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Gina Hinojosa Believes She’s the One Who Can Finally Flip Texas

The Democratic nominee for governor on her appeal to MAGA voters and her refusal to engage in the "culture wars.” Thoughts? Email us at theinterview@nytimes.com Watch our show on YouTube: youtube.com/@TheInterviewPodcast For transcripts and more, visit: nytimes.com/t...

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Text • Dave Winer

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/knicks-sent-employees-fake-offer-of-championship-rings-in-phishing-test-report/

Knicks sent employees fake offer of championship rings in phishing test.

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Caveman leadership and the CDO*

We don’t have written records, but I’m imagining that groups of cavemen made decisions around the fire in largely the same way we run sophisticated organizations today. About a hundred years ago, three disciplines helped create the modern world: Scientific management used a stopwatch and the assembly line to relentlessly improve the productivity of the […]

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Text • Ernesto Van der Sar

AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn’t Exist

A fresh academic paper on Z-Library cites a TorrentFreak article that doesn’t exist, and several other sources in the paper are also unfindable. The authors disclose that they used AI tools, which may explain what is going on. The use of AI in an academic paper on shadow libraries is also somewhat ironic, as rightsholders are suing AI companies for using these sites to train AI models.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Text • Ernesto Van der Sar

AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn’t Exist

A fresh academic paper on Z-Library cites a TorrentFreak article that doesn’t exist, and several other sources in the paper are also unfindable. The authors disclose that they used AI tools, which may explain what is going on. The use of AI in an academic paper on shadow libraries is also somewhat ironic, as rightsholders are suing AI companies for using these sites to train AI models.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
Text • Rachel Davis

11 Things to Check Before Trick-or-Treaters Show Up at Your Door

Before trick-or-treaters arrive, check these 11 common Halloween hazards around your Central New York home to help keep kids and pets safe. Continue reading…

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New Bridge #edouardcortes #cortes

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The Adoration of the Magi, 1503 #raphael #highrenaissance

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Text • Heather Cox Richardson

October 23, 2026

October 23, 2026

Despite Trump’s statement yesterday that billionaire Elon Musk had removed the restrictions from Starlink and Starshield that are crippling Ukraine’s ability to protect itself from Russia, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky said today the restrictions continue.

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In the Vanilla Grove, Man and Horse (The Rendezvous), 1891 #gauguin #paulgauguin

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🦍 Mitchellaneous #194: Memes and other found media

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Three Dancers in Pink, 1886 #edgardegas #degas

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Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Ken and Angela Paxton invested $600,000 in a convicted fraudster’s business

texastribune.org/2026/10/23/ken-paxton-angela-blind-trust-investment/

The blind trust’s investment in Wildcatter offers a new, unreported look at the attorney general’s financial ties with the very type of business executives whose prosecutions he typically celebrates.

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Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

It's time to make your own RSS reader

tailscale.com/blog/self-hosted-rss-reader-freshrss

A beginner's guide to self-hosting an RSS reader with FreshRSS, Docker, and Tailscale

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Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Review: The creaky basket boner of ‘Wicker’ delivers far more than laughs

soraya.press/review-the-creaky-basket-boner-of-wicker-delivers-far-more-than-laughs/

My friend, the late Ann Hornaday, would have loved this film

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Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Bird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won’t Act.

propublica.org/article/bird-flu-mink-farm-utah-human-risk

Federal officials brushed off the issue as Utah prioritized the fur industry’s interests. Little has been done to stop the spread of the virus and ensure it can’t spread to humans, a failure that experts called “irresponsible’’ and “astounding.”

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Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Heat killed ‘staggering’ 50,000 people in Europe’s cities this summer, scientists warn

theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/23/heat-killed-staggering-50000-people-european-cities-this-summer-experts

People succumbed to heat at highest rates in Malta, Italy and Hungary, with health issues, loneliness and poverty exacerbating toll

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The New Nanny State

chronicle.com/article/the-new-nanny-state

In their fight against AI, professors are monitoring their students in ways previously unimaginable.

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Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California

verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-is-mostly-a-sex-cult-in-berkeley-california

These people shouldn’t make policy.

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Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Introspection, supervenience, consciousness, and the gut

buttondown.com/apperceptive/archive/introspection-supervenience-consciousness-and-the/

"My personal Turing test is that I will accept machine consciousness when I can internalize that consciousness to the same degree that I can internalize...