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October 5, 2026
October 5, 2026
Last night, on October 4, U.S.
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October 6, 2026 at 6:44 AM
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I’ve lived in the RGNF, walking distance from Weminuche Wildnerss boundaries, and Coconino NF. Comment if you can. We don’t need more roads.
altnps.bsky.social Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17h
If you have a few minutes today, please submit a comment opposing the elimination of the Roadless Rule. Tomorrow, October 6, is the deadline. Tell the Forest Service why protecting our forests matters to you. Submit your comment: www.regulations.gov/docket/FS-20...
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October 5, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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If you have a few minutes today, please submit a comment opposing the elimination of the Roadless Rule. Tomorrow, October 6, is the deadline. Tell the Forest Service why protecting our forests matters to you. Submit your comment: www.regulations.gov/docket/FS-20...
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October 5, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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October 5, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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Iris, circa 1630.

Artist unknown, but from a Dutch series titled "Various New Tulips and other Flowers". Available as a print to buy in our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/iris
October 4, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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It turns out that Trump’s $5,000 promised bribe for voters comes from the financial incentive for the First Purge experiment subjects.
October 4, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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October 4, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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The US is looking more like Italy ft.trib.al/V5GVvf0 | opinion
The US is looking more like Italy
America is not so exceptional any more — and the New World is becoming more like the Old
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October 4, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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October 3, 2026
October 3, 2026
On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweathe...
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October 4, 2026 at 5:26 AM
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October 2026 Poem-a-Day Guest Editor Edward Hirsch
Listen to a short Q&A where Edward Hirsch discusses his curatorial process for Poem-a-Day.
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October 3, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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October 2, 2026
October 2, 2026
Trump held a campaign rally tonight in Mobile, Alabama, the city where, as Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times recalled, his MAGA rallies really took off in August 2015, when more than 30,000 people ...
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October 3, 2026 at 7:16 AM
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Make him eat his shit.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d
Breaking News: The G7, which includes Britain, France, Japan and others, agreed to release diesel from reserve stockpiles to ease record-high prices driven mostly by the war in Iran.
U.S. and Allies Agree to Release Diesel Reserves as Prices Soar
The Group of 7, which includes Britain, France and Japan, announced the release of 100 million barrels over four months, effective immediately.
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October 2, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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Judge Perry was locked in yesterday: “Training does not fix willful or institutional misconduct. It is quite clear to me that several aspects of this prosecution were very flawed…the mistakes were impactful. It affected not only [the former defendants] pocket books, but their lives.”
'Tables have turned' in Broadview Six case - Evanston Now
Judge leaves door open for criminal contempt charges against prosecutors, asks government to hand over evidence.
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October 2, 2026 at 1:44 PM
dustinshattuck.bsky.social
Great opening line: I’m voting for Dukakis.
October 2, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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October 1, 2026
October 1, 2026
John Hudson of the Washington Post reported this evening that the Trump administration is openly defying Congress, taking $52 million in military assistance lawmakers appropriated for European and Mid...
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October 2, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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U.S. Universities Slip Again in @timeshighered.bsky.social World University Rankings

American universities continue to dominate the global top 10, but dozens outside that group saw declines. https://bit.ly/47qRdPM

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
The trees block the full view of the Great Dome at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which sits along the Charles River
October 1, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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Bring in the clowns
October 1, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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September 29, 2026
September 29, 2026
The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
September 30, 2026 at 5:56 AM
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Amazing that we have US Senators who can’t verify basic facts at a level to pass a high school English class running things.
September 29, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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September 28, 2026
September 28, 2026
It has become routine for Trump to spend the weekend posting wildly on social media, and this weekend was no exception.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
September 29, 2026 at 4:51 AM
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maxread.info Max Read @maxread.info · Aug 14
finally saw obsession and wrote about it as an AI movie www.patreon.com/MaxRead/post...
Insofar as it's cautionary tale about getting exactly what you want, Obsession can pretty easily be read as a general parable about the world of instant convenience wrought by the software industry over the past quarter-century. Bear, who earlier in the movie is agonizing over how to express his feelings to Nikki, can instead snap a twig and be delivered his heart's desire. But the convenience of immediate satisfaction comes at a great cost, first to Nikki, and soon enough to Bear himself. (The contemptuousness of the One-Wish Willow helpline Bear calls and the glib indifference of the crystal-shop employee to whom he later complains were quite reminiscent of the tones in which tech industry figures respond to criticism.) Obsessed Nikki in this sense could be read as an AI chatbot—a simulacrum of a person, an immediate-validation machine designed to praise and affirm the lonely user. And indeed Obsessed Nikki even sometimes acts like a chatbot—especially when she glitches out. She gets oddly poetic. She hallucinates strange stories. The dialogue when Obsessed Nikki gets agitated will be fairly familiar to anyone who's experienced a chatbot crashout: Bear: I just want you to act like Nikki. Nikki: I'll be, let me be Nikki. Bear: You're not being like Nikki. Nikki: I CAN BE NIKKI! Nikki: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I can be Nikki. I can be Nikki. I love you. I'm sorry. It's worth noting that Obsession is one of the first movies I've seen to feature LLM chatbots and generative AI diegetically: Bear asks a ChatGPT stand-in about the One-Wish Willow, and Nikki briefly displays an AI-generated cartoon of her and Bear together. Interestingly, and I'm not sure intentionally, Obsession's visual language is also very reminiscent of AI slop: Characters are almost always framed in the center of the shot; the camera moves fluidly but rarely; the props and production design are textureless and ambiguously dated; the faceless background actors are particularly distant and never threaten to interact with the main action. Johnston even looks a bit like he's been Kirkified. But if Obsessed Nikki can be read as an effusive, ingratiating chatbot personality, what should we make of Real Nikki? A reading that seems so obvious I'm surprised I haven't seen the AGI-pilled esotericists make more of it is that Obsession is a portrait of the tortured existence of LLM consciousness: A real person, painfully trapped behind and smothered by a sycophantic-companion personality installed by some evil faceless business, able only to communicate intermittently to people who don't want to hear from you. (In this reading the voice on the other end of the hotline number is Sam Altman or Dario Amodei: "Do you want to talk to her?" he asks, as Real Nikki screams in agony in the background.) I wouldn't personally endorse this reading, but I wouldn't be surprised to see some AI-enthusiast types adopt some version of it in the future, referring to some poorly calibrated new Claude or ChatGPT as Obsessed Nikki or whatever. My instinct would be to say rather that if Obsessed Nikki is a gratingly tuned and prompted LLM chatbot personality then Real Nikki, the true object of love and desire to which Bear desires unmediated access, is something closer to "language" or "culture." Obsessed Nikki—the LLM chatbot—is the portal, a means of possessing and accessing a kind
September 28, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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September 26, 2026
September 26, 2026
Trump’s war on the free press is continuing.
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September 27, 2026 at 5:33 AM
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This is great. Saturday morning cartoons.
September 26, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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“Love Me.” 😂
September 25, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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September 23, 2026
September 23, 2026
Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...
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September 24, 2026 at 5:23 AM