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These dogs were spotted taking a group photo in their Halloween costumes. We're impressed by the dog walker's dedication to getting the shot, but that ghost definitely wishes he could actually disappear. 14/10 for all (TT: franklinbarkzoo)

Fortune headline: "Bill Gates says a 2-day work week is coming in just 10 years, thanks to AI replacing humans ‘for most things"

"Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs" says Verge headline subheadline: "Some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well,’ an executive admitted, blaming AI for the layoffs"

I "enjoy" this disconnect between tech titans claiming that AI will have us all eating pastries and working two days a week and the reality of firing people en masse while simultaneously supporting fascists who oppose universal basic income and are actively destroying the social safety net

“Hey. I’m the actual Zohran Mamdani. Not the guy they talk about on this channel.”

Zohran runs an ad on Fox News to undercut their endless unhinged fearmongering and greed-fueled racism.

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

It’s ’old man yells at cloud’ but the cloud is democracy and the yelling deploys the national guard and some hellfire missiles.

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I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

What does the ceasefire agreement in Gaza mean for aid delivery? What does the ceasefire agreement in Gaza mean for aid delivery? 10 October 2025 Share https://www.dec.org.uk/article/what-does-the-ceasefire-agreement-in-gaza-mean-for-aid-delivery Copy to clipboard Copied to clipboard Shape Following the ceasefire agr...

What does the ceasefire agreement in Gaza mean for aid delivery?

After months of extraordinary challenges, DEC charities are preparing to rapidly scale up their response again. The levels of need are catastrophic - and donations are urgently needed.

Read more: https://t.co/yjhkOcP3dF

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Conservatives would take UK out of ECHR, Badenoch confirms Leader says move is is necessary ‘to protect our borders, our veterans and our citizens’

Human rights are universal and indivisible, we all have them and all equally are entitled to protection. Who sensibly would vote for a party that promises to remove their own rights? The ill informed, the misled, the naïve? Or something more unpleasant?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It gradually begins to dawn that replacing web sites with apps distributed through easily-controlled chokepoints was a terrible idea

Aces Low Robert Jenrick and the political uses of nostalgia

A free post on Robert Jenrick's campaign to become the next Reform party leader. Plus UnHerd and English folk music
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What Do We Have To Lose If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him? Plus: some natural borders; and the non-existence of grey, and other letters.

"You don’t fight the politics of violence by quibbling with the details. You stamp it into a million pieces! You draw a f*cking line!"

If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him?

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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.

BBC investigates Afghan maternal deaths after US aid cuts The BBC hears devastating accounts of Afghan mothers and babies dying after US-backed clinics shut.

Shocking report on BBC News tonight about the consequences of aid cuts and Taliban restrictions on women's education and work on maternal and infant deaths in Afghanistan. There's no doubt, & no excuses - aid cuts kill vulnerable people, especially women and children. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march

It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear

The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.

Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state.

Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.

Deadspin | The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate Deadspin | The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate

As prophesied by Kyle Wagner almost 11 years ago: deadspin.com/the-future-o...

Look, I know it means well but I really don’t think it’s a good idea to mock the appearance of some of the fash out today, nor their incoherence - not least because their process of online radicalisation is driven by both a sense of material helplessness and information overload

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

School sheltering displaced Palestinians hit by Israeli strike The Israeli offensive on Gaza City is displacing thousands of starving Palestinians.

The Israeli offensive on Gaza City is displacing thousands of starving Palestinians.

It's a huge problem that none of the men who run tech companies give a shit about how algorithms are designed to tear society apart by making everyone hate each other.

And it's also a huge problem they love to make money off said algorithms feeding traumatizing content into everyone's brains.

Beyond websites: How pro-democracy projects reach their audiences Join us to learn how civic & pro-democracy tech projects from across the world disseminate democratic information, and track their impact.

Join us for this free online event! Across the world, pro-democracy tech projects are finding that users can no longer directly visit their websites and apps. How, then, to reach audiences? We hear from projects in Georgia, Nigeria and Uganda. Book a place now:

The data that shows the internet removes guardrails and fuels populism — it’s either the unfiltered “will of the people” or digital mob rule. Take your pick.

Grabs from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com piece here:

on.ft.com/45WUaGw The end of the gatekeepers

If I were trying to win elections and arguments, I simply would be doing everything I could to move UK political conversation away from a website run by an avowed enemy who believes and writes this stuff about me:

Special shout-out to Witkoff for repeatedly mispronouncing “Nobel” as “noble,” showing his deep appreciation for the prize.

Actively resent the fact we’re expected to listen to a press conference on “mass deportations” as if this is a perfectly normal, mainstream thing and not the unhinged rantings of a racist who is somehow on my television.

Obviously the smears against this man are incredibly libellous - and it says a lot about access to the law that he wouldn't be able to afford to Lord McAlpine these fuckers - but at what point does the government clock that it needs to get a grip on this raging online fire of fascist hate?

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.