@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA judge orders Paramount and California AG Rob Bonta to schedule two days of settlement talks at the end of October for the Paramount-WBD antitrust case (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social#footpathFriday #RockyMountainNationalPark
Ute Trail, Never Summer Range. October 2015
@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizzaOn Thursday 1st October, patients, NHS workers and activists across England are taking action to say NO to Palantir in our NHS.
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/international-crisis/no-palantir-in-our-nhs/people-vs-palan…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzPatriots to Honor Adam Vinatieri During Halftime Ceremony on Sunday, October 11 Against Raiders https://www.patriots.com/news/patriots-to-honor-adam-vinatieri-during-halftime-ceremony-on-sunday-october-11-against-raiders
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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)
https://www.ft.com/content/840ac156-af1c-4a82-b260-ae791072fcfa
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzBuccaneers at Dallas Headlines Thursday Night Football https://insidethestar.com/buccaneers-at-dallas-headlines-thursday-night-football
@cdarwin@c.imNetanyahu was warned of 7 October Hamas attacks, book claims
The Israeli PM says allegation that UAE president alerted him more than a week before major offensive is ‘absolute lie’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep
@kcase@mastodon.socialSeeing the new hourly check option in Safari on iOS 27 prompted me to wonder when we added that option to OmniWeb. Somewhere in the migration of our source code from CVS to subversion to git the information was lost, so I had to do a little spelunking back to the subversion repository, and found the commit from @… in October, 1995. (A lot has happened in those th…
@bourgwick@heads.social40 years ago this weekend, jerry garcia falls into a diabetic coma & nearly dies. in the hospital, his heart stops following an allergic reaction when doctors give him valium. the dead will cancel 30 dates through fall. he relearns to play guitar & is performing again by october.
@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialNearly full now:
Degrowth UK Gathering.
Sheffield, Saturday, 17 October, to consider how to build the #degrowth movement here.
https://degrowthuk.org/2026/08/03/degr
@gscherer2@social.linux.pizzaMoonstone Beach sunset. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. October, 2025. Fujifilm X100VI. #moonstonebeach #cambria #sunset
@hippyjo@c.imNew music coming in October, "Contra ICE" a compilation of artists against ICE and supporting the community of resistance: https://www.theprp.com/2026/08/12/news/tom
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineI am watching the live kick off for No King’s Vote Early event on October 17th:
#NoKings
@cdarwin@c.imBob Iger, Joshua Kushner to buy Lakers from Mark Walter’s ownership group for $12 billion
Less than a year after Dodgers owner Mark Walter bought the Lakers for a record-breaking sum,
L.A.’s iconic NBA franchise is now being sold to Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger for at least $12 billion,
-- $2 billion more than the reported number when Walter bought the team in October from the Buss family.
Joshua Kushner is the founder of venture capital firm Thrive Capital and younge…
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialFall Open House for Prospective Students
Monday, October 26
Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to gain an insider’s perspective of YDS.
Register online:
https://divinity.yale.edu/admissions-aid/visit-connect/fall-open-house-fo…
@gscherer2@social.linux.pizzaSeagull, standing on her favorite rock, looking at the ocean. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #moonstonebeach #seagull #bird …
@seeingwithsound@mas.toIn 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;
@Carwil@mastodon.onlineJust got a letter from the US State Department's FOIA office regarding a request made in October 2023, basically asking if I'm still interested.
Yes.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGSA says OpenAI is replacing its $1-per-year pilot for US agencies with a usage-based deal providing a 50% discount from October 1, with access to GPT-6 Astra (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@aral@mastodon.ar.alYou guys know what to do: report and block this genocide-complicit zionist hasbara account.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: David Ellison told execs he will move Paramount out of California if AG Rob Bonta doesn't negotiate a settlement of the WBD antitrust case by October 1 (Matthew Belloni/Puck)
https://puck.news/david-ellison-has-gamed-out-a-california-exit-plan/
@jae@mastodon.me.ukIt 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/
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom 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…
@bici@mastodon.social2-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
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotInteresting 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.
@cdarwin@c.imThousands of people remain missing or unaccounted for following the Rapid Support Forces' capture of El Fasher, according to new findings published by the UN Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan.
Following the takeover in late October 2025,
the International Organization for Migration estimated that more than 127,000 people were displaced from the city and surrounding villages.
The mission noted that humanitarian organizations later described El Fasher as a "ghost town,&…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialSigh. 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…
@niklaskorz@rheinneckar.socialOfficial announcement will follow next week: we're meeting on Tuesday, October 7, for our next @… meetup in #Mannheim. We still have time for a second talk, so if you have a topic or project related to
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngRevisiting An Ancient Friend
(...aiming higher/further today, before the days are getting too short, possibly attempting to record a new addition for my #TimeFade project[1], but will decide on final route when I get near the glacier... This image is from October 2025.)
[1]
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft 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.
@annsev@troet.cafeDie Ars Elextronica (#aec) in #Linz habe ich seit Jahren nicht einmal mehr wahrgenommen.
Aber jetzt finde ich es spannend, nachdem eine Jury Forensic Architectur mit einer Nike ausgezeichnet hat, für "A Cartography of Genocide: Israel's Conduct in Gaza since October 2023"
Weil LH Stelzer darin Antisemitismus sieht, kommt er nicht zur Preisverleihung. Und der Leiter des AEC muss…
@cdarwin@c.imNew York City has adopted a new rule that bans companies from using deceptive subscriptions to trap customers into paying for gym memberships, streaming services and other recurring charges, the city’s consumer protection office said.
The new rule, which will start on 1 October, promises hefty fines and aggressive enforcement for violators.
Companies that do not provide a simple way to cancel could pay $525 per user subscription, back fees and additional fines.
The city is …
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defoursquare: 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
@seeingwithsound@mas.to @degrowthuk@mstdn.socialEvent: 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
@memeorandum@universeodon.comNetanyahu was warned of 7 October Hamas attacks, book claims (Peter Beaumont/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/08/netanyahu-warned-7-october-hamas-book-haaretz
http://www.memeorandum.com/260908/p98#a260908p98
@relcfp@mastodon.socialReligion, 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…
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@cdarwin@c.imRetired Major General Giora Eiland told Israel’s 103FM radio station on Sunday that
rebuilding Gaza would run against Israeli interests.
“Israel has no interest in Gaza being rebuilt,
it is better for us that it be destroyed for generations to come,” Eiland said.
“The greater the despair in Gaza and the greater the destruction,
and the greater the monument to what they did on October 7, years to come,
that is good" he added.
@brian_gettler@mas.toTransnational 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: https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mi…
@doktrock@toad.social
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeIt 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?
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialSomething to help cool your brain.
#RockyMountainNationalPark #naturephotography #elkOfMastodon
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Nick Bilton opted to premiere the new season of 60 Minutes on September 13 despite CBS offering an October option; AI will be a theme of the season (Joe Flint/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/6…
@cdarwin@c.imThroughout October, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s Centennial celebration will extend to restaurants and bars across Santa Barbara
Participating establishments include Barbareño, Bistro Amasa, Convivo, La Paloma, Little Dom’s, Monte’s, The Good Lion, The Lark, and Third Window Brewing.
Each participating establishment will create a cocktail informed by the flavors, aromas, and stories of the region’s native landscapes.
$1 from each featured cocktail sold will benefit …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Apple is set to debut the foldable iPhone Duo at $2,000 with 256GB of storage, with sales starting as early as October, in white and dark blue (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Defiance@sfba.social
@otakus_terebi@mastodon.socialTrailer for the new movie *Made in Abyss: Awakening Mystery*
Premieres October 23, 2026, in Japan
#MadeInAbyss
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaRichard 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
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DonLettsCultureClashRadio
The October Effect:
🎵 Friday Is Mine
#TheOctoberEffect
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/7DA4Oh8ZP0aDSQmwgtUgFR
@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialDegrowth 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.
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyDutch 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.
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz@… 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:
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFive Walking Dead producers reach a $120M settlement with AMC Networks over profit payouts, avoiding a trial that was set for October (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/walking-dead-producers-120-million-profits-settleme…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_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
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIt’s ok, it’s not like we’re all going to die or anything (only billions, not everyone). @… https://slrpnk.net/post/39707961
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk @cdarwin@c.imTennessee 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 …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: since October, Anthropic has entered into agreements for at least 14.8 GW of compute capacity and may spend as much as $517B over the next decade (Valida Pau/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-clinched-5…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
The financialization of the American elite.
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/08/the-financialization-of-the-american-elite/
saved 2019-08-21
@relcfp@mastodon.socialReligion, 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,…
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialVodafoneThree 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)
https://deadline.com/2026/09/vodafonethree-unveils-vodafone…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.detopology: 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
@bourgwick@heads.social60 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:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLivestream 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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWBD 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)
https://deadline.com/2026/08/hbo-max-launch-japan-amazon-hulu-1237063387/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCore 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
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defoursquare: 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: 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-…
@cdarwin@c.imDocumentary filmmaker Alex Gibney has spent his career investigating powerful institutions and controversial figures,
from Enron and Elizabeth Holmes to Scientology and abuses at Bagram and Abu Ghraib.
But he says none compares with the power wielded by his latest subject: Elon Musk.
Gibney's nearly four-hour documentary, "Musk," premieres at the Venice Film Festival this week ahead of an October theatrical release from Bleecker Street.
The filmmaker s…
@degrowthuk@mstdn.social @qurlyjoe@mstdn.social#silentsunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
Bear Lake. October 2014
@cdarwin@c.imQuebec 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…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialDigital Humanities and Global Inequalities, 8-9 October 2026
https://ift.tt/JIBYLGo
Call for Paper (CAA 2027 Annual Conference): From the Street to the Bedroom: Designing the Modern…
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAnalysis: 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-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialJapanese 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/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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)
https://www.reuters.com/world/anthropic-ipo-launch-shifts-toward-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNetflix 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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-…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defoursquare: 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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDisney 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/
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChina 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…
@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialIn 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!
https://degrow…
@cdarwin@c.imAs 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAsus 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)
https://www.theverge.com/games/984139/the-oled-xbox-ally-x20-official…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defoursquare: 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
@degrowthuk@mstdn.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialDocs: 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)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-plans-launch-hatch-a…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defoursquare: 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
@cdarwin@c.imIn 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.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialYouTube 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…
@cdarwin@c.im"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 …
@cdarwin@c.imFootage 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…
@cdarwin@c.imOver 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 …
@cdarwin@c.imThe 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.”
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imThe 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. …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple 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)
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-announces-changes-for-apps-in-the-…
@cdarwin@c.imOn 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…
