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On the one hand a laudable aim to reduce obesity, on the other a system that has just permitted a burger chain and a pizza chain to set up in our town, and may well be permitting a second burger chain to set up. Any ideas or plans to improve the nation's diet are definitely 'doomed to fail' when this type of non-food is normalised and brought to people's doorsteps, quite literally.
UK government’s obesity plan ‘doomed to fail’, MPs warn | Obesity | The Guardian

UK government’s obesity plan ‘doomed to fail’, MPs warn
Cross-party committee says ‘moonshot’ vow to end obesity epidemic in a decade will fail without personal leadership from PM

A look at growing bipartisan opposition to AI data centers in drought-stricken Arizona, where TSMC's chip fabs were welcomed but newer projects face backlash (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)

AI has come for Arizona’s water
Arizona has long courted big business, from tech to agriculture. Now the state is facing a water crisis. Are data centers the breaking point?

Airbnb hosts are melting down over a new policy banning them from making guests complete tasks that “would typically be performed by a cleaner,”
like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.”
The change, which applies to all bookings made on or after November 20,
quickly sparked outrage after it was announced in an email to Airbnb hosts on Wednesday.
Many began fuming online about losing the right to make their guests clean up afte…

Airbnb Hosts Are Furious They Can No Longer Make Guests Do Their Chores
Some hosts are threatening to strike, while others are plotting ways around Airbnb’s new restrictions. Guests, meanwhile, are celebrating.

Man kann nicht Äpfel mit Birnen vergleichen? Doch, zumindest beim @… #schach

There were some few big computers run by governments and companies. Hacking started when some younger people with (some temporary) access to computers use them creatively for other things during night shifts or by starting to build their own small computers¹.
Hacking was liberating technology from big corporations and government, from the ones in power for fun and creativity, to fight back.
TechBros try to see themselves in succession of these hackers, but they are the opposite:…

So unlike Claude Code which is TypeScript, OpenAI Codex is a native Rust binary, svelte at…
…300 MB!? What the fuck?
It doesn’t appear to be obfuscated. Just huge.

“Let’s set that aside for a moment” whenever discussing failings, impacts, and costs of LLMs is such an offensive dismissal of human harms that I am surprised to hear it from an accessibility-focused session chair at TPAC (not today; time-delayed to obfuscate person / session).

I'm worried too many SF voters are buying Scott Wiener's pivot that he's now supposedly a big critic of Israel.
He opposed a ceasefire, met with the Israeli president four months into the genocide, and authored bills to crack down on pro-Palestine protests and speech on college campuses. He hasn't attempted to repeal those bills or apologized for those stances. If you didn't know this or need a refresher, I highly recommend Nadia Rahman's report:

Polish President Holds Crisis Talks as Court Standoff Grows (Maciej Martewicz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-30/poland-moves-against-top-court-in-a-showdown-with-the-opposition
http://www.memeorandum.com/261031/p64#a261031p64

Microsoft and Alphabet join 14 other companies objecting to a plan by OKXICE, a venture of OKX and ICE, to trade blockchain-based versions of their shares (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/10/21/microsoft-alphabet-object-blockcha…

Microsoft and Alphabet opt out of tokenized stocks in latest blow to ambitious plan from OKK and NYSE parent firm
Sixteen companies have opposed plans to trade tokenized versions of their shares on Cuomo-backed platform OKXICE.