Tootfinder

You guys know what to do: report and block this genocide-complicit zionist hasbara account.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing

Tennessee authorities are investigating the 👉 second fatal shooting in four days by a member of the federal task force dedicated to confronting crime in Memphis.
The shootings are likely to further exacerbate tensions within the city, which has been torn over the presence of hundreds of federal agents since October and their aggressive approach to targeting crime.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday that the shooting involved a Drug Enforcement Administration …

Second Person in a Week Killed by Federal Task Force in Memphis
Tennessee authorities are investigating both shootings involving agents working with the task force in Memphis.

The Brain and The Chip 2026, October 26-28, Spain #BCI

Holy frijoles... Infinity Ward ain't playin' around: They're goin' straight at NORTH KOREA & the Korean DMZ! 😬
Buckle up, buttercups... coming October 23, 2026!
▶️ Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 | DMZ First Look | XBOX Games Showcase 2026
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yl7TOzNE…

Interesting to compare the author Neal Stephenson's profiles on X/twitter vs. Bluesky.
He has 89,4 K followers on X, where he still posts, but just under 10 K on Bluesky, where he doesn't post at all.
He has many fans on the fediverse who discuss his books, but he is not here.

Bitcoin falls below $60K, its lowest level since October 2024, amid a record streak of bitcoin ETF outflows following Strategy's bitcoin sale (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/bitcoin-dismal-week-price-below-all-time-high-crypto-in…

Bitcoin cracks $60,000, sinking to lowest level since October 2024
The weeklong sell-off was exacerbated after a stronger-than-expected May jobs report Friday sent yields higher and pressured risk assets.

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare: Information, Interpretation, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for Reality
https://ift.tt/1J0D8b7
H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable Review 15-16 on Levine, _Allies and Rivals_ H-Diplo | Robert…
via Input 4 RELCFP

2-for-1 FLASH SALE
For a limited time, tickets are just $200 each when you buy two or more. Bring a team member, a colleague, or someone you've been wanting to introduce to the EE community.
Sale ends August 12, 2026.
https://ti.to/eeca/eeconf-2026

EECONF 2026
Secure your ticket for EEConf 2026 and join us next October.  The conference will take place at Toronto Metropolitan University, and we have a great rate at the conference hotel, the Chelsea Hotel, Toronto, valid for the week in case you want to extend your stay and enjoy Toronto. We will have a welcome reception on the evening of Oct 6. The conference talks will take place on Oct 7-8. We will have a conference party on the evening of Oct 7, and a group activity the evening of October 8.

Event: October Sheffield.
"This one-day event will bring together those with an interest in working on degrowth in the UK. Together we will consider the potential for establishing the foundations of a degrowth movement in the UK, and planning for a UK presence at the International Degrowth Conference in 2027."
Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement – degrowthUK

Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement
Saturday, 17 October,  9:30-5.00 Degrowth is both a transformative movement and a critical framework, aiming to ensure social justice and well-being for all, with human activities being in alignmen…

The U.S. stock market had its worst day since October Friday
as a sell-off in big technology companies weighed down the broader market and a strong jobs report boosted expectations that the Federal Reserve will be forced to hike interest rates at some point this year.
The S&P 500 sank 2.6%,
its biggest one-day drop since October 10, when the Trump administration threatened to impose a 100% tariff on imported goods from China.
The losses helped push the benchmark in…

Stocks slump as Big Tech sinks and a strong May jobs report boosts odds for higher interest rates — The Associated Press
The U.S. stock market had its worst day since October as a sell-off in big technology companies weighed down the broader market.

Packers without Parsons until at least mid-October... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48958480/packers-micah-parsons-return-least-mid-october

Something to help cool your brain.
#RockyMountainNationalPark #naturephotography #elkOfMastodon

Analysis: Grokipedia appears not to have updated any articles since April 24, when it stopped processing human-suggested edits; xAI launched it in October 2025 (Lawfare)
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/grokipedia-stopped-reviewing-…

Grokipedia Stopped Reviewing Edits in April. It Didn’t Tell Anyone.
A halt in Grokipedia’s edit pipeline offers a case study in how an AI-generated reference system governs its own content.

RE: https://mastox.eu/@jeremycorbyn/116693363717331087
“The move follows Declassified’s investigation earlier this year which found more than 2,000 British citizens have served in the IDF since October 2023.
Yet the British government has failed to ke…

Sigh. Just apply the regular parking provisions (paid parking or permits). 'Low occupancy' of public charging (meaning a relatively low amount of kWh compared to the theoretical maximum of 24/7 charging at full speed) is not a bad thing; it's the starting point for using EVs to support the grid.
https://ww…

Brussels to fine EV charging point blockers - electrive.com
From October 1, the Belgian capital will introduce a rotation fee for EVs that remain connected to public charging stations for too long. This aims to improve

Livestream shopping app Whatnot raised a $545M Series G led by Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Avra at a $20B valuation, up from an $11.5B valuation in October 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/07/ai-obse…

In AI-obsessed Silicon Valley, live commerce platform Whatnot just notched a new funding round valuing it at $20 billion
The $545 million Series G nearly doubles Whatnot's valuation—a rare consumer-marketplace breakout when nearly every venture dollar is flowing to AI.

It always bugs me how Jack Ryan mansplains turbulence to the flight attendant.
https://clip.cafe/the-hunt-red-october-1990/if-do-try-get-some-sleep/

In October 2016, I was asked to help build Neuralink. I said no. https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/in-october-2016-i-was-asked-to-help "Why BCIs Fail series: looking beyond the season finale", by TK Kozai;

🇺🇸 In October 2016, I Was Asked to Help Build Neuralink. I Said No.
Why BCIs Fail Series: Looking Beyond the Season Finale

from my link log —
Earth rotation records spur October vote to avert negative leap second.
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/320185/20260711/earth-rotation-records-spur-october-vote-avert-negative-leap-second.h…

Earth Rotation Records Spur October Vote to Avert Negative Leap Second
Negative leap second risk is driving an October 2026 CGPM vote to replace the 54-year-old leap second with a leap hour. Earth set rotation speed records in 2024 and 2025, and timekeepers estimate a...

Xbox exclusive. Sorry PS5. Coming October 6, 2026.
▶️ Gears of War: E-Day | Gameplay Demo Reveal | XBOX Games Showcase 2026
#xbox

Trailer for the new movie *Made in Abyss: Awakening Mystery*
Premieres October 23, 2026, in Japan
#MadeInAbyss

Quebec is headed for an election in October -- and things are tightening.
A Parti Québécois victory would almost certainly reopen the constitutional question.
While the party has moderated some of its rhetoric, its raison d’être remains Quebec independence,
making the next election consequential well beyond provincial politics.
According to the latest poll from Pallas Data, the PQ holds the lead with 31 percent of support among decided and leaning voters across the…

Quebec’s Election Is Closing In, and the CAQ Is Still in Trouble | The Walrus
Polls say Fréchette is leading the party toward its worst showing ever

James Comey's seashells photo trial set for October (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/james-comeys-seashells-photo-trial-set-october-rcna346924
http://www.memeorandum.com/260526/p64#a260526p64

Microsoft quietly extends the Extended Security Updates program for Windows 10 consumers by a year, letting eligible users get updates through October 12, 2027 (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.

Microsoft quietly extends Windows 10's extra security updates program for free: Users can now stay on Windows 10 until October 2027 securely
Windows 10's ESU program has been quietly extended by an extra year, now ending on October 12, 2027 instead of October 2026.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Cardiacs:
🎵 As Cold as Can Be in an English Sea (BBC Session, 15 October 2005)
#Cardiacs
https://alphabet-business-concern.bandcamp.com/track/as-cold-as-can-be-in-an-english-sea
https://open.spotify.com/track/31RdYpPXqC61p5C8814XdW

Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement
Saturday, 17 October,  9:30-5.00 Degrowth is both a transformative movement and a critical framework, aiming to ensure social justice and well-being for all, with human activities being in alignment with ecological limits. However, degrowth in the UK currently exists as an informal network rather than a cohesive movement. This one-day event will bring together those with an interest in working on degrowth in the UK.

Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement
Saturday, 17 October,  9:30-5.00 Degrowth is both a transformative movement and a critical framework, aiming to ensure social justice and well-being for all, with human activities being in alignmen…

It looks like I'm going to have some downtime in The Netherlands in late September / early October due to airline pricing (staying an extra two days after the event I'm attending saves $1200 on airfare, cutting the ticket price by >50% and more than justifying the extra meal/hotel cost)
Anyone interested in a get-together Monday Sep 28th, Friday Oct 2, or Saturday Oct 3? Or have suggestions on things to do in the greater Gouda / Den Haag / Rotterdam area?

Disney plans to shift much of its consumer products business from its experiences segment to its entertainment segment, under studios, beginning in October (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/08/disney-consumer-products-moves-studios-1237018017/

Big Bucks Generating Disney Consumer Products Shifts To Studio Umbrella As Josh D’Amaro-Run Mouse House Drops Earnings Report Tomorrow
Disney is moving its powerhouse Consumer Products division from the Experiences division to Disney Entertainment, specifically under the company's Studios umbrella.

Richard LA, shot by and abducted by ICE in October, hasn’t been getting medical care at Adelanto concentration camp and may need arm amputated son says
Video Source:
#ice

Analysis: Grokipedia appears not to have updated any articles since April 24, when it stopped processing human-suggested edits; xAI launched it in October 2025 (Lawfare)
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/grokipedia-stopped-reviewing-…

Grokipedia Stopped Reviewing Edits in April. It Didn’t Tell Anyone.
A halt in Grokipedia’s edit pipeline offers a case study in how an AI-generated reference system governs its own content.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116673510816883061
"Given Israel’s track record of targeting its own citizens on October 7 and misleading the public about it, the Israeli state might be holding on to as much video as possible to ensure no fur…

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare: Information, Interpretation, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for Reality
https://ift.tt/TtiRdaL
Post-Migration Discussion Dear Suscribers,The listserv-to-Commons transition is complete,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Micah Parsons' injury news could set stage for primetime return vs Cowboys in Week 6 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/03/cowboys-micah-parsons-injury-update-week-6-possible/90…

60 years ago tonight (& last night), the grateful dead at the #vancouver trips festival, their 1st real trip out of the greater bay area for a purpose other than an acid test (despite the event’s name). the last shows/tapes of owsley’s original run as engineer (he returns in '68) & last recordings ’til october.
7/29:

SoftBank's PayPay, Japan's dominant payments app, says it will take a 70.2% stake in T&D Financial Life Insurance for $840M, expected to close in October 2027 (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@… just took the time to listen to 2 (both?) of your SideSister albums just now. Wow, very creative, bouncy, quirky, unexpected, catchy, and even celebratory original songs, beautifully (obviously lovingly) performed, and very well recorded and produced! You two rock - full respect!
The link for others wanting to have a listen:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
Okonski:
🎵 October –
#Okonski
https://open.spotify.com/track/2H5IEbMZnikxlbHki7m3Su

Netflix sets its longest-ever theatrical window, a 47-day exclusive run for Spanish-language Oscar hopeful La Bola Negra, opening on October 16 (Clayton Davis/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/netflix-la-bola-negra-47-day-the…

Netflix Sets Record 47-Day Theatrical Run for 'La Bola Negra'
Netflix moves "La Bola Negra" to Oct. 16 in theaters and Dec. 2 on streaming, a 47-day window and the longest it has given a film to date.

Ratcliffe-on-Soar | October 2024
#ukphotography #documentaryphotography #newtopographicsmovement #subjectivelyobjective

Ich plane Ende September die AnaEE Science Conference zu besuchen, eine europäische Fachkonferenz für Ökosystemforschung, experimentelle Ökologie und Klimafolgenforschung. Sie bringt Forscher und politische Entscheidungsträger zusammen, um Strategien für eine widerstandsfähige Zukunft von Ökosystemen zu entwickeln.
Falls ihr auch dort seid oder Eure Forschung dazu Bezug hat, freue ich mich über einen Tröt!

from my link log —
The financialization of the American elite.
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/08/the-financialization-of-the-american-elite/
saved 2019-08-21

The Financialization of the American Elite - American Affairs Journal
On October 1, 2018, the newly christened Klarman Hall opened to much acclaim on the campus of Harvard Business School. The stunning $120 million building houses a conference center as well as a gleaming auditorium built around a 32-million-pixel, 1,250-square-foot video wall and a state-of-the-art, modular design that seats up to a thousand attendees. To mark the opening, the school held a daylong series of speeches and lectures, headlined by the building’s namesake and one of the school’s …

Stuibenfall, Tyrol's largest waterfall (October 2025)
A major landslide on the opposite side of the main Ötztal valley around 7000 years ago created a new 300-400 meter tall hill on this side, acting as a dam and causing a large lake to form in the higher up side valley. The water from that lake then slowly carved its way through the rocks, draining the lake and forming this amazing waterfall. The boundary of that ancient lake is still visible on the satellite view...
7000…

Hacker group RansomHouse claims responsibility for cyberattack on Nichirei
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/22/companies/nichirei-cyberattack-ransomhouse/

Hacker group RansomHouse claims responsibility for cyberattack on Nichirei
RansomHouse has previously claimed responsibility for attacks on several Japanese businesses, including a ransomware attack in October on office-supplies retailer Askul.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@xogot/116601839789786661
This is what we have been up to since October.

Another #Palestinian journalist killed by #Israel. Will any of them get justice?
https://www.

‘Kind, principled’: Colleagues remember Gaza journalist killed by Israel
Ahmed Wishah is the 12th Al Jazeera journalist killed by Israel in Gaza since October 2023.

It’s ok, it’s not like we’re all going to die or anything (only billions, not everyone). @… https://slrpnk.net/post/39707961

Go and read "Klara and the Sun"[1] if you haven't yet, it's great.
Maybe the #TaikaWaititi movie based on it will be, too. We'll see in October, but you know the drill:
First read the book, then watch the movie.
https…

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Trump’s decision to keep National Guard troops deployed to Washington, D.C.,
through the end of his term will cost an additional $1.4 billion in taxpayer funds,
according to budget estimates provided to Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office and shared with NOTUS.
The new estimates cover the time period from October 2026 through January 2029,
adding to the millions that have already been spent to pay, house and equip the soldiers currently deployed to D.C.
The deploymen…

Trump Plans to Spend $1.4 Billion Keeping the National Guard in D.C. Until 2029
Budget estimates provided to Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office detail the costs of the National Guard’s controversial deployment.

What Ceasefire? Israel Has Now Killed Over 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza Since October
https://zeteo.com/p/gaza-ceasefire-death-toll-1000-israel-palestinians-genocide

Sources say the next Fallout title will launch on October 23, 2077.
https://aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox-layoffs-2026-bethesda-obsidian-activision-blizzard/

Parents of ex-Raiders player allege excessive force by police in wrongful death suit https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/parents-of-ex-raiders-player-allege-excessive-force-by-police-in-wrongful-dea…

Full Match | The Judgement Day (Finn Bšlor & JD McDonagh) vs Social Elite (Matthew Smyth & Sean Guinness) at OTT's 10th Year Anniversary show from 26th October 2024
#prowrestling #wwe #wrestling

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Beth Ditto, Kelly Appleton, Allie Alejandra, Ted Kwo & Jacob Hayden:
🎵 Oo La La (6 Music Session, 18 October 2017)
#BethDitto #KellyAppleton #AllieAlejandra #TedKwo #JacobHayden

#silentsunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
Bear Lake. October 2014

Sources: Polymarket is in early talks with prospective investors to raise ~$1B at a $20B valuation, up from $15B in April 2026 and $9B in October 2025 (Todd Gillespie/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

Versant invests in microdrama streaming app GammaTime's Series A to take a minority stake; GammaTime raised a $14M seed in October 2025 (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/versant-media-gammatime-microdramas-1236765109/

Versant Media Invests in Microdrama Distributor GammaTime
Versant Media Invests in Microdrama Distributor GammaTime

As the UK government presses again for unwarranted access to private user data,
Apple has issued another complaint asking the country's independent judicial body to intervene.
In 2024, the UK reworked its laws to give it the authority to not only legally, but also secretly, demand Apple help it spy on iPhone users around the world.
Following US complaints, the UK backed down, only to try again in October 2025.
Now according to the Financial Times, Apple has file…

UK faces new legal fight from Apple over backdoor access to iCloud data
As the UK government presses again for unwarranted access to private user data, Apple has issued another complaint asking the country's independent judicial body to intervene.

Supabase, which provides backend tools for building AI apps, raised a $500M Series F led by GIC at a $10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B in October 2025 (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/04/database-startup-supabase-r…

Vibe-coding phenomenon lifts AI startup Supabase to $10.5 billion valuation
Database startup Supabase announced a $500 million funding round that values the company at $10.5 billion, including the fresh capital.

Core inflation rate hit 3.4% in May, highest since October 2023, Fed's preferred gauge shows (Jeff Cox/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/25/pce-inflation-report-may-2026-.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p38#a260625p38

They are almost burning leadership positions and shareholder value at the same rate as they are burning the planet.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/bp-removes-chairman-albert-manifold-2026-05-26/

FX Fighter Kurumi-chan TV PV
Premieres October 2026
#anime

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Broken Bells:
🎵 October
#BrokenBells
https://daleofshadows.bandcamp.com/track/heritage-verdant-kingdom-broken-bells-of-a-forgotten-shrine
https://open.spotify.com/track/09zDgbs5NQH1kKFXHppYhr

China has revised regulations to tighten protection of chip layout designs, including punitive damages for serious infringement, taking effect on October 15 (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific…

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

An Associated Press investigation found that at least 10 ICE detainees,
all men, have died by suicide since Donald Trump took office in January 2025
-- a pace that far exceeds the growth in the detainee population, according to a review of ICE data, autopsy reports, coroners’ rulings and police records.
Since October, seven deaths have been classified as suicides,
a number that is already the most for any fiscal year in the agency’s history.
ICE has usually rec…

ICE detainees dying by suicide at 'alarming' rate, AP investigation finds
Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees are taking their own lives at a pace that’s unprecedented in the agency’s two-decade history, highlighting what experts call failures in care and oversight. An Associated Press investigation finds that at least 10 ICE detainees have died by suicide since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025 and ordered ICE to increase arrests and deportations. That includes seven deaths since October, already the most in one fiscal year with…

Magic Moment (when the view finally opens up)
(On the way to Drachensee, October 2023)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings agrees to acquire Bitbank, a top 10 Japanese crypto exchange by trading activity, for ~$289M, set to close in October (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/06/

Japanese giant SBI Holdings to buy Bitbank for $289 million
SBI said the acquisition, which is subject to regulatory approval, is set to close in October.

YouTube launches the ad-free tier of Peacock on YouTube Primetime Channels, as part of a distribution agreement with NBCUniversal announced in October 2025 (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/06/peacock-launches-on-youtube-primetime-channel…

Peacock Ad-Free Tier Launches On YouTube Primetime Channels As Part Of 2025 Distribution Deal
YouTube has made good on a provision in a 2025 distribution agreement with NBCUniversal, launching the ad-free tier of Peacock on its channel store.

anyone here on tumblr and would youb e kind enough to do a nerd a favor and grant a reblog?
https://www.tumblr.com/adjbx/821053884050046976/cfp-online-seminar-publication-opportunity?source=share

Post by @adjbx · 1 image
💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 7 · CFP (ONLINE SEMINAR / PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY) Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare · Details When: October 1-3, 2026 Where: Online Submission Deadline: July 15, 2026 Spon…

Sources: Crusoe is in active talks to raise ~$3B in a funding round expected to value the company in the ~$30B range, up from a ~$10B valuation in October (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-0…

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

Footage of a French aid worker describing a mass grave holding
300 bodies in Gaza,
including small children allegedly killed with their hands tied,
has gone viral, reigniting international calls for accountability amid documented evidence of similar conditions at multiple Gaza hospital sites.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor,
a Geneva-based human rights organisation,
has been systematically documenting mass graves across Gaza since October 2023,
recordi…

Euro-Med Monitor: Children With Bound Hands in Gaza Mass Graves
The UN demands independent investigations as international pressure mounts for insight into mass graves found at Gaza hospitals.

Toblinger Knoten / Torre di Toblin (2024)
Another day, another view:
#LandscapePhotography

U.S. national debt officially hits
$39 trillion
—adding approximately $5 billion a day since October
https://fortune.com/2026/05/20/us-national-debt-officially-hits-39-trillion-milestone/

U.S. national debt officially hits $39 trillion—adding approximately $5 billion a day since October
According to Treasury data, updated retrospectively for May 18, the debt landed at $39,008,999,901,378.68.

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

"Another Wasted Life.”
That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist
Rhiannon Giddens.
She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark International Wrongful Conviction Day.
The song was inspired by
Kalief Browder,
a Bronx resident who died by suicide in 2015 at the age of 22
after being detained at Rikers Island jail for nearly three years,
after being falsely accused at the age of …

“Another Wasted Life”: Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired Her Song
“Another Wasted Life.” That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens. She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark International Wrongful Conviction Day. The song was inspired by Kalief Browder, a Bronx resident who died by suicide in 2015 at the age of 22 after being detained at Rikers Island jail for nearly three years, after being falsely accused at the age of 16 of stealing a backpack. He was held in solitary co…

sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009)
Two temporal networks of contacts among students and teachers at a primary school in Lyon, France, on consecutive days of in October 2009. Each network accumulates all contacts over the course of a single day; contacts were sampled at 20-second intervals.
This network has 242 nodes and 125773 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Over the past year or two, companies have started using so-called artificial intelligence agents as bona fide “employees,”
even including them in their organizational charts.
Emma Wiles, a Boston University professor who studies how A.I. affects workers, stumbled onto this phenomenon in October,
at a conference where two human resources executives said that treating A.I. agents like real employees was a way to increase productivity and to put their companies on the cutting …

A.I. ‘Employees’ Might Disrupt Work in Unexpected Ways
Scholars say the “unknown unknowns” of using artificial intelligence in the workplace may be undermining the technology’s advertised benefits.

Sources: Airwallex raised new funding led by Lee Fixel's Addition at a ~$12B valuation, up from $8B late last year, and hit $1.5B in ARR, up from $1B in October (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/05/28/airwallex-addition-valuation

Scoop: Airwallex is now valued at $12 billion
The payments firm also hit $1.5 billion in ARR, per a source.

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

The Supreme Court term that began in October was once again dominated by Felon-President Trump’s boundary-pushing policies.
Over the next several days, the justices will decide major tests of presidential power in cases involving the administration that could have generational consequences.
In contrast to the temporary orders the Supreme Court issued on an emergency basis early in Trump’s term,
the decisions the court announces this spring and summer will be more lasting. …

Tracking Major Supreme Court Cases and Rulings in 2026
The Supreme Court is deciding a series of cases central to President Trump’s second-term agenda.

sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009)
Two temporal networks of contacts among students and teachers at a primary school in Lyon, France, on consecutive days of in October 2009. Each network accumulates all contacts over the course of a single day; contacts were sampled at 20-second intervals.
This network has 242 nodes and 125773 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Sources: Fireworks AI, which helps companies run AI models, is in talks to raise funding at a $15B valuation after being valued at $4B in October 2025 (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-27/…

FOIA lawsuit documents show hackers who breached SolarWinds potentially had access to all "treasury.gov" email addresses from July 6, 2020 to October 12, 2020 (Jordan Robertson/Bloomberg)

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

On October 31, 1803 the frigate USS Philadelphia hit a reef and ran aground chasing Barbary pirates near Tripoli, Libya.
All 307 members of its crew were captured and held hostage by the Barbary states.
Rather than pay tribute to the pirates, U.S. President Thomas Jefferson sent U.S. frigates to intervene and free the hostages.
The first of two wars against the Barbary pirates, the scourge of shipping for decades, hastened the building of the U.S. Navy
and began a lon…

The Slow Death of the Global Commons
Hormuz is a sign of worse things to come.

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

Sources: the US has held off adding DeepSeek, CXMT, and 100 other flagged companies to its Entity List, last updated in October, the longest gap in 10 years (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-hol

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Sources: Apple is prepping an iPad overhaul, including an iPad mini with an OLED screen by October and refreshed versions of entry-level iPad and Airs in 2027 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Qatar and Iran are separated by the Persian Gulf, a body of water, at a distance of about 119 miles.
Trump had the audacity to claim otherwise even next to the country’s ruler,
and it’s not even the first time.
In October, Trump told reporters on Air Force One,
“They’re literally, you walk over from Iran to Qatar.
You can walk it in one second. You go ‘boom boom,’ and now you’re in Qatar, that’s tough territory”
—to much ridicule online.
Has no one bo…

Donald Trump Doesn’t Know Anything About Geography
Or the Middle East.

IBM stock fell 25% on Tuesday, sinking further than its previous worst day of October 19, 1987, after reporting preliminary Q2 results below estimates (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/14/ibm-warns-second-quarter-earnings-fell-short-of-exp…

IBM stock craters 23% after issuing second-quarter earnings warning
CEO blamed the shortfall on weakness in the software and infrastructure business because clients shifted money toward hardware purchases.

SoftBank reports Q4 net income up 3x to ~$11.6B, above ~$1.5B est., driven by a $25B gain in its OpenAI stake; by October, its OpenAI investment will hit $64.6B (David Keohane/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/85b9fe04-0d70-482e-bd27-9c87c1ebfc01

SAP invests in German workflow automation platform n8n at a $5.2B valuation, up from $2.5B after an October 2025 equity raise, and agrees to embed n8n's tools (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: OpenAI facilitated a $6.6B secondary share sale in October 2025 for 600 current and ex-employees; over 75 people cashed out the maximum cap of $30M (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/openai-employee-s