ICE Planning $100 Million Domestic Spy Program. politicalwire.com

Trump Plays Russian Roulette On Eve of Midterms. politicalwire.com

Closures, Objects, Actors, and Picos. windley.com

Epic Games reportedly pivoting to "AI first" game development model. arstechnica.com

Threads and the Fediverse: The Threat That Wasn’t. gelbphoenix.de

James Webb reveals a massive cosmic structure that challenges our understanding of the Universe. sciencedaily.com

Citroën Reinvents Iconic 2CV As Sub-$17,000 EV. roadandtrack.com

No single person has spent more money to harm EVs than Tesla CEO Elon Musk. electrek.co

Omar says she won't 'be silenced’ by search of her home. apnews.com

Trump’s Diesel Deal Sells Out Ukraine. theatlantic.com

There's a Personal App for That. windley.com

AOC to Target: Stop Lending Your Bronx Parking Lots to ICE. migrantinsider.com

“I Can Do Whatever I Want,” Trump Says. Not If We Do Our Job. americaamerica.news

Get started with Claude Docs. I didn't know they had this, it's a way of publishing from within Claude. claude.com

86% Oppose Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Ads. No one likes such a blatant rip-off. politicalwire.com

Trump Is Still Airing Campaign Ads with Your Money. politicalwire.com

What Will It Take to ‘Get ICE the Fuck Out of Austin’? texasobserver.org

Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services. arstechnica.com

All the drama around AI’s takeover of mathematics. theverge.com

Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents. arstechnica.com

The Kia PV5 makes for a ridiculously cool dump truck. electrek.co

Ranking the NBA's best starting fives: 76ers look great on paper, but champion Knicks hold No. 1 spot. #knicksIn5 cbssports.com

Republicans say they hate communists. So why do they like Donald Trump? theguardian.com

Btw twitter with its relaxed character limit is getting pretty close to being a blogging platform. x.com

New book by Michael Lewis, author of many great books, about Elon Musk and DOGE. amazon.co.uk

We’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything. simonwillison.net

Elon Musk and DOGE brought catastrophe to the U.S. government. Michael Lewis’ Blockers details just how much. slate.com

Autopsy shows Tennessee National Guard fatally shot 20-year-old armed man in the back. cnn.com

OpenAI's Dots: A First Look. macstories.net

White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms. washingtonsun.com

Readers Choose Their Top TV Shows of the 21st Century. nytimes.com

OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar. techcrunch.com

"I've been on these trips with corporate platforms, and if they want you gone, you should just take the hint and go, because eventually you will get the point." scripting.com

Reddit is ending RSS support: What this means for Inoreader. inoreader.com

New Cancer Drugs Are Revolutionary. Why Don’t More Patients Get Them? nytimes.com

Reddit: "Because RSS is now a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, we'll stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026 while preserving moderation workflows that depend on it through supported alternatives." reddit.com

I don’t want to read blog posts or work memos or marketing materials that are clearly written by AI. andreabadgley.blog

The fatal mistake that just blew up a decades-old Republican strategy. alternet.org

We really did have everything, didn't we? youtube.com

Bill Gates warns of ‘a billion’ deaths if AI goes wrong. wapo.st

Every source in the Signal 500 as standard OPML, free to import into any RSS reader. People are starting to do what I've been asking them to do. Publishing dynamic OPML lists, that smart apps can subscribe to. Once this catches on, it'll be a juggernaut, imho. feeds.bar

Use Claude Code in the cloud. Sounds like I should learn to use this, helps resolve some of my security concerns. claude.com

Trump says he has an off-ramp to his biggest political problem. He refuses to take it. wapo.st

Sen Kennedy proposes ban on naming buildings after living public officials. foxnews.com

We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up. inquirer.com

CNN is getting new owners with close ties to Trump. npr.org

Blame Trump for Rising Borrowing Costs. theatlantic.com

Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements. arstechnica.com

Supreme Court Allows Expansive Federal Database for Voter Screening. No actually if this decision stands it's game over. They can fine-tune the voters they reject so they win by almost believable margins. nytimes.com

US being left behind in EV charging speeds as China goes sub-5 min to 70%. arstechnica.com

The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century. nytimes.com

The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms. theatlantic.com

Timothy Mellon, a G.O.P. Billionaire, Pulls Back His Money From Senate Republicans. nytimes.com

Chronicle of the incredible growth of the web in 1994, maintained by Mosaic. mcom.com

Meta admits Muse's likeness to OpenClaw isn't a coincidence. techcrunch.com

Trump Faces the Sting of a Media Boycott After Press Pool Withdrawal. nytimes.com

It’s Trump’s World, and It’s Spinning Out of Control. politicalwire.com

The Crypto Industry Targets Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a Top Democratic Senate Candidate. nytimes.com

Haitians Are Fleeing to Canada. theatlantic.com

Breach at ChatGPT maker OpenAI highlights risks of AI getting hacked. washingtonpost.com

'The Best of British TV by BritBox' Collection Returns to HBO Max Through Dec. 15. mediaplaynews.com

Climate change past the point of no return, UN says, as worst impacts are now unavoidable. cbc.ca

The Race to Save Florida Orange Industry From Total Collapse. wsj.com

A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think. nytimes.com

Trump Is Betting on the Wrong Europe. theatlantic.com

Anne Applebaum on Greenland and Trump. substack.com

One Week After Board Crisis, Automattic Employees Say They’re Being Kept in the Dark. therepository.email

AI Doomsday Panic Is Completely Out Of Control. karlbode.com

Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People. 404media.co

The techies walking away from a big payday. sfstandard.com

Fed raises rate, as inflation challenges grow. wapo.st

Woodstock Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup. indiewire.com

Steve Jobs: “We humans are tool builders.” Apply that to the experience we're now beginning to have with AI tools. youtube.com

The  First Chipotle in Mexico Just Opened. Lines Are Out the Door. texasmonthly.com

Trump’s Signs Are Coming to the Smithsonian. theatlantic.com

‘We’re near a breaking point:’ firefighters say US government is failing them amid intense wildfire season. theguardian.com

AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide. 404media.co

Dystopian Surveillance is Becoming a Reality. dallincrump.com

Open Chinese models close gap with Silicon Valley’s frontier AI models. arstechnica.com

More Americans worry tech will take their job, poll finds. semafor.com

NATO jets down drone in Lithuanian airspace. npr.org

Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Effort to Break Vote-By-Mail Before Midterms. talkingpointsmemo.com

Right now it’s very hard to give a sense of how much this makes software development a very different thing. How incredibly tedious it was to write a very large piece of software. The AI bot can load huge amounts of code into its memory and work on it, even if it never saw it before. x.com

The Supreme Court won’t allow midterm mail-in voting limits. npr.org

U.S. foreign policy, for all intents and purposes, hardly exists. It’s been replaced by random whims blurted out by an ignorant and easily confused amateur. ms.now

‘Musk’ film is almost four hours long, engrossing and terrifying. What to know. wapo.st

How the AI apocalypse story escaped containment. semafor.com

Matt Mullenweg Returns as Automattic CEO With ‘Full Support of the Board’ — But Who’s On It Remains Unclear. therepository.email

Woodstock Film Festival Co-Founder Meira Blaustein to Step Down. theoverlooknews.com

"The users know that podcasting == user choice." scripting.com

Anthropic CEO calls for ‘pacing the frontier’ of AI race amid safety concerns. cnn.com

Jimmy Kimmel's James Talarico Interview Hits 5 Million YouTube Views. #streisandEffect variety.com

Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage. nytimes.com

Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff, saying he's back in control after CEO ouster. techcrunch.com

Jimmy Kimmel, James Talarico and the FCC’s Muzzling of the Media. talkingpointsmemo.com

What happened the last times Trump pitched direct payments to Americans. wapo.st

Republican chief election officials say it is too late to implement Trump’s mail ballot order. politico.com

Automattic Minus Matt: Mullenweg’s Forced Break. tedium.co

Exploring Muse: Meta's New Personal AI Assistant in Action. sjl.us

Trump’s $5k bribe offer is a great reason to vote against Trump, even if repubs win he’ll never pay it, and it isn’t his money to give out, it’s ours. bbc.com

Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence. techcrunch.com

If AI is so smart and powerful and capable of reinventing things, why hasn’t it reinvented software yet? nytimes.com

A democracy tax in support of science. science.org

For those of us who followed Microsoft in the early days of the web, this was kind of a revelation. I didn't realize Ballmer was this weird, corrupt, basically stupid. nytimes.com

Army Heroes’ Humiliating Nickname for Pete Hegseth Is Leaked. thedailybeast.com

Amazon service that Jeff Bezos called artificial AI is shutting down. cnbc.com

Introducing Claude Tag. anthropic.com

Metacritic co-founder Marc Doyle lifts the veil on how the site works. gamesindustry.biz

Retired general calls Trump's proposed arch near Arlington a 'sacrilege.' pbs.org

OpenAI releasing major upgrade to ChatGPT and Codex with GPT-6 Astra. 9to5mac.com

I kind of despise the way journalists have made this a gender war. Makes communication hard. And preserves even nurtures one of the biggest divides in our country. It is not men vs women unless you insist on making that. nytimes.com

Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92. nytimes.com

Preparing for a post-Trump internet. pluralistic.net

Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users. openrss.org

Omarchy is a good idea. Everyone should have their own OS to customize via AI. omarchy.org

The EV4 is the all-electric sedan (and hatch) we want in the US, but can’t have. electrek.co

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝗽 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸. substack.com

Autonomous aircraft: Pilot-free crop dusters lead the way. bbc.com

Whistleblower warns about USPS plan for Trump mail voting order. npr.org

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