congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

(Reuters) - Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show. $META @reuters.com www.reuters.com/investigatio...

must-read analysis of how Musk's twitter is drenching new users with right-wing propaganda news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

The poor guy is having a hard time distinguishing South America and South Africa from each other in his rants.

I saw this earlier this week but needed time to have a public conversation about it. Goddard has always been one of my favorite NASA centers. The work they do is so cool and the folks there are incredible. This truly gutted me. 😢

You have got to actually be f*cking kidding me

Enshittification is a term coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022. In his new book, Doctorow lays out how tech companies have made our lives progressively worse, finds Matthew Sparkes

For anyone wondering how or why Pol Pot murdered 1/4 of Cambodia’s population, it was this. The Khmer Rouge categorised everyone as “New People” (city folk) and “Old People” (rural), and only the Old Peoples were true Khmer.

I can’t wait for the articles—“Democrats won big Tuesday night. Here’s why that’s bad for Democrats.”

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

New Danish proposal for chat control: three fat problems remain

Over half of the corporations bankrolling Trump’s vanity ballroom are facing (or recently faced) federal investigations into wrongdoing — including violating workers’ rights or misleading consumers. They also have a combined $279 BILLION in federal contracts. Follow the money.

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

I always vote for the candidate billionaires hate.

confirmed

A day of huge mourning for the Far Right in the UK. Not only was the Huntingdon train stabbings not the terrorist/asylum seeker/immigrant atrocity they’d hoped and prayed for, here is the hero of the day:

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Remember to live your life such that people don't talk about the abject evils you did when you die.

i don’t want a government that overrides peer-reviewed science bcos it doesn’t align with their christian beliefs. i won’t ever vote labour again. @darrenpjones.bsky.social & @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social can bang on about how they believe tactical voting will save them. it won’t. fuck labour.

Originally written in English, the book explores the difficult moments of Sanna Marin's term as Prime Minister.

Submitting a motion to change ‘vibe coding’ to ‘pseudoprogramming’

Nice that Knuth is still with us and still writing books.

The first thing Yaxley-Lennon did on leaving court was to thank Elon Musk for funding his legal costs. That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK. As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.

The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums. He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up. How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?

Enshittification at its finest 💩

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

RAJU: Last week you were very critical of Biden's use of the autopen. But Trump admitted on 60 Minutes to not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire who pleaded guilty to money laundering. Does that also concern you? MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.

Wait, the whole Tylenol lie was just another piece of wildly illegal market manipulation and insider trading? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/b...

oh hey it's monday morning again www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

“Permanent Standard Time (not springing ahead in March) could prevent 300,000 cases of stroke per year and lower nationwide prevalence of obesity by 2.6 million.” #DitchDST

May you never fuck up so badly Donald says you're very smart.

I thought Trump said he solved all this and there was now perpetual peace under his leadership and superior negotiating skills.

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

After writing "Rule 34" & the Edward Snowden revelations, @cstross.bsky.social announced that there wouldn't be a 3rd book. "Halting State wasn't intended to be predictive when I started writing it in 2006." I'd be somewhat surprised if Shein wasn't collecting a customer list for blackmail purposes.

Last I knew, the average number of hops required to link two people *on Earth* was 2.7.

Well, this isn’t remotely batshit crazy.

Really positive sign that open source projects are standing up to do the right thing. Kudos to the Python folks: www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...

Obligatory Blade Runner patch I made on the Alesis Andromeda synthesizer. This synth can replicate the architecture of the Yamaha CS-80 very well since it can add sine waves post-filter, used here, just like the CS-80. It also features the famous ribbon cable.

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Kids Turn Podcast Comments Into Secret Chat Rooms, Because Of Course They Do As anyone who has read Techdirt for any length of time knows full well, there’s been a years-long campaign to demonize kids and social media. Never mind that actual experts have said the data doesn’t support the claims of…