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Diary of a CEO Spreads Dangerous Health Misinformation. And They Know It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2bFpays_ik

Attacks on the character of progressive candidates may be a distraction from the popularity of their causes.
My latest for Crimson Goes Blue: how Graham Platner's legacy is affecting his successor.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jonippolito/p/attack-t…

This year, all hallows and Halloween happens on the same night. One is a spooky feast for children and the other is a solemn time when we're remembering those who have gone before us.
We can do both. Because that's life.
The graveyards are incredibly beautiful and quiet, and the candles are burning in the darkness. Now it's time to get the child from her party.
Because we can, and must, hold both joy and sadness with the same hand, in one heart.

Ab dem 26.10. machen wir wieder eine Online-iSABQ-Advanced-Schulung “Funktionale Softwarearchitektur” (FUNAR). Ich nenne sie auch “Architektur-Vermeidungs-Schulung”, weil die schwerfälligen Elemente anderer Ansätze (schwierige Entscheidungen, Top-Down-Planung) wegfallen und wir uns ums wesentliche kümmern können: die Domäne.
https://www.

It's #Halloween, so of course we're planting garlic. #gardening

Ein weiterer Datenpunkt der #KlimaKrise. Gestern ist in Chicago eine Zugbrücke stecken geblieben, nachdem sich das Metall der Brücke wegen der Hitze zu stark ausgedehnt hatte. Die Brücke konnte nicht mehr vollständig schließen.
Die Feuerwehr musste zur Kühlung Wasser mit einem Boot auf die Brücke spritzen... 🤯

Enterprise voice AI tools provider Deepgram acquires Daily, which has raised $62M and develops open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, for an undisclosed sum (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/deepgram-ac…

Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure | TechCrunch
Deepgram said that it is committed to keep Pipecat open source.

One Hit Wonder #55 — got it in one (8 seconds, 1,292 points)
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#WordPuzzle

One Hit Wonder #55
One word is already on the board. Only one answer fits. You get one guess. A daily word game by Lex Friedman.

Checking the code means dealing with hallucinations like this, where it does the wildly wrong thing:

TIL you can get oscilloscope probes for multimeters https://www.fluke.com/en-us/product/accessories/probes/fluke-85rf

Fluke 85RF High Frequency Probe
The 85RF High Frequency Probe is designed to convert a DC voltmeter with a input impedance of 10M ohms into a high frequency (100 kHz to 500 Mhz) RF voltmeter.

Tom Forth on the history of UK airports
https://tomforth.co.uk/nationalairport/

The time changing tonight is so stupid. We should just leave the time alone. Let it stay 8:53pm forever.

@… どっかり構えて待ちましょう（）

I wonder how hard learning Rust would be, coming from Python? 🤔

Verstappen acting even more than his usual self-righteous prick:
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/not-very-smart-behaviour-verstappen-reacts-to-lawson-fp2-incident-ahead-of-m…

'Not very smart behaviour' – Max Verstappen reacts to Liam Lawson FP2 incident ahead of 2026 Formula 1 Mexico City Grand Prix
Max Verstappen has claimed the incident with Liam Lawson during Free Practice 2 ahead of the Mexico City Grand Prix was "not very smart behaviour".

東京の長雨、8月27日 ～ 10月2日の 37日連続だったのか。統計史上最長とのことだけど、本当によく降ったな。でも、今年は去年に比べてゲリラ豪雨的な雨は少なかったと思う。出先で足止めを喰らったりしなかったし。

Birthday Week
My birthday is coming. Plus football and Star Trek.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/birthday-week/

Birthday Week – Bob Mueller
How do you mourn the passing of favorite celebrities? I also talk about Michigan football (we won this week!) and my birthday.

It's Halloween eve and young women in full monster makeup are recording a tiktok (?) dance between tube platforms

On a ride today, I saw one of those "Trump - Low prices / Kamala - High prices" signs that were everywhere during the last election season... yeah that one sure didn't age well.

Le trafic est perturbé entre Asnières - Gennevilliers - Les Courtilles et La Fourche en raison d'un incident d'exploitation Š Asnières - Gennevilliers - Les Courtilles .
🤖 31/10 16:55

Sources: Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine lays off about 30 employees, roughly 50% of its staff, as it focuses on film and TV projects and its book club brand (Selome Hailu/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/reese-witherspoon-hello-sunshine-l…

Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Layoff: 50% of Employees Cut
Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine has laid off roughly half of its staff.

Shadow people ~ #photography

Uw wekelijkse Sheila: Het valt niet uit te sluiten dat Zelensky weet dat onze premier het óók niet makkelijk heeft | de Volkskrant
https://archive.ph/hps3o

Grâce Š mon expérience, j’ai pu aider un étudiant Š sortir du bâtiment D. Vous voyez, c’est très simple: il faut juste aller au bout de ce couloir sombre, et puis il y a une porte, derrière laquelle il y a une autre porte…

Mooi overzichtsrapport over de maatschappelijke waarde van groen gas, door mijn Common Futures collega's: https://www.netbeheernederland.nl/artikelen/nieuws/de-maatschappelijke-waarde-van-groen-gas-nederland
(Great overview …

Nieuw rapport: groen gas vooral van waarde voor gebouwde omgeving, elektriciteitsproductie en industrie
Groen gas heeft vooral toegevoegde waarde in delen van de bebouwde omgeving, bij de productie van elektriciteit en in de industrie. Dat blijkt uit het nieuwe rapport De maatschappelijke waarde van groen gas in Nederland, opgesteld door Common Futures in opdracht van Netbeheer Nederland. Het rapport laat niet alleen zien waar groen gas het meeste oplevert, maar ook hoe de inzet ervan kan bijdragen aan het zo laag mogelijk houden van de totale kosten van het energiesysteem.

AI-Slop aus Sri Lanka flutet die Länder mit der höchsten Kaufkraft.
1000 Views = 30$ - für ein Vermögen in vielen Ländern.
Wie man die erreicht ist auch klar: geh einfach an die Grenze des Zulässigen. Was gerade so nicht wegmoderiert wird, wird geklickt.
...und die Politik schaut zu. 🤮
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z…

Ils manquent des français dans la création de l'association pour le open social stack. Prochaine rencontre Š Paris? Chiche @…
https://mitmachen.savesocial.eu/civicr…

Final call for proposals to the Alpaca Festival of Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts!
Alpaca is a festival on Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts comprised of live performances, workshops and conference talks. We aim to bring people together who value deep, human curiosity into patterns. We hope this call excites you whether you are exploring patterns in heritage crafts or contemporary algorithmic art (but not AI).

Wollte gerade nach neuem NAS-Speicher schauen und bin fast vom Stuhl gefallen: Die Seagate IronWolf Pro mit 28 TB kratzt mittlerweile ernsthaft an der 1.000-Euro-Marke… 🤯
Ich meine, 28 TB in einem einzelnen Schacht sind ein echtes Brett, aber die Preisentwicklung im Speichermarkt ist aktuell einfach wild. Geht das jetzt die nächsten Monate munter so weiter? Was meint ihr: Jetzt noch zuschlagen, bevor es noch teurer wird, oder lieber abwarten?

I'm not crying, you're crying!
#SirPatrickStewart

@… ist it free of AI?

Auf in den Wochenend-Trip!
Diesmal aus doppeltem Anlass:
a) Nachträgliches Geburtstagsgeschenk für die beste aller Ehefrauen.
b) Jahrestag morgen: 37 Jahre zusammen.
Trip-Ziel: Der Drachenfels.

If you're in #Toronto, Halloween doesn't have to be the end of the line for your Jack o'lantern. It can ride again at a pumpkin parade on November 1.
https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/festi…

I need help understand why you put a datacenter in the desert where there is an abundance of heat and dearth of water.
That's about 4.5 million gallons a day, enough to supply about 45k households, in case you were wondering.
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/10166

Un train stationne Š Réaumur - Sébastopol vers Pont de Levallois – Bécon en raison d'un incident nécessitant l’intervention du conducteur .
🤖 29/10 22:55

Filing: Vancouver, WA-based Powerlattice, which makes a power delivery chiplet to reduce AI compute power needs by 50% , raised $86M, after raising $31M in 2025 (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/filing-chip-startup-pow…

Filing: Chip startup Powerlattice raises $86M to ease AI’s power crunch
The new funding nearly triples what the Vancouver, Wash.-based semiconductor startup had raised when it came out of stealth last year. Powerlattice says its tech can cut AI chip energy use by more than half.

I'm a Trekkie reeling from the blows, losing both Walter Koenig and Sir Patrick Stewart is just painful.
There is no silver lining.
Some people affect your life even if they never know it. The cast of Star Trek did just that. They brought their passion and skill to my TV, asking questions about moral, humanity, and life, and wasn't afraid of letting us sit with an uncomfortable answer.

Was ein Scheiß Tag. Live long and prosper, Sir Patrick Stewart.

Dallas, We Have A Problem: 6 Issues Against Arizona https://insidethestar.com/dallas-we-have-a-problem-6-issues-against-arizona

Ich frag mich Tag für Tag, warum ich nicht meine Sachen packe und aus diesem scheiss Deutschland verschwinde, wo nur noch gekürzt wird, wo drüber nachgedacht wird, das man auf Schüler mit der Bundeswehr vorgehen will. Das ist macht mich echt sprachlos und Hilflos. Erst recht weil in der Pflege gekürzt werden soll, das kann man nicht mehr bschreiben, was in einem vorgeht, wenn man solche Nachrichten liest.
#kotzuebel

I wish I ever used proton, so I could now cancel and tell their ceo where to shove his attitude

@… It can do double FYI

Empfinde eine nerdige Freude daran, dass JPEG-XL endlich den breiten Support bekommt.

'morgen!

Hit a local cafe as soon as it opened and finally had a little quiet and alone time away from the TPAC chaos. Cappuccino, joined only by Notorious B.I.G., is a nice way to start the day.

Un train stationne Š Bobigny - Pablo Picasso vers Place d'Italie en raison d'une manoeuvre de train retardée .
🤖 30/10 22:35

@… @… We ended with similar numbers that year but the rain and comotion scared the skunks out into the open. Close scrapes up and down the block.

Wordle 1,960 4/6 for 31 October, 2026 #LeftWordle
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1. 5th perfect. (83 answers remain after guess.)
2. 1st & 3rd perfect. 4th wrong. (2 answers remain after guess.)
3. 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 5th perfect. (1 answer remains after guess.)
4. Won! (0 answers remain after guess.)

Is there a name for the tax that 2FA takes from your attention? You go to start one task, then have to pause and check email or your phone, and hope that you don't get distracted by something there while you wait for the code to come through...

We've been fired from trick or treat. Neither of the kids were gentle about it either. So now we get to dole out candy while feeling nostalgic watching kids go door-to-door with their parents.

UMG reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to €3.39B, vs. €3.33B est., and subscription and streaming revenue up 18% to €1.81B, or up 8% excluding Downtown (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/univ…

#Proton VPN has served me well, but the @… CEO’s recent utterances (“loser thinking”) and push for AI-driven “velocity” are disgusting, and will ultimately lead to security issues, too.

#Bielefeld #GenZRegelt

Some Ardalis Packages Are Going Commercial: What You Need to Know https://ardalis.com/some-ardalis-packages-going-commercial/

I don't know who Jacob Collier is but reddit keeps showing me this and people really hating on it in different subreddits https://www.instagram.com/reels/DezZtbSOhr_/
It sounds really fun to me, I can understand why some might not like it but why hate it? am I missing some contex…

@… mir schwebt eine Kampagne aus Draconis x Blütendrachen x Humblewood vor, aber ja, das wird wahrscheinlich nicht passieren 🙃

FEC data: AI-oriented PACs spent nearly $80M on the 2026 US elections, mostly before the primaries; pro-regulatory PACs outspent Leading the Future's network (Ian Krietzberg/Puck)
https://puck.news/ai/2026/10/pro-ai-pacs-are-retreating-from-the-midterms…

Week 8 Injury Report: Cowboys list 6 players as questionable for Sunday https://insidethestar.com/week-8-injury-report-cowboys-list-6-players-as-questionable-for-sunday

Every day I feel more and more like McKellen in this situation

@… @… We do 20 in the first 5 minutes. We'll probably end up north of 200. Forget about property taxes, it's the candy tax that really does us in.

#PennedPossibilities 1168: Does your world have any mythology creatures? Can you describe their lore to us?
Credit: @aperfectsong
My book is completely inside a brain, which could make this answer sound strange. There are Runts that are by no standard mythological, they nest in the dust bunnies, and they steal pages from the Library occasionally. We all have our Runts, and …

@… assuming the Canadian one? Started looking into this move to get off US dependency, but the whole new issue is giving it an extra boost

Mathematicians are having an existential crisis. Artists can help.
Read a condensed version of my keynote for the 2026 AI and Liberal Arts symposium at https://jonippolito.substack.com/p/mathematicians-are-having-an-existential

Doing my best not to be distracted by gorgeous works from the Pallant House Gallery https://museumdata.uk/object-search/?collection[]=Pallant House Gallery&show_all=1 in an Art UK curation on the origins of Pop Art

A mass-exodus from Google Maps to Mapquest because Trump renamed Lake Ontario was not on my bingo card...
#googleMaps #mapQuest #lakeOntario

@… Or maybe it's just processed cheese? Depends on who you're trying to scare, I guess.

spannendes projekt: "Parking Sign Redesign" von Nikki Sylianteng
#verkehrsschilder

@… I'm sure all the cheese is made with raw milk.

An iconic character lost his soul today
#patrickstewart

Sources: Bloomberg, Susquehanna, and Jump Trading signed up for Truth Social's real-time feed of top accounts, including Trump's posts, paying $60K to $100K (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/b

@… where did you move to? Currently planning on moving Hetzner, and maybe some cheap on demand OVH nodes. But them prices...

Wordle 1,959 3/6 for 30 October, 2026 #LeftWordle
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1. 5th wrong. (106 answers remain after guess.)
2. 1st & 2nd perfect. (1 answer remains after guess.)
3. Won! (0 answers remain after guess.)
#Wordle

So I guess our neighbourhood is pretty bougie, eh?
#Halloween

$14,549 for a fully specced touchscreen MacBook Pro 👀
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1021308/apple-touchscreen-macbook-pro-proled-xdr-fully-specced

#WordWeavers 27. What location in your story would you most like to visit? What location would you absolutely avoid?
The Library! I would love to see it for myself.
I wouldn't go down in the basement even if you paid me all the money in the world.

Leider färbte der lange Schatten des Faschismus "Steh auf" stimmungsmäßig für mich mit ein.
Trotzdem gut mal wieder Metalmind zu sehen.
Wer Toneshift (noch mal) sehen möchte, kann das übrigens heute Abend in der Teestube auf dem "Rocktober" tun. 😉
#PowerMetal #Metal

@… Ha! Si les snobs courent la rue Š Toronto, on en a nettement moins de veaux et de toits de grange.

@… @… that looks so cool ❤️

Fucking hell #startrek

RE: #Halloween in #Toronto, 19…

ProdPro: New York state's film and TV production spending rose 87% to $1.61B in Q3, after a 54% jump in Q2, behind only California's $1.76B; NYC makes up ~80% (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/10/nyc-production-movies-tv-surge-1237207080/

NYC Production Boom Sees Permits And Spending Surge, Sound Stages Max Out: “We Are Bursting At The Seams”
New York movie and TV production has been booking with permits and spending surging and sound stages maxing out this year.

The downside of this experiment is the metric ton of notifications through GitHub mobile:

Si vous cherchez de quoi faire ce soir, sachez que jucher un veau sur le toit de la grange reste une option.
Source: Le progrès du Golfe, 9 novembre 1945, https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/2476070?docpos=6

Humor ham'se.
Demo angemeldet & Route bekommen auch.
Unterstützung von mindestens der Linkspartei NRW steht.
Bielefeld läuft also am Samstag sehr deutsch und vorschriftsmäßig. 😉
Die Rechtsradikalen aus dem Umland wollen das allerdings aus der Altstadt heraus beobachten...
#GenZRegelt

How have you used MDS data? We’d love to hear about how records in the Museum Data Service helped any creative, research, services or cultural heritage work – and if you find any issues, your feedback can help us improve our service! https://museumdata.uk/using-data/tell-us-ab…

I am at loss for words.
Sir Patrick Stewart will always have a place in my heart, even if his voice has gone quiet.
Watch Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 5, Episode 25, 'The Inner Light', and Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2, Episode 9, 'The Measure of a man', and think of him. Look at the brilliance he brought to the series.
The dignity.
One of my absolute favourite actors of all time has left us, and the world is poorer for it.
R…

Have to check the changes and press the approve button when it's good:

FIFA opens tender for US media rights to the 2030 World Cup, with a 2034 option; it prefers one buyer for English and Spanish rights and wants bids by Nov. 19 (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/22/fifa-launches-tender-of-us-world-…

Rest in power, Sir Patrick Stewart!
Cheers! 🍻

#PennedPossibilities 1169: Your MC is dead and haunting you. Where and how do they show up?
Awkward, because that's not far off from how I sometimes feel already. Slightly removed from the world, ideas showing up in the most inconvenient places, and nights being excessively active.
All of this should probably be cause for concern, considering the book takes place inside t…

We've tweaked the front page of the Museum Data Service site! You can instantly see how many millions of object records have been shared by hundreds of museums https://museumdata.uk/
And the 'Request a Search API key' form is live - if you want a search api key, try it and let us know if any tweaks wo…

Museum Data Service
A free new service that aims to bring together and share all the object records of all UK museums.

Rolling out some documentation QA checks for my repositories. So now I have a ton of open PR's with failing CI pipelines over small documentation issues. While I still have my doubts about AI in general for a bag of reasons. Being able to press a button to get it fixed vs opening each repo locally, fetch & pull, fix the issue, git push --force-with-lease and wait for the CI to go green.

#WritersCoffeeClub 29/10: Pass along a book which came with a personal recommendation.
A friend of mine recommended "The Witches of Woodville" by Mark Stay because it had magic in it, and I read fantasy. That was all the convincing I needed.
Turns out it's a whole series, and I've found every book just as charming as the first.

Now they're playing polka.
Brave Combo, "Mystery Spot Polka" (1995)
https://youtu.be/VYHiGQiAPhI

#WordWeavers Oct 29: Which character can take care of your pet for a week? Which would be banned from coming anywhere near it?
Prefrontal Cortex would have feeding schedules, medication records, emergency contacts and a spreadsheet documenting just how many minutes each cat prefers to be scratched behind the ears.
Ventral Striatum would have purchased seventeen new toys and introduce…

"I tell ya what..."
Listening to the Halloween edition of the Gearhead Show on WMSE now. This really is like reliving my life back home. Sports championships are great, but are more the stuff of dreams than day-to-day (half-century-to-half-century) life.
https://wmse.org

Should I be Reviewer 2 for Halloween?

#ScribesAndMakers Oct 29: How do you feel about alliteration?
Like any literary tool, alliteration can be overused. But used at the right moment, it can feel like a stroke of genius.

@… nice!

Sup?
#AI