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A: A sustainable business model

Q: What does Google/Alphabet now have that OpenAI and Anthropic don’t?

The first of the active region is now currently appearing over the Sun's eastern limb! Are you ready?

Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

‘What the heck is that?’ Astronomers discover strange new black-hole stars The James Webb Space Telescope has looked back into deep time to find “rubies” or “little red dots” stretched across the universe.

Black hole sun
Won't you come
And wash away the rain?
Black hole sun
Won't you come…

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German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

German study shows how far right sets agenda thanks to mainstream parties reshaping their communications to respond to what are initially fringe issues, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate

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Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

NATO seeks drone defense amid Russian airspace incursions – DW – 10/15/2025 NATO defense ministers are meeting in Brussels after Russian drones and aircraft violated member states' airspace. Meanwhile, the WHO says one of its teams came under attack in Ukraine. DW has more.

NATO seeks drone defense amid Russian airspace incursions

Fifty miles off the Tuscan coast, in a sparkling blue expanse, ancient creatures are roosting beneath the waves. They spend their days feasting on an unlikely source of nourishment: methane, a potent greenhouse gas that leaks out of cracks in the seafloor. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/c...

To juvenile Western bluebirds. One is grabbing the tail of another in flight and the one that's having its tail grabbed looks like it's yelling. The one grabbing the tail looks like it's also stabbing the first one with its beak. The background is edited to create contrast on the image to highlight the scene

BIRD COMBAT SEASON: First time I've ever gotten a still of a bird grabbing another's tail merely to sit in a perch for 40 seconds. Woo! 🪶

I need more foodie friends around here. I want to make pickled cauliflower, and my recipe makes approximately one metric fuckton of pickles. In an ideal world, I’d swap a jar or two with someone else.

This government is a well-oiled machine that’s definitely not suffering from internal power struggles hastily papered over as technical mistakes

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
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Full moon.

Tonight's Harvest Moon, above the Oakland Hills. Emeryville, California.

#moon #nature #eastcoastkin

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.

Before engineering the Trump administration's government shutdown response, Russ Vought spent years building Project 2025 strategy.

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.”

(Pub. Oct. 2024)

National Guard presence may deter crime, but experts warn of the long-term costs As President Trump ramps up efforts to send federal officers and troops into cities, criminologists are watching closely. Are the feds doing this in a smart way?

As President Trump ramps up efforts to send federal officers and troops into cities, criminologists are watching closely. Are the feds doing this in a smart way?

First woman appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally, 63, worked as England’s Chief Nursing Officer in the early 2000s. She has advocated for creating an open and transparent culture in churches which allows for difference and disagreemen...

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UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings. After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for r...

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs.

His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.

(Published Feb. 2023)

‘Don’t pay any attention to what Trump says about medicine’, Wes Streeting tells Britons – UK politics live Medical experts concerned alarms after US president warned pregnant women to avoid taking Tylenol in move contradicted by research Wes Streeting, the health secretary, has urged pregnant women to ignore Donald Trump’s claims about a link between taking paracetamol and autism. Speaking on ITV’s Lorraine, Streeting said: I trust doctors over President Trump, frankly, on this. I’ve just got to be really clear about this: there is no evidence to link the use of paracetamol by pregnant women to autism in their children. None. In fact, a major study was done back in 2024 in Sweden, involving 2.4 million children, and it did not uphold those claims. Between January and April 2020, Labour held a leadership contest. Evidence from that period suggests that the prime minister accepted potentially thousands of pounds’ worth of advice and polling via the members’ association Labour Together. A review of his register of members’ interests for that time reveals no record of these donations. The parliamentary rules are clear that “support in kind” from Labour Together should have been declared, but it was not. In 2021, the Electoral Commission fined Labour Together for failing to report donations covering the period 2017 to 2020. New evidence has since come to light which raises questions as to whether this failure was deliberate, in an attempt to mislead the Electoral Commission. At the time, the prime minister’s now Chief of Staff, Morgan McSweeney, was a director at Labour Together and responsible for legal compliance. Neither Keir, nor his leadership campaign accepted monetary or in kind donations from Labour Together during the leadership election. Continue reading...

‘Don’t pay any attention to what Trump says about medicine’, Wes Streeting tells Britons – UK politics live

We asked major AI chatbots to help craft a phishing scam. They did. From fake charities to urgent pleas, the bots delivered. This investigation shows how generative AI is fueling fraud — and why it’s so hard to stop. Read our findings here: reut.rs/3K400yU

The mother of a 10-year-old girl killed during a mass shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis remembered her Sunday as a fierce, curious and funny child who “didn’t water herself down.”

Read more: https://cnn.it/4ptwVNy

Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’ Broadcaster to dedicate Wednesday night schedule to unpicking US president’s false or misleading statements More than 100 of Donald Trump’s inaccurate statements are to be dissected by Channel 4 to coincide with his state visit, in what it described as “the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television”. The US president is expected to arrive in the UK on Tuesday night. He will enjoy a huge amount of special treatment as ministers attempt to preserve the special relationship, including a ceremonial welcome at Windsor Castle for Trump and his wife, Melania. Continue reading...

Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’

33 million voters have been run through a Trump administration citizenship check Tens of millions of voters have had their information run through the tool — a striking portion of the U.S. public, considering little has been made public about the tool's accuracy or data security.

Tens of millions of voters have had their information run through the tool — a striking portion of the U.S. public, considering little has been made public about the tool's accuracy or data security.

Health care costs are soaring. Blame insurers, drug companies — and your employer Some 154 million people in the United States get health care through their employer — and for many, their costs are about to go way up.

Some 154 million people in the United States get health care through their employer — and for many, their costs are about to go way up.

States are taking steps to ease access to COVD-19 vaccines as they await federal recommendation The governors of Arizona and Maine have signed orders intended to make COVID-19 vaccines available in pharmacies for people without individual prescriptions.

The governors of Arizona and Maine have signed orders intended to make COVID-19 vaccines available in pharmacies for people without individual prescriptions.

Opinion | A Plea for President Trump With a Fragile Country on Edge Even if it sounds unrealistic, Trump can do something important with the entire country frayed and on edge: push for calm and unity.

In Opinion | In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s killing, our columnist Thomas L. Friedman writes that instead of focusing on talks between Ukraine and Russia or the Israelis and Palestinians, Trump should “make peace at home. Make peace between Americans.”

South Africa reopens inquest into death of Steve Biko South Africa has reopened the investigation into the death of anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko — 48 years after he was killed in police custody.

South Africa has reopened the investigation into the death of anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko — 48 years after he was killed in police custody.