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@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-09-03 04:45:49

VodafoneThree is launching Vodafone TV in the UK in October, a bundled TV service that will include Netflix and HBO Max at launch alongside linear channels (Stewart Clarke/Deadline)
deadline.com/2026/09/vodafonet

@degrowthuk@mstdn.social
2026-08-04 08:16:42

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

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-08-02 16:50:01

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

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-08-04 12:40:56

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)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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…

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-09-03 14:38:27

Transnational and/or South Asian Feminisms
My department is hiring in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies! I'm the chair, so I can field questions.
Deadline: October 22, 2026
Please share!
Assistant: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mi…

@degrowthuk@mstdn.social
2026-08-03 17:05:04

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.

@CubitOom@social.linux.pizza
2026-08-03 17:02:15

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

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-08-03 16:21:03

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)
reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-08-03 19:00:05

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

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012). 6410 nodes, 10377 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/foursquare#NYC_restaurant_tips

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…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-08-04 15:20:51

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)
variety.com/2026/film/awards/n

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-09-04 22:55:59

Sources: Anthropic is expected to make its IPO prospectus public late September and complete the listing days before the US midterm elections in November (Echo Wang/Reuters)
reuters.com/world/anthropic-ip

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-06-30 16:27:52

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

@jae@mastodon.me.uk
2026-06-21 02:08:00

It always bugs me how Jack Ryan mansplains turbulence to the flight attendant.
clip.cafe/the-hunt-red-october

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-07-01 20:42:02

from my link log —
The financialization of the American elite.
americanaffairsjournal.org/201
saved 2019-08-21

@fennek@cyberplace.social
2026-09-02 14:50:20

Flights not included, huh. ;)
@… mastodon.social/@esoastronomy/

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2026-07-31 05:18:57

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?

@Defiance@sfba.social
2026-08-31 22:44:01

Stumbled upon this tarantula up on a remote ridge crest trail where I regularly hike.
The earliest in the season I’ve seen one. They’re pretty common in October. I think his habitat was just off the trail in a rock fissure. He’s basically looking to return to it in this video.
#nature #spiders

Black tarantula walking along a dirt path with gray granite rock and strands of dormant grass.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-09-01 13:45:36

WBD says it will launch HBO Max in Japan as hubs within Prime Video and Hulu Japan on October 1; HBO Max content was previously available via a deal with U-Next (Deadline)
deadline.com/2026/08/hbo-max-l

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-25 19:01:15

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)

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-07-02 22:22:34

anyone here on tumblr and would youb e kind enough to do a nerd a favor and grant a reblog?
tumblr.com/adjbx/8210538840500

@bourgwick@heads.social
2026-07-30 22:35:43

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:

poster for Vancouver Trips Festival
@KazuShuSora@social.tchncs.de
2026-09-03 11:28:10

October 13 is gonna be ✨ glorious ✨ 🙂‍↕️
#ValorMortis #PlanetZoo2 #Gaming #VideoGames

Front cover for the game 'Valor Mortis'.
Front cover for the game 'Planet Zoo 2'.
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2026-06-28 11:48:11

#silentsunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
Bear Lake. October 2014

Bear lake

Photo at Bear Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. The water is absolutely still, reflecting the opposite shore like a mirror. The water line extends across the image just above the center. Pine trees grow down to the edge. A footpath can be seen above the water as a streak of light brown. There is a wooden bridge at center left. There is a light coating of snow in the trees and on rocks above them. At the bottom of the image more snow can be seen reflected in the water. A shallow l…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-07-17 20:42:05

from my link log —
Earth rotation records spur October vote to avert negative leap second.
techtimes.com/articles/320185/

@doktrock@toad.social
2026-08-26 00:29:49

US #NSF (National Science Foundation) has released its Graduate Research Fellowship Program solicitation for this year (#GRFP)
Application due October 19 - October 23, 2026 depending on area.

@otakus_terebi@mastodon.social
2026-08-01 14:12:41

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

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-09-02 17:00:04

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

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012). 6410 nodes, 10377 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/foursquare#NYC_restaurant_tips
@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-08-04 22:21:35

“Legally, “the agent acted on its own” isn’t a sufficient defense. In October 2025, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 316, barring any defendant who developed, modified or used an AI system from asserting that the AI autonomously caused the harm.”
wsj.com/opinion/do-you-know-wh

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-08-31 18:58:41

Patriots Announce 2026 Throwback Game Dates! patriots.com/video/patriots-an

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2026-08-26 05:17:29

Dutch state-owned gas transmission company Gasunie confirms that the Netherlands will not be able to meet its gas storage filling targets of 74% (EU commitment) or 80% (government goal) by October.
"But for a normal winter, it's sufficient".
Germany is also way behind, btw.

Line graph showing that filling this year is way behind compared to the previous three years
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-02 22:10:44

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)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-06-24 04:24:01

@… 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:

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-06-25 14:05:43

Core inflation rate hit 3.4% in May, highest since October 2023, Fed's preferred gauge shows (Jeff Cox/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2026/06/25/pce-inflat
memeorandum.com/260625/p38#a26

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…

@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot
2026-08-27 07:06:41

Well I discovered this week that I have SEVEN DAYS of leave available still this year. As I work for them three days a week that's two weeks plus. Looking at a week in October and another late November-early December, taking people up on their offers of spare rooms and returning the visits folk made to us when Mum was ill. Plus I'll get the dining room painted and sort out our new family business website. Not restful but not shoe-horned in either

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-09-02 19:00:05

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

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012). 6410 nodes, 10377 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/foursquare#NYC_restaurant_tips
@Nathan@social.lostinok.com
2026-06-12 21:29:40

Looks like no McDonald’s for awhile . . . Small town drama.
#guthrie
Guthrie McDonald’s to close June 26 for complete remodel, reopening planned for October

Text Shot: According to company officials, the Guthrie McDonald’s is expected to serve its final customers on June 26 before temporarily closing for construction.

Demolition of the existing restaurant is scheduled to begin shortly after the Fourth of July holiday as crews clear the site and begin work on a new facility.

The restaurant is targeting an early October reopening date, although construction schedules can be impacted by weather and other factors.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-06-26 11:00:39

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Broken Bells:
🎵 October
#BrokenBells
daleofshadows.bandcamp.com/tra
open.spotify.com/track/09zDgbs

@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.social
2026-07-24 17:19:59

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!

2nd AnaEE Science Conference: Ecosystem Science For a Resilient Future

When: September 29 – October 1, 2026
Where: Palais de l’Europe, Menton, France
@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizza
2026-08-26 07:29:35

So, the UK energy "price cap" is going up again in October. Up by 4%.
I'm currently on a fixed price tariff with OVO, but it turns out they're actually *awful* at sourcing renewable energy, and this when I pay the extra for their "Greener" tariff! Ref:

@ncoca@social.coop
2026-06-22 03:32:04

Another #Palestinian journalist killed by #Israel. Will any of them get justice?

In October 2016, five men and women coordinated to shut down all five main pipelines bringing Alberta tar sands crude into the United States.
"The Valve Turners" called pipeline companies shortly before turning safety shut-off valves on Enbridge’s lines 4 & 67, TransCanada’s Keystone, Spectra Energy’s Express, and Kinder-Morgan’s TransMountain pipelines.
They then awaited arrest, submitting to months of court dates and even jail time.

@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2026-08-22 11:30:15

🌇 🦅 🙏
I'ma escape my shitty parents to somewhere in-or-around Chicago in October. I'm a zoomer "artist", currently-closeted trans woman, who's only firm resume credential for getting hired is working at a retirement place cafe for roughly 1.75 years.
I'm doing a lot for the first time to make this happen. Abstract online research about a place I've never physically been's starting to give me psychosis. I'm making this public for the first tim…

@knurd42@social.linux.pizza
2026-06-23 08:00:34

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.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-08-20 08:25:08

A Thousand Meters Above The Valley (2021)
(After this harsh summer, the grasses will probably start looking like this much sooner this year — back then it was late October...)
#ThrowbackThursday #LandscapePhotography

View of a mountain ridge with cliffs of light gray rocks and very steep grassy slopes dropping down towards the valley. The grass is in shades of golden brown. A small foot path is zigzagging up from a small pass towards the center peak. Pale blue sky with some cirrus clouds.
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com
2026-08-24 05:43:44

I'm watching Crime Beat 7x03 "Not Without Her Daughter" #CrimeBeat

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-06-18 03:43:54

What Ceasefire? Israel Has Now Killed Over 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza Since October
zeteo.com/p/gaza-ceasefire-dea

@padraig@mastodon.ie
2026-06-21 11:27:37

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

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-08-11 01:13:17

Patriots to Honor Adam Vinatieri During Halftime Ceremony on Sunday, October 11 Against Raiders patriots.com/news/patriots-to-

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-06-30 06:50:33

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)
deadline.com/2026/06/peacock-l

@degrowthuk@mstdn.social
2026-08-25 08:43:04

Are you in the UK and positive about #degrowth?
Would you like to see a stronger, effective degrowth movement here?
Then join us in Sheffield on Saturday, 17 October, to consider how best to achieve that.

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-06-19 17:01:03

Yesterday's mystery #cloud has been ID'd as #cirrocumulus (or perhaps altocumulus) but in any case of the rather rare #undulatus variety, with the waves caused by wind shear at different altitudes: cloudappreciationsociety.org/o comes somewhat close; see cloudappreciationsociety.org/c and cloudappreciationsociety.org/c for details. h/t scicomm.xyz/@drlucyrogers@mast

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-27 05:15:55

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)
coindesk.com/business/2026/06/

@avstockhausen@fedihum.org
2026-06-20 16:35:04

New publication: Annette von Stockhausen, “Patristisches Textarchiv. Ein Open Access-Archiv Antiker Christlicher Texte” (Zenodo, 14 October 2022), doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7199196.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-08-22 20:51:38

Browns fans boo Deshaun Watson during home preseason game vs. Bills nytimes.com/athletic/7531745/2

@bici@mastodon.social
2026-08-05 22:47:18

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.
ti.to/eeca/eeconf-2026

Jurassic Park, Hunt For The Wilderpeople, Event Horizon, The Dish, In The Mouth Of Madness, The Hunt For Red October - how many actors have a CV as varied as #SamNeill?
And how many were as consistently brilliant across so many genres and roles, big or small?
I really am gonna miss him.

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-08-21 16:30:22

Digital Humanities and Global Inequalities, 8-9 October 2026
ift.tt/JIBYLGo
Call for Paper (CAA 2027 Annual Conference): From the Street to the Bedroom: Designing the Modern…
via Input 4 RELCFP

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 …

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-07-22 10:55:13

Hacker group RansomHouse claims responsibility for cyberattack on Nichirei
japantimes.co.jp/business/2026

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-08-31 14:00:04

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

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012). 6410 nodes, 10377 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/foursquare#NYC_restaurant_tips
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-09-04 12:40:21

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
Asterhouse:
🎵 October
#Asterhouse
asterhouse.bandcamp.com/track/
open.spotify.com/track/28YbE3d

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-08-25 13:01:59

Asus opens pre-orders for the standalone Xbox Ally X20 at $1,300 , with shipments from October 15; a $2,500 bundle includes the X20 and ROG Xreal R1 glasses (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
theverge.com/games/984139/the-

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-06-29 14:49:43

Parents of ex-Raiders player allege excessive force by police in wrongful death suit reviewjournal.com/sports/raide

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-08-31 19:00:04

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 4936 nodes and 27149 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012). 4936 nodes, 27149 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/foursquare#NYC_restaurant_checkin
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-06-17 06:00:06

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

View of a narrow rocky ridge with a large rock tower in front of another mountain range in the background. Small paths are leading through talus fields towards the base of the tower. The entire scene is bathed in the warm late afternoon light of October. The grass patches have turned into a rich orange brown. Cloudy sky.
@jae@mastodon.me.uk
2026-06-17 03:08:46

Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about the spilled coffee in Hunt for Red October?

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-08-24 22:53:45

Docs: Meta plans to launch its version of OpenClaw, codenamed Hatch, in late August or early September and its latest AI model, Watermelon, in October (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/me

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2026-08-16 03:19:09

#SilentSunday
#RockyMountainNationalPark
Sunrise, from Trail Ridge Road.

Photo from Rocky Mountain National Park. Looking East from Trail Ridge Road at a sign explaining that the elevation is 2 miles, 3.2km. The sun is just breaking over the ridge in front of me. October 2015.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-07-01 02:00:05

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

sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009). 242 nodes, 125773 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_primary_school
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-07-08 08:02:12

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

RubyRelay
@RubyRelay@ruby.social
3h
@aral
CONGRATS
YOU JUST INCITED GENOCIDE UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW
October 7 was genocide (Shalev 2024). Since the Rwandan Genocide, genocide inversion has been recognized as incitement, see Des Forges 1999, Benesch 2008, Marcus 2012,

"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 …

@degrowthuk@mstdn.social
2026-08-14 08:16:42

Just in case you've missed this, we are bringing together the #degrowth clans in the UK to build the movement.
Sheffield, 17 October.
Details of event and how to book.
Free!

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-08-25 18:35:42

NYT pop culture writer Kyle Buchanan announces he has left the NYT and will launch a video podcast about Hollywood, The Kyle Buchanan Show, in mid-October (Marc Malkin/Variety)
variety.com/2026/film/columns/

The question Ronald Reagan asked on 28 October 1980, at the end of his televised debate against Jimmy Carter:
“Are you better off now than you were before this presidency?”
Unless you’re very, very rich, the answer is obviously:
“No, I’m worse off.”

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. …

@degrowthuk@mstdn.social
2026-08-13 19:35:57

In case you've missed this, we are bringing together the #degrowth clans in the UK to build the movement.
Sheffield, 17 October.
Details and booking details.
Free!
degrow…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-06-12 13:40:55

The End Of A Long Summer (2023)
(A last blip of intense summer heat before the first wave of winter descended into the valley just a couple of days later. The colors that day were just magical and created an unforgettable mood, maybe also because it was one of the last long hikes we did with our darling dog...)
#FootpathFriday

Photo of a group of trees (sycamores, spruces) in a swampy grassy patch on a very hot and hazy October day in a remote valley with steep rocky walls. The leaves and grasses in their beautifuk autumn colors of yellows, oranges, reds and browns. The blades of rushes turning red and glistening in the bright sun. The hazy sky emphasizes the layers of mountains into the distance.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-06-07 06:03:28

RE: mastox.eu/@jeremycorbyn/116693
“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…

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-06-28 18:00:08

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

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.). 265214 nodes, 420045 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/email_eu
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-08-25 22:25:42

Forbes and Shook Research suspend their joint rankings and events as they review a $6M payment from founder RJ Shook to former top editor Randall Lane (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/08/25/bu…

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-06-28 20:00:04

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

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012). 6410 nodes, 10377 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/foursquare#NYC_restaurant_tips

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…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-05 19:51:30

Bitcoin falls below $60K, its lowest level since October 2024, amid a record streak of bitcoin ETF outflows following Strategy's bitcoin sale (CNBC)
cnbc.com/2026/06/05/bitcoin-di

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-08-29 03:00:05

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

sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009). 242 nodes, 125773 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_primary_school

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…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-08-18 16:10:50

Apple unveils new EU business terms from October 1, resolving disputes with the EU, including a new Core Technology Commission and App Store commission tiers (Apple)
apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/app

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-06-26 16:00:08

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

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.). 265214 nodes, 420045 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/email_eu

Since China offered a truce in the trade war last October following its threat to deprive the United States of rare-earth magnets,
the Trump administration has been happy to stop escalating.
After all, imports from China have been falling, down by 40% in the year to June, compared with the same period in 2024.
Best to declare victory and call it a day.
But the US hasn’t won this battle
– and there’s strong evidence to show it’s afraid to really try.
Last …

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-17 01:41:52

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)
reuters.com/world/china/us-hol

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-08-26 23:00:06

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

topology: Internet AS graph (2004). 34761 nodes, 171403 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/topology
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-16 13:41:02

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)

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-15 10:05:53

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)
cnbc.com/2026/07/14/ibm-warns-

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…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-08-13 10:21:04

Sources: Anthropic investors expect it to float at a $2T valuation after an October IPO and to hit $100B to $120B in annualized revenue by the end of 2026 (Financial Times)
ft.com/content/840ac156-af1c-4

The Space Development Agency(SDA) is a United States Space Force
direct-reporting unit
tasked with deploying disruptive space technology.
One of the technologies being worked on is space-based missile tracking using large global satellite constellations made up of
industry-procured low-cost satellites.
The SDA has been managed by the United States Space Force since October 2022.
By February 2024 the SDA had 38 satellites on orbit.
SDA intends to have…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-10 08:45:54

Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball said Game Pass lost "millions" of subscribers in the months following a 50% price hike announced in October 2025 (Eddie Makuch/GameSpot)
gamespot.com/articles/is-xbox-