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In an interview, Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson says the number of subscribers the outlet gets from Google traffic has grown even as referral traffic has fallen (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
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Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson interview on OpenAI, his own videos
Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson talks about his OpenAI deal, his billionaire owner, and why he makes his own videos

Patriots Week 5 Inactives vs. Raiders: Secondary Taking Hit after Hit https://www.si.com/nfl/patriots/onsi/patriots-week-5-inactives-vs-raiders-secondary-taking-hit-after-hit

I’m standing atop a very tall ladder, peering down through a haze of liquid nitrogen vapour into a giant stainless steel flask containing three smaller containers.
Inside the smaller wedges
– which are labelled 005, 006, 007
– are three of Peter Tsolakides’ “patients”.
The frozen bodies belong to people who, before their death, paid handsomely to be cryogenically frozen in the hope of one day being brought back to life.
The ladder is inside a normal-looking shed…

‘Patients’ who pay $200,000 to be frozen after death are waiting to be reborn in an Australian shed
Exclusive: Southern Cryonics operates out of a shed in Holbrook in rural NSW. Experts say reanimation is ‘a dream’ but true believers pay $200,000 for a second chance at life

FFS
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/10/harry-potter-fans-force-relocation-of-430m-undersea-cable-to-avoid-dobbys-grave

Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’
Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

Where #optogenetics is closest to patients: "blind people with retinitis pigmentosa" https://insidebci.com/news/2026-10-07-

Nobel laureate Karl Deisseroth says light-based brain-computer interfaces will take a little time to build
Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute shares the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, announced on 5 October, with Peter Hegemann of Humboldt University of Berlin and Georg Nagel of the University of Würzburg for discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, the method of making chosen nerve cells switch on or off in response to light. Asked what the work means for neurotechnology devices, Deisseroth said brain-computer interf…

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- Political Sociology,
- Economic Sociology/Stratification,
- Medical Sociology, or
- Technology and Society.
Assistant professor level (tenure track); deadline Oct 9.
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Gente, pergunda tola: Pra poder integrar meus @… aqui no Mastodon com o Pixelfed eu teria que trocar de instância? Parece que o Mastodon.world não estš integrado.

Vandaag hadden we Pieter de bomenman in de tuin rondlopen en zijn ding doen. Toen heeft huisgenoot H vanwege de mogelijk vallende takken, de leen-Inster even om de hoek geparkeerd en later weer teruggezet. Ze is inmiddels al meer dan een dag morfineloos en gelukkig ook vrijwel pijnloos, dus ze vond dat dat wel mocht. Ik was beide keren mee. Twee ritten van 75 meter. Fijn autootje.

Over 120 journalists at Business Insider and Politico signed on to a letter protesting parent company Axel Springer's decision to honor Peter Thiel on Thursday (A.J. Katz/The Wrap)
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Business Insider, Politico Staffers Protest Over Peter Thiel Award
More than 120 Business Insider and Politico journalists are protesting Axel Springer’s decision to honor billionaire Peter Thiel.

At least 57 people have died trying to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta
after as many as 50,000 migrants entered the tiny territory from Morocco
in what Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sšnchez, called “a violation of Spain’s territorial integrity”.
The huge influx,
which took place over the course of just 24 hours,
overwhelmed the city of 85,000 people,
triggered a political crisis for Madrid
and led to a mixed reaction from other EU countries,

At least 57 people die as tens of thousands cross to Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco
Pedro Sánchez decries ‘violation of territorial integrity’ as other EU countries criticise Madrid over incident