Fentanyl. Drug Overdoses, including Fentanyl, are not even in the top 20 causes of death in the USA. Cancer, Diabetes, Covid, Heart Disease all in the top 10, and all have had their research funding cut. They aren't murdering just Venezuelans. However they are killing us much slower.

As I return from an extended vacation 🗾 and the Thanksgiving break 🦃, it's great to reflect 🤔on what all we've accomplished at NetDocuments this year and look forward to all of the exciting things coming soon! 🔭 It's a fun time to be in #legaltech! 🤖 www.netdocuments.com/blog/inspire...

Having just been in Tokyo, it's hard to imagine a city with 25% more people! www.forbes.com/sites/duncan...

WILL IS FREE FROM ICE! After months in detention, Tae Heung "Will" Kim, a scientist at Texas A&M developing a vaccine to treat Lyme disease & longtime US permanent resident, has been released! Our movement to defend higher ed means protecting higher ed workers from ICE. @texasaaup.bsky.social

"Did Donald Trump just stupid himself into socialism?!?" @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social is a national treasure! youtube.com/shorts/Noj1k...

👀 Scoop: IRS Direct File, the free government-backed program that let you file your taxes for free, is dead. IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained. IRS Direct File: 2023-2025. (Story from when the pilot launched.)

"Expert panels provide the federal government with a range of insights, illuminating dense scientific topics and offering practical guidance on how industries actually operate. They serve as a critical link between regulators and the regulated...." news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

Pardoning criminals and he doesn't even know who they are?!? youtube.com/shorts/6Qo1z...

This is the crux of the problem. Wage stagnation means people can't even afford food and basic living necessities. Corporate America needs to do better by their workers.

Due to the continued pressure of the government shutdown, cracks in the Trump administration's and House Republicans' arguments are happening. Unfortunately, it has come at the cost of food for Americans who desperately need it.

The Trump administration's plan to partially fund SNAP benefits won't happen quickly. Here's what to know.

@joepatrice.bsky.social provides an excellent rundown of "rule of law conservatives awkwardly embracing resistance" at the annual mtg of the Society for the Rule of Law, an organization comprised of mostly conservative lawyers conceived during the first Trump term. abovethelaw.com/2025/10/rule...

@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social is the comedy and news gift we all need right now. If you're not following his YouTube channel yet, why not?!?!

"The question is whether Grokipedia can succeed not as an alternative to Wikipedia but as a means to delegitimize it. 'Flooding the zone with shit' ... doesn’t necessarily seek to replace institutions of collective knowledge generation; it seeks to deface them." indicator.media/p/grokipedia...

I'm doing the next best thing to sleeping for a month. I'm going to Japan to immerse myself in their thoughtful culture and avoiding all US news for two weeks.

In the chase for AGI and FOMO of not being competitive, capital expenditures for the major #AI players have jumped dramatically since late 2022, and they all say it's still not enough. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/big-...

More lies. This is what happens when he's given airtime, but of course his lackeys will never stop giving him airtime.

Mock trial test shows #AI isn't up to the task of being a juror. #legaltech abovethelaw.com/2025/10/law-...

Paramount Global, CBS, and 60 Minutes literally sold their credibility and their integrity for CEO bonuses and shareholder value. Trump rubbed their noses in their own shit last night and they sat there and took it, because the Press has been a collaborator with Trump from the beginning.

Listened yesterday. This was a great interview.

I'm not a Nobel winning economist, but it seems to me the world's largest retailer and the worlds largest delivery services laying off hundreds of thousands right before the busiest retail and delivery season of the year is perhaps not an optimistic indicator of Trump's promised "Golden Age"

But by golly they got rid of that fraud, waste, and abuse, right? smh

anyone who boosts AI has to explain to me why this is worth it

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Great post by @scalzi.com describing why Grokipedia (and any LLM-generated encyclopedia) will be horrible. As he says, "because fundamentally LLMs aren’t built for accuracy, they’re built for statistical probability, and these really are two separate things." whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a...

Unconscionable! Tear gas and automatic weapons at a Halloween parade to arrest 3 people who had done nothing wrong, two of whom were US citizens! Enough of this militaristic terrorizing of our people!

If you're a Pac Man fan, you should check out the Google page today. Munch munch!

Mockler: I’m 23 years old, and Gen Zers have spent all of our formative years living in a political system that’s purely dysfunctional. People in my generation see the president posting memes online rather than actually negotiating with the other side.

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

Too many Americans either didn’t care or didn’t believe. Hopefully they do now.👇

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

America today

We’re giving $40 billion to Argentina. This is $5 billion MORE that the entire USAID budget that DOGE cut.

Just a reminder that AI language models are not people and they only play roles like performing “blackmail” because humans have prompted them to do it arstechnica.com/information-...

Some are mad because people are on SNAP and not working. I’m mad because people are on SNAP even though they are working.

Let this sink in… “At least one expert now predicting this could trigger greatest hunger catastrophe in the U.S. since the Great Depression.” 📌 The Dept of Agriculture posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid won’t go out on November 1.

The US is now worse than China in the eyes of Canadians. It only took 9 months to get here. Astonishing!

Coincidence or not, that’s pretty crazy. (via MS desk) @dkthomp.bsky.social

Interesting take (and food for thought) on #AI art from Oatmeal cartoonist Matthew Inman: theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

This is their playbook for the midterms. Intimidation and harassment - if we are lucky it will only be that. Because their full playbook is most likely much worse but this is the warmup act.

ngl I'm looking forward to seeing the Reagan Foundation argue that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act doesn't prevent them from suing Ontario, since, in a bit of meta karma you couldn't make up, Reagan was the first big user of the FSIA to stop lawsuits against Iran.

Now it all makes sense...the east wing was where the Epstein details were stored! 😉

Priorities.

And here's the Reagan speech that goes with it: youtu.be/yJwtUxGpU6M?...

What it looks like when a Meta data center arrives in your rural area. This one is in Louisiana. youtube.com/shorts/7mN1W...

To be clear, this story is NOT about another crisis pregnancy center. These exec level people—one said she was pro-life, another asked about partnering with an anti-abortion group—are now leading an actual PLANNED PARENTHOOD chapter. With @byninamartin.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

If Trump can change his mind about deploying troops to a city because his tech buddies ask him not to, it kind of undermines the claim that these deployments are necessary, that the cities are in "rebellion," or that the federal gov't can't enforce the law without the military.

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