Inferno, Canto XVIII, 1480 #botticelli #sandrobotticelli
Ars Technica - All content
• Scharon Harding
Reddit is moving to “a logged-in-only experience,” CEO says
Reddit's search traffic "was down meaningfully" last quarter.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Who's Running This Place: Mayor Zohran Mamdani on the Stakes of the Midterms
Every Thursday from 1 to 2 PM on WNYC, through Election Day, WNYC senior political reporter Brigid Bergin hosts a pop-up local politics call-in show called Who's Running This Place. You can find out more on WNYC.org, and stay tuned to this podcast feed. We'll be sharing Brigid's conversations here every Thursday evening.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani discusses this years midterm elections, including the measures and candidates on the ballot , the issues they stand for and what it means for NYC. Then, WNYC/Gothamist reporters Liz Kim and Jon Campbell bring their reporting and political analysis to Mayor Mamdani's conversation, and to the election, for which early voting is underway.
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The future of the internet
erikjohannes.no/posts/20261023-the-future-of-the-internet/index.html
This is yet another lament on the consequences of widespread use of generative AI, though a bit more aggressive than usual. Only proceed if you're still not tired of people complaining about large language models.
The Texas Observer
• Steven Monacelli
Revealed: GOP Group Behind Mysterious Trans Student Messages
Following an order from a Travis County judge, the Republican Women’s Caucus (RWC) Fund and a man named John Braun have been identified as the names behind controversial text messages sent to Texans earlier this month purporting to offer resources to transgender students, confirming widespread speculation that the effort was a Republican political ploy. Some […]
The post Revealed: GOP Group Behind Mysterious Trans Student Messages appeared first on The Texas Observer.
Improved the design of Inkwell’s Reading Recap weekly email, with a wider layout and blog background colors.
Techdirt
• Caroline De Cock
Your Diary Has A Creditor: What Character.ai’s Bankruptcy Does To Freedom Of Thought
What is covered by freedom of thought in the AI age is being decided by courts that are hearing cases about something entirely different. The Chapter 11 filing of Character.ai on October 12 is the second such case in a year, and it shows that the record of how a person thought can be produced […]
Built on Shards of Silicon: Robert Alexander's Tech Blog
• Robert Alexander
Preparing to change the clocks
How to manually set a clock, twice a year, with precision
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Amanda Caswell
Sam Altman almost scrapped token pricing. Here’s why he backed off.

OpenAI considered dropping token-based pricing for its next model, letting developers submit a prompt and receive a price for the
The post Sam Altman almost scrapped token pricing. Here’s why he backed off. appeared first on The New Stack.
links.daveverse.org
• Dave Winer
sun-sentinel.com/2026/10/29/patrick-stewart-star-trek-dies/?share=sa2wur22eossctetetsc
Patrick Stewart, of ‘Star Trek’ and ‘X-Men’ fame, dies at 86.
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
• Steve Schmidt
Rep. Pat Ryan vows to vote for Hegseth impeachment
Thank you Andy Collen, Noble Blend, Boca Joe, PJ Schuster, Stephanie Gibbs Dunlap, and many others for tuning into my conversation with Rep.
Racket
• Racket Staff
Fart of the Deal: Company Offered MN Prison for $75M; ICE Paid $495M a Year Later
Plus Slam Academy closing, Nicollet opening, and two ordinances head to the mayor's desk in today's Flyover news roundup.
Red spot II, 1921 #abstractart #vasilykandinsky
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Matthew Burns
AWS’s Hydro team wants the compiler to catch coding agents’ mistakes
Earlier this month, the team behind Hydro developed a new way to check that a distributed system still works correctly
The post AWS’s Hydro team wants the compiler to catch coding agents’ mistakes appeared first on The New Stack.
We are currently hovering around 5% and I'm hoping PJP's Bluesky family can help us out! Voting is free and today is the last day to vote!
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Devin.org
• Devin Walker
Every Good First Bug Already Had a Patch
I came back to contributing to WordPress Core this month, and every good first bug already had a patch. What turned out to be useful instead started with a test file that hadn't run in ten years.
Ars Technica
• Scharon Harding
Reddit will require you to log in eventually, CEO confirms
Reddit's search traffic "was down meaningfully" last quarter.
Electrek
• Peter Johnson
BYD spotted testing a new minivan [Video]
Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
• John Amato
GOP Senator's Shocking New Test For Who Can Serve In The Senate
TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Josh Marshall
Sign of The Times
Regional GOP chair from Indiana sending out a letter reminding the members of the party central committee for the state’s...
