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Netflix is laying off 1,000 workers — its largest layoff ever. In 2025, Netflix had a net income of $11 billion (up 26%). Its CEO was paid $53M (255x more than the median employee). And it just raised prices for the second time in just over a year. Corporate greed in a nutshell.

Trump cutting Starlink from Ukraine won't stop deep strikes. He seems to be simply trying to force a Ukrainian surrender and manufacture a ”peace deal” before the midterms to boost his chances. It will fail. Trump is a pathetic traitor

Errr.... right, so UK is having to find more money for defence against Russia... by cutting funding for heat pumps that get us off gas... thereby keeping us dependent on an energy commodity *weaponised* by Russia & international conflict. Smart thinking guys www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump has activated the fifth column to blame Ukraine for the upcoming defeat in the midterms

Michael Shellenberger appears to be preparing another piece falsely claiming that a conference of researchers studying disinformation is tantamount to a shadowy cabal of censorship. Spoiler alert: conferences, in fact, are the definition of free speech. My response to his questions is below.

Just leaving this here... bylinetimes.com/2026/09/25/r...

This is pretty wild. While the total turnout in VA so far is 23% below where it was at the same point in '24 (expected, given that '24 was a presidential year), total Hispanic turnout is almost 50% ahead of the same point in '24.

Here's the cumulative volume of curtailment and turn-up actions over the past week… We had a particularly heavy period of transmission constraint throughout September, both in terms of energy volume as well as cost. Why? ⬇️

Google is updating its satellite images of Gaza. The comprehensiveness of effort required to reduce an urban landscape to this is beyond imagining. Literal carpet bombing.

Have the BBC forgotten how to do proper reporting? The arrest isn't "over video", it's over the dinghy slashing.

DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

1/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵

I'm sure it has been mentioned before for EVs but mileage should be deprecated in favour of an electrical mileage equivalent based on kWh or cycles. Agricultural or industrial vehicles use runtime for example.

On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.

OMG. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Two million likes on TikTok… and counting.

Trump is a despot. Everything he does is tyrannical

Tax the rich. Break up big banks. Primary corporate Democrats. Get Big Money out of politics. The message of the Occupy Movement is as important today as it was 15 years ago.

The weather forecast for Toulouse, SW-France, for the last week of September...

📉 Shares of Austrian banking group fell 8.2%. This followed a report by investment fund Grizzly Research, which accused bank of facilitating trade in Russian sanctioned goods. Raiffeisen had become one of the key channels for circumventing sanctions in Russian economy.

Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it’s not stopping. momentummag.com/paris-cyclin...

I did have a look at recent pedestrian deaths last night and it is shocking. It is almost invisible - many of the deaths don't even get reported in the local news. Here are a few of the recent ones:

The irony of the people of Piddington wanting to leave the UK due to the actions of the UK government for the same reason that the people being housed by the UK government wanted to escape their own government. The only difference is the people being housed actually did something.

HOLY SHIT - Tapper plays Johnson footage of GOP candidate Brandon Herrera describing moms as "cum trophies," mentions he called Nazi machine guns "the original ghetto blasters," & asks Johnson how he can support him. Mike says "he has run a very effective campaign ... that was his persona online"

The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.

For those still learning about Germany’s neo-Nazi AfD, here are the salient facts:

If Democrats win the House, Trump must be impeached, and tried for treason — along with his entire cabinet.

A dark blizzard of disinformation is warping the public’s perception of our great city. But we know the truth: our homicide rate is lower than every major US city, neighbourhood crimes are down and we’ve been ranked #1 city in the world 11 years in a row. My piece for The Times.

Is Nicolas Cage okay. Is he in the hole

Farage et al. don't actually want to stop the boats. They NEED them.

The Far Right agenda is that Britain’s diverse cities are hellholes (*because they’re diverse*) but the country’s real problems are in towns that are predominantly white.

Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI

British editorial cartoonist David Parkins illustrates the bottom line.

They are for ✨️peace✨️ until you find out they cheer for russian army. A mug featuring russian army symbols was seen in the office of an Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician during an interview filmed by Bild journalists. The item was spotted in the office of Hans-Thomas Tillschneider,

The news and videos out of Nepal are horrific. Climate change makes the world a more chaotic and dangerous place. Even if your home isn’t affected, you might go on holidays or to a meeting and get caught up in it. I’m particularly thinking about this as our next IPCC lead author meeting is in Nepal.

So, to implement their vengefully racist social housing plan, Reform would tear up our Brexit deal, huff out of the ECHR and scrap the Equality Act. As diminishing returns go, it can’t get any more diminished. Seriously voters, this is insane. (Ps British “expats” are migrants too) (iPaper)

Such a pity that the company spent so much time and effort in hiding the emissions of its diesel engines instead of racing to become an EV company.

These are five men who want Ukraine to hold wartime elections. Don’t be like them

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

Like an AMOC shutdown…

“When batteries set the marginal price instead of gas turbines that cost two to three times as much to run, wholesale power gets cheaper during the hours it used to be most expensive … utilities will likely choose batteries over new gas plants long term.” #battchat #batteries #energysky #greensky