Wild stuff — nuking a portion of your website because MAGA got mad at you for it. jewishinsider.com/2025/09/adl-...

The Trump admin is separating families again, attorneys & former immigration officials allege. In some cases officials retaliated against immigrants who challenged deportation orders by forcibly separating them from their children, a Guardian investigation found. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia

genuinely impressive that the only innovation that's going on is in how much you can break the law

just looked at my danish unions and sighed

Meta plans to use data from your interactions with AI products to sell targeted ads on Facebook and Instagram.

NEW: The U.K. government is reportedly once again requesting Apple build a backdoor so government officials can access end-to-end encrypted iCloud backups in the U.K. Last time this happened, Apple disabled iCloud's Advanced Data Protection, the opt-in feature that lets users encypt cloud backups.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

The ADL thought it could fall in line with Musk and it would stop his attacks on them. Instead, it just made them complicit, legitimized Musk, and ultimately didn’t actually change him at all. This is how fascists work. Greenblatt tried being transactional: for fascists, it only goes one way.

Probably not the best sign for the situation in your country, when your PM gets her own news category in Financial Times

NEW: turns out the EU helped finance a bunch of spyware companies with..public money. Extremely bad look. Group of MEPs calls for action.👇 apache.be/2025/10/01/e...

Snapchat announces it will limit storage for its Memories feature to 5GB for free users and launches paid storage plans, including 100GB for $1.99 per month (Jackson Chen/Engadget) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

the /active page of hacker news provides a fun glimpse into the kinds of stories that are too much "flamebait" for the tech class news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4543...

the aislopocene

all of these genai videos look like geico commercials

the absolute state of reddit and twitch old.reddit.com/r/SubredditD...

we can't even put "excel" and "word" on our resumés anymore

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

great job everyone

Magten i den danske medieverden er i forvejen samlet på relativt få hænder. Nu opkøbes Zetland så af Bonnier og Altinget af JP-Pol. nyheder.tv2.dk/live/kort-ny...

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Udenrigsministeren indkaldt i samråd om Danmarks mulige anerkendelse af Palæstina. Samrådsspørgsmålet stillet efter ønske fra Trine Pertou Mach (EL). Følg med onsdag den 1. oktober 2025 kl. 10.15 via Folketingets TV. www.ft.dk/aktuelt/webt...

they took amazon dash from us and gave us this openai.com/index/buy-it...

New: Reddit mods sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein are fighting a subpoena designed to unmask their real identities. They fear "sexual violence, extortion, fans showing up to their home, and endless years of harassment," asking judge to not grant it www.404media.co/reddit-mods-...

Just ran some evals on Claude Sonnet 4.5. It's better than 4 on some but worse on a lot. LLM progress is so weird. You really gotta test this stuff on what you care about.

oh hello www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

The case YouTube settled with Trump, with a payment of more than $24 million, had already been closed for two years.

imgur is geoblocking the uk, presumably due to the OSA. i had a very bad feeling something like this was going to happen

One step closer to AGI. Amazing.

Vance wants nothing less than regime change in Europe. The US under Trump/Vance is not an ally of Europe or of democracy.

ea being being half of twitter's $44B acquisition price in debt is insane

It seems that none of the Advanced Politics Knowers can explain why Sir is unpopular and they don't seem interested in talking to anyone who can.

“We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less.”

Google has removed its political ad library in the EU, including historical data. A big loss for transparency and accountability. Shameful.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

So many echoes from this article for US politics....

UPDATE: The man ICE violently arrested has been identified as Job Arias-Mendoza. Two weeks ago he published a video to his social media accounts of ICE handcuffing a man in front of a liquor store—it has more than 200,000 views on TikTok. streetcarsuburbs.news/arias-mendoz...

Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland

of the eight movies by warner bros that crossed $100M, half were (arguably) horror deadline.com/2025/09/warn...

> Private surveillance vendor [Flock] reinstalled all of its stationary license plate cameras in Evanston that had previously been removed, apparently doing so without authorization from the city, which sent the company a cease-and-desist order Tuesday (...) evanstonroundtable.com/2025/09/24/f...

Scoop: Under Trump's NLRB general counsel, the agency's withdrawn a slew of allegations it had been prosecuting, including that an Apple all-staff email Tim Cook sent was illegally coercive, & that firms including Curaleaf had illegal noncompete agreements www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

one of the interesting challenges is regulating things in general or for children specifically if it's for children specifically, you're also likely to mandate age verification guess we'll see how the prospect of age verification changes business models in videogames etc in the near future

I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data… —Top Public Worry: Corruption —Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption —Top fear: Corruption —What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt” It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Koizumi gets heat for locking his replies on X. (Still waiting for some Japanese politicians to migrate here, sigh.) www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

danish public broadcaster dr is usually admirably restrained in making everything breaking news, but this is what their website, dr.dk, looks like right now

Germany's defence minister has warned that his country's satellites are being shadowed by Russian satellites. Boris Pistorius cited concerns over two Russian satellites shadowing Intelsat satellites used by German forces and others.

watching james callis yell at people in slow horses is so jarring, because all i hear is alucard getting cross