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Microsoft wächst weiter, verdient mehr und will Rechenzentren massiv ausbauen
Microsofts KI-Cloud-Geschäft wächst um 40 Prozent, die Rechenzentrumskapazitäten sollen in 2 Jahren verdoppelt werden. Die Aktie bekommt trotzdem einen Dämpfer.

getting very bad vibes from the 'neo' personal assistant robot being mostly remote controlled by minimum wage workers in silicon valley, which will inevitably be outsourced to india. you can pay 500 USD/month to own a digital slave.
the idea is an 'ai' robot which just does household things for you like chores and no one is being exploited since it's a robot, but in reality it's just a remote controlled slave. the exploitation is simply hidden, more abstract, l…

Ukraine destroyed 'Oreshnik' missile inside Russian territory, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/31/ukraine-destroyed-oreshnik-missile-inside.html

Trump directs Pentagon to test nuclear weapons, just before meeting China’s Xi
Donald Trump on Thursday morning said he directed the Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons
“on an equal basis” with Russia and China,
-- abruptly inserting nuclear issues into the discussion just before meeting his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, for a high-stakes trade summit here.

The announcement signaled a reversal of decades of United States nuclear policy that could have far-re…

Trump directs Pentagon to test nuclear weapons for first time since 1992
The president said he wanted testing to occur “on an equal basis” with Russia and China, just before he met his Chinese counterpart for high-stakes trade talks.

Corporate travel and expense management software maker Navan's shares fell 20% to $20, valuing it at $5B, after raising $923.1M in its IPO at a $6.2B market cap (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

So the guy who threw Nazi salutes at Trump’s event, birthed an LLM that demanded to be called “Mecha Hitler,” promotes AfD as Germany’s “last hope,” and more, has released a racist antisemitic online-o-pedia?
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/grokipedi…

Elon Musk’s Holy Trinity
The next step in Musk’s propaganda machine

Retro quantum computing

💸 North Korean hackers stole over $2 billion in crypto so far in 2025, researchers say
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/north-korean-hackers-stole-over-2-billion-in-crypto-so-far-in-2025-researchers-say/
…

North Korean hackers stole over $2 billion in crypto so far in 2025, researchers say | TechCrunch
Blockchain monitoring firm Elliptic said this year’s total is already an all-time record for the North Korean regime.

Roku beats expectations with Q3 net income of $24.8M, vs. a net loss of $35.8M a year ago, and revenue of $1.21B, up 14% YoY; total streaming hours rose 12% YoY (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/roku-q3-2025-earnin…

Roku Q3 Earnings: Revenue Rises 14%, Operating Income Turns Positive For First Time Since 2021
Roku delivered Q3 2025 financial results that outperformed analyst expectations and marked the streaming company's first quarter with positive operating income since 2021.

ふっかつしてた！！

„Policymakers need to set clear emissions targets and stronger financial incentives for use of lower emission materials, while industry must establish common standards for easier adoption of these materials into value chains.“
Jens-Peter Saul
CEO, #Ramboll

Jens-Peter Saul: The 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders of 2025
Find out why Jens-Peter Saul is on TIME's 2025 list of the 100 most influential leaders driving business climate action.

According to a video posted on Telegram, Russian Interior Ministry officials arrested the creators of the Medusa malware
https://www.redhotcyber.com/en/post/russian-interior-ministry-officials-arrested-the-creators-of-the-me…

Russian Interior Ministry officials arrested the creators of the Medusa malware
Russian police arrest three young developers of the Medusa malware, used to steal data and breach security systems.

Trump EXIM pick withdrew nomination following scrutiny over Russia ties (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/29/congress/trump-exim-pick-withdrew-nomination-following-scrutiny-over-russia-ties-00629431
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p1#a251030p1

The Wikipedia article also includes this sentence in its opening paragraph:
❝However, France only controlled a small fraction of this area, most of which was inhabited by Native Americans; effectively, for the majority of the area, the United States bought the preemptive right to obtain Indian lands by treaty or by conquest, to the exclusion of other colonial powers.❞
Britannica has nothing like that. It discusses the Louisiana Purchase without a single mention that the indigenous people of North America even exist.
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from my link log —
Memory safety in Apple Firebloom / iBoot.
https://saaramar.github.io/iBoot_firebloom/
saved 2025-10-28 https://do…

one of these days they'll invent optimizing compilers

Although the growth rate (%) of global CO2 emissions has gone down, the increase in absolute terms is still pretty much a straight line:
On average, we're increasing the amount of CO2 that we dump in the atmosphere by around 450 million tonnes every year. Making the climate crisis worse faster.
#emissions

This is Republicans fucking with vote-by-mail because they can’t win elections fairly https://mstdn.social/@redcrew/115806124317380707

Auch die Schweizer Armee möchte im Konfliktfall noch funktionieren können:
«[F]ür Insider ist klar, was der Hinter­grund seiner [Armeechef Süssli] Kritik ist. Die Führungs­riege der Armee möchte eine IT-Infrastruktur, die auch im aktuellen geo­politischen Klima als sicher und digital souverän gelten kann. Und das heisst vor allem: eine IT-Infrastruktur, die vor Zugriffen durch die US-Regierung geschützt ist.»
Heute via @…

Als ik zo de uitslagen binnen zie stromen, denk ik dat D66 toch niet de grootste wordt en stuivertje wisselt met de PVV t.o.v. de exitpoll.
Als de NOS niet met een #prognose komt, dan ik maar.
Zie onder. Morgen zien of ik gelijk had.
NSC zit m.i. op de wip, net als Forum: 6 of 7 zetels.
P.S. als dit uitkomt heeft D66-CDA-VVD-JA *geen* meerderheid.

Any Nederlanders please feel free to correct me. I'm still very much getting a handle on all this.

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
—Julie Andrews
#acting #coaching #inspiration

ich glaube ja dass KI die arbeitswelt komplett verändern wird

The era of mega AI layoffs is here: Amazon's full-throttle layoffs are a warning sign for white-collar workers everywhere. - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-layoffs-ai-job-apocalypse-white-collar-workers-2025-10

Brash: Chromium Browser DoS Attack via document.title Exploitation
Brash is a critical vulnerability in Blink, the rendering engine that powers Google's Chromium-based browsers. It allows any Chromium browser to collapse in 15-60 seconds by exploiting an architectural flaw in how certain DOM operations are managed.
😬 https://brash.run

Brash: Chromium Browser DoS Attack via document.title Exploitation
Brash is a PoC exposing a critical Chromium vulnerability that enables a browser DoS attack by exploiting the total absence of rate limiting on document.title updates.

Falschinformationen können dazu führen, dass Klimaschutzmaßnahmen gezielt untergraben werden. Journalisten greifen daher häufig zu der Strategie, solche Falschinformationen direkt zu widerlegen. Forschungsergebnisse zeigen jedoch, dass diese auf den ersten Blick plausible Vorgehensweise nicht in allen Fällen wirksam ist. Unter bestimmten Bedingungen kann sie unbeabsichtigt sogar zur weiteren Verbreitung von Falschinformationen beitragen.

@… 🥳 Bon courage!

Windkraft-Intensitätsindex je Bundesland relativ zum geometrischen Mittel aus Fläche & Einwohnerzahl, Stand 28.10.2025.
Nur in Betrieb befindliche Anlagen berücksichtigt. „Ausschließliche Wirtschaftszone“ (Offshore) ausgenommen.
👉 Erläuterung für Nerds 😊:

Has there ever been a scene of witches flying around on brooms in a movie that has realistic acceleration physics etc?
I'm picturing a pair of witches in tight formation at high altitude making a steep dive to pick up speed, then pull out at treetop height, a high G turn to line up for a low pass over a bunch of trick-or-treaters, then maybe getting a ping on their RWR when some grownups come into view.

Nagelbijtend spannend, uit NRC:
"Het verschil tussen D66 en PVV is nog altijd minimaal, blijkt uit de meest recente voorlopige prognose van de ANP Verkiezingsdienst. Het gaat om een verschil van 2.300 stemmen nadat 97,7 procent van de stemmen geteld zijn. Beide partijen staan nu op 26 zetels."
#politiek

The flooding in Hội An is incredible to see. So much destruction :(

From The Tyee: Why All Vaccines Should Be Free (Alberta Residents - take note)
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/10/29/Why-All-Vaccines-Should-Be-Free/

wired: a carefully calibrated generative music system that recombines melodies & textures like a sonic mood ring & won't repeat itself for approximately 387 years.
inspired: another green world, 24/7 forever. @…

u aint know my pain u dont know my struggle

Bisher wurden Amazons Fahrer „nur“ mit Kameras in den Lieferwagen überwacht. Plus, natürlich, mit den Überwachungsfunktionen in der hauseigenen App. Jetzt hatte die Firma eine neue Idee, geboren aus den neuen technischen Möglichkeiten. Die Fahrer sollen eine smarte Brille bekommen @…

#Kundenglücklichmachungsposteinlieferungsgeräusch, da capo, weil morgen is ja hier bei uns leider Feiertag.

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Mon Laferte (60) Lily Allen (28) Pulp (28) Chini.png (25) Blondie (22). #myweekcounted 769 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

#ShamelesslyStolenFromTheOtherSite

Went to "Whole Paycheck" for the first time in decades.
Don't get me wrong; I didn't buy anything... only returned a package to Amazon.
What? Do you think I'm made or money or something? Sheesh.
#wholefoods #amazon

@… I've been very happy with Mint since I switched from Windows in 2024. It works very well and is fairly customizable. It's also not a difficult transition from Windows. I found Ubuntu to be not as satisfying. I've also tried Zorin, but prefer Mint, because it is more customizable, at least for me.

Meta Platforms zeigen mehr Werbung zu höheren Preisen
Mehr Umsatz und mehr Betriebsgewinn hat Meta Platforms im dritten Jahresquartal erzielt. Eine große US-Steuersenkung belastet den Nettogewinn.
https://www.…

Russia reports mass Ukrainian drone attacks across regions, energy facilities hit: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/31/russia-reports-mass-ukrainian-drone.html

*chittering cat noises*

ビア鯖はいいぞ

The Senate voted Wednesday to end the national emergency that Donald Trump declared to impose tariffs on imports from Canada.
Four Republicans joined with all Senate Democrats to approve the measure, which passed 50 to 46.
It was the second bipartisan vote against Trump’s tariffs in as many days — the Senate also voted Tuesday to block tariffs on Brazilian goods,
— though neither move will take effect, because they would still need to be approved by the House
— whi…

Senate votes to block tariffs on Canada
While symbolic, it is the Senate’s second rebuke of Trump’s trade policies in as many days.

I remember being extremely confused about this as a kid when I first heard about the Louisiana Purchase. How could the US “purchase” land that nobody from the nation had even explored? Didn’t the people who live there own it? Huh?!?
Wikipedia, for all its messiness, answered Young Paul’s question. Britannica buried it.
But guess which one teachers are •still• trying to keep out of education.
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Universal Music Group reports Q3 revenue of €3.02B, up 5.3% YoY, beating €2.92B estimated, slow streaming revenue growth, and physical sales revenue up 18.4% (Glenn Peoples/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/universal-music-group-q3-2025-revenue-umg-ea…

Universal Music Group Q3 Revenue Hits $3.5 Billion on Subscription, Publishing Gains
Universal Music Group’s Q3 2025 earnings are out, with the company reporting $3.3 billion in overall revenue on subscription and publishing gains.

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

The brain isn’t a computer. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

😬 Organizing Amazon Should Be a Priority for Labor Globally
#amazon

Organizing Amazon Should Be a Priority for Labor Globally
Whether workers can organize Amazon will be pivotal for the fate of the labor movement worldwide. Initial victories in Coventry, England, and elsewhere show that when unions put serious resources into organizing, they can win.

Four ways Republicans pushed back on Trump this week (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/republicans-trump-tariffs-venezuela-romania-beef
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p4#a251031p4

from my link log —
Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1042938/38d8dde9db211cab/
saved 2025-10-28 https://

Ik zou niet weten waarom je als in Verweggistan wonende Wildersfan/xenofoobfascist PVV zou gaan stemmen.
Dan wil je toch geen opvang ‘in de regio’ (waar jij woont) of asielzoekers daarheen terugsturen? dan zou je juist moeten hopen dat ze allemaal lekker in Nederland mogen blijven.
Kortom, dat D66 de grootste partij wordt mede dankzij de briefstemmers staat wel vast. Met 26 of 27 zetels is nog wel even de vraag. Ik hoop 26 want …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYb5PDAZHCc

@… yo do you think you could fix a discord bug where if your connection changes, discord pretends that your screenshare is up but it's actually down? this is legit destroying my relationships

Wenn das alles ist, was auf der Verkehrsministerkonferenz besprochen wurde, dann wäre Arbeitsverweigerung noch nett formuliert. Autobahnen, Autobahnen, Autobahnen, Wasserstraßen, Flughäfen, kein Wort zur Schiene aber Kosten des Deutschlandtickets.
Was ist mit Schiene? Was ist mit Verkehrssicherheit? Was ist Innovationen? Klimaschutz und Extremwetter? @… waren das keine…

Verkehrsminister wollen mehr Geld vom Bund für modernere Infrastruktur
Die Verkehrsministerkonferenz (VMK) ist am Donnerstag zu Ende gegangen. Die Länder fordern etwa mehr Geld vom Bund für modernere Infrastruktur. Führerscheine sollen zudem billiger werden - Niedersachsen und Hamburg begrüßen das.

Großes Update für Canva, Affinity wird kostenlos
Das Grafik-Tool Canva bekommt mehr KI, besseren Video-Schnitt, Marketing-Werkzeuge, Mail-Designer und Formulare – zudem trägt die Affinity-Übernahme Früchte.
https://www.…

India's largest oil refiner reportedly buys Russian crude from non-sanctioned entities: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/31/indias-largest-oil-refiner-reportedly.html

One word German haiku

Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, a microbiologist at Mount Sinai’s medical school who wasn’t involved with the study, called the work
“a good vaccine to have ready in case of any outbreaks with this virus”
However, he thinks this approach may fall short in tackling human influenza.
“H5 changes in multiple directions, so a central antigen makes sense,
while in the human flu or human SARS-CoV-2,
the central antigen moves with time.”

One shot to rule them all in the fight against H5 influenza
New bird flu vaccine design could help preparations against an evolving potential pandemic virus 

Deutschland baut weiter an seiner Ladeinfrastruktur für Elektroautos ⚡️ – wenn auch mit gebremstem Tempo.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10960913?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon…

❤️‍🔥 Heat-rechargeable design powers nanoscale molecular machines
#nanotechnology

Heat-rechargeable design powers nanoscale molecular machines
Though it might seem like science fiction, scientists are working to build nanoscale molecular machines that can be designed for myriad applications, such as "smart" medicines and materials. But like all machines, these tiny devices need a source of power, the way electronic appliances use electricity or living cells use ATP (adenosine triphosphate, the universal biological energy source).

Hegseth to unveil arms sale overhaul (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/29/hegseth-to-unveil-arms-sale-overhaul-00627813
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p118#a251029p118

After US sanctions, Lukoil to sell assets to firm founded by Putin ally: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/30/after-us-sanctions-lukoil-to.html

Melania Trump launches Muse Films, her new production company, ahead of the release of an Amazon MGM Studios feature documentary about her in January (Patrick Hipes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/melania-trump-production-company-documentary-12366…

Melania Trump Launches Production Company As Her Documentary Release Date Nears
First Lady Melania Trump said she has launched a production company, Muse Films, ahead of the release of an Amazon MGM Studios documentary about her.

I'm especially interested in a few things if anyone is willing to help...
1) missing words and simple typos - My ADHD brain skips words coming out and fulls them in when reading, so it's easy for me to make mistakes and hard for me to catch them.
2) questions - I tend to work from a lot of assumed knowledge, collected from all over, and I'm really trying to make my work more accessible. I assume I'm talking about a bunch of stuff most folks don't know, but I don't know which of them come from some rabbit hole I went down and which are more common knowledge.
3) challenges - I get bored when having things explained to me so I have a tendency to keep explanations light... Which can mean I leave out a bunch of critical context or logical steps.

havent paid much attention to the ireland situation but its delightfully appropriate she looks like shes wearing the facemasks and molds they made for 2000s fantasy blockbusters 24/7

chat, have you ever used a SOIC clip and not regretted it?

Cheese? 📷
No... Cheese! 🧀

House Speaker Mike Johnson admitted Thursday that feeding the hungry would mess up his political game.
CNN host Dana Bash asked Johnson why he wouldn’t consider moving money around to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,
which will stop receiving federal funds at the start of November.
The House speaker accidentally revealed Republicans are using the program as leverage to end the government shutdown.

Mike Johnson Accidentally Lets Slip Why He Won’t Fund Food Stamps
Mike Johnson accidentally gave away his whole game.

Ukraine war latest live: Special Operations Forces destroy Buk-M3 air defense system, Nebo-U radar in Russia's Rostov Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/31/ukraine-war-latest-live-special.html

⚡ Green electronics thanks to biodegradable circuit boards
#electronics

Green electronics thanks to biodegradable circuit boards
They are the "heart" of every electronic device, from laptops to electric toothbrushes: printed circuit boards, also known as PCBs. These rigid boards are covered with copper traces and soldered electronic components and are usually of a telltale green color. They are, however, not exactly environmentally friendly.

House candidate Kat Abughazaleh indicted over ICE confrontation (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/kat-abughazaleh-indicted-ice-arrest-democrat
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p117#a251029p117

I cry at the silliest things sometimes. 😭
Just watched A Whisker Away and started crying not at the cute kid love story, but about the cat cat (Kinako) love story.

As a security engineer, whenever anyone talks about a control it's always important to ask "by what mechanism?"
> "Oh, that can't happen because we have a system to stop it."
By what mechanism?
> "We have documentation that says...."
Yeah, that's not a mechanism.
People keep saying, "Trump can't do that!" But like... by what mechanism?
> "The constitution says..."
Yeah... a documented list of rules is not self-enforcing. What is the mechanism?
What makes this impossible? Oh, it's possible under certain conditions? Oh, it's always possible and you're completely relying on the idea that there will never be a malicious actor? Yeah, that's gonna get exploited. Oh shit, now you're owned.
What do you do with a system that's completely owned? Once it's compromised it can never be trusted again. What would you tell a client who told you, "Patching is really hard, so we're just gonna ban the attacker's IP."
What, you're not even gonna reinstall?
I assume we've all had the "burn everything down and start again" client. I wonder how many of us thought we would see the US government ask for them to hold it's beer.
#USPol

i installed tailscale on my oscilloscope

Democratic Representative Sara Jacobs said she was told in a Pentagon briefing
“that they do not need to positively identify individuals on the vessel to do the strikes”
and that was part of the reason why the administration has not sought to detain or prosecute the survivors of the strikes,
“because they could not satisfy the evidentiary burden.”
“There’s nothing that we heard in there that changes my assessment that this is completely illegal,
that it is unlaw…

Pentagon Admits It Has No Idea Who’s on “Drug Boats” Being Bombed
A Democratic lawmaker revealed the shocking detail after a Pentagon briefing for members of Congress.

Radio Free Asia shuts down as US funding dries up (Faith Wardwell/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/29/radio-free-asia-shuts-down-as-us-funding-dries-up-00629210
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p135#a251029p135

💦 Boosting work engagement through a simple smartphone diary
#work

Boosting work engagement through a simple smartphone diary
Work engagement is a positive and persistent state of mind related to one's work. It is characterized by high energy and mental resilience (vigor), enthusiasm and involvement (dedication), and complete concentration in the task at hand (absorption). Engaged workers are not merely more productive; they are more likely to be proactive, creative, and less susceptible to burnout. Most importantly, work engagement has been consistently linked to many health benefits and overall well-being.

I had a dream last night that folks started using drones to track ICE, which then forced them to roll out jammers before raids, which then allowed people to use radio triangulation to find out where ICE was going to raid... which all makes me think that I may need to stop watching Civ Div videos before bed.
Edit:
...for anyone not familiar with Civ Div: https://youtube.com/@civdiv

Trump's shutting down of projects because they had a minority/female CEO
or made the environment cleaner
or said something mean about him and assault on the rule of law
is slowing investment and job creation.
He's burnt the gift Biden left him.
https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/11…

Sean Casten (@SeanCasten@mastodon.social)
Attached: 2 images 8. At the same time, Trump's shutting down of projects because they had a minority/female CEO or made the environment cleaner or said something mean about him and assault on the rule of law is slowing investment and job creation. He's burnt the gift Biden left him.

Wordle, but just variations of meow...

Republicans are growing tired of Marjorie Taylor Greene's shutdown attacks (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/29/marjorie-taylor-greene-shutdown-attacks-00628195
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p116#a251029p116

🚙 An RV park in this neighborhood? Not without a fight
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-01/an-rv-park-in-this-neighborhood-not-without-a-fight

An RV park in this neighborhood? Not without a fight
Residents in Harbor City are fighting against a proposed RV park that they believe could bring crime and lower property values.

I've been working on a bit of a larger project. It is still very much a work in progress. It's an attempt to combine blog and mastodon posts with other things I've written in the past, along with some original analysis, into a zine. I'm probably about 2/3 of the way through.
It's primarily focused on political theory and critique, which, I think, deviates a bit from how a lot of other folks view the world. It's pretty explicitly anarchist, though I don't think I've actually put the word "anarchism" or referenced the ideology anywhere so explicitly.
I'd love feedback (especially around editing and flow) if anyone would be willing to put eyes on it and tell me what they think:
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/

Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka said his non-resident visa to enter the U.S. had been rejected, adding that he believes it may be because he recently criticized President Trump.
The Nigerian author, 91, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, becoming the first African to do so.
Speaking to the press on Tuesday, Soyinka said he believed it had little to do with him and was instead a product of the United States’ immigration policies. He said he was told to reapply if he…

Prosecutors: Aide to Massachusetts Governor Arrested for Cocaine Trafficking (Ward Clark/RedState)
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/10/29/prosecutors-aide-to-maines-governor-arrested-for-cocaine-trafficking-n2195635
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p136#a251029p136

The American Democratic Party, and the concept of "Democratic Socialism" within the US, comes largely from an authoritarian political tradition where the state offers services in exchange for the population allowing elites to continue parasitize the system. Then it is critical for Liberals to consume and destroy popular mutual aid, because real mutual aid undermines their carrot.
Democrats tend to imagine that anarchists want to destroy "all the good things" that governments do. The reality is that we want to build those good things ourselves so that we can reject the offer of those same good things, less well managed, with all the bad things attached.
Anarchists want to build pro-social systems (what if we didn't *need* snap, but just made sure everyone was fed?) while eliminating anti-social ones (do we really *need* to kidnap children, or could we just kind of stop doing that?).

John Thune says he will engage 'pretty soon' with Democrats about ending shutdown (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/29/congress/angry-john-thune-democrats-00628293
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p115#a251029p115

If you're completely overwhelmed by the suffering of the world and a feeling of hopelessness,
do one small thing locally.
It's basically the antidote.
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Forgive me, Chicago, I was not aware of your game

US lifts sanctions on Bosnian Serb leader Dodik and his allies (Daria Sito-Sucic/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-lifts-sanctions-bosnian-serb-leader-dodik-his-allies-2025-10-29/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p68#a251029p68

Here's How Much Obamacare Prices Are Rising Across the Country (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/30/upshot/obamacare-subsidies-new-prices.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p5#a251031p5

Report: Government shutdown will cost the economy up to $14 billion (Riley Beggin/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/29/government-shutdown-economic-impact/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p120#a251029p120

Gayle King Expected to Depart as 'CBS Mornings' Anchor Amid CBS News Overhaul (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/gayle-king-cbs-mornings-anchor-out-1236565036/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p141#a251030p141

Spanberger leads Earle-Sears by double digits; Jones now trails Miyares (Roanoke College)
https://www.roanoke.edu/news/rc_poll_politics_october_2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p137#a251030p137

Trump urges GOP to 'end the shutdown' by going nuclear on Senate filibuster (Landon Mion/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-urges-gop-end-shutdown-going-nuclear-senate-filibuster
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p2#a251031p2