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Raiders Strike Deal With Former Bills Second-Round Pick https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/boogie-basham-roster-signing/?adt_ei=[email]

Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated.
Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had
a “17x” strike policy
for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
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Court Filings Allege Meta Downplayed Risks to Children and Misled the Public
Newly unsealed court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.

Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins, joins VC firm Benchmark as general partner, following a slew of personnel departures at Benchmark (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/benchmark-names-ev…

Benchmark Names Everett Randle as New General Partner 
Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins investing out of its growth-stage funds, has joined Benchmark as the firm’s newest general partner, the early-stage firm announced Monday. At Kleiner, Randle worked on investments including enterprise search startup Glean and legal AI startup Harvey, earning him a top spot on The Information’s Next General Partners list in 2024. The hiring

OYO Hotel & Casino Las Vegas (formerly Hooters Hotel & Casino) was hit by a ransomware attack in January. Apparently, LockBit was the culprit.
https://www.casino.org/news/another-las-vegas-casino-suffered-major-data-breach-in-january/

Another Las Vegas Casino Suffered Major Cyberattack — Back in January
The OYO Hotel & Casino Las Vegas (formerly Hooters Hotel & Casino) suffered a significant cyberattack in January 2025, according to court filings first reported by Crain's New York Business on October 14, 2025. The resulting data breach reportedly compromised the personal information of 4,700 casino and hotel guests and employees. The cyber attack surfaced

The #IWW #GDC as an antifascist organization was always kind of a hack. It was a beautiful hack and it worked well for what it did.
In 2016, as Trump was rising, I found info from the Twin Cities GDC. They were super organized, building an amazing community defense organization. When we (Seattle) went to set up our chapter, following their lead, they were extremely supportive. When I got shot, Twin Cities folks were at my house keeping my partner safe. They literally flew people out to support us. They very much remain in my mind when I think about what mutual aid looks like.
Unionism is an important strategy of a larger fight. But it's important to realize that it's not the other way around. The GDC was built to defend the union, because there wasn't something larger to do that work. It filled a gap.
When we organized against Trump, we tried to make the GDC the greater thing. We tried to make the GDC into the vehicle for social revolution against the fascist threat... And it sort of worked. We were able to do a lot.
But that was never what it was built to do. It was always built as an appendage of the IWW. This contains its own problem. If Unionism is the revolutionary movement, then it becomes impossible to build a truly revolutionary society. Unionism centers "workers" which implicitly decenters those who can't work in the traditional sense (the young, the elderly, those physically or mentally able to work). It also decenters care labor that hasn't yet been widely commodified. Sure, there are all types of hacks to patch the holes, but the fundamental construction starts from the wrong assumptions.
It felt, for a while, like things could go another way. Like that our ability to bring members in could shift things a bit, maybe set the GDC on more equal footing with the core focus of the IWW. But that was always an illusion, far less important to think about than the crushing terror of the regime we were fighting.
Now, I will absolutely trash talk the IWW on occasion but in the end I do think they're doing good and important work. Any criticism I have should be taken with a grain of salt... And I know I do have a lot of salt. Again, Unionism is an important strategy. It's useful both in improving immediate material conditions and as part of the most powerful weapon we have against the capitalist system: the general strike. It's important, I can't say that enough. But it's not sufficient.
I've been thinking about this a bit recently, and I wonder if there are any other GDC organizers or former organizers who might be feeling the same. Feel free to DM me. I'd like to get some more perspectives and see if my understanding from several years ago deviates significantly from what other folks are feeling right now.
I'd also like to bounce some ideas around that come from my own organizing experience.

Ex-Raiders Defender Signs With Texans Following Week 16 Matchup https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/leki-fotu-texans-roster-signing-news/

Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals says Gemini 3's gains come from better pre-training and post-training, contradicting the idea that pre-training gains are falling (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-unseats-anthropic-…

Google Unseats Anthropic With Gemini 3
Before we get to Gemini 3, we want to highlight this morning’s news that former Harvard University President Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAI’s board of directors following a congressional committee’s release of emails showing a personal correspondence between him and convicted sex ...

Former NFL QB offers alternative opinion on George Pickens following Week 14 loss https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/former-nfl-qb-offers-alternative-opinion-george-pickens-following-week-14-loss

Doug Martin's Agent Issues Statement After Death of Former Buccaneers, Raiders RB https://www.si.com/nfl/doug-martin-agent-issues-statement-after-death-of-former-buccaneers-raiders-rb

Raiders add another former 1st round pick linebacker following Germaine Pratt release https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/10/08/raiders-add-former-1st-round-pick-lb-fo…