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Statement from The NewsGuild of New York and Condé United on illegal firing of four union leaders who demanded answers about this week’s layoffs at Teen Vogue, other brands Late Wednesday night, Condé Nast’s VP of Labor Relations notified the Guild that the Company was immediately terminating four Condé United leaders for engaging in the protected concerted activity of gathering in their 1 World Trade Center office to demand answers on this week’s abrupt layoffs at multiple brands including WIRED and the consolidation at Teen Vogue. These egregious terminations are a flagrant breach of the Just Cause terms of our contract and an unprecedented violation of their federally protected rights as union members to participate in a collective action. Through these illegal terminations, Condé Nast management is attempting to intimidate and silence our members' advocacy for the courageous cultural and political journalism of Teen Vogue, as well as diverting attention away from the obvious lack of corporate leadership at the company. Condé United members illegally fired are: Alma Avalle: Writer, digital producer at Bon Appetit; NewsGuild of New York first vice president, trans activist, and union leader Jake Lahut: Wired senior reporter covering the Trump White House Jasper Lo: Senior fact checker at The New Yorker and US Army veteran: outgoing first vice chair of The New Yorker Union Ben Dewey: Videographer at Condé Nast Entertainment, former vice chair of the CNE unit “Management’s attempt at union-busting, using intimidation and grossly illegal tactics to try to suppress protected union activity, will not stand,” said Susan DeCarava, president of The NewsGuild of New York. “The NewsGuild of New York has zero tolerance for bad bosses who harass, target and disrespect our fellow Guild members. We represent nearly 6,000 media workers across the tri-state area and we stand firmly in solidarity, ready to fight for the rights of our members illegally fired from their jobs at …

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

Condé Nast abruptly fires 4 staffers after HR confrontation The firings were an unsubtle message to its employee union that the publisher was taking a harder line in its dealings with employees.

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New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Revolted Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge.

SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound

Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point:
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NYT INTERESTING TIMES Did Women Ruin the Workplace? And can conservative feminism fix it? By Ross Douthat and Victoria Chamberlin

the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from

Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace? And if so, can conservative feminism fix it? Nov. 6, 2025

Ross Douthat be like "I can always be More Wrong"

Before: Did Women Ruin the Workplace? After: Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?

Change in Headline

FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

A moka pot is $15. Get fine ground coffee, gently pack the grounds into the filter, fill the bottom with water, screw on tight, and put on the stove.

While that's going, heat milk in the microwave then use a $10 frother on it.

Syrups are $5 for a giant bottle.

DO NOT CROSS THE PICKET LINE.

Map showing vote tallies for each borough

Zohran has more votes than Cuomo and Sliwa combined, and won every borough except Staten Island

Zohran Mamdani: meteoric rise of New York’s visionary new mayor Charismatic and relatable, the 34-year old energized voters – and provided a blueprint for other progressives to follow

Zohran Mamdani: meteoric rise of New York’s visionary new mayor

It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us

Zohran kneeling, smiling and giving the thumbs up, next to a chalking on the sidewalk that says "Have You Voted Today" and "Make History, Vote Zohran, Nov. 4, 6am to 9pm"

Well have you?

If not, here's where: zohranfornyc.com/vote

A graphic showing that Audible's parent company, Amazon, has supported Donald Trump financially. Alternatives include Libby, Libro.Fm, Hoopla and Chirp.

📚 Does your audio book app support Donald Trump?

💁‍♀️ And, if so, have you considered the alternatives?

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Mamdani already moving the needle on sex offenders, you love to see it

Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name.

The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.

Why I Still Won't Use ChatGPT This technology easily manipulates your perception of reality. Who is that useful for?

For @spitfirenews.com I wrote about "ChatGPT induced psychosis," how the chatbot distorts reality for all of its users, and why, despite what feels like growing pressure to conform to the hype, I still won't use it (and I'm not missing out)
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Robot from Laputa

Laputa...
#sketch

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Oh my GOODNESS I had no idea how big he was!!! My cats are large boys but WOW, he’s gorgeous

A tweet posting corporate news related to Mihoyo that reads: The hackathon hosted by BosonAl @boson_ai also featured HoYoverse among its participants. BosonAl is a startup focused on research into large language models (LLMs), and its founder, Professor Li Mu, a graduate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was involved in the development of the game (Whispers from the Star) for Anuttacon, the company of miHoYo's former chairman Cai Haoyu. There is an image of a banner for the event that features Hoyoverse’s name repeatedly

The description that comes up for Boson AI when you google search It reads: Making communication with Al as easy, natural and fun as talking to a human. Audio Generation. Rich emotional voice synthesis. Multi-speaker dialog generation.

The Linkedin posting for the Boson AI hackathon event: Higgs Audio Hackathon | 24-26 October | Sign up TODAY! . We're looking for builders, breakers, and bold thinkers to join Boson Al's upcoming Hackathon in collaboration with the Master of Science in Applied Computing (MScAC) team. This is your chance to push the limits of our newest foundation model, Higgs Audio V2. Here's why you don't want to miss it: Prizes on prizes: Cutting-edge hardware, merch, compute credits, project publicity and more. Free food all weekend, plus a Sunday pub night. Get scouted! We will be on the lookout for top talent to join our team.

HoYoverse participated in the recent BosonAI hackathon event this past week.

BosonAI promotes themselves as “Making communication with Al as easy, natural and fun as talking to a human.” and highlights “Audio Generation. Rich emotional voice synthesis.”

Highlighting because of the audio aspect.

Do not let this man get the presidential nomination

Honestly at some point you have to start doing psyops with these people:

Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)

I’ve been regularly volunteering at a food bank for about a year and please, if you want to help, consider donating cash.

For $3, they can provide 15 meals and what they can do with the money you might spend on a few cans can be converted to vastly more in fresh fruit, vegetables, dairy, or meat.

support whomever you’d like, but what is frustratingly dishonest about this take is that actual issue — the thing critics have identified as the problem — isn’t the decision of the 21-year old to get the tattoo, but of the judgment of the 40-year old who still has it.

3 Scandals in 4 Days That Would Define Any Other Presidency During the second Trump administration, corruption scandals that would typically define a presidency receive a day or two of coverage.

1. Last week, there were 3 Trump corruption scandals in 4 days that would define any other presidency.

Most people are probably not even AWARE of all three scandals.

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wow, which common vaccine was it?

How Hacked Card Shufflers Allegedly Enabled a Mob-Fueled Poker Scam That Rocked the NBA WIRED recently demonstrated how to cheat at poker by hacking the Deckmate 2 card shufflers used in casinos. The mob was allegedly using the same trick to fleece victims for millions.

WIRED recently demonstrated how to cheat at poker by hacking the Deckmate 2 card shufflers used in casinos. The mob was allegedly using the same trick to fleece victims for millions.

The Gamer was pretty much the *only* outlet willing to stick their neck out for us adult game makers. Their coverage was invaluable in getting the word out about payment processor censorship 😥

I’m literally a panthers fan and Ovi is GOATED