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Paul Krugman
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Azeem Azhar on the Explosion of Hacking and Other AI Issues

The threats just keep coming

WIRED
Text • Emily Mullin

An AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s Brain

A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs.

WIRED
Text • Harry Rabinowitz

Bose QC Headphones (2nd Gen) Sale: Lowest Price Ahead of Black Friday

They’re a steal at over 40 percent off in multiple colors. Plus, other great Bose deals you should know about ahead of Black Friday.

WIRED
Text • Louryn Strampe

Keurig Alta Brewer Review: Brand-New Tech, Classically Good Coffee

This multifaceted home coffee brewer and its new AltaRounds will make you rethink everything you know about Keurig machines.

WIRED
Text • Claire L. Evans

Are Memories Transferable? Meet the Scientists Replicating an Infamous Study to Find Out

In the 1960’s, an odd experiment showed planarian worms could transfer memories by consuming each other. It was a sensational finding—that is until the worms stopped learning.

WIRED
Text • Petr Kubala

White Dwarfs Aren’t Just White. Scientists Discover Dying Stars Turning Pink and Green

Astronomers find that a white dwarf’s density and the kind of material it absorbed from its surroundings can produce a rainbow of shades in the star’s atmosphere.

Latest articles from Crooks and Liars Valid
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Mike’s Blog Round-Up

Above, Bobby Pickett performs, The Monster Mash. Happy Halloween, fellow Crooks and Liars. Today we look at the up-coming election. Now THAT is scary! Boo!

Balloon Juice is seeking Jackals from around the country to do some election night live blogging. Do you got what it takes?

Election Law Blog asserts that even in Alaska, three things can be true at once.

Diane Ravitch reminds us that every time someone says, "Texas is turning Blue," then every pollster adds four points to the Republican margins.

Futurism tells us that a man in Kentucky was given a religious exemption against using AI at work. I love using Y’all Qaeda’s strategies against them!

Bonus Track: Crazy Eddie's Motie News shares some deep Halloween lore you probably didn't know!

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Latest articles from Crooks and Liars Valid
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Elon Musk Betrays America And Democracy—AGAIN

This week’s World War NEXT opens on the images Olga Lautman can’t shake: a Russian strike on a train station in Dnipro that killed 14 people waiting for a train to Zaporizhzhia, and a father in Chernihiv finding his daughter after a drone attack killed two teenagers. And why? Withheld warnings, throttled Starlink, two international criminals--Trump & Musk--who see other people as lint to wipe off a sweater.

Olga and Cliff Schecter go into details on Elon Musk—his security clearance, his reported calls with Putin, and why Cliff explains why no one should have $500 billion and the ability to answer to no one--no individual, no elected body, no country, and not the international community.

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Martin McDonagh Has a Vision for Hope. It's Not for the Faint of Heart.

The writer-director, known for his dark and bleak work, believes in film’s power to change our lives.

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Seth's Blog Valid
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The Hallmark dilemma

The slogan is “when you care enough to send the very best.” But more accurately, it’s “when you don’t care enough to be on the hook.” For a low-stakes social interaction, the Hallmark card is a convenient and safe solution. Low-risk, it gets the job done. People don’t blame you for letting someone from Kansas […]

Letters from an American
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October 30, 2026

October 30, 2026

Not much from me tonight, but I do want to call out the political signs reading “Stop Fraud: Vote Republican” I saw today as I left Maine.

@art.feediverse.org - Great art on Bluesky Valid
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The Alchemist, 1962 #surrealism #dali

Great art on Bluesky (daily)
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Twittering Machine, 1922 #paulklee #expressionism

Roland Tanglao
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Obsessed with this song and this version is 11 minutes! yes! 12 years ago! Up Dharma Down - 'Turn It Well' Live! - YouTube

Discovered: Oct 31, 2026 03:11 (UTC) Obsessed with this song and this version is 11 minutes! yes! 12 years ago! Up Dharma Down - “Turn It Well” Live! - YouTube

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Untitled, 1908 #postimpressionism #pietmondrian

Fresh Air
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Best Of: Making ‘La Bola Negra’ / 'New Yorker' cartoonists lament their kitchens

Spanish filmmakers Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi (Los Javis) turned an unfinished play by a gay poet murdered during Spain's Civil War into a sweeping epic. La Bola Negra tells the story of three generations of gay men. They spoke with Tonya Mosley about the making of the film. 

Also, New Yorker cartoonists Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein talk with Terry Gross about their embarrassment and shame over their kitchens.Their new graphic book is The Two Saddest Kitchens.


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Dave Winer on Mastodon
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What if it's true that the whole world revolves around you?

Dave Winer on Mastodon
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The web in a phrase.

Small pieces loosely joined as a Burma-Shave style multipart billboard on a highway in the southwestern US.

Dave Winer on Mastodon
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The web was revolutionary when it came out, we needed a fresh start, the personal computer world was a complete mess. There was no networking standard.

Now, over 30 years later, the web itself has become as messed up as what it replaced, so let's try again, this time with Markdown in place of HTML, and no big companies in charge.

It may be small but it will be open. And don't forget the web itself was once very small.

https://bigundo.org/

Dave Winer on Mastodon
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Does Chrome define the web?

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