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" “To have this change to the planning system from the government that does not allow us to restrict the blanket building of housing development and maintain the character of Stockport as we would like to do is a bitter pill to swallow.”
Stockport's 'bitter pill to swallow' as 24,253-home plan released - Manchester Evening News

Stockport's 'bitter pill to swallow' as 24,253-home plan released
Government targets say there needs to be 32,000 new homes built across Stockport

Good News Of The Day.
There are turtles involved.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-10-06/endangered-turtles-get-a-boost-with-the-help-of-massachusetts-school-kids

Endangered turtles get a boost with the help of Massachusetts school kids
Children across the state have helped raise baby Blanding's turtles for years.

🚀 Chronivaro 0.4.1 has been released!
Chronivaro is an open-source working time, absence tracking, and monthly period closing system.
📦 Release notes & downloads:
https://github.com/eitch/Chronivaro/releases/tag/v0.4.1

Enterprise voice AI tools provider Deepgram acquires Daily, which has raised $62M and develops open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, for an undisclosed sum (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/deepgram-ac…

Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure | TechCrunch
Deepgram said that it is committed to keep Pipecat open source.

#Huggingface lets you add your personal p(doom) prediction to your profile now.
Makes for a nice personal touch of living through the apocalypse, if you ask me.

I have spent most of the time since Labor Day out across the country,
campaigning, knocking on doors, speaking at rallies ahead of the midterms.
I’ve been in upstate New York and eastern Pennsylvania, in northern Montana and the Central Valley of California, on the Kansas-Missouri line and southern Maine, in eastern Iowa and south-central Michigan, in Austin and in Dallas.
And I’ve been online more nights than not, helping with phone banks into every part of America.

I Knocked on Hundreds of Doors Ahead of the Midterms. Here’s What I Learned
After knocking on several hundreds doors across America ahead of the 2026 midterms, I came away with four basic reminders on where we are as a nation.

Daytime surf show! 🏄‍♂️ 🎸 🎶
#music #surf #SanFrancisco

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI across multiple crawlers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1023763/openai-google-microsoft-ai-scr…

The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping
OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are planning to adopt a new standard that will allow websites to apply their AI training preferences across multiple AI companies, instead of setting them individually.

Another day, another sealing of agricultural land.
Residents 'sickened' as farmland at the edge of Bury village eyed up for hundred of homes - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news…

Residents 'sickened' as farmland at the edge of Bury village eyed up for hundred of homes
By all means build, but use the places that have been used and left derelict

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI across multiple crawlers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1023763/openai-google-microsoft-ai-scr…

The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping
OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are planning to adopt a new standard that will allow websites to apply their AI training preferences across multiple AI companies, instead of setting them individually.