Alpine Landscape, 1556 #pieterbruegel #bruegel
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• Derick Dirmaier, Kate Riga and Joe Ragazzo
A Spooky Halloween With Peter Thiel and the Antichrist
WIRED
• Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess
Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims
Named “Volta-Autodoxer,” the recently uncovered malware uses AI tools to collect troves of data about victims, from login credentials and credit card numbers to Discord sessions and UberEats receipts.
WIRED
• Simon Hill
Govee Christmas Lights 2 Deal: Save $25 on These Smart String Lights
Glow up your home indoors or out with these versatile, discounted, full color smart string lights. They’re WIRED-tested and 25 percent off right now.
WIRED
• Jeremy White
There’s a Completely New Type of Whisky. It’s French and Made in Concrete Eggs
The founders of Maison Lineti are, in a world first, making single malt whisky as if it were wine—and the spirit world is mighty impressed.
WIRED
• Christopher Null
Backup by Biolite Review: A Cool Idea
Backup by BioLite is designed to power your fridge when the grid goes down. It works, but protecting your ice cream doesn’t come cheap.
WIRED
• Paresh Dave
Meta’s Muse Could Upend All Kinds of Businesses. It Hasn’t Yet
Companies have spent the past several weeks trying to reassure investors that Muse and other AI agents pose more of an opportunity than a threat.
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• John Timmer
Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged
A long flight home from feeding grounds messes with birds' internal clocks.
Ars Technica - All content
• Sara Talpos, Undark Magazine
The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It’s not so easy.
The regulator says Tavneos was approved on the basis of manipulated study data. Should patients still have access to it?
Ars Technica
• John Timmer
Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged
A long flight home from feeding grounds messes with birds' internal clocks.
Ars Technica
• Sara Talpos, Undark Magazine
The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It’s not so easy.
The regulator says Tavneos was approved on the basis of manipulated study data. Should patients still have access to it?
Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
• John Amato
JD Vance's Solution To Hospital Language Barriers? 'Speak English'
JD Vance took a question about US identity and immigration relating to France during Jesse Watters phony town hall and let his racist flag fly high.
An audience member asked Vance how "we can protect American identity."
He never said what American identity is, but in this...
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• Oliver Willis
New York Times Hands Trump A Hit Job On Mary Peltola
Republicans are worried about losing the Senate race in Alaska, a state President Donald Trump easily won by 13 percentage points in the 2024 election, so they are clinging to a shoddy story published in The New York Times.
On Tuesday, the Times ran a story about the effort...
Madonna and Child and the Young St John the Baptist, 1495 #earlyrenaissance #sandrobotticelli
Scott Loftesness
• Scott Loftesness
Clear Colors
The San Juan Mountains in September are pure magic—vibrant aspen groves and crystal-clear skies make every moment unforgettable.
Credit and gratitude to @davidweinberger.bsky.social who coined the term in the title of his book.
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404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
People Used to Drink Wine Made From Ground-Up Mummies. Now, Scientists Are Studying It
In a new study perfectly timed for Halloween, scientists dug into the chemical properties of a once-popular beverage with purported medicinal benefits: wine made with ground-up Egyptian mummies.
Reconstructing, 1926 #klee #expressionism
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The biggest source of web decay in the world I try to hold together is Louis’ employer Google. I’m pretty close to withdrawing that blog, scripting.com, from Google so it has to stop slandering it. The web needs our love and protection. Google is a massive oil spill, getting worse every year.