Improper disgorgement demands, AI edition (yes, that's two today):

Hours after announcing 'undercover operations' into leftist groups, Texas' attorney general Ken Paxton compared Charlie Kirk to Jesus at a Turning Point USA event. Learn more at the link in bio and at thebarbedwire.com

I spoke to Slate about why 404 Media is suing ICE for its $2 million spyware contract. The company ICE contracted with can remotely break into phones without the target even clicking a link slate.com/podcasts/wha...

This is why archives need funding support. There is knowledge in analogue media that we are racing against time to preserve. #digipres #archives #library #DigitalPreservation 📚 www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Toronto Council meets today! It's their first meeting since July, so we're all feeling a bit rusty. Mayor Chow has designated an item about — what else? — speed cameras as her first key matter, so that'll be up first. Streaming live here. I'll post what transpires. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxu2...

For those who aren't familiar with downtown Chicago: The federal courthouse is right across the street from Federal Plaza.

Disappointed in everyone for not immediately sending this to me when it dropped www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o1c...

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed www.404media.co/apple-banned...

You cannot be fucking serious

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965 - New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...

This is ace

Fellow flotilla activists are alleging Greta Thunberg was horrifically mistreated in Israeli detention. If this is how Israel treats a high-profile detainee like Greta Thunberg, I want you to consider how they treat Palestinian detainees. You don’t have to imagine it. It’s been widely documented:

This is the 1993 World Series champion Blue Jays team in stained glass as seen at the Old Spaghetti Factory tonight. Heads on sheep & saints.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

lol

Here it is, my last piece for @eater.bsky.social: my treatise on the last 20 years of food culture, and how food turned into fandom. I really hope you read it. www.eater.com/food-culture...

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads! Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession. From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio #Archaeology

/2 Link to show here gem.cbc.ca/locals-welcome

The new compilation has five years worth of cartoons because over the past five years no publisher I approached was interested. Admittedly I mostly gave up, I had some other stuff I was dealing with. Still, I do love waking up in the morning and seeing all the support this thing is getting.

Reading @garius.bsky.social's piece on the Harrow and Wealdstone crash as part of writing about Abbie Sweetwine for @carvehername.bsky.social. It's a great account of a terrible event. www.londonreconnections.com/2012/angels-...

New from me! The Trump administration is gearing up to take aim "radical left" institutions aka nonprofits that work on everything from democracy to climate change. The industry is bracing for the hit. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-tr...

This Day in Labor History: October 2, 1968. the Mexican military slaughtered students protesting in the Tlateloco Plaza at the edge of Mexico City. The Tlateloco Massacre demonstrated the complete corruption of the Mexican Revolution’s ideals!!!

The Sora thing is so bleak and shows how far we've come from AI companies pretending they did not train on copyrighted material www.404media.co/openais-sora...

TIL that the generic term for JIBBITZ (according to Jibbitz, Inc.) is "shoe charm." See Jibbitz, Inc. v. MMA Trading LLC, Docket No. 2:25-cv-09384 (C.D. Cal. Oct 01, 2025), storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

#OnThisDay October 2, 1994, "Itchy & Scratchy Land" (S06E04) first aired on the Fox network. Dir: Wes Archer. Wr: John Swartzwelder. EP: @davidmirkin.bsky.social. #TheSimpsons

Baskin-Robbins Spicy 'n Spooky Ice Cream (2022-2022): A ghost pepper-infused white chocolate ice cream, combined with a rich, black, dark chocolate ice cream, and loaded wutg spicy blood orange flakes. Given a limited-time run for Halloween season

A cowardly development from Uefa

Israeli military planes are surrounding the Gaza flotilla.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

🤌🏼 Incendiary anti-immigration politics ends when there’s nobody to serve the Wagyu beef. Perfecto. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

Who's got that list of all the good indy publications that need our love and our cash? There's lots of phenomenal work being done out there and let's give money to the good people who are working FOR the people.

Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom Rally was sponsored by a convicted fraudster allegedly behind cryptocurrency ‘rug pulls’ The far-right rally was bankrolled by convicted fraudster alleged to be behind two cryptocurrency scams, Byline Times can reveal bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

D878,149 - issued in 2020 for a design for a "closure." #DesignPatents

It's finally time to start

Bukele wanted the contractor on the corruption investigation gone, according to a report obtained by @propublica.org. In Ambassador Ronald D. Johnson, he had a powerful American friend—and a friendship that lasted long after Johnson left his post: www.propublica.org/article/amba...

Hi! I was one of the first Wikipedians. The only reason Wikipedia survived to today is because content moderation was one of our primary focus areas on getting right. gizmodo.com/elon-musks-w...

New piece! We re-ran the numbers, and the GTAs new housing collapse will cost governments over $6B a year in tax revenue, including $880M in lost HST revenue for the feds, and $918M for the province. Both action and inaction have a cost. Read here: www.missingmiddleini...

Paris celebrated the opening of its 300th “school street”: landscaped & pedestrianized or semi-pedestrianized blocks situated in front of schools. Most have been completed since 2020.

Paging @swiftonsecurity.com

"The trans kids facing violence, the immigrants branded as invaders, the women losing bodily autonomy—they need to know their party won’t trade their humanity for swing votes. And so do their families and those who love them."

Too many of you clearly don’t know my lore and that’s embarrassing for all of us in different ways

New from 404 Media: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. I was sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. Opt-out means no housing www.404media.co/landlords-de...

A boat has sunk in the harbour of Hafnarfjörður. Which maybe shouldn't be newsworthy, except the same boat sank at the same harbour five years ago. The boat doesn't leak and they don't really know why it keeps sinking there.

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

D892,315 - issued in 2020 for a design for an "anti-splash vomit receptacle." #DesignPatents

Newcastle v Arsenal: Premier League – live

the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry