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WATCH: A defense contractor CEO and his close associates donated nearly $900,000 to dozens of politicians and got over $40 million a year in government funding. He told the FBI that Sen. Susan Collins was his most important patron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjg

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

The owners of Elvis Presley’s music sued Anthropic, saying it trained its AI models on more than 200 of Presley’s songs without permission, accusing it of copyright infringement. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/a...

Investigate and prosecute corruption and criminal behaviour or lose your liberal democracy.

To expand on my point about these “markets” I’m not getting into the issues w corruption or damaging impacts of gambling. Their supporters in the political space habitually argue they are superior to polls in their predictive ability. In the simplest sense they’re just not. But to the extent they …

“If you’re having nerve problems I feel bad for you, fair cousin. I got ninety-nine problems but men abed in England ain’t one.”- Henry V, 25 October 1415

Something that's not being said. The REASON why Blanche and Bill Essayli are so defiantly violating the Constitution is bc John Roberts said they can't be prosecuted so long as they're following Trump's illegal orders. Blanche's criminality arises DIRECTLY out of Trump v. US.

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

Google was really trying to hide its water use figures, to the degree that it got the council to try to keep its water use figures secret. The community finally got the actual numbers and found out Google was using 29 percent of the water in the community. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

from @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social:

After massive criticism Starlink and Starshield have been fully restored in Ukraine. This was due to the great efforts by the people of the USA, in Europe and elsewhere who wouldn’t allow this deeply inhumane and wrong decision to go unanswered. Good job!

seems like "on the orders of a nazi every major news outlet on the planet hounded an innocent man to death because he's black" should be one of the biggest stories of the year

The question is: Why did Trump derail peace talks?

Ukraine says Starlink and Starshield operating at 400 kph after week of throttling reut.rs/4BpaFKs

France mounts huge security operation as protesters prepare to march reut.rs/4zU7lFR

That’s a radiant Mrs GD in the foreground, with Leary beside and slightly behind her, looking grabby, which he definitely was.

literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska

NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them. The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything. Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.

Companies will face a problem of lack of sr. devs because nobody is hiring jr. devs who will eventually become sr. devs, and I guess they are all hoping that the chatbots will graduate into sr. devs at some point?

Virtue signalling is good, akshully. As long as it is signalling actual virtuous action and thinking. That caveat must stand. But that is not what anti-virtue-signalling people complain about. They are complaining about public acknowledgements of virtue as virtue, at all.

The danger was never that the tool remembers for us; it's that we stop being the sort of people who need to.

nobody stopped Musk before he broke the state monopoly on violence, so now either he goes or the nation-state does

If he can pull the plug on Ukraine, he can pull the plug on America. He's too big to trust.

The Dutch are maybe the best in the world at this stuff.

The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies then reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story in @vanityfair.com

Publishers, advertisers call EU, UK antitrust regulators to suspend Meta's new commercial terms reut.rs/3U6L2NW

It’s actually incredible how much of good policy making just is (the very nuanced and value laden and important and complicated process of!) finding the right balance between type 1 and type 2 errors

Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

They should make a database of everyone who gets mad at a post like this and permanently strip them of their driver’s license

End of an era. I mean, like, second end of the BioWare era, really.

EU will propose new tools to protect market, von der Leyen says reut.rs/47yizUh

To replace Starlink, Europe will have to reawaken its animal spirits ft.trib.al/KC2uwEa | opinion

UN sees higher global warming, even in best-case scenario reut.rs/4Bk96xt

Elon denies he betrayed the Ukrainians in the midst of a Russian assault in order to help Putin. But WSJ has the evidence: he did. Can we allow a drug addict from South Africa to run US military assets in the middle of a war? How did this happen? www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

UK inflation rose more than expected to 3.5% in September ft.trib.al/cDr6WmJ

the idea that empathy is dangerous has been permeating right-wing spaces for a while, but it's not an actual element of their ideology as much as it's a defense mechanism against confronting the reality of their cruelty

"armies don't fight for abstractions." -- The losing army