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IRA woman who picked her injured boyfriend’s gun to shoot back at UK soldiers. She’ll die soon after.

Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’ Large language models fed low-quality data skip steps in their reasoning process.

Garbage in, garbage out.

No women, no safety

Women on bikes are the indicator species of a city’s cycling health.

If you don’t see many of us, it’s not about lack of interest — it’s about safety.

Day 13 of the #carfreechallenge2025

#yegbike

@bikeology.bsky.social

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

Assuming a pastry and a coffee actually costs $15 rather than $5, and you get one every day instead of every week, it'll take about 20 years to save up that $100,000 down payment.

Only problem? In ~20 years, that will presumably cost more than 100k...

Charging a fatal DUI as murder in California often happens when the defendant has a prior DUI. Alcantar's other defense attorney, Dan Greene, called it "less common" to charge someone with murder in a DUI-crash case when the defendant does not have priors.

"There's very little that separates this case, charged as a murder case, from the thousands of other cases that happen each year where good, ordinary, law-abiding people get a DUI," he said. "It's important to know that this collision did not happen on the shoulder of the road or into a building; the collision occurred on a highway where people - sober or otherwise - expect to be able to drive without impediment." Dan Greene also said the reason that possible charges connected to the second death had not been filed against his client as of Thursday was because the cause and factors leading to Morris' death had not yet been fully determined.

“Killing someone with a car isn’t that bad” vs “killing someone with a car isn’t that bad unless it’s a cop.” One of the great unresolved questions in the American legal system.

Not the kind of action you’d want to see in the nation’s largest payroll providers:

$ADP $PAYX

One reliable takeaway from any tour of the Naval Academy is that every sailor is an engineer. So the rear admiral in charge of the Office of Naval Research is, almost by definition, one of the nation's greatest engineers. Was, I guess.

Of the many very obvious knockon effects of people's food budgets suddenly vanishing is that they need to pull money from other parts of their budget if they want to stay alive.

They will first try to make up the difference from the least essential expenses.

Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.

"Senior Trump-administration political appointees—at least six by our count—[are] living in Washington-area military housing, where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from protest. It is an ominous marker of the nation’s polarization..."
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Outside Chicago, a father of seven was too embarrassed to tell his family last Christmas that they might lose their home to foreclosure. A debt collector was demanding he pay almost $30,000 to settle a $10,000 second mortgage he said he hadn’t heard about in 15 years. Another homeowner, near San Francisco, faced foreclosure this year over a $121,000 second mortgage — even though he’d received a tax document from his lender in 2009 showing the debt had been canceled. And in suburban Washington, DC, a couple got a demand for more than $86,000 in back interest on a loan for which they hadn’t received any monthly statements in nearly a decade, despite laws that preclude any such interest charges during periods when regular statements weren’t sent.

This is a tangible example of how regulatory agencies matter to people in practical ways. The CFPB had been investigating and blocking these abuses of the law, until Russ Vought and Trump stopped them from doing so.

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hoa hoa decoded

“Why has virtually every country in the world seen an abrupt rise in extremist politics, especially on the far-right, starting at approximately the same date the iPhone was released”

The most important question in politics but maybe not a hard one

Yiddish, English and transliterated English phrasebook for new immigrants. Phrases include "my trade is cloak-making", "what are the dues?" "The fee is very small" and "union is power".

I've always loved this little phrasebook for new (Jewish) immigrants to New York. It's got Yiddish instructions on joining a union! (The right-most column is English transliterated into Yiddish).

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

The existence of this photograph (which is a real photo of a real person at a Mamdani campaign event) is enough to establish for me that voters writ large have absolutely no grasp of what policy is or how any given policy impacts their lives. It's all vibes.

there are very few things that are genuinely a litmus test for intelligence, but getting mad at hearing other languages is on the very short list

What did Lachlan Murdoch dad do for a living?

CNBC: “[Meta’s] Reality Labs division has now recorded over $70 billion in cumulative losses since late 2020, underscoring the high costs of building VR, AR and other consumer hardware.”

$META down 7.18% after hours.

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

All phone hold music and messages are designed to piss you off so that you'll hang up. Every company that has hold music uses it for that reason.

Federal judges using AI filed court orders with false quotes, fake names The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee blasted the two federal judges for the erroneous filings and called for new regulations on AI use in federal courts.

Two federal judges admitted that their offices used artificial intelligence to draft factually inaccurate court documents that included fake quotes and fictional litigants, prompting a call for new regulations on AI use in federal courts.

This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 10/30/2025 and available online at https://federalregister.gov/d/2025-19702, and on https://govinfo.gov DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: Removal of the Automatic Extension of Employment Authorization Documents AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). ACTION: Interim final rule (“IFR”) with request for comments. ______________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY: This IFR amends DHS regulations to end the practice of automatically extending the validity of employment authorization documents (Forms I-766 or EADs) for aliens who have timely filed an application to renew their EAD in certain employment authorization categories. The purpose of this change is to prioritize the proper vetting and screening of aliens before granting a new period of employment authorization and/or a new EAD. This IFR does not impact the validity of EADs that were automatically extended prior to [INSERT DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER] or which are otherwise automatically extended by law or Federal Register notice.

NEW: The Trump admin just ended the practice of automatically extending work permits when people file to renew them — meaning that if USCIS takes too long to process a renewal the applicant loses their authorization to work legally.

The interim final rule applies to renewals filed after tomorrow.

Early humans were online an hour, maybe two hours, per day

@zohrankmamdani is a deeply thoughtful human being and we think he would make the best NYC mayor imaginable. We feel this as New Yorkers, as Jews and as human beings who are desperate for kindness, compassion and empathy to be represented in our politics.

GET OUT THE VOTE here bit.ly/4nxYXFp

Lights are on but nobody is home.
We have a broken Roomba for President.

"Kids dressed in halloween costumes walking to a parade" do not present an immediate threat to law enforcement officer and riot control measures may not be used, Ellis says.

this is *before* the holiday pain starts settling in next month

A woman from the FDA’s Center for Devices & Radiological Health explains how her entire department was gutted

That means there’s no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled

If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken

This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives

The precious metals bubble is clearly bursting. The catalyst for this was the IMF/WB meetings 2 weeks ago, as I flagged in my post during the meetings. This is Dollar positive, because - underneath all this - people are going back to US exceptionalism...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/is-this-th...