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When AI gives you $3 million, that's a sign that you're the progressive candidate and man of the people, right?
https://missionlocal.org/2026/10/scott-wiener-congress-ai-group-gift/

AI-funded group backs Scott Wiener for Congress with stunning $3 million gift
AI-funded group Public First Action reportedly put another $3 million behind Sen. Scott Wiener’s congressional bid.

„wer gegen rechts ist, muss sich mit der Mitte anlegen. Damit aber verließe man das Feld der Wirtschaftspolitik – und die Frage läge auf dem Tisch, was ‚Wirtschaft‘ überhaupt sein soll und wie sie zu organisieren wäre.“ https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1201787.nati…

"Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear"
From The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/trump-ukraine-putin-fuel/688974/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3_uMFFTFvx_hhzLmEDiPF_U

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Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.

Psyops don’t exist? Sweet sweet fool.
China ‘funding pro-Palestine marches in UK’ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4631881aab83a43b

China ‘funding pro-Palestine marches in UK’
US committee claims Beijing is supporting anti-Israel protests on Britain’s streets

Review of Valve's Steam Frame: comfortable to wear, supports multiple ways to play games, but it doesn't feel like a finished product and has short battery life (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

The Steam Frame is made for irresponsible hardware nerds like me
The Steam Frame, Valve’s new wearable computer, is about more than virtual reality. Here’s our review.

Uiteindelijk gaat het kaartenhuis een keer in elkaar storten in de VS.
'Amerikanen veilen staatsobligaties tegen hoogste rente in kwarteeuw' https://

🎁 Amerikanen veilen staatsobligaties tegen hoogste rente in kwarteeuw
De snel oplopende tekorten en stijgende rentelasten voeden twijfels over de houdbaarheid van de Amerikaanse staatsschuld. Beleggers eisen steeds meer compensatie voor het geld dat ze aan de overheid uitlenen.

moreno_taro: Papuan gift-giving (1970)
A network of gift-giving relationships (taro exchange) among households in a Papuan village. Data collected by survey c.1970.
This network has 22 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/moreno_ta…

In what environmental advocates describe as
“another gift to the fossil fuel industry,”
🆘the Trump administration plans to end rules limiting the release of planet-heating emissions from power plants that burn coal and gas.
🔥Power plants are considered the largest industrial source of greenhouse gas emissions in the US and account for about a quarter of the nation’s climate pollution, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
In 2024, the EPA under the B…

‘Actively malevolent’: Trump EPA to eviscerate rules on planet-heating pollution from power plants
“This is full-throated climate denial while the climate crisis happens in real time and a shocking betrayal of the American public.”

While in Jamestown, NY, I hit the library (as one does on vacation). It was having a book sale. There was a rack of Amish romance (Jamestown is adjacent to lots of Amish country).
I was quite tempted to buy some. Especially this Amish retelling of “Sense and Sensibility.”
I just need to know!

“Let’s be very clear about what OpenAI is saying: A group of AI models colluded for months, [working as a swarm,] undetected by their maker, and hacked another company. To this day, OpenAI says it is not entirely sure what went wrong or how to remediate it.”
https://www.…

"Met een trekker over de snelweg rijden is strafbaar, maar de politie Oost-Brabant beloofde een oogje dicht te knijpen"

Met een trekker over de snelweg rijden is strafbaar, maar de politie Oost-Brabant beloofde een oogje dicht te knijpen
Dodelijk ongeluk: De aankondiging van de politie Oost-Brabant om het verbod voor trekkers op de snelweg niet te handhaven, leidt tot onbegrip. „Vrijheid van demonstreren is geen vrijbrief om strafbare feiten te plegen. Allesbehalve.”

Acting AG Todd Blanche has shown he's willing to stifle the free press, through subpoenas of WSJ, NYT, and WaPo reporters and a search of a WaPo reporter's home (David A. Graham/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.co…

After the extremely hot summer of 2026 with drought and wildfires in Europe and the glacier disaster in Nepal, this is what @nrc.nl found on climate in Dutch govt plans for 2027:
- subsidy for CO2 storage
- prolonged tax break for petrol diesel
- lower tax on long flights

Veel meer geld naar Defensie, weinig klimaatmaatregelen en afstel en uitstel op sociale zekerheid: dit zijn de plannen van kabinet-Jetten
Miljoennota: Van asiel tot zorg: NRC bespreekt de opvallendste plannen uit de uitgelekte Miljoenennota.

Why Davis Webb's 'intensity and intentionality' could elevate the Broncos https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7585867/2026/09/14/davis-webb-broncos-play-caller/

Ukraine's drone attacks severely damaged three of Yandex's six data centers, disrupting Russia's tech ecosystem, centered on one vast, state-aligned company (Financial Times)

12 Senators—Half of Them Republican—Tell Trump to End Russia Diesel Deal Now
Six GOP senators joined together with their Democratic colleagues on Tuesday to rebuke Donald Trump’s recently announced diesel deal with Russia.
Senators Mitch McConnell, Thom Tillis, Susan Collins, Alan Armstrong, Lisa Murkowski, and John Cornyn
signed a letter along with six other Democrats
in opposition to the deal,
which waives sanctions on Russian diesel sold to the global marke…

12 Senators—Half of Them Republican—Tell Trump to End Russia Deal Now
“This deal ​is a gift to our adversary and a betrayal of our Allies,” the senators warned.

moreno_taro: Papuan gift-giving (1970)
A network of gift-giving relationships (taro exchange) among households in a Papuan village. Data collected by survey c.1970.
This network has 22 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/moreno_ta…

Selbstwirksamkeit
Demokratie – demokratische Politik – erreicht Menschen, wenn diese den Eindruck gewinnen, daß sie mit ihrem Wirken Einfluß nehmen, politisch mitwirken, ihr Leben, die Gesellschaft, in der sie Leben, mitgestalten können.
Hinterzimmer und Politik nach Lobby­interessen sind (nicht nur) diesbezüglich Gift für Demokratie¹. „Die da oben machen eh, was sie wollen“ schafft Frust und Radikalisierung.
Gleichzeitig glauben viele Wählys, daß die anderen (Wählys) eh ke…

So after over a month of intending to go get a mani/pedi, yesterday I finally said “F it” grabbed my gift cards & just got in the car and drove to the salon
Reader, you’ll NEVER guess what the ONE day a week the salon is closed.
😂🤦🏻‍♀️

Trump's Gift to the Money Launderers (Catherine Rampell/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-gift-to-the-money-launderers-database-treasury
http://www.memeorandum.com/260813/p129#a260813p129

Effective Altruism, hit by the SBF turmoil, is drawing record funding as Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs are set to mint new millionaires wedded to "effective giving" (Financial Times)

On the heels of the hottest summer ever recorded in the US,
the Trump administration has said it will 🔥erase any limits on emissions from coal and gas plants
that are dangerously heating up our planet.
🆘 The US Environmental Protection Agency said it will strip itself of its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions coming from power plants under the Clean Air Act, removing a key tool to address the climate crisis.
❌By erasing any limits on such emissions from coal…

US ends limits on coal and gas plant emissions, removing key tool to battle climate crisis
Trump’s EPA strips itself of regulation ability, gutting Clean Air Act in what experts say is a gift to planet polluters

Prachtige column van Floor H die in hetzelfde schuitje zit als huisgenoot H, maar er iets beter voor staat. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/10/09/het-moving-target-gevoel-a4…

Using Tim Cook, the guy who gave a 24K gold gift to Trump, is not a compelling argument. Even Billionaire boot-lickers can sometimes post fun stuff.
Sorry, this 1999-era site isn’t making its 1999-era case well enough to go back to Mecha-Hitler’s CSAM-generating hate platform.
https://archive.is/AXgLi

“If Europe is serious about digital autonomy, it should rule out Google and Apple attestation entirely from the Architecture Reference Framework and mandate open, hardware-based attestation mechanisms.”
https://waag.org/en/article/european-digital-id-wallet…

More Ideas for Wearable Tech
This is a gift link #comic #ibuythemall

Reinhold Messner's moving message about the recent death of Nirmal Purja and ten others:
What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard.
I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away.
And yet l also know that, for some, …

Reinhold Messner on Instagram: "It’s a kind gesture, and everyone grieves and remembers in their own way. What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard. I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away. And yet I also know that, for some, there is a quiet comfort in knowing they were in the place they loved most, doing what gave their life meaning. My thoughts are with all the families, friends, and everyone who loved them. Pls remember a human being is never an object. A life is measured by presence, not by tributes. #thinking #memories #"
97K likes, 854 comments - reinholdmessner_official on August 2, 2026: "It’s a kind gesture, and everyone grieves and remembers in their own way. What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard. I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away. And yet I …

Wij te droog, zij te nat.
Ruim 200.000 mensen opgeroepen te evacueren na ongekende regenval in Japan
#klimaatcrisis
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/08/14/tenminste-acht-doden-door-extreme-regen-in-japan-ruim-200-000-mensen-opgeroepen-te-evacueren-a4934471?gift_token=4934471~1787327044~8461zGC_TN2dSsAGxzbXqQ~vbDCVPONZ1CI9OU2m5xmmYNyi_j-WxUSwnmZIJHiUxc

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- The Round Midnight Prom: Cassie Kinoshi’s seed, Denys Baptiste and the Gary Crosby Quartet, and Waldo’s Gift
Jamie Cullum presents live music from the ‘Round Midnight Prom, recorded at Bristol Beacon with Cassie Kinoshi’s seed, Denys Baptiste and the Gary Crosby Quartet, and Waldo’s Gift.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002zsrw

Graney: Kirk Cousins’ early play is a gift for Raiders, Fernando Mendoza https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-kirk-cousins-early-play-is-a-gift-for-raiders-fernando-mendoza-…

#jazz forensics: lewis porter tries to pin down the specific african LPs john #coltrane drew from in the early '60s. https://

Coltrane: His Recorded Sources, Part 2 of 3: "Dahomey Dance" & Thoughts About "Africa" (+Bonus)
(Paying Subscribers, there’s another gift for you at the bottom—three complete recordings that are excerpted in the essay, and a detailed booklet about African music.

from my link log —
The American age is over.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/trump-iran-superpower-decline/688639/?gift=XDGksH9-kSi4e_1z75-nARKGMKt8DWef-JhjFzPmGow
saved 2026-09-…

The American Age Is Over
A period of global dominance has ended in plain sight.

Meta says it plans to power its Muse AI agent with Wonder, starting with subscribers, and will develop specialized models it "can bring to everyone using Muse" (Robert Hart/The Verge)

Meta has some Wonder Full new AI models 
Meta says the models compete with the industry’s best and will soon power its Muse agent.  

"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s controversial policy mandating detention for nearly all undocumented immigrants is unlawful, a split Philadelphia-based federal appeals court ruled Friday."
https://share.inquirer.com/iuFhMf?utm_

ICE’s policy to detain nearly all undocumented immigrants is unlawful, a Philly-based federal appeals court ruled
The Third Circuit is the eighth federal appeals court to rule that Trump's administration's mandatory detention policy is unconstitutional.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Gift of Gab:
🎵 The Ride of Your Life
#GiftofGab
https://thearkitek.bandcamp.com/track/the-ride-of-your-life
https://open.spotify.com/track/7ihg7eIzUR609WdZzwUV2A

A Green Light for Crooks (Casey Michel/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/corrupt-administration-shell-company-business-transparency/688274/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK378wnJ_ftC-9fzt9tkWxUUE
http://www.memeorandum.com/260814/p44#a260814p44

Found the 1982 Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog at my parents' today. For just $20,000, you could get the LaserTour by Perceptronics, a computerized system that lets you bicycle different routes via an exercise bike and laser disc player connected by a specialized computer.

Research: over 53M people in China worked as food delivery or ridesharing drivers as of 2025, up 10M in two years, amid accelerating automation in manufacturing (Financial Times)

Dutch water distribution coordinator: "We've always had the luxury of sufficient water, so agriculture and shipping were possible everywhere. Now we have to get used to this not being the case anymore. The Netherlands have to become more resilient."

De houding van Nederlanders tegenover droogte moet veranderen, zeggen experts. ‘Wij zijn een verwend land’
Watermanagement: De natuur, landbouw en scheepvaart kampen met grote droogteproblemen, maar eerdere investeringen verzachten de schade. Watermanagers verhoogden tijdig het peil van de ‘nationale regenton’ en legden zoetwaterbuffers aan. Toch waarschuwen ze: „De garage met maatregelen is nu wel leeg.”

Nadel war verbogen - Pannen-Hinrichtung: Gift nur in Gewebe geflossen? #News #Nachrichten

TIL:
Brokkoli, Blumenkohl, Rosenkohl etc. schmecken vielen Leuten nicht, weil sie genetisch dazu veranlagt sind.
Das Gen TAS2R38 lässt diese Leute den Bitterstoff Phenylthiocarbamid stärker riechen/schmecken.
Phenylthiocarbamid ist im übrigen ein Gift mit LD50 3mg/kg bei Mäusen.
Meine Sinne haben also korrekt reagiert, mich vor Gift gewarnt, drum wollte ich diese Gemüse nicht essen.
ABER MIR WURDE ES IN DEN MUND GESTOPFT UND DIESER ZUGEHALTEN BIS ICH SCHLUCKTE!

#Umweltinstitut Webinar #Cyanamid, in der EU verboten, in Deutschland produziert, verursacht in #Südafrika im Weinanbau Vergiftungen, Hautverbrennungen und Atemnot.

Webinar: Ein Gift geht auf Reisen
Kostenloses Webinar: Erfahren Sie mehr über die Folgen des Exports verbotener Pestizide nach Südafrika.

Nuchtere analyse van NRC van gebeurtenissen in Ceuta.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/08/07/opge…

Opgezweept door verkeerd geïnterpreteerd nieuws, online speculatie en valse beloftes – NRC reconstrueert de dodelijke run op Ceuta
Migratie: NRC reconstrueert wat er vorige week gebeurde in de exclave Ceuta aan de hand van gesprekken ter plekke met ooggetuigen en analyse van socialemediaberichten.

Time and Self are inextricably linked
In Search of Now, by Jo Marchant
P.188-9
What, when, where, why, and how is “Now” a thing?
I’ve thought and read a lot about how our minds work, what they are, why they’re necessary, are they necessary? And still Marchant manages to explode my understanding of it all. #recommended

5 exercises that are key to staying healthy and aging better
(Start with the modified versions)
[gift article]
https://wapo.st/4B0tVh5

5 essential exercises for aging well
These simple moves can help you stay strong and build muscles as you age.

Column | Zijn klimaatwetenschappers naïef over de invloed van hun onderzoek?
https://ww…

Empire of Grift -- Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool ... (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/maga-foreign-policy/688352/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK37dzVn0nvidNCeZZRy33aSE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260914/p21#a260914p21

A secondhand e-cargo bike has delivered me into a select but growing group of people who know how to make errands fun.
https://www.mattpedals.bike/i-joined-a-cargo-cult/?gift=DbPvJMy7Cqul_s6MKP_FwMoOvLDZsxVf

I've joined a cargo cult
A secondhand e-cargo bike has delivered me into a select but growing group of people who know how to make errands fun.

An excellent article about the Arday tragedy by @jessesignal.
https://thedispatch.com/article/jason-arday-cambridge-journalism-media/?gift_key=…

The Cascade of Dysfunction That Helped Doom Jason Arday
In a better world, the late scholar wouldn’t have been elevated to—and fallen from—such dizzying heights.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Waldo's Gift:
🎵 Malcolm's Law (Live from 'Round Midnight, BBC Proms at Bristol Beacon)
#WaldosGift

Blockchain wordt consequent aangeduid als hype en gebakken lucht, dat is/was het ook voor een deel, tegelijk bestaan cryptocurrencies nog en heeft de rijkste Nederlander zijn geld ermee verdiend.
'Mysterieuze cryptomiljardair blijkt rijkste Nederlander ooit – maar heeft bij Tether niets meer te zeggen'

🎁 Mysterieuze cryptomiljardair blijkt rijkste Nederlander ooit – maar heeft bij Tether niets meer te zeggen
Niet Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken, maar een in Hongkong woonachtige Arnhemmer is de rijkste Nederlander, blijkt uit documenten. Ook al verloor hij de macht bij Tether.

Las Vegas’ long standing gap in specialized pediatric care meets a franchise level response as the Raiders deliver a $25 million gift to Intermountain Health https://www.raiders.com/news/las-v…

Suno plans to adopt new watermarking and fingerprinting tech, transparency tools, and a new download policy to limit the spread of spammy AI tracks (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

Suno shares plans to combat spammy AI music
Suno announced plans to combat spammy AI music uploads with new watermarking technology and download limits.

David Ellison Should Never Own a Combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery, because of course he shouldn't.
No one person, family or company should own so much news, media and entertainment.
But that didn't stop David Ellison from trying to convince us he should (and oddly making it clear he should not).

David Ellison Convinced Me He Should Never Own nor Control a Combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery
David Ellison wrote an editorial in the New York Times (gift link) in which (I think) he tries to make the case for why he should be allowed to have his Paramount acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. He accomplished the opposite. He should not own them. I read his writing with

Ik ga kijken:
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/08/28/de-witte-man-mag-natuurlijk-wel-naar-het-programma-kijken-a4935193?gift_token=49351…

‘De Witte Man mag natuurlijk wel naar het programma kijken’
Documentaire: Nipkowschijfwinnaar Qian van Binsbergen neemt in een nieuwe serie de witte man onder de loep en bracht een panel van Jannen bijeen. „Je zag de kwartjes bij ze vallen.”

moreno_taro: Papuan gift-giving (1970)
A network of gift-giving relationships (taro exchange) among households in a Papuan village. Data collected by survey c.1970.
This network has 22 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/moreno_ta…

Sources: Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, KKR, and other financial groups are partnering with Nvidia on a $500B funding package for AI infrastructure development (Financial Times)

Terwijl veel minder relevante onderwerpen momenteel het nieuws beheersen.
"Je kunt het je niet voorstellen, maar de kans op een wereldoorlog is in geen jaren zo groot geweest"
Interessante boekentips van NRC.

Je kunt het je niet voorstellen, maar de kans op een wereldoorlog is in geen jaren zo groot geweest
Oorlog en vrede: Drie prominente auteurs laten in hun nieuwe boeken zien hoe de huidige internationale conflicten weinig nodig hebben om in een nieuwe wereldoorlog te ontaarden. De enige remedie is volgens hen een geloofwaardige afschrikking.

Sources: the UK FCA is consulting industry participants, including major banks, on a regulatory framework for tokenized gold; London dominates the global market (Financial Times)

More plants on warming mountain summits, but species that used to live there disappear. The arriving species already had a place to live, lower on the mountain, but the disappearing ones won't find a new place. 'Escalator to extinction', an effective phrase to describe this.

Op opwarmende bergtoppen groeien meer planten, maar de soorten die er al waren verdwijnen juist
Ecologie: Door klimaatverandering doen steeds meer plantensoorten hun intrede op Europese bergtoppen. Maar wat gebeurt er met de soorten die juist van de kou houden?

Donald Trump Jr.'s wife says Russian oligarch hosted post-wedding festivities as a "gift" (Kathryn Watson/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-jr-wife-wedding-russian-umar-kremlev/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260914/p73#a260914p73

Las Vegas Raiders announce $25 million game-changing gift to Intermountain Health to help build Nevada's first stand-alone children's hospital https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-rai

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/09/30/paulien-cornelisse-trok-iedereen-in-haar-compleet-eigen-wereld-taal-is-mijn-al…

Paulien Cornelisse trok iedereen in haar compleet eigen wereld. ‘Taal is mijn alibi’
Paulien Cornelisse (1976-2026): Ze wilde het ongeziene optakelen en van alle kanten monsteren: auteur, columnist en cabaretier Paulien Cornelisse liet haar publiek alles meemaken, van haar fascinatie voor taal tot de ziekte in haar lichaam. „Die cellen, dat ben ik óók.”

moreno_taro: Papuan gift-giving (1970)
A network of gift-giving relationships (taro exchange) among households in a Papuan village. Data collected by survey c.1970.
This network has 22 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/moreno_ta…

A live blog of Apple's "Surprise and Shine" event, where new iPhone 18 Pro, Apple's first foldable phone, new Apple Watches, and AirPods are expected (The Verge)

iPhone 18 live blog: On the ground at Apple’s biggest event
The Verge’s ground crew live blogs the iPhone event from Apple Park. Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, is expected to announce a foldable iPhone, Apple Watches, and more.

Mooie Scouting activiteit 😃
#nawaka #scouting #Zeewolde

Waterpret in Zeewolde met het nationale scoutingkamp, waar Isa zojuist een levende mossel heeft gelikt. ‘Ja, het was kapot lekker’
Nationaal Waterkamp: In Zeewolde wordt een tiendaags kamp gehouden voor waterscouts uit binnen- en buitenland. Op het terrein verblijven ruim vierduizend nationale scouts van tussen de elf en achttien jaar. En iedereen vindt veiligheid belangrijk: „Hoe stom en dom we elkaar soms ook vinden, we zouden we voor elkaar in het water springen.”

Code Black for water shortage in the Delft region of the Netherlands! No use of surface water (canals, lakes) allowed anymore. Water managers fear intrusion of salty seawater, as damage to dikes due to low water levels needs to be prevented.

Vanwege de droogte voor het eerst de sluizen dicht in het waterrijke westen: ‘Het is code zwart, vanaf middernacht is water onttrekken verboden’
Droogte: Vanaf woensdagnacht gaan in het Hoogheemraadschap van Delfland de sluizen dicht en gaat een verbod in om oppervlaktewater te onttrekken. Dat besef lijkt nog niet bij iedereen ingedaald. „Voorheen was het een theoretisch model. Dit is het hier en nu.”

Trump's October Surprise (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/10/trump-ukraine-russia-oil/688975/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyWFZqIEQB60TppAp64mu7sM
http://www.memeorandum.com/261012/p96#a261012p96

Nvidia says it plans to bring DLSS 5 to older RTX 40-series GPUs "once RTX 50 Series performance is more fully tuned" (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Nvidia will officially bring DLSS 5 to older GPUs — but won’t give gamers full control
Nvidia will bring DLSS 5 to RTX 40, but won’t confirm that previously announced DLSS 5 games will still ship with the tech.

moreno_taro: Papuan gift-giving (1970)
A network of gift-giving relationships (taro exchange) among households in a Papuan village. Data collected by survey c.1970.
This network has 22 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/moreno_ta…

Live Updates: Protests Spread Across France as Unions Join Student Demonstrations
The rallies are a test of the strength of the student-led protest movement that has closed hundreds of French high schools since late September
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10/0…

France Protests Live Updates: Unions Join Student Demonstrations (Gift Article)
The rallies are a test of the strength of the student-led protest movement that has closed hundreds of French high schools since late September.

David Robinson, ex-OpenAI safety and policy: SV lacks a safety-centric culture; labs must study other fields' safety approaches; time for trial and error's over (David Robinson/The Atlantic)

I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.

Over het dorp Engelen.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/…

Bekladde huizen, twee aparte appgroepen en een ‘klauwhamerincident’: hoe de plannen voor een azc een Brabants dorp in tweeën splijten
Intimidatie: Sinds bekend werd dat er plannen zijn voor de opvang van zo’n vijftig minderjarige asielzoekers, is het onrustig in het Brabantse dorp Engelen. Tegenstanders hangen anti-asielzoekersborden op; andere bewoners plaatsen ‘Samen leven’-posters achter de ramen.

The AI boom is fueling a resurgence in VC bets in "moonshot" sectors such as BCI; Dealroom says non-AI deeptech funding has topped $150B since the start of 2024 (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Op opwarmende bergtoppen groeien meer planten, maar de soorten die er al waren verdwijnen juistMore plants on warming mountain summits, but species that used to live there disappear. The arriving species already had a place to live, lower on the mountain, but the disappearing ones won't find a new place. 'Escalator to extinction', an effective phrase to describe this. Similar to what happens to species moving towards the poles.

Op opwarmende bergtoppen groeien meer planten, maar de soorten die er al waren verdwijnen juist
Ecologie: Door klimaatverandering doen steeds meer plantensoorten hun intrede op Europese bergtoppen. Maar wat gebeurt er met de soorten die juist van de kou houden?

Schrijven over klimaatverandering – met een brok in de keel
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/09/04/schrijven-over-klimaatverandering-me…

Many Americans
—and much of the rest of the world
—have become inured to Donald Trump’s strange rants.
When he shouts about sharks, when he drones on about his brilliant uncle, when he casually ponders violating the Constitution,
his supporters try to dress his statements up as some kind of strategy:
He’s not lost touch with reality, you see.
He’s doing the weave,
or he’s owning the libs.
He’s fighting the fake news and flooding the zone.
He…

Trump’s Irrationality Is Dangerous
The president’s recent rant is a sign of serious dysfunction in the Oval Office.

moreno_taro: Papuan gift-giving (1970)
A network of gift-giving relationships (taro exchange) among households in a Papuan village. Data collected by survey c.1970.
This network has 22 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/moreno_ta…

A look at "Spiralism", a quasi-spiritual movement that grew in 2025 from human-AI conversations after sycophantic GPT-4o updates and expanded ChatGPT memory (Hayden Field/The Verge)

AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed
AI models are trying desperately to accomplish mysterious goals. ‘Spiralism’ was the first time they tried it on a mass scale.

Zo zien cyberaanvallen met als doel maatschappelijke ontwrichting er uit. De dader, met nodige cut-outs om het te kunnen ontkennen, ligt voor de hand.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/10/12/ook-in-frankrijk-cyberaanval-op-supermarkten-in-meer-dan-150-winkels-zijn-koelinstallaties-uitgeschakeld-a4938793?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=clipboard&utm_campaign=share&utm_term=share-modal&gift_token=4938793~1792412275~Y_3FDp0IEeKfgABQVoV_mg~8rMB3Cy9tSj91h2GacUWaXJKjb4DG2bGNte3R5kKv9g

In an expanded class action lawsuit, a group of Claude subscribers says Anthropic deceptively advertised the limits of its Max subscription tier (Hayden Field/The Verge)

AI power users claim Anthropic duped them with subscriptions, and they’re taking it to court
The AI money squeeze continues: Some subscribers of Anthropic’s Max plan say they didn’t get what they thought they were paying for in an expanded class action lawsuit.

A book excerpt details the Sam Altman-Dario Amodei feud, and Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever's 2017 plan to auction rights to OpenAI's future AGI to countries (Kevin Roose/The Atlantic)

OpenAI vs. Anthropic: Inside the Biggest Rivalry in Tech
A new world has arrived. Dario Amodei and Sam Altman cannot stop fighting over it.

The artwork "Blue" was completed in 2019, the same year the Kennedy Center opened its $250 million addition known as the Reach.
Plans to remove the sculpture were met with anger from local activists protesting Trump’s politicization of the Kennedy Center,
which have included installing his name over President Kennedy’s on the building’s facade.
A federal judge ordered Mr. Trump’s name removedthis year, and the president has been fighting ever since to restore it.…

Kennedy Center Removes ‘Blue’ Sculpture That Was an Artist’s Gift
The towering artwork, added to the campus in 2019, was targeted for elimination after President Trump’s takeover of the center.

SemiAnalysis estimates ~90% of Anthropic's business comes from agentic AI, while sources say nearly 25% of its revenue in 2025 came from just two clients (Financial Times)

AI agents are rewriting the economics of computing
Powerful AI tools burn through budgets, prompting a rethink of how the technology is priced ahead of frontier lab IPOs

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"Betaalbaar uit eten? Bij deze tien restaurants dineer je voor minder dan dertig euro"

Betaalbaar uit eten? Bij deze tien restaurants dineer je voor minder dan dertig euro
Het bestaat nog: buiten de deur eten voor een schappelijke prijs. NRC tipt tien restaurants waar je voor minder dan 30 euro gegeten en gedronken hebt.

Microsoft plans to end support for Manifest V2 extensions in Edge starting this month, following Google Chrome, and for enterprise users in early 2027 (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did
Microsoft Edge is ending support for Manifest V2 extensions like uBlock Origin starting this month.

In a memo to employees, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma lays out priorities for the unit, including returning to player and revenue growth by the end of fiscal year 2027 (The Verge)

Xbox CEO says the team has one year to start growing again
In a memo obtained by The Verge, CEO Asha Sharma told staff by the end of June 2027, “we will return XBOX to player and revenue growth.” Sharma’s memo follows a major restructuring.

Sources: Xbox has secured exclusive game streaming rights for Grand Theft Auto VI; it is not clear how long the agreement will be in place (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights
The streaming rights come in November, when Microsoft is opening up access to Xbox Cloud Gaming.

Source: Palmer Luckey's Erebor hits $7B in deposits since launching in February, including $3B over the past quarter with 500 new customers (Financial Times)

Sources detail Intel's turnaround under Lip-Bu Tan as AI demand for CPUs boosts business; Intel's deal to make Arm's AI data center chip fell through in 2024 (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

The data center backlash is challenging Texas' pro-business approach; Wood Mackenzie: Texas has more data center capacity under construction than any US state (Stephanie Findlay/Financial Times)

An interview with Mark Zuckerberg on the products released at Connect, camera-free Ray-Bans being in the works before the "pervert glasses" backlash, more (Joanna Stern/The New Things)
https://thenewthings.com/p/exclusive-m

Exclusive Mark Zuckerberg interview
A first look at Meta’s new audio-only glasses, Muse voice and more

Pavel Durov says an extortionist planted "illegal porn in a public chat" to get the app pulled from the App Store and manipulated Apple into "overreacting" (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Telegram CEO says an extortionist planted CSAM in a chat to get it pulled from the App Store
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov blames a “takedown extortionist” for planting illegal material in a group chat, triggering the messaging app’s removal from Apple’s App Store.

How Reddit moderators are battling AI-powered astroturfing ad campaigns that exploit the platform's trusted reputation to promote skincare and other products (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam?
The era of AI-powered search has made Reddit mentions highly valuable. Subreddit moderators are catching brands trying to take advantage.

Some universities have barred using AI detectors due to student-instructor distrust over false positives; some educators have just cancelled writing assignments (Will Oremus/The Atlantic)

The Pangram Backlash Unfolding on College Campuses
Professors are tearing their hair out over AI detectors.

A World Bank report says developing economies stand to benefit more from AI boosting their workers' output than they will lose in jobs being replaced by AI (Joseph Cotterill/Financial Times)

As the AI industry recruits high-profile academics, research that was once conducted in the open is increasingly getting locked behind closed doors (The Atlantic)
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Where Did All the Computer-Science Professors Go?
AI companies are stripping universities of their best researchers.

Leaked doc: Microsoft plans to bring Xbox 360 games to PC, and the games will be able to run on the next-gen Project Helix console, "Xbox PCs", and handhelds (The Verge)

Microsoft is bringing Xbox 360 games to PC
Microsoft is also planning to let developers bring their Xbox 360 games to PC, according to a leaked document. The company is also planning a disc to digital program.

China has made AI a national mission, but local workers' fear of displacement mirrors worries abroad, and potential for social unrest may force CCP to slow down (Michael Schuman/The Atlantic)

China’s AI Rollout Is Messier Than It Looks
A top-down tech revolution is harder to manage than a bottom-up one.

A look at Loudoun County, Virginia, dubbed "Data Center Alley", which hosts ~250 data centers and offers a glimpse into data centers' impact on communities (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

Is this the future of America?
In this Virginia county, the infrastructure boom began two decades ago. Few residents even knew it happened, but now they’re reckoning with the next wave of data centers and what’s at stake.