Adam Parnes

America Begins Clapping Back at Donald Trump In a week of political exits, a reminder that Trump’s time is coming soon, too.

"Is this the week that America finally started clapping back at Donald Trump?" @sbg1.bsky.social asks. In a moment of political exits and an "electoral blowout," the whiff of generational change now hangs over American politics. www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

BREAKING: The FAA will cut air traffic by 10% at 40 airports across the country starting Friday if shutdown continues. https://cnn.it/3Xfbhzs

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

Alt text: Screenshot showing partial results from the Virginia Governor General Election. At 18% estimated reporting as of November 4, 2025, 7:38 PM, Democrat Abigail Spanberger leads with 360,142 votes (57.9%) against Republican Winsome Earle-Sears with 261,950 votes (42.1%), for a total of 622,092 votes counted.

Decision Desk HQ has called the Virginia governors race for Spanberger. The millions of dollars in anti trans ads fell completely flat there.

How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out…

When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government.

We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide:
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Control your data in LinkedIn or it'll get scrapped by AI.
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What are some privacy minded video doorbell systems that compete with Ring? Bonus points if they work with HomeKit.

Three takeaways from Syracuse’s loss to North Carolina Thank God October is over

"The current season has taken a turn for the worse, but if you step back and look at the bigger picture, I do believe brighter days are ahead. There's a lot of work to be done, but for the first time in a while it feels like Syracuse is taking football seriously."
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Wikipedia is more important than ever.

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It’s Not Cheating. It’s Reading Minds. Oz Pearlman has revealed Joe Rogan’s A.T.M. code on air and entertained N.F.L. stars. Now the manosphere’s favorite magician wants more.

This is legit! Saw him live and in person. Not sure how he does it?!? Magic?

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Hurricane Melissa is now a Category 5 catastrophic storm as it bears down on Jamaica. www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at3...

Syracuse men’s basketball: Orange take down Buffalo in exhibition A pre-season win in Buffalo

The new look Orange have the talent this year. Can't wait to see what they do in the ACC. Let's go 🍊!

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Indiana University banned its student newspaper from printing just days before homecoming weekend — after firing the paper’s advisor when he refused to censor critical coverage. That would be bad enough on its own, but FIRE is taking this one personally, as the Indiana Daily Student reported this hostile campaign was due in part to its coverage of FIRE’s ranking Indiana University as the worst public university for free speech. You read that right. The school’s response to the news that they are bad at free speech … is to censor the news. It’s ironic — and not just in the Alanis Morissette sense — that these actions will likely push its overall ranking even lower next year. At least we can’t fault them for consistency.

Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper?

Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.

Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself

Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself

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UVA damaging much more than its own reputation -- weakening the bulwark for all of academia. Now's the time for solidarity across the academy against these moves. UVA's weak capitulation is damaging for everyone

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Yes, everything online sucks now—but it doesn’t have to Ars chats with Cory Doctorow about his new book Enshittification.

Profits over user experience will push people to stop using their services. I dropped Google search recently. Kagi provides an actual good web search. So much better.

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Why doesn’t Cards Against Humanity print its game in the US? It’s complicated. Price, quality, speed, and relationships all matter.

Preordered the new informational cards. Looking forward to getting educated about the jokes.

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A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech

Delighted that Cory is having a moment with "Enshittification," because it's an accurate word for what's happening in tech and he's the right person to describe it.

(Gift link)

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this is like half of r/ups now

Sad news. I have great memories of his time playing at Syracuse. Fun style of play during a exciting time in the Big East.

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Apple News+ just added The Washington Post at no extra cost - 9to5Mac Apple News+, the subscription service inside the Apple News app, has just added a major new publication for subscribers: The Washington Post.

Great news. I finally have access to the Capital Weather Gang without a Post subscription.

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Google search is cooked. It has gotten so bad. I just want the best links and sources, not AI garbage and way too many ads! I finally installed the Kagi extension in my work browser and changed my default search engine. So much better. Like when Google search was at its prime.

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Why is Trump sending troops to a ‘war ravaged’ Portland that local officials say doesn’t exist?: 5 takeaways The stark contrast between Trump's description of Portland and the reality reported by local officials has raised questions about the true motivation behind the surprise deployment announcement.

The stark contrast between Trump's description of Portland and the reality reported by local officials has raised questions about the true motivation behind the surprise deployment announcement.

I can't wait to play this game tomorrow. My daughter is also really excited.

Microsoft embraces OpenAI rival Anthropic to improve Microsoft 365 apps Microsoft is bringing Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 to Microsoft 365 Copilot users.

it's official: Microsoft is embracing OpenAI rival Anthropic to improve its Microsoft 365 apps. Microsoft is bringing Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 to Microsoft 365 Copilot users, starting today. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/784392/...

How Fran Brown is doing it his way at Syracuse: ‘You’re gonna get whatever I feel’ An unorthodox hire, Brown won 10 games in his first year at Syracuse, and he's hungry for more.

Big win over Clemson.

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More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
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