404 Media
• Samantha Cole
This Woman's Living a CashApp Scam Nightmare
A CashApp scam mess, Airbnb hosts crashing out, and much more.
links.daveverse.org
• Dave Winer
Bluesky profile links.
The Torment Nexus
• Mathew Ingram
Regulating AI is hard because we don't really know how it works
(Note: I’m currently travelling in Canada’s lovely Rocky Mountains, so I don’t really have the bandwidth – mentally or in telecom terms – to come up with a brand-new Torment Nexus this week.
The San Francisco Standard
• Jessica Blough
A Yemeni cafe, a pizza place, and 20 beautified storefronts are coming to the Inner Sunset
SF New Deal announced the recipients of the Neighborhood Vibrancy Fund, which extends downtown’s small-business initiatives.
Mail Scanning Has Isolated Me From My Loved Ones
It’s been four years since I last touched my son’s homemade cards.
https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2026/10/22/mail-scanning-isolated-me-from-my-family/
Ars Technica
• Ashley Belanger
Meta whines New Mexico is “impossible” to please after historic $25 billion fine
Meta will appeal a ruling imposing the largest fine Mark Zuckerberg’s ever seen.
Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
• Andrea Thompson
Trump Nearly Foamed At The Mouth After Watching His Heckler Get Punched
We now live in a world where the sitting President of the United States of America unabashedly nearly foams at the mouth when watching someone get assaulted because they said something mean about him.
Yesterday, Donald Trump held a midterm rally in Clemson, South Carolina,...
Ars Technica
• Beth Mole
"Unethical" vaccine trial on babies backed by RFK Jr. is formally canceled
The decried trial was canceled last week before police seized vaccine doses.
The Winners of the 2026 International Pano Awards
The winners of the 2026 Epson International Pano awards were announced recently, featuring some of the best panoramic photography in the world. Alan Taylor at the Atlantic shared some of his favorites and I shared some of mine above. Starting at the top, photos by Xuecheng Liu, Shimon Perlstein, Tomás Sánchez Ruiz, Preeti & Prashant Chacko, and Daniel Viñé Garcia.
P.S. In case you were wondering about the aspect ratio of panoramic images: according to the submission rules, the image’s longest side needs to be at least twice the length as the shortest side.
Tags: best of · best of 2026 · photography
“Scientists have made a breakthrough toward the...
“Scientists have made a breakthrough toward the mind-bending goal of creating computers made of brains by demonstrating that human neural tissue can classify letters of the Braille alphabet.”
I hope to see the The Web of Markdown idea take the next step later today or early tomorrow at the latest. Still diggin!
Defector
• Harry Krinsky
Defector’s Completely Decentralized NBA Season Preview Has Now Been Recentralized
Defector will publish no written league-wide preview for the 2026-27 NBA season. Not even a cute, belatedly published one, either. Instead we enlisted Harry Krinsky, co-host of our podcast Nothing But Respect and avant-garde vertical video artist, to preview each team. He th...
Nieman Lab
• Laura Hazard Owen
In the AI age, publishers who understand what readers want will do best, a new report argues
AI inverts the traditional journalism hierarchy: Instead of reporters gathering information, editors deciding how to present it, and newsrooms releasing the same final story to everyone, AI agents deliver what readers ask for, refining or expanding on information as requested. It’s “an interactive process in a way the current news system isn’t,” write the authors...
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Amanda Caswell
Ramp built an AI agent harness in six weeks — and LangChain’s CEO says it’s part of a bigger shift
Ramp spent months testing managed agent APIs, open-source frameworks, and third-party platforms before concluding it would be better off building
The post Ramp built an AI agent harness in six weeks — and LangChain’s CEO says it’s part of a bigger shift appeared first on The New Stack.
Here is JD Vance defending the ad at his rally yesterday:
"The media and Democrats are obsessed because Vivek Ramaswamy had the audacity to run a TV commercial that calls it like it is"
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Electrek
• Peter Johnson
Volkswagen is launching its most affordable EV yet in 2027, starting at around €20,000
Volkswagen’s upcoming electric car will be smaller and lower-priced than the ID. Polo, starting at around €20,000 ($22,500).
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Defector
• Giri Nathan
Basketball Game Interrupts Shit-Talk Session Between Luka Doncic And Yaxel Lendeborg
For months, I've seen Michigan basketball fans chortle ominously about the big personality of Yaxel Lendeborg, the super-senior who led the Wolverines' 2026 national championship run then sidled over to the NBA draft, where he was selected at No. 11 by the Golden State Warri...
Defector
• Israel Daramola
It’s Hard To Be A Rich Radical
Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music and musical topics I’ve been fixated on recently.
What could compel someone to spend four hours on a YouTube essay mostly about the rapper Killer Mike, a B-tier Dungeon Family affiliate who parlayed suc...
TPM – Talking Points Memo
• David Kurtz
Your Election Interference Fears Were 100% Justified
This Is Not a Drill … Repeat … NOT a Drill The Trump administration has launched a full-blown attack on...