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Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are providing millions to the American Federation of Teachers to build AI training hubs aimed at educating 400,000 teachers (Jocelyn Gecker/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/artificial-int…

Microsoft and OpenAI invest millions in AI training for teachers
The country’s largest teachers unions are teaming up with tech companies like Microsoft and OpenAI to help educators build literacy in artificial intelligence. The tech giants are paying for training for teachers to apply AI skills in the classroom. For the companies, the partnerships are also opportunities to make inroads into schools and win over students in the race for AI dominance. American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten says skepticism guided her negotiations, but the…

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"…official White House reaction…was 'Who cares?' But guess what? They clearly cared, a lot. You could see that…with the increasingly insane rhetoric and warnings about 'antifa' — a tiny, unorganized sliver of young rock-throwing radicals who were nowhere in sight Saturday — that aimed to neutralize the reality that millions of everyday Americans are sick of seeing a masked secret police snatch people off the streets."

Then they fight you: How the ‘No Kings’ protests are winning America
A massive turnout of 7 million and a panicked White House showed Saturday why the No Kings protests matter, a lot.

A statement from iNaturalist on experimenting with “AI-Assisted Identification Summaries” in 'Exploring New Ways to Learn from iNaturalist’s Community Expertise' https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/118695-exploring-new-ways…

Escalating the friction between Washington and one of its closest allies in Latin America,
Donald Trump said Sunday, the United States will slash assistance to Colombia because its leader, Gustavo Petro,
“does nothing to stop” drug production"
The U.S. president warned that Petro “better close up” drug operations “or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.”
Hours later, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the latest U.S. strik…

Trump announces an end to US aid to Colombia
It's a war of words between President Donald Trump and Colombian leader Gustavo Petro over illegal drugs, with hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid hanging in the balance. Trump says he'll slash U.S. assistance and enact tariffs because Colombia's leftist president “does nothing to stop” drug production and is an “illegal drug leader.” Petro is rejecting the accusations and defending his work to fight narcotics in Colombia, the world’s largest exporter of cocaine. Colombia …

Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-18-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251018/p56#a251018p56

🐦‍⬛ 'Resident Evil' makers marvel at 'miracle' longevity
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'Resident Evil' makers marvel at 'miracle' longevity
When zombie-blasting survival game "Resident Evil" launched on the very first PlayStation console in 1996, Japanese publishers Capcom never thought the series would reach tens of millions of people or endure for three decades.

China's transport, logistics, and ride-hailing sectors are accelerating the mass adoption of autonomous vehicles, threatening the jobs of millions of drivers (Edward White/Financial Times)
https://on.ft.com/3JNclHY

Trump, 79, Complains the FBI Made a Mess of Melania's 'Panties' (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-complains-the-fbi-made-a-mess-of-melanias-panties/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p24#a251220p24

Shutdown could halt SNAP benefits for millions, states say (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/20/snap-shutdown-november-ebt-food-stamps
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p50#a251020p50