, the far right and loyalist paramilitaries. #Glasgow #Belfast #London

Damn. "Contract Killers and the Far Right is an Al Jazeera Investigation that exposes the links between the right-wing student movement Turning Point UK which has organised and participated in anti-immigrant protests in the UK and an armed paramilitary who can arrange murders for money."

Bimlende vanvittigt at det her er dagens Danmark. Og at politiet tilmed vil gøre det ulovligt at filme betjente. Vanvid. politiken.dk/danmark/art1... #dkpol #dkmedier

Games with loot boxes and gachas will now automatically receive 16 age ratings from European ratings board PEGI. The change is also applied retroactively to digital games. (Read more at Pocket Gamer)

pretty cool how much everything sucks now because of ai www.ign.com/articles/ste...

What the hell is going on here.

ironically, a program seemingly designed to just give money to the regime's friends and allies is textbook fraud

If you didn't know that Trump said it last night, you'd have no idea what this ADL tweet was referring to.

NEW little one: WhatsApp online help pages exposed internal Meta instructions/prompts that were meant for its own chatbot. 100 prompts were exposed, including one telling Meta’s AI not to give people legal advice or talk about GDPR/other privacy regs WhatsApp says a bug caused the issue

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.