1984, Idiocracy version -- Trump is like Big Brother if Big Brother were an incompetent buffoon. (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-tariffs-reagan-canada-ad
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p50#a251030p50
MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria is stepping down after 11 years, replaced by Cloudflare President of Product & Engineering Chirantan Desai, effective November 10 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/03/mongodb-ceo-dev-ittycher…


Both Quikscript and Shavian were essentially the results of a design competition,
sponsored--posthumously--by playwright George Bernard Shaw,
who laid out the terms in his will.
Shaw wanted someone to create an ideal phonetic alphabet for English that trumped Pitman shorthand.
British designer Ronald Kingsley Read, a finalist in the 1960s competition, designed both Quikscript and Shavian, the latter being named in Shaw's honor
Not to be that guy, but it was #ASIS—#Australia’s *external* intelligence agency. #history
Must admit I did not have Tommy Wiseau in Idiocracy 2 on my 2026 bingo card.
#Melania
Awesome headline....
https://youtu.be/EZj389I9I-0?si=iydeKru_ulJomayb
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Ulcerate:
🎵 Exhale the Ash
#Ulcerate
https://ulcerate.bandcamp.com/track/exhale-the-ash
https://open.spotify.com/track/07GwBHkIdjs4YR7rkgFh14
A look at Huawei's efforts to build an independent Chinese chip supply chain; through vehicles like Hubble, it has invested in 60 chip companies since 2019 (Itsuro Fujino/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/