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Filing: Condé Nast UK reports pre-tax profits down 36% YoY to £18M in 2025, as restructuring charges more than doubled to £4.3M; revenue fell 7% to £70.6M (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/18/conde-na…

Condé Nast’s UK profits drop by more than a third as sale of Vogue publisher ruled out
Magazine group points to restructuring bill but says it ‘remains profitable in the UK for another year’

Faulty AI use: Tennessee woman who was wrongly accused by #Fargo investigators and held in jail for months based on faulty artificial intelligence facial recognition evidence, has filed a $10 million civil rights lawsuit against the Fargo Police and the detective. #NorthDakota

Woman wrongly jailed for months files $10M civil rights case against Fargo police, detective
Angela Lipps' lawsuit details her arrest and months of incarceration following her identification as a suspect in a bank fraud case by an investigator who relied on AI facial recognition.

The aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln’s supply problems began soon after the first day of the war, as Iranian missiles and attack dronesfell on a Navy base in Bahrain.
The Iranian attack, retaliation for the U.S.-Israeli assault on Tehran, destroyed much of the base.
And as it went up in smoke, so did a major logistics hub that the Navy has relied on for decades.
The Navy needed a Plan B to continue feeding the sailors working around the clock to keep warplanes flying…

Navy and USS Lincoln’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War
Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.

..."Part of the country refuses to face reality. France is bankrupt. The deficit is over five per cent of GDP and public debt exceeds €3.5 trillion. France already spends a great deal on education: around €15,000 per secondary-school pupil, well above the OECD average. The education budget has increased by €12 billion under President Macron. Yet educational performance is falling."

An AI tool used to speed up the processing of thousands of British asylum cases is failing basic accuracy tests, The Independent can reveal.
The Home Office rolled out the use of artificial intelligence to summarise interview transcripts with asylum seekers in April to speed up decision-making on applications in a push to slash a huge backlog.
But documents shared with The Independent show that spot-checks carried out within the Home Office have revealed a significant rate of err…

AI tool used in thousands of asylum claims failing basic accuracy tests
Exclusive: MPs, charities and rights group warn that accuracy should not be sacrificed for speed in ‘life and death’ asylum decisions

These are the real issues with pregnancy that the cis men in leadership of the #LDS church don't need or care to know.
They haven't been faced with the reality women, girls, anyone with a working uterus has to face. No one has ever even considered coming between them and their doctor before they can get treatment.
No one has ever educated them about how common miscarriage (spontaneous anortion) actually is. They have never had to consider their personal health when it comes to sex, reproduction, or just living with a uterus and ovaries that can cause health problems.
They don't understand or need to personally consider the real repercussions of Idaho’s laws. That so many Ob/Gyns have left the state, getting regular checkups and cancer screenings are no longer regular. That getting pregnant may end with you on a helicopter fleeing the state for emergency treatment.
These woman are sharing the reality of what their lives have become after the passage of the strict laws in Idaho and the need to change the law, for any who care to know.
#Mormon #ExMo #Abortion #Idaho #utpol
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10/18/idaho-abortion-law-moms-are-taking/

Here is an update on #Ebola in DR #Congo.
The WHO has decided to trial an Ebola vaccine used in previous outbreaks.
The decision comes following new evidence showing it might provide some protection despite being engineered to target a different virus strain.

Ebola Vaccine Rollout Begins In DR Congo Amid Continuing Outbreak
The vaccine was not designed for the Bundibugyo strain causing the epidemic, but experts are hopeful that it may provide some protection while new vaccines are developed.

I was saved by someone else using their name. It was a young guy with a pony tail. I think if I ever come into such a situation again, I'll just ask for the given name because it completely circumvents the gender question. I feel like asking should be a non-issue but the reality is probably that I'll hurt someone's feelings by telling them I can't read their gender expression 😔
At least asking is better than misgendering, right?

FilmLA: on-location shooting of shows and movies in Los Angeles fell 12% YoY in Q2, falling to 4,711 shoot days, down from 5,394 in Q2 2025 (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/filmla-production-decline-q2-2026/

Los Angeles Film and TV Production Sinks 12% Despite New Tax Credits, FilmLA Study Shows
While high-employment TV dramas are holding on, reality TV's continued exodus fueled the decline

"When Trump first started the war in March, he claimed that Iran’s capabilities had been destroyed following U.S. bombing runs. [T]he Trump administration [has been] insisting that Iran has been pacified and that victory is just around the corner. But in reality, Iran has fought back, killing people and asserting control over the Strait of Hormuz, leading to rising fuel costs."
New report reveals Trump’s been lying about Iran war since the start - Daily Kos
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/9/10/800096563/news/new-report-reveals-trump-iran-war-lies/