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YouTube video by VCR Repair Ministry - Every Day Is Halloween

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Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Tweet from LAPD: CS gas has been authorized by the Incident Commander in the area of Sunset and Logan. Stay away from the area.

LAPD is going to start gassing people tonight. The dept rarely ever deployed tear gas at protests in the past and now does on a regular basis.

At $75 for a 12-foot purchase, current prices are $6.25/skelfoot. Value investors should expect BUY ratings from most trading houses when prices fall between $5-5.50/skelfoot, however these may be inventory limited. Levelized Cost of Skeleton (LCOS) values are approaching 52-week minimums.

Joe Pipkin, a fluffy black cat, does NOT like his bat costume

15 years ago this week I went to drop off some food for a neighbor who had been feeding a pregnant mama cat under her porch and came home with two kittens in a printer box. Little did they know this would be the price. TGIF #thankgodimfullcat

captcha image asking 'select all images with things', the photos are all cast members of John Carpenter's 1982 classic 'The Thing'

Poster on a wall featuring a ghost, hands with tools and the words "Banish your boss"

Poster on a wall featuring Buffy and the words "We can slay it! Kill Capitalism"

Poster on a wall featuring a zombie face and the words "Fascism is capitalism in decay"

Poster on a wall featuring a hockey mask, blood, machetes and the word ANTIFA

Some of the Halloween themed radical posters seen around Sydney this week.

Writers, it's always a good idea to print out your work that appears online. I have a whole year's worth of work lost in the internet ether.

Billie Eilish Calls on Billionaires to Support People in Need: 'No Hate, But Give Your Money Away' Billie Eilish donates $11.5 million from 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' tour to charity and calls on billionaires to support people in need during hard times.

I don't see a lot of people talking about this, so I want to highlight something GOOD

Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?"

She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.

An immigrant, a worker and a banker are sitting at the table with 10 cookies. The banker takes 9 and then tells the worker "Careful, Mate... that foreigner wants your cookie!"

It has this energy right here.

"Sowing fear in societies and creating a sense of threat are primary goals for hacktivists,"

Interesting to see this stated as unsupported facts. Also some very LLM-like usage of lists without an apparent actual editor. 🫠

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is shutting down causing major issues for libraries.

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AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats Some AI papers have a finding so good you just want to quote it everywhere. But many turn out to be trash. They’ve got bad statistics, they’ve got bad methodology, they’re really sales pieces, or t…

AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/15/a...

Feeding conversations to an organization that is sitting on illegally leveraged copyrighted data doesn't lend itself to Trust or Safety.

Live footage of my friend and I going about our Halloween prep 🖤🧡🎃✨

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

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many such cases

As a network engineer, it’s your job when there’s a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) outage such as AWS that you go yank the power out of your on-prem edge routers and everyone goes home early

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