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Essential 22" Carry-On Expandable Spinner

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A rolling carry-on with 360-degree navigation. This expandable spinner offers 25% more space, then compresses back to original size for overhead storage.

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The climate crisis is happening all around us. As tech workers, we can use our skills to take and accelerate climate action.

climateaction.tech/

The internet is the world’s largest machine. If we continue business-as-usual, the IT sector will be responsible for 14% of the world’s carbon emissions by 2040 [HBR, 2020].

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Safety Stack Technical Standard

abekatz.com/writing/tns-technical-standard/

Writing, woodwork, music, and projects by Abe Katz.

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AHA Seminar: Rishi Balakrishnan | Who Moderates? Community Control of Automated Content Moderation

media.mit.edu/events/aha-seminar-rishi-balakrishnan/

Join us for our online seminar series event hosted by MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) research program! This event features Rishi…

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I talked to Tom, the viral ‘Jonestown’ Trump rally guy

thehandbasket.co/p/tom-hoyle-jonestown-trump-rally-fox-news-viral-clip

He planned to make good trouble. But he didn't expect to be handed a Fox News mic.

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The BBC was once at the helm of queer TV representation - what happened?

wearequeeraf.com/the-bbc-was-once-at-the-helm-of-queer-tv-representation-what-happened/

What a journey from standing steadfast by the first gay soap kiss on British telly to cancelling queer TV left, right and centre

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News Post: How The Brazilian Left Won An Election with the Internet

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Mike talks with Caio Almendra — writer, podcast host and organizer with Brazil’s Socialism and Liberty Party — about how the internet helped Lula de Silva win the Brazilian Presidential Election. Also, news! 

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North Korea Steals USD 6.36 Billion From Binance in the Largest Hack in History

trmlabs.com/resources/blog/north-korea-steals-usd-6-36-billion-from-binance-in-the-largest-hack-in-history

On October 29, 2026, an attacker moved about $6.36 billion out of Binance wallets across ten blockchains, the largest crypto theft on record, and TRM attributes it to North Korea’s TraderTraitor, with evidence pointing to a compromise of Binance’s hot wallet signing infrastructure. About $2.7 billion has been frozen, but the attacker still holds roughly $2.4 billion, and TRM is tracking the funds and alerting partners through the Beacon Network.

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At A Worker-Run Game Studio, Employees Voted To Lose Their Jobs

aftermath.site/koop-layoffs-collective-cooperative/

'If the team voted to just ride it out, let's just all shut down the studio together, then that's what we would have done’

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Scripting News: Friday, October 30, 2026

Friday, October 30, 2026 I've been watching short videos about training dogs, and really opening my eyes, and it helps when working with Claude. Always try to be positive, until there is behaviour you have to correct and then yank the leash, and when they do the right thing...

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What if it's true that the whole world revolves around you?

Dave Winer on Bluesky
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This is the web in a phrase.

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NBA's 'unprecedented' early season injury crisis has players and coaches searching for answers.

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Does Chrome define the web?

If a site can't be read by Chrome, is it still on the web?

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the fact that bluesky has a character limit is basically giving the market to twitter.

Dave Winer on Bluesky
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We have it worse, they block my site from Chrome, so even if they come thru a link on a different site, they can still block.

And even worse the EFF that’s supposed to protect the web is helping Google destroy the history of the web.

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"The web was a 20-year rugpull" is where we are right now, for so many people and orgs.

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Programming note: I built a little mirror app with Codex that takes anything I post to Mastodon and reposts it on my bluesky haughey.com account. I killed all the bridgy mirrors as they were failing and causing confusion.

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WordPress.com Changelog: Manage Your Site and Build a Store with AI

Build a store by telling the WordPress Agent what you want to sell. Plus: manage your site from your AI assistant, new Professional Email plans, and clearer staging syncs.