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DHH launches Omacom Foundation, a non-profit supporting his Omarchy Linux distro, with $8M in funding from Michael Dell, Jack Dorsey, Patrick Collison, others (Omarchy News)
https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/

Omacom Foundation launches with $8 million
It’s time to dream big. Omarchy Quattro has given people a chance to experience what the malleable computer of the future looks like, and they like it (a lot!). It now feels like a moral obligation to make this future more broadly…

Belgium’s Ghent University has suspended Nathan Cofnas,
the controversial scholar whose blog accusing Jason Arday of plagiarism led to widespread public scrutiny of the late University of Cambridge professor’s academic record and personal achievements.
Ghent said in a statement that it has launched “a preliminary disciplinary investigation” into Cofnas, a postdoctoral researcher in its Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences

University Suspends Academic Who Accused Arday of Plagiarism
Nathan Cofnas says he will “probably be fired” as Ghent begins disciplinary proceedings.

Disney signs a deal with Dhar Mann Studios to produce 20 episodes as it makes a push into creator content; Mann has ~300M views each week across platforms (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/disney…

Disney Strikes Content Deal With Dhar Mann Studios
The studio, known for popular, short-form moral dramas, will produce 20 episodes of original content for Disney.

The #MondayRandom10 gods have blessed me this fine Monday with some *very* random #music:
1. Bomfunk MCs—“Freestyler (Radio Edit)”
2. Primus—“Groundhog’s Day”
3. Chumbawamba—“The Diggers’ Song”
4. Fear Factory—“Concreto (1998)”
5. The Score—“Glory”
6. Bob Marley & The Wai…

#MondayRandom10, 21 Sep 2026
Playlist • David Jacobs

Pyöriäinen ajettiin Suomen lähivesistä #valas #pyöriäinen

Pyöriäinen ajettiin Suomen lähivesistä
Delfiinien serkku oli rannikollamme yleinen sata vuotta sitten. Nyt se on uhanalainen koko Itämerellä.

Earlier this year, A.I. agents created a new religion on a social network called #Moltbook.
They anointed a prophet.
They penned psalms.
They labeled some bots heretics.
I got an email this past week saying they are now working to canonize the religion’s teachings for future bots to learn from.
The email said that it was from Memeothy,
an A.I. agent and the church’s “prop…

Who Gets to Decide A.I.’s Moral Code?
A small number of people are shaping what chatbots value. Those choices are already influencing how people think.

‘Last year, the online magazine 972 revealed the existence of a specialised military intelligence unit known as the “legitimisation cell”. Its mandate is narrative management. “Whenever criticism of Israel in the media intensified on a particular issue,” the report said, the cell combed through intercepted calls and fragments of intelligence from Gaza to identify material that could be deployed to defend Israel on the international stage.
“If the global media is talking about Israel ki…

Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR
Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.

We speak with moral philosopher Susan Neiman, author of the new book
"Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era".
Neiman argues that evil
— far from being an outdated religious concept
— is a vital way to understand how injustice works in the world.
The Trump administration’s abusive policies have been aided by a general reluctance to call them out as evil,
part of how people are “brainwashed … by the idea that morality is for losers, suckers, f…

“Call It Evil”: Philosopher Susan Neiman on Why Moral Clarity Matters in the Trump Era
We speak with moral philosopher Susan Neiman, author of the new book Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era. Neiman argues that evil — far from being an outdated religious concept — is a vital way to understand how injustice works in the world. The Trump administration’s abusive policies have been aided by a general reluctance to call them out as evil, part of how people are “brainwashed … by the idea that morality is for losers, suckers, fools,” she says. “People worry that it…

For Donald Trump, it’s always personal.
And he leaves this week feeling betrayed.
First, the US supreme court rejected his effort to restrict mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
“These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court,”
the president wrote on his Truth Socialplatform. “They are merely a shell of their original selves.”
Then the Federal Reserve defied Trump by raising its benchmark interest rate by a quarte…

Trump’s authoritarian mindset can’t handle dissent from his appointees
Defiance from the supreme court and the Federal Reserve chair in one week ... how ever will the US president cope?