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Ukraine unveils new Octopus interceptor drone, plans mass production with the UK: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/21/ukraine-unveils-new-octopus-interceptor.html

ICE says the computer ate its records the day after it was sued for abuse.
404 Media reports that after ICE’s Broadview Detention Center outside Chicago was sued October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees,
the agency said that 💥two weeks of video footage that could have shown how immigration detainees are treated in the facility was lost in a “system crash” 💥 on October 31.*
“The government has said that the data for that period was lost in a system crash apparently on the …

ICE Suddenly Loses Key Evidence One Day After Being Sued
ICE says the evidence disappeared in a “system crash.”

YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024 (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

People Watched 700 Million Hours of YouTube Podcasts on TV in October
That’s up from 400 million hours a year ago as podcasts become the new late-night TV.

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-HOAC: 26 October - 2 November #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20131024/h-net-…

CIWF Highlights The ‘Growing Threat’ Of Octopus Farming With New Report #AnimalRights

CIWF Highlights The 'Growing Threat' Of Octopus Farming With New Report
A report by Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) has highlighted the “growing threat” of octopus farming and all “carnivorous aquaculture"

Is that legal, posing as different police? In Minneapolis right now, what is legal and what is illegal is just a sort of amusing abstract question, about as useful as asking “If you could breed a chicken with an octopus, would its eggs have shells?” — except suffused with a kind of grim, exhausted anger.
The law is something that people argue about on TV and on social media. It has so little relationship to what happens on the ground, it’s just hardly even relevant.

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 4936 nodes and 27149 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Inside the turmoil at Thinking Machines; sources say Meta discussed buying TML, and CTO Barret Zoph had been in talks since October 2025 about an OpenAI return (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/thinking-machines-ai-startup-o…

The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley
Defections, secret conversations, deal talks that fizzled and a battle for control: The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab is the artificial intelligence industry’s latest drama.

At a Pride festival in October,
a volunteer approached Sara Luce Look, the co-owner of
Charis Books and More,
and shared that decades prior,
a person in her life was sexually abused.
The person’s counselor had suggested they go to Charis for support.
Known as “the South’s oldest independent feminist bookstore,”
the Decatur, Georgia, shop
not only offered books that the survivor found helpful,
but it also provided a safe space where the…

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Charis Books & More is the South's oldest independent feminist bookstore, celebrating radical and queer voices since 1974!

Sources: Amazon is planning a second round of job cuts next week as part of its goal of trimming 30,000 corporate workers, after cutting 14,000 jobs in October (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-