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As people were now living well into their 80s and 90s,
financiers began to think of elderly people as recession-proof investments,
and assumed that the care home market in Britain and the US would keep growing.
In the UK, many of these homes were bankrolled by local authorities,
which guaranteed a steady income from the government.
Elderly people who paid for their care out of their own pockets typically covered the cost by selling their houses,
and the c…

The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs
When did care homes come to be seen as recession-proof investments? And who pays the price?

People with lung cancer have more microplastics in their lungs https://www.earth.com/environment/people-with-lung-cancer-have-more-microplastics-in-their-lungs/

People with lung cancer have more microplastics in their lungs
Researchers found tiny plastic particles lodged in human lungs, with a heavier burden among people diagnosed with lung cancer.

Online panels and better image editing have brought down their cost in recent decades. Since the 1990s, around twenty properly sampled visual preference surveys have been run on popular architectural preferences.
https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/do-people-prefe…

“Why just destroy them when we can reverse engineer them and find the secrets of those spying on us?” one of the hackers, from a collective calling itself stegan0gram, said in an interview. “We liberated hardware in the field, disarmed them, and proceeded with reverse engineering of the cameras and associated solar equipment.”

Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

I’m sorry, what’s an “extremist official” in a government commiting genocide? Do we categorise people who commit genocide as extremist and non-extremist now? Do the extremist ones commit extremely more genocide? @…

Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People https://www.404media.co/hackers-stole-flocks-camera-software-revealing-how-the-company-tracks-cars-and-people-2/

This is incredibly important.
Computers (writ large) have historically been tools that help humans solve problems which do not intrinsically demand computers but need complex computation (possibly including text transformation!) which humans cannot do as well or as fast.
The fact that we have grown a subculture of people who only really know computers has led to the situation where “computer-people” disregard other issues & the concerns of everyone else.

Extreme weather is deadlier than many people realize #environment

Extreme weather is deadlier than many people realize
Many Americans underestimate the health risks of extreme weather, including flooding, wildfire smoke, drought, and extreme temperatures.

@…, isn't creating extrinsic motivation the whole raison d'être of the management class? Intrinsically motivated people need no management. So managers are enormously motivated to prevent people from developing intrinsic motivation, because when their workers do, they're redundant.
Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast: Design for the Ineffable: Cr…

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Elon Musk, not content with killing 14 million people by trashing USAID, is now playing games with Starlink in Ukraine that is getting more people killed.
All so he can make even more trillions.
I…

Not sure when it's going to hit me that my little city that was so quiet 10 years ago is now bursting at the seams with people.
Every 3-6 months, traffic just gets exponentially worse and I'm constantly surprised by it.
This morning every on-ramp and off-ramp were jammed. People couldn't get on the interstate or off it. It caused this crazy circus of people swerving from each other.
The irony is that I'm trying my hardest to GTFO of here while everyone is po…

Did you know lymphoma is the most common cancer in young people aged 15-24? Let's raise the profile this #BloodCancerAwarenessMonth #LetsTalkLymphoma #WLAD2026

"Over half of people are unaware of the environmental effects of sunscreen"
#Suncream #Environment
https://

Over half of people are unaware of the environmental effects of sunscreen
This summer, millions of people across the country have been digging out sunscreen to protect themselves from a record-breaking series of heat waves.

British youth groups have warned the Prime Minister the plans for social media age gates could lead young people to less regulated parts of the internet.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/prime-minister-burnham-uk-government-scotlan…

Young people call on Burnham to rethink social media ban
Youth groups have warned the Prime Minister the plans could lead young people to less regulated parts of the internet.

We crashed Carney’s CEO Summit
On Monday, the 350 community joined with local and national organizations and thousands of people to crash Carney’s CEO summit, in a powerful, cross-movement show of opposition to the billionaire agenda.
https://350.org/canada/ceo-summit?…

We crashed Carney’s CEO Summit
On Monday, the 350 community joined with local and national organizations and thousands of people to crash Carney’s CEO summit, in a powerful, cross-movement show of opposition to the billionaire agenda.

I read William Golding’s The Spire, a hardcover borrowed from the grad library’s third floor stacks. It’s a Serious Book by a Serious Author. When I read it 25 years ago, I followed the story but got many of the characters confused, missed most of the carnal and spiritual undertones, and was blind to grand metaphors woven across chapters where people and things reverse roles and act like things and people. And that’s just part of it! 1/3

“Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.”
– Ms. Rachel (source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DdR1LH3gYBP/

Ms Rachel on Instagram: "If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children’s lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."
1M likes, 11K comments - msrachelforlittles on September 14, 2026: "If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children’s lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral.".

Currently visiting my sister in a city close to the US airbase Ramstein. The airbase controlling most of the drones in their wars in the middle east.
I give the highest of disrespect to every American accent English speaking man on the festival we're on. I can't believe they can just commit their war crimes and then go to a party like normal people. I also don't understand why we still respect them.

Vision restoration to people with long-term blindness using the brain-computer interface technology: A sociotechnical research framework to improve usefulness for users #BCI

Vision Restoration to People with Long-Term Blindness Using the Brain- | PPA | Dove Medical Press
employ a sociotechnical approach to discuss aspects that influence the usefulness of the vision restoration to people with long-term blindness

12,500 people in Germany alone died due to the heat so far this summer.
#heatwave #heat #climatechange

Review of Meta's Muse: a pretty killer AI assistant and usage rates on the free plan seem generous, but trusting Meta with personal data will take some time (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/metas-amusing-muse/

Meta's Amusing Muse
They shipped a pretty killer AI assistant, can they keep people using it?

I get so sick of people saying “we need more police” when these are the police we get:
“Milwaukee Police Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown shot and killed 23-year-old Sylville Smith. Heaggan-Brown was acquitted of Smith’s killing but was later sentenced to prison on unrelated sex crimes charges.”

Machine vision people: suppose I have a PCB consisting entirely of SMT chip components (i.e. nothing tall on it, every solder joint in plain view) that is going through an oven reflow cycle and being video recorded as it heats up.
Assuming a sufficiently good lighting and camera setup, how hard would it be to automatically determine the frame/timestamp that each solder joint melts?

AI text watermarking is not a big deal
People are pretty unhappy about Anthropic’s recent announcement that they’re planning to include a hidden watermark in Claude model outputs. Will this lead to a mass exodus from Anthropic models? Will the introduction of watermarking be a meaningful change for users?
🫆 https://www.

AI text watermarking is not a big deal

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

How we defeat Ken Paxton:
JAMES TALARICO
James is an eighth-generation Texan, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian.
As a state representative, he’s led the fight against the billionaire mega-donors and puppet politicians who have taken over Texas.
Now, he’s running for U.S. Senate to take his fight against corruption to Washington and win power back for working people.

Join our fight to take power back for working people.
James Talarico is running for the U.S. Senate in Texas to take his fight against corruption to Washington and win power back for working people.

Funny to see this article from 2024 getting some traffic today. There's supposed to be a solar eclipse, and as I wrote, you can expect a particular search query to trend because us humans are predictable in our stupidity.
https://coywolf.com/news/seo/people-se

People searching ‘eyes hurt after eclipse’ spike after solar eclipse
Google searches for "eyes hurt after eclipse" spiked after the April 8, 2024 solar eclipse, driven by fake glasses, eye strain, and unprotected viewing.

visions of people critical of the dying unknown to them

IDK what people are protesting again where you live
But where I do they protest against collective transports.

"The bad reputation UNIX has gotten is totally undeserved, laid on by people
who don't understand, who have not gotten in there and tried anything."
-- Jim Joyce, former computer science lecturer at the University of California

crikey people. I know I _used_ to be a BSD and Mac sysadmin, back when I was saving up the money to turn into an academic, and learned how to use TeX in four Himalayan languages, and eventually became a real professor, and then not, and dumped Macs, and then became a gov't anthropologist, and I'm cleaning the Linux stains off everything now. So I kept the habit of running my own servers and all that, though with attitudes that are about 30 years out of date, and I would much rather l…

Das Konzept dieser Seite ist so einfach wie bestechend: man sucht nach einem bestimmten Wort und wird dann auf die Timestamps entsprechender (wohl irgendwie vorgefilterter) Youtube-Videos verwiesen. So bekommt man schnell authentische Beispiele für die #Aussprache: https://

This is obviously (to put it extremely mildly) a very disappointing event. However, it is NOT at all surprising. AI companies, and their leaders, have shown us time and time again that they are willing to do whatever it takes to further their own interests and desires. This is obviously much bigger than the mathematical community. The number of communities ruined and people displaced by the construction of data centers, the environmental tolls caused as a result of huge energy ex…

RE: #a11y #accessibility

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We've been out #hiking today. Luckily it wasn't that warm as the sky was covered in clouds - at least sometimes. But to be honest we were surprised that we met just a few people.
But the drought is undeniable. Usually the grass should be quite green.
Anyways. We had a 4h loop and saw a lot of blackberries and even Belladonna. Not a lot of motives around - or maybe it was too w…

Our coding agent commits deserve better than Co-Authored-By
https://fabiorehm.com/blog/2026/03/02/our-coding-agent-commits-deserve-better-than-co-authored-by/

The irony isn't lost on me that the company that laid me off in March has past due invoices where I work now and I get to send them collections notices like I just did. Maybe they shouldn't have laid off so many people so they'd have them around to deal with past due invoices. I wonder if one of their new 'AI' solutions will be able to help with that. 😂

Workin' For The Man.
Interviewing people who do everyday jobs and probing them about what they love and don't love about employment, it is hoped that this podcast will make your work-life easier, and support you to survive your remaining years of wage-slave existence...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.…

A survey finds 53% of Americans support limits to prevent inaccurate reporting, 72% of Democrats say the press is less free under Trump vs. 15% of Republicans (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2026/09/15/ame…

Americans Value Press Freedom but Differ on Its Limits
Many people in the U.S. say some press freedom restrictions are OK when weighed against concerns about false information or national security.

"While much of the automatic license plate reader’s most sensitive storage remained encrypted and inaccessible, the joint analysis of the recovered data shows that software running on the device explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, license plates, and bicycles."
I hope this will put to rest the canard that if you don't drive/are anti-car, you shouldn't be worried about Flock.

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@OhforFarkssake/117097161219411646
it boggles my mind that he wouldn't at least do some good OUT OF PURE SELFISH SELF-PRESERVATION.
If you knew how many people literally hated your guts, wouldn't you at least *try* to ap…

It's wild the security the university deploys to prevent outsiders from accessing published materials, whether in the form of guards and gates at the library or multi-factor authentication for online resources. How do you say "keeping ideas in and people out" in Latin?

Because what's the point?

Russia’s intelligence services are plotting to carry out
targeted killings in the United States and in European nations supporting Ukraine,
federal authorities said Tuesday as they announced charges against five people who remain at large.
An indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court said a network of the intelligence services had
paid and attempted to pay individuals in the United States and in other countries
to surveil targets to be killed with plans to …

Russia plotting to kill Ukraine allies in US and Europe, FBI says
Intelligence services allegedly attempted to pay people to surveil and kill people perceived to be aligned with Ukraine

Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party https://www.404media.co/meta-patents-ai-glasses-to-use-facial-recognition-to-identify-people-make-…

"Two more people arrested over ‘mountain of illegal waste’ dumped in Oxfordshire"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

Two more people arrested over ‘mountain of illegal waste’ dumped in Oxfordshire
A total of six people apprehended as clean-up of rubbish stacked 10 metres high cost about £6m

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On Judge Brittany Rodriquez’s docket was a 49-year-old Cuban man who had his hearing moved up by an entire year, out of the blue;
a six-year-old Mexican girl and a three-year-old Cuban boy who may have been appearing in court alone – it was not clear;
a 22-year-old Venezuelan woman and her two-year-old son;
and dozens of other people whose fates in the United States rested on her decisions.
Rodriquez had been on the bench for only about a month, appointed after a care…

US immigration judges are deporting people in mass hearings – some without notice
Inside ‘mega master’ calendar hearings, the new tactic of scheduling hearings on short notice and deporting the people who don’t show up

President Trump expresses support for Flock "because of law enforcement", while acknowledging some people consider the surveillance technology "an infringement" (Aoife Walsh/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technol…

Trump says he likes Flock license-plate cameras amid growing backlash
The president, while acknowledging some people consider the surveillance technology “an infringement,” said he supports it “because of law enforcement.”

Dear friends
You know I've been writing a lot lately about people in #Gaza whose verified accounts have been suspended in the crackdown on #Palestinian accounts on mastodon.social.
Nourhan is someone I've been corresponding with for some time; she's an academic, a very dignified…

I wanna be the sincere equivalent to one of those people who die, come back just fine, and go on some tabloid podcasts saying some pseud bullshit about what they saw

GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY (#7): November 23, 1915
Pancake make-up is invented; most people continue to prefer syrup.

The prodigal RTSA returns!
This was sent to me several years ago as a ngscopeclient demo/dev unit and I was too busy to bring it up fully. I sent it to some folks at another company who also ended up not getting anywhere, and after a year or two of people on both sides forgetting it finally got shipped back to me.
Time to get the latest version of the vendor software spun up again and see how well it runs.

Your daily reminder to not use block lists from anonymous* ban-evading trolls whose dozens of sock-puppet accounts have been suspended on servers across the fediverse and whose blocklists include me as well as every verified Palestinian from Gaza on Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org)
Block this sorry ex…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Never Too Late Club
Explores how people build extraordinary lives - the choices they make, the risks they take and the moments that change everything...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/never-too-late-club/

Six people share their real experiences of symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, active monitoring, and life beyond lymphoma #LetsTalkLymphoma this #BloodCancerAwarenessMonth #WLAD2026

If I ran a Canadian duty free, I'd sell carry-on-sized suitcases containing a single pouch of the same size full of maple syrup. When travellers got wherever they're going, they'd just pop the suitcase up on the counter, open the spigot, and fill up bottles as gifts for all the special people in their lives. Once empty, they'd have a new suitcase to boot

A look at companies like Inception Point creating AI personas for media, fashion, film, and music industries that could host podcasts, model clothes, and more (Reggie Ugwu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/arts/ai…

So You Want to Build an A.I. Star?
Designers at a new crop of creative studios create fake personas they hope real people will love. Are they distorting culture or mirroring it?

For over 40 years Scottish man Andrew Whitley has been on a mission to change the way our bread is made.
He says the spongy white stuff that dominates supermarket bread aisles, 
originally developed to fuel hungry mill and factory workers through the Industrial Revolution, 
just isn't nutritious or healthy.
So to fight back he co-founded Bread Matters,
and more recently Scotland The Bread, a collaborative project to grow better grain and bake better bread with…

Andrew Whitley: Flour to the People
For over 40 years Scottish man Andrew Whitley has been on a mission to change the way our bread is made. He says the spongy white stuff that dominates supermarket bread aisles was originally developed to fuel hungry mill and factory workers through the Industrial Revolution just isn't nutritious or healthy. So to fight back he co-founded Bread Matters, and more recently Scotland The Bread, a collaborative project to grow better grain and bake better bread with the common purposes of nourishment…

This Ordinary Abundance site (https://ordinaryabundance.com) is making the rounds so it’s probably a good time to inform you that the people behind it are billionaires and ex-Facebook folks, etc.:

Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

"Berlin mapped 900,000 street trees. Now 12,000 people water them."
#Berlin #Trees #Environment

Berlin mapped 900,000 street trees. Now 12,000 people water them. | The Optimist Daily
Berlin's Gieß den Kiez app tracks 900,000 street trees in real time, and lets 12,000 volunteers coordinate watering; any city can access the open-source code.

RE: https://social.v.st/@th/117309915426878544
I absolutely love threads in which people document their magnificent obsessions.
Here's a thing of beauty!

Under The Cap
Each episode dives into the stories of people who embody the values of surf lifesaving, both on and off the beach...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/under-the-cap/

Climate action does not seem to be a priority for the German government
— despite record temperatures,
heat-related deaths and drought.
Why aren't more people taking to the streets in protest?
https://www.dw.com/en/in-germany-record-he

In Germany, record heat meets climate action fatigue
Climate action does not seem to be a priority for the German government — despite record temperatures, heat-related deaths and drought. Why aren't more people taking to the streets in protest?

Sources: Nvidia in talks to invest up to $3B in SoftBank-backed data center developer SB Energy that aims to IPO soon and is behind a huge OpenAI campus in Ohio (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-talks…

Nvidia in Talks to Invest $3 Billion in SB Energy as Part of OpenAI Data Center Deal
Nvidia is in talks to invest as much as $3 billion in SB Energy, the Softbank Group-backed developer of a massive planned Ohio data center project for OpenAI, according to people familiar with the discussions. The investment is being discussed as part of Nvidia’s negotiations with OpenAI and SB ...

“I knew and expected that some harmful, hurtful things were going to be said,” George Ferrie said.
“I did not think it gets to the point where you've had people harassing my husband or my volunteers.”
Even so, Ferrie’s thrilled to be breaking barriers for nonbinary people in elected office,
and knows that’s part of what appealed to voters in Denton,
a progressive college town about forty miles northwest of Dallas. 
“The reason I stayed in Denton this long i…

Texas’ First Nonbinary City Council Member Wants To Make Denton More Affordable, Equitable and Safe
As a seasoned community organizer, George Ferrie is part of a wave of millennials elected with a mandate for change, and they’ve got a detailed plan for making their city better.

I should probably integrate taking selfies with people I meet as a way to just remember who anyone actually is.

RE: #Gaza are starving now. Each single family honestly needs far more than the total I…

Peyman Talks Australia (PTA)
Australia Immigration Experiences from Iranians/Persian people living in Sydney...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/peyman-talks-australia/

Sources: ByteDance's H1 2026 net profit dropped by a single-digit percentage YoY to $20B and revenue rose ~30% to $120B; its 2025 revenue rose 29% to ~$200B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bytedances-firs…

ByteDance’s First-Half Profit Drops to $20 Billion, Weighed Down by AI Spending
ByteDance’s net profit in the first half of this year declined by a single-digit percentage to $20 billion, as the Chinese tech giant ramped up its investments in AI, according to three people with knowledge of the financial results. The company’s revenue for the period rose around 30% year on ...

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Sources: PayPal, Epic, and others voiced concerns to DOJ as it signaled a preference to settle its Apple antitrust suit with a deal focusing on interoperability (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/appl…

Apple’s Antitrust Settlement Talks Spur Worries Among Developers
As the U.S. Department of Justice negotiates a settlement of its antitrust lawsuit against Apple, app developers are fretting that any deal won’t go far enough in curbing what they see as Apple’s anticompetitive behavior, according to people familiar with the talks. Several developers, including ...

On Friday, August 28, 2026,
people from across the country will gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.,
for the March on Washington: Defend the Vote.
Thousands more will take part from their homes and communities by watching the livestream.
Convened by the National Action Network and the Drum Major Institute
and co-chaired by Reverend Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III, and Arndrea Waters King,
the march will mark the 63rd anniversary of t…

March on Washington: Defend the Vote · People Power United
## March on Washington: Defend the Vote As America marks its 250th anniversary, we face a defining choice: **Will our nation live up to its promise of liberty and justice for all—or allow wealth, prejudice, and power to push us backward?** On **Friday, August 28, 2026**, people from across the country will gather at the **Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.**, for the **March on Washington: Defend the Vote**. Convened by the National Action Network and the Drum Major Institute and co-chaire…

Sources: top DOJ officials halt career prosecutors' Biden-era investigation of Meta over facilitating illegal drug sales and are weighing more lenient options (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and

Meta Platforms Drug Sale Criminal Case Halted by DOJ Leaders (1)
Top Justice Department officials have sidelined career prosecutors’ long-running grand jury investigation of Meta Platforms over facilitating illegal pharmaceutical sales, just after company executives were subpoenaed to testify, two people familiar with the matter said.

Grand Staircase-Escalante’s stunning slot canyons and dramatic vistas make it instantly recognizable.
Bears Ears’ red-rock canyons house culturally significant petroglyphs and ancient dwellings that have endured for centuries.
Right now they are facing unprecedented attacks–again.
Donald Trump just took executive action to virtually eliminate both of these iconic Utah national monuments,
slashing their boundaries by more than 90%.
Vital wildlife habitats,

Homepage | The Wilderness Society
Our Mission: United people to protect our wild places. Our Work: Climate Solutions, Landscape Connectivity, Community Led Conservation Each day thousands of acres of wild places are lost to mining, drilling, logging and other development. But we don't have to give it all away. Together, we can save our wildest lands for future generations.

Trust in both Moscow and Moscow’s proxies has collapsed in Crimea.
People have realized that Russia has abandoned them to their fate.
“There is no unity among Crimeans; it’s every man for himself.
The profiteers are doing quite well
—they’re selling fuel and generators along the highways and jacking up food prices.
So all the slogans about the universal unity of Crimeans are lies
—a piece of propaganda with no basis in reality.
Trust in Aksyonov has b…

"Trust Has Collapsed": Z-Blogger Reports Mass Exodus Of Crimeans From The Peninsula
Disappointment with the occupying “authorities” has reached its limit.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s political action committee dropped a massive
$53.9 million investment into the Texas Senate race, according to a Federal Election Commission filingsubmitted Monday.
The investment from Texas PAC, a committee associated with Thune’s Senate Leadership Fund, divided the media spending push:
Nearly $27 million will be used to support Republican nominee Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general,
while $27 million is set to oppose Democratic …

Join our fight to take power back for working people.
James Talarico is running for the U.S. Senate in Texas to take his fight against corruption to Washington and win power back for working people.

OpenAI lets anyone inject ads into ChatGPT users’ sessions,
targeting specific groups of people based on their email address, phone number, or a unique identifier on their phone,
according to 404 Media’s own tests of ChatGPT’s advertising ecosystem.
While the ad targeting available in ChatGPT is somewhat standard practice across the advertising industry,
the chatbot’s one billion monthly active users may not understand they,
in some cases, are being specifically…

How ChatGPT Targets Ads To You Based On Your Prompts, Phone Number, and Email
Most ChatGPT users probably don’t know you can be specifically targeted on the platform by advertisers based on your email, phone number, or unique phone identifier.

No one, it seems, knows why cyberattackers would target Suisun City,
a sleepy, marsh-front suburb of 29,000 people on the northeast outskirts of the San Francisco Bay Area.
But target it, they did,
with crippling effects.
Whoever they are.
Before sunrise on Aug. 7,
the city’s information technology network was infected by malicious software that hit critical public safety operations,
including police and fire dispatch and critical records, officials …

Small California city baffled by cyberattack that crippled city hall
A severe cyberattack paralyzed Suisun City Hall and emergency dispatch, sparking local suspicion and law enforcement interest in the small California town.

An extremist Israeli lawmaker in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition
publicly advocated for killing
“30 to 40” people in Gaza each night
-- comments that surfaced on Sunday, and were quickly shared by media outlets around the world.
Minister of National Security
Itamar Ben-Gvir made the statement while speaking to a former Gaza-held hostage,
Rom Braslavski, on his podcast.
The pair were discussing Israel's recovery from Hamas’ 7 Octo…

Ben-Gvir calls for nightly killing and mass emigration of Palestinians
In a taped interview, the far-right national security minister also advocated for encouraging the mass emigration of the Gaza Strip, saying he views the territory as entirely Israeli.

Indivisible Santa Barbara
is turning its latest No Kings rally
to be a call for early voting,
hoping Saturday’s turnout will encourage people beyond the crowd
to cast ballots before the November 3 election.
The No Kings Vote Early event will run from noon-2 p.m.,
Saturday, October 17, at Alameda Park,
1400 Santa Barbara Street.
A short rally begins at noon,
and the march leaves at 12:30 p.m.,
headed for De la Guerra Plaza.
Or…

'Vote Early' Rally Gathers on Saturday
Rally on October 17 starts at Alameda Park at noon and ends at De la Guerra Plaza at 2 p.m.

Ukraine’s Vulnerability Grows
as Starlink Is Restricted
and Russia Escalates
A huge attack cut power to
600,000 people in Kyiv,
and a Pentagon-funded
satellite internet program
appeared to be curbed
without warning.
https://www.

Ukraine’s Vulnerability Grows as Starlink Is Restricted and Russia Escalates
A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.

THIS is the part of James Talarico’s campaign I really like.
He’s going into deep-red Texas,
talking directly to people about the shit they’re actually dealing with:
housing, utility bills, cost of living, corruption.
And then he LISTENS.
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.c

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
THIS is the part of James Talarico’s campaign I really like. He’s going into deep-red Texas, talking directly to people about the shit they’re actually dealing with: housing, utility bills, cost of living, corruption. And then he LISTENS.

The federal investigation that prompted the search of
Rep. Ilhan Omar’s D.C. residence on Monday
centers on claims that she or her late father may have lied on decades-old immigration paperwork to secure legal status and eventually U.S. citizenship,
three people familiar with the matter said.

Omar — a Minnesota Democrat who was born in Somalia and fled civil war there with her family before eventually immigrating to the United States in 1995
— has repeatedly rej…

U.S. probe of Rep. Ilhan Omar focuses on birth date, citizenship papers, people familiar say
The Department of Homeland Security declined to move forward with an investigation years ago based on similar allegations, said one person, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss information that has not been made public.

Pennsylvania’s post-conviction issues stem from its failure to invest in or set standards for legal defense for poor people. 

Crushing Caseloads:
Lawyers hired under a flat-fee structure that’s banned in some states fell months or years behind, stranding dozens of clients in prison.

Infinite Extensions:
While prisoners face strict deadlines, their lawyers can typically take all the time they want. Some kept clients waiting as long as a decade

He Waited Nine Years in Prison for His Lawyer to File a Single Brief. In This State, There’s No Rule Against It.
Pennsylvania promises legal help to those who say they were unfairly convicted of crimes. Failed by a troubled system, some incarcerated people are left waiting years for their lawyers to act.

“They assume that my ambition is positional.
They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat.
And my ambition is way bigger than that.
My ambition is to change this country.”
The words were delivered slowly, deliberately and with some steeliness by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Her audience, crammed into the pews of Rockefeller Memorial chapel at the University of Chicago, burst into spontaneous applause.
That was in May. In the three months sin…

Is the US ready for President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
The New York congresswoman’s power is in the spotlight as people wonder if the stars are finally aligning for her to run for US president in 2028

In the spring, the federal government finalized regulations requiring millions of people who receive Medicaid benefits to prove they’re working, volunteering, or going to school to keep their coverage.
States have until January to begin those checks.
Montana, Arkansas, and Nebraska have already started implementing them.
The Trump administration’s federal work requirements exempt certain groups of people:
those with disabilities, those older than 64, pregnant people a…

Medicaid Work Rule Leaves Homeless People in the Cold - KFF Health News
Conservatives who have long pushed for Medicaid work requirements often said vulnerable people would get a pass. But the federal government’s list of exemptions left off homeless people.

Every time I’m told that the economic statistics are good,
that people’s discontent is based more on “vibes” than material reality,
my reaction is the same:
Go out and talk to people.
And don’t just ask them superficial questions (“Are you happy?”)
Get them to tell you about their lives.
I don’t think D even really saw his situation as outrageous or exploitative;
he seemed surprised when I told him that it sounded really fucked up, although he a…

Don’t Tell Me This Is a Functional Country
My conversation with an EMT and what it reveals about American economic life.

California is facing several days of extreme fire-risk weather,
with dry conditions, high temperatures and gusty winds intensifying the risk that a fire quickly gets under control.
Tens of thousands of people woke up in the dark after their electricity was turned off.
Several brushfires stoked by hot, windy weather forced evacuations in southern California
A rapidly spreading blaze in Malibu, west of Los Angeles, prompted evacuation orders and warnings for a large swa…

California brush fires force evacuations and tens of thousands of power shutoffs
Hot, windy weather stokes fires in southern California as utilities shut off power to 150,000 customers as precaution

What seems as dead as the grass in England this year is the summertime ideal
— lazy days, warm nights and escape, however temporary, from classes or parents or work or rules.
During the Summer of ’26, people are grieving that freedom. And perhaps, the versions of ourselves we become when our senses tell us that we are safe

How the promise of carefree 'summertime' is fading in sweaty 2026
Summertime, the dreamy ideal of lazy days, is fading. Extreme heat is setting records worldwide, melting Arctic ice and intensifying wildfires. Japan has even coined a new term for dangerously hot days. This summer, many are grieving the loss of that leisurely state of mind. A new poll shows Americans are increasingly affected by extreme heat in their daily lives. Globally, intense heat is altering behaviors in countries like Brazil, France, and India. Experts warn 2026 could become the hottest…

“Congratulations, you’ve been chosen for secondary screening,” he told her, according to the couple’s recollection.
The man was a federal agent, and after questioning Ms. Bobreneva for about 15 minutes, he led her away in handcuffs to an unmarked vehicle.
https://www.nyti…

Years of Trump Support Came Undone in 15 Minutes in an Airport.
The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.

Let’s talk about the billionaires
— the folks cutting the line while the rest of us pay the bill.
They don’t need another champion in Congress.
I’m not going to the Senate to fight for guys like Elon Musk,
and I don’t believe in tax cuts for the wealthiest people on the planet.
That might not be a popular opinion in Washington, but here in Maine, the vast majority of folks would agree.
Except Susan Collins.
Susan Collins has hardly met a billionaire…

Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate
Troy Jackson is ready to flip Maine's Senate seat and unseat Susan Collins once and for all. He's a fifth-generation logger from Allagash, a lifelong labor champion, and former Maine Senate President, who's proven he can win — by 20 points — in a district carried by both Susan Collins and Donald Trump.

The Trump administration is attempting to strip Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar,
who was born in Somalia,
of her citizenship so as to deport her.
This is more than just another persecution of one of Trump’s political enemies.
Rather, his government is tacitly declaring the citizenship of all foreign-born people provisional,
their Americanness something that can be revoked.
It’s a frontal attack on the idea of constitutional equality.
As Hanna…

Opinion | Trump’s Attempt to Deport Ilhan Omar Is Another Leap Toward the Abyss
This is more than just another persecution of one of the president’s political enemies.

Far out in the Pacific Ocean, Ecuadorean fishermen have been attacked by unidentified “gringos” using drones, survivors say,
spurring a mystery over whether the American military, the armed forces of another country or private military contractors were behind the strikes.
One fishing boat has been lost at sea since January, the U.N. says, with eight people still missing and presumed dead.
The survivors of two other vessels said they came under attack in March by English-spe…

Ecuadorean Fishing Boats Hit by Mystery Attackers
Ecuadorean crews plying the waters of the Pacific have been targeted by a mysterious outfit equipped with drones. Some sailors appear to have lost their lives.

It’s Ilhan Omar. 𝗟𝗲𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗺𝗮.
Trump has talked about having DHS go after me for months now, but this week he made it official.
Federal agents showed up at my doorstep and raided my home. Subpoenas have been issued.
Now, my team is preparing for a long legal battle as we prove to the American people that this investigation is entirely a partisan delusion.
And here’s the thing, I’m not a billionaire like Donald Trump.
We’re expecting to pay immense …

Donate to send Ilhan back to Congress!
Chip in whatever you can to make sure Ilhan can keep fighting for our progressive values in Congress.

A police department in Texas that arrested a local resident for complaining on social media about their city’s contaminated water supply
💥 has been ordered closed after failing to prove it provided any benefit to the community.
State officials stepped in to investigate after Jennifer Combs spent a night in jail in May
after a post appeared on her Facebook page suggesting people were hospitalized by bacteria in the water pipes of Trinidad,
a municipality in Henderson co…

Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply

Senator Bill Cassidy,
the Republican chairman of the US Senate health committee,
blamed the Trump administration’s vaccine-skeptical approach for ‌
recent measles deaths in Pennsylvania
and challenged Donald Trump’s pick for surgeon general to
directly state that vaccines do not cause autism on Wednesday.
Cassidy, a Louisiana physician who chairs the panel,
said three people in Pennsylvania had died of measles,
with a fourth death under review, …

Republican senator blames Trump administration policies for measles deaths in Pennsylvania
Health committee chair Bill Cassidy said fatal outbreak of disease is a ‘terrible legacy’ for Trump administration

Microtransit is a flexible, on-demand, curb-to-curb service
providing trips between any two points in a specified zone for a flat fare.
Riders order a ride on the Transloc app, or by calling MTD’s Customer Service Center.
Much like a rideshare app, the rider will make a ride reservation by selecting their pick-up and drop-off locations within the service zone.
This service is open to the general public, not just seniors and people with disabilities.
Children …