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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…

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

Bengaluru-based Snabbit, an on-demand home services startup, raised a $56M Series D, a source says at a ~$350M valuation, up from $180M in October 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/27/indi

India's Snabbit closes $56M round as investor interest in on-demand home services heats up | TechCrunch
Snabbit now processes over 40,000 daily jobs and has cut costs sharply as it expands across cities and services.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Dekker:
🎵 Maybe October
#NowPlaying #Dekker
https://dekkermusic.bandcamp.com/track/maybe-october-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/6cMXzJAqj1EWhxSkeCIK7q

Gulf Fritillary butterfly. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #laarboretum #butterfly #insect

In celebration of Jürgen Moltmann's 100th birthday, the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School will host a three-day conference on Christ's significance for our world today. Conference runs October 8–10 at YDS.
Learn more here. https://faith.yale.edu/christ-today

Have I Been Pwned: ShinyHunters' breach of ADT exposed the personal data of 5.5M people; ADT previously disclosed data breaches in August 2024 and October 2024 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Since October, an intelligence battalion in the 82nd Airborne Division has been using home-grown AI tools that unit leaders say reduce staff work and make it easier to support the “All American” requirement of being able to deploy anywhere across the globe within 18 hours.
Officials told DefenseScoop in a recent interview that they’ve used the capabilities — created in Maven Smart System — to aggregate personnel, equipment and property management information across the unit,
red…

An 82nd Airborne unit built its own AI tools as the Army pushes a ‘safe playground’ for soldiers to experiment with the tech
The Army is inviting soldiers to its "safe playground" for AI experimentation. A unit in the 82nd Airborne Division created its own AI tools.

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: Japanese news aggregation app operator SmartNews considers a Tokyo IPO listing as soon as October; its valuation may fall from $2B after a 2021 raise (Yasutaka Tamura/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Bruce Springsteen - Live In East Berlin 1988 - Full Concert (HD Remastered) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mayNuht2f_o (122 min)
How Bruce Springsteen rocked the Berlin Wall - BBC 21 October 2014
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20130626-how-springsteen-rocked-the-wall

Hackers leak the entire upcoming Avatar movie ahead of October release
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Hackers-leak-the-entire-upcoming-Avatar-movie-ahead-of-October-release.1272688.0.html

Hackers leak the entire upcoming Avatar movie ahead of October release
A major leak for Avatar Aang, The Last Airbender reveals a full recasting of the original characters and a big strategy shift from a theatrical release to a Paramount+ debut on October 9, 2026. Paramount has not yet commented on the matter.

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.

For the first time since October, the conditions were good enough that I was able to get 20 kilometers in on the bicycle after work.
#Milwaukee #Mequon #Bike

More than 3,100 anti-authoritarian protests are scheduled across the US and at least 15 other countries on Saturday.
All these events will take place under a single banner: No Kings.
Formally launched in June to fight back against Trump administrationpolicies, the No Kings movement has grown with astonishing speed
– its second and most recent mass protest in October drew an estimated 7 million participants.
Organizers expect Saturday’s events to be the biggest prote…

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/

"Durkin granted the Chicago Transit Authority’s temporary restraining order against Trump’s Department of Transportation, which had frozen $3 billion in funds since last October over so-called race- and sex-based discrimination — which local directors describe simply as inclusive DEI policies."
Another judge obliterates Trump’s 'massive' attack on blue states - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-funding-freeze-blue-states/

It's Official! 🪄🦋
The journey continues! It has been officially announced that Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Sousou no Frieren) Season 3 will premiere in October 2027.
Check out the official announcement here:
🔗 https://frieren-anime.jp/news/5417/

Flame Skimmer dragonfly hanging out on a branch. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #laarboretum #dragonfly #insect

"More than 1,500 healthcare workers have been killed during #Israel’s genocidal war on #Gaza, including several since a so-called “ceasefire” came into effect in October."
#GazaGenocide

‘Substantial evidence’ of double-tap strike in killing of Gaza’s Hind Rajab
Avaaz analyses the timeline of events to conclude that violations show Israel systematically kills first responders.

Just pulled the @… card on #WikiGacha 🤣 #noxp

France: "we're going to ban short-haul flights where alternative train routes exist, in order to curb carbon emissions"
Rest of EU: "we'll start a commission to create a panel which will lead to a discussion on.."
US (via #AccidentallyTheEcoPresident): "what if we started a war so disastrous and stupid that it kneecapped ALL sh…

Lufthansa cuts 20,000 flights as Iran war causes jet fuel shortage
The German airline says 20,000 short-haul flights would be removed from its ⁠schedule between now and October.

I just got an invoice from a contractor for work done in October. Is there a statute of limitations on sending invoices? I’m in BC/Canada
They were horrible to deal with, and I’d rather not pay, lol.

New Boots Bridge along the Beeston Canal, Nottingham, October 2025
#photography #documentaryphotography #documentingspace

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/…

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…

Over two days in October 2025, up to 10,000 people are believed to have been massacred;
a further 40,000 civilians from the Sudanese city are still unaccounted for.
Heroism, horror and the ‘pits of hell’: inside the last days of El Fasher
This is the story of what happened

#silentSunday #elkOfMastodon
Elderly bull elk relaxing. October 2014

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

looking forward to this never-heard october '66 zappa/mothers session! https://www.jambase.com/article/frank-zappa-vaulternative-records-returns-1966-live-recordings

Frank Zappa Vaulternative Archive Series Relaunches With Unreleased 1966 Recordings
Vaulternative Records, an archival series dedicated to releasing Frank Zappa's unexpected recordings from the vault, returns in 2026 after nearly a decade with 'Zappa ’66: Vol. 1 – Live At TTG Studios' out first.

That's a beautiful aircraft.
Here's a picture from its first flight October 28, 2025, which was subsonic.
The idea is supersonic flight with no sonic booms.

"Among those monitored were a Palestinian academic invited to give a guest lecture at Manchester Metropolitan University and a pro-Gaza PhD student at the London School of Economics, according to internal documents.
In October 2024, the University of Bristol provided the firm with a list of student protest groups it wished to receive alerts about, an internal university email suggests. It included pro-Palestinian and animal rights activists.
In total, 12 universities paid th…

British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students
Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.

#Upcoming 10th anniversary edition of Autechre’s “elseq 1–5” as a one-time, limited edition 5 × CD box set in an LP-sized case with 64-page booklet. Available via Warp, September/October. Final manufacturing quantity to be confirmed after June 10th. h…

Autechre - elseq 1-5. AE_STORE.
Buy elseq 1-5 by Autechre on AE_STORE.

In October, ice agents “smashed the car windows and detained all seven occupants” of a van that they thought suspicious because people in it were going to work together. Carpooling. Carpooling is foreign and unintelligible to the brilliant and diligent ice agent who testified as JB. The concept of carpooling is beyond JB’s comprehension. 🤦‍♂️
The intellect on JB could be studied (but might make anyone studying it dumber).

Assimilation of Ground and Satellite Magnetic Observations Unravels the Ionospheric, Magnetospheric, and Induced Fields During the May and October 2024 #GeomagneticStorms: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL116964 -> How does an ice satellite detect a geomagnetic storm? https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/CryoSat/How_does_an_ice_satellite_detect_a_geomagnetic_storm

Niners' Warner full go after season-ending injury https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48544620/niners-fred-warner-fully-healthy-season-ending-injury

@… sorry, I mean the trickery was not recent; "… The RSAC Research Lab disclosed this attack to Apple on October 15, 2025, …".

The Hunt for Rhode Island Red October
#poultrymoviesorplays #hashtaggames

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

#TIL that Patriarch Mar Awa III of the Assyrian Church of the East is born in Chicago and is a fan of the Chicago Cubs. In a bit of good-natured trolling while visiting the Vatican last October, he gifted Pope Leo XIV with a custom Cubs jersey with “Leo” and “14” on the back. The Pope is a noted fan of the rival Chicago White Sox. ⚾️

Pope Leo Gets Cubs Jersey from Mar Awa III
Mar Awa III gifts Pope Leo XIV a Cubs jersey, poking fun at the pontiff’s loyalty to White Sox. Baseball meets Vatican diplomacy.

Last October when I pruned my fig tree I threw the clippings into a moist bin in my basement in case some of them rooted. Which they did. Now I have to unload them on neighbors and passersby. "Hey, pssst: want a fig tree?" #figs #ficus #gardening

Western honeybee, collecting pollen from Western sage flowers. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. October, 2025.. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #laarboretum #honeybee #flower

⛔️Are fuel-related flight cancellations happening at the last minute?
In most cases, no.
At least for now, fuel-related cuts are often being made days or weeks in advance.
Lufthansa Group, for example, said this week it is cutting 20,000 short-haul flights across its network through October.
That gives you more time to adjust plans than you’d typically get with weather-related disruptions, which tend to trigger last-minute cancellations.
🆘 My flight was canceled.…

Flight canceled amid jet fuel shock? What travelers should know
Airlines around the world are canceling flights as the war in the Middle East squeezes global jet fuel supplies and pushes up prices. But experts say the real challenge for travelers goes beyond the disruptions. Passenger rights vary widely depending on where you fly. The European Union and United Kingdom have some of the strongest protections for air travelers. The U.S. and Canada have consumer protection rules in place, but they tend to be more limited. Across the Asia-Pacific region, protect…

Viktor Orbšn told Putin ‘I am at your service’ in October phone call | Viktor Orbšn | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/07/viktor-orban-told-putin-i-am-at-your-service-in-october-phonecall

So my code seems to be working. Each night (in theory, while I am sleeping) a script will run pulling all the bookmarks from my local instance of Linkding and dropping them into a SQLite database...
And then another script runs to post a link here with a "bookmarks" hashtag.
There are some (potential) issues. Since I am posting one per day starting about last October, I may run out at some point, if I don't keep adding more bookmarks...

Intel stock closes up 23.6%, its best performance since October 1987, as Intel shows signs of renewed growth amid the AI boom; the stock is up 124% YTD (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/intel-stock-soars-more-than-20perce…

Intel's stock soars more than 20% as chipmaker shows signs of a turnaround
Shares of Intel have more than doubled this year on optimism that backing from the government will help the company's position in AI.

#EECONF is coming to Toronto!
Two Days. One Community. Real-World Insight.
October 7-8, 2026
Secure your spot with an Extra Early Bird (EE-Bird) Ticket.
On sale now, and just like the best seats in the house, they won't last long.
!! Ya Toronto !!
htt…

EECONF 2026
Join us in Toronto this October 7-8, 2026 for EECONF — great sessions, great community, and Canada’s beautiful capital city 😉. Buy your tickets today!

News story on a significant earthquake in Uzbekistan, 50 years ago, May 17, 1976 (Fargo-Moorhead Forum archives). Mentions the Medvedev scale, apparently now the the MSK or MSK-64 scale. That scale is not mentioned in North American, physical geology textbooks I have seen, although it's apparently similar to the Mercalli scale.
Also, the first page of a scientific paper on it, from 1980. ⚒️🧪
#OTD

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Tony Bontana:
🎵 October Fallacy
#TonyBontana
https://tonybontana.bandcamp.com/track/october-fallacy
https://open.spotify.com/track/0BPwMgKjZGnjmYfNgYF2dS

I bought those very same memory sticks for €130 in October 2024. Now they are being sold for €510. The motherboard that I ordered alongside this RAM cost €212, the same motherboard now being sold for €174.
One other thing that annoys me to no end is that AMD recently worked with Sony to bring FSR 4.1 INT8 to PlayStation, but also AMD won't even acknowledge the existence of FSR 4.0.2 INT8, let alone deliver it officially, for PC GPUs that they released 2-3 years ago.

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.

Nvidia stock jumps 4.3% to close at a record for the first time since Oct., pushing Nvidia's market cap past $5T, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/nvidia-stock-closes-at-…

Nvidia stock closes at record, pushing market cap past $5 trillion
Nvidia's stock closed at its first record since October, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher.

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

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

Channel 4 Chief Content Officer Ian Katz plans to step down in October after nearly nine years, making him Channel 4's longest-serving programming head (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr/16/ian-katz-leave-role-c…

Western Gull preening its feathers. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 40-150mm F4. #moonstonebeach #seagull #bird

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV6Us8pMwpy/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Yuval Noah Harari on Instagram: "The past few decades have been the first time in human history that states have consistently spent more on their citizens’ health than on war. With the threats to Greenland and Taiwan, and the wars in Ukraine and Iran, are we entering a new imperial era where countries must again focus their resources on weapons? From Building Trust in the Age of Disinformation – What Future Awaits Us? With Prof. Marijana Grbeša in October 2025. Watch the whole thing via link in bio. #YuvalNoahHarari #NewWorldOrder #Iran #Israel #Ukraine"
13K likes, 272 comments - yuval_noah_harari on March 15, 2026: "The past few decades have been the first time in human history that states have consistently spent more on their citizens’ health than on war. With the threats to Greenland and Taiwan, and the wars in Ukraine and Iran, are we entering a new imperial era where countries must again focus their resources on weapons? From Building Trust in the Age of Disinformation – What Future Awaits Us? With Prof. Marijana Grbeša in October 20…

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

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)

En Route To Fellaria
(This is just a tiny fragment, but it was one of the most memorable days and places I had a chance to visit in 2025... Surreal not just because of the many colors and textures at this time of year [late September], but also the vastness and traces of processes so much larger & older than life...)
#MountainMonday

#Israel will elect a new government on 27th October 2026.
These days we tend to ascribe the #Holocaust to 'the Nazis', not 'the Germans'; and that's reasonable because not all Germans supported the Nazis -- despite the fact that

Analysis: global Chartbeat clients' traffic from Twitter/X has fallen 70% since Elon Musk's October 2022 acquisition; Facebook traffic has also declined sharply (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/social-t

Social traffic kinda stinks for news publishers now, in 3 charts
Globally, Chartbeat clients' traffic from Twitter has fallen by 70% since 2022, when Elon Musk acquired the platform.

Tithonia flower. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #laarboretum #flower #tithonia

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

Juvenile male elephant seal demanding attention — and being ignored. San Simeon Elephant Seal Viewpoint, San Simeon, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14. #sansimeon #elephantseals

Sources: Polymarket is in talks to raise $400M at a ~$15B post-money valuation, up from $9B in October 2025, but below Kalshi's $22B valuation from March 2026 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/polymarket-talks-raise-money-…

Polymarket in Talks to Raise Money at About $15 Billion Valuation
The predictions site Polymarket is talking to investors about raising $400 million in funding at a valuation of about $15 billion including the new money, according to two people familiar with the talks. The financing would add to the $600 million already invested in the funding round by ...

Maryland passed a bill directing half of the state government's ad money to local news outlets, with a few exceptions; it is slated to take effect October 1 (Rebuild Local News)
https://www.rebuildlocalnews.org/maryland-

Maryland Legislature Passes the Nation’s First State Advertising Set-Aside for Local Newsrooms
The legislation, backed by bipartisan support, will require state agencies to direct 50 percent of their advertising budgets to eligible local news outlets and mandate public reporting of their ad spending.

Scratching an itch. Western Gull. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 #moonstonebeach #cambria #seagull

Sources: Kraken has paused its IPO plans, amid the downturn in crypto markets since October, and may revisit a listing when market conditions improve (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/03/

Payward, parent of crypto exchange Kraken, has put its IPO plans on hold
Kraken's parent company filed a draft S-1 registration statement with the SEC in November regarding the proposed initial public offering of its common stock.

The California Values Act (SB 54) ensures that no state and local resources are used to assist federal immigration enforcement and that our schools, our hospitals, and our courthouses are safe spaces for everyone in our community.
SB 54 was signed into law on October 5, 2017 and went into effect January 1, 2018.
POLICE AND SHERIFFS:
Cannot ask about your immigration status.
Cannot arrest you only for having a deportation order or for most other immigration violations.

California Values Act (SB 54) - ACLU of Socal
The California Values Act (SB 54) ensures that no state and local resources are used to assist federal immigration enforcement and that our schools, our hospitals, and our courthouses are safe spaces for everyone in our community. SB 54 was signed into law on October 5, 2017 and went into effect January 1, 2018. POLICE […]

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

Elephant Seals having a conversation. San Simeon Elephant Seal Vista, San Simeon, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14. #sansimeon #elephantseal #animal

Source: Fal, a GenAI model hosting service, is in talks to raise $300M to $350M at an $8B valuation; annualized revenue has hit $400M, up from $200M in October (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/video-hosti…

Video Hosting Startup Fal in Funding Talks at $8 Billion Valuation
Fal, a fast-growing cloud service for accessing and storing AI models that generate images, video, and audio, is in talks to raise $300 million to $350 million, according to a person with direct knowledge of the fundraise. The deal, which would nearly double the company’s paper valuation to ...

Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko has ordered a combat readiness inspection of the country's armed forces,
the Belarusian Defense Ministry announced on October 11.
The move comes amid growing concern in Europe over suspected Russian sabotage operations
and repeated violations of NATO airspace by unidentified drones.
The Belarusian military is implementing a "set of measures" to bring select units to their "highest level of combat readiness&qu…

Belarus launches military readiness check as security concerns grow
The Belarusian military is implementing a "set of measures" to bring select units to their "highest level of combat readiness" under Alexander Lukashenko's direct orders.

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

Democratic Representative Dan Goldman revealed an unredacted file from the government’s Jeffrey Epstein files on the House floor Wednesday,
saying that it directly contradicts Donald Trump’s account of his relationship with the billionaire sex offender.
The document is an October 2009 email containing information about a conversation between one of Epstein’s attorneys, Jack Goldberger, and an attorney for Trump, Alan Garten.
The email was initially released to the public in…

Democrat Reveals Epstein File That Blows Huge Hole in Trump’s Story
Democratic Representative Dan Goldman shared a previously redacted email that contradicts Trump’s story on how he stopped being friends with the sexual predator.

The FCC grants Netgear a conditional approval to import its future consumer routers, cable modems, and cable gateways into the US through October 1, 2027 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/911888/netgear-router-ban-conditional-approval

The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason
Netgear is the first consumer router manufacturer granted conditional approval to avoid the US foreign router ban, though it has not committed to US manufacturing.

Mexican cactus fly resting on a sunflower. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. October, 2025. OM system OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #laarboretum #sunflower #insect

RE: https://mstdn.social/@edwilk/116240730611722085
Roy Book Binder,
(October 5, 1943 – March 3, 2026)
was an American blues guitarist,
singer-songwriter and storyteller.
A student and friend of the Reverend Gary Davis, he was equally at…

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

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

An Afghan man who fought with U.S. forces and was legally evacuated to the U.S. after the fall of Kabul
died this week within a day of being arrested by federal immigration officers in Texas, according to his family.
The reported death would be at least the 24th in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody this fiscal year, which began in October.
The administration is on track for the deadliest year in ICE detention in more than two decades.

Afghan who fought with US special forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for deadliest year of detention in more than two decades
Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal served with U.S. forces in Afghanistan and legally evacuated the country, then died within a day of being taken into ICE custody, according to his family

Western Gull, looking out at the Pacific Ocean. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California,USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 PRO MC14 #moonstonebeach #cambriacalifornia #seagull

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

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

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

After spending nearly half her life in the United States,
41-year-old Brazilian Amanda Ungaro was deported from the country last October.
She endured three hellish months in a detention center until she was expelled,
like more than 600,000 immigrants since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025 and set out to carry out “the largest deportation in history.”
What is unusual in the case of this former model who worked at the United Nations is that,

Amanda Ungaro: From sharing soirées with the Trumps to being deported by ICE
The former Brazilian model and ex-ambassador to the United Nations speaks in an interview about her expulsion from the United States, which she attributes to maneuvers by her former partner, and about a flight on Epstein’s plane

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

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

Swedish legal AI startup Legora raised a $550M Series D led by Accel, tripling its valuation to $5.55B since its October 2025 raise, as it expands in the US (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-1…

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

It's the deadliest year for those in immigration detention in more than two decades.
More people have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since October — 23 — than died in the whole prior fiscal year.
The most recent death was of a 56-year-old Haitian man held at an immigration detention center in Arizona. He died in a hospital after going into septic shock.
The increase in deaths comes as nearly 70,000 people are in ICE detention, the highest number in sev…

Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-challenges-uk-med…

Critics wonder if this is America’s “Suez moment,”
when a leading power signals the start of its international decline.
The Suez crisis took place in October 1956, when Britain, France and Israel attacked Egypt to force open the Suez Canal.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, with an election days away, ordered them to stop.
Prime Minister Anthony Eden of Britain resigned.
President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt became a hero of anti-colonialism.
Suez became …

A Cease-Fire for Now in Iran, but a Blow to American Credibility
Critics wonder if this is America’s “Suez moment,” when a leading power signals the start of its international decline.

Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras could raise ~$2B in its IPO as soon as April; it withdrew its previous IPO registration in October, nearly a year after filing (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/ai-c…

Sources: Kalshi and Polymarket are each eyeing valuations of ~$20B in fundraising talks; Kalshi was valued at $11B in December and Polymarket at $9B in October (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/kalshi-a…

A look at SpaceX's IPO, reportedly aiming to raise up to $50B at a $1.75T valuation, more than seven times higher than its ~$200B valuation in October 2024 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5bf1fe0c-1593-49b7-aaf1-18e7da9b36ed

SpaceX: the final frontier of IPOs
Can Elon Musk’s moonshot deliver the mooted $1.75tn valuation?

China's Hang Seng Tech Index, which includes Chinese tech giants like Tencent and Alibaba, is down 28% since October 2025, shedding nearly $600B in market value (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-…