Time for authors to get off Audible (and ideally Amazon as well) before you'll find yourself trapped in a death spiral.
And yes, I know how hard that would hit most. But if Amazon is able to destroy competitors, nothing will stop them from exploiting you even more.
https://www.instagram.com/r…
Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon UK Home (2007) - Can we really go zero-carbon or negative-carbon in an existing home near London? #lowCarbon #home #microgen -
Congratulations to Michael O'Loughlin '09 M.A.R., the new Executive Editor of National Catholic Reporter! https://www.ncronline.org/news/ncr-names-michael-oloughlin-executive-editor
Really bad stuff is continuing to happen. The White House is now circulating a draft of a bill that would vastly expand Trump’s authority for exactly these types of bombings.
We’ve also had another one of these strikes, and it appears just as dubious as the first one.
And Trump announced that strike with an absolutely deranged tweet that should raise alarms everywhere, but isn’t.
Meanwhile, Democrats just introduced a measure to restrain Trump and the prospects for getti…
Interviews with three Google executives on the new Pixel phones, why Pixel won't ever be a "giant player", improving the devices by ~30% each year, AI, and more (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
Trump to DOJ: Pay Up (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/trump-doj-corruption-shakedown-unitary-executive/684655/?gift=mTq34Ny-ZVr996jdTJS9TsGkXCINo5nFsHJyZtr6bU8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p3#a251023p3
Bobby Grier dies at 82: Longtime NFL executive, ex-Patriots coach played key role in drafting Tom Brady
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bobby-g
Top AI researchers and executives in SV are working 80 to 100 hours a week, driven by intense competition, as AI's rapid progress compresses product timelines (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-race-tech-w
Sources: Meta has poached Frank Chu, an Apple exec who led AI teams focused on cloud infrastructure, training and search, despite Meta's plans to slow hiring (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Internal Amazon documents and sources: executives believe Amazon is on the cusp of replacing 500K jobs with robots and aims to automate 75% of its operations (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-…