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If California’s “billionaire tax” passes, it will amount to the first time that a government in the U.S. has successfully taxed the assets, rather than the income, of extremely rich people as a class. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Battle to Pass a Billionaire Tax
Most Democratic voters say that they favor a wealth tax, but a California ballot initiative has plenty of liberal opponents.
www.newyorker.com
October 6, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Losing a parent to Alzheimer's is a double loss and it's bleak as hell.

Good people don't joke about things like that.

But Archibald Graham long ago gave up on being a decent human being.

metro.co.uk/2026/10/04/m...
Mike Graham filmed making 'hideous' jokes about Andy Burnham's dad's death
His comments were 'the lowest of the low'.
metro.co.uk
October 6, 2026 at 7:34 AM
October 6, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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Morning Kitten…

I have this exact kitten, grown up. And he still answers like that💙

Also, you guys… my daughter is in labor!
October 5, 2026 at 3:02 PM
PEN reports that SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson was the second most banned book in the 2025-2026 school year. 📣 SPEAK UP for banned books during #BannedBooksWeek by sharing what books changed your life and pledge your support for the Freedom to Read here ➡️ vist.ly/5m532
October 6, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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Houthis in Yemen: 'Saudi Arabia helped create the conditions for the rise of its most formidable adversary'
Houthis in Yemen: 'Saudi Arabia helped create the conditions for the rise of its most formidable adversary'
In an interview, anthropologist Marieke Brandt analyzes the ideology, power structures, military strength and pan-Islamic ambitions of the Houthis, the Yemeni movement that, in just 13 years, established itself as a quasi-state entity.
www.lemonde.fr
October 5, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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Crying because Chewy just refunded me $200 for Loki’s veterinary diet food that was delivered the day before he died with their deepest condolences for losing him. They aren’t even making me return it. Going to donate it to a cat who needs it. 🥺
October 5, 2026 at 2:49 PM
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
October 6, 2026 at 7:33 AM
All four of the women confirmed to have had children with Elon Musk—Shivon Zilis, ex-wife Justine Wilson, Claire Boucher (better known as Grimes), and Ashley St. Clair—have used social media to share details of their time with him.
Elon Musk’s Exes Are the Most Damning Part of a Massive New Documentary
Interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair in the nearly four-hour-long “Musk” paint the world’s richest man as capricious and cruel even toward those closest to him.
www.wired.com
October 6, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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Sister Wives is back for Season 21 on TLC this fall. The new season premieres Sunday, Oct. 4 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, though fans without cable can turn to several streaming services that carry the network, including options with free trials for eligible new subscribers.
So Long, Kody & Robyn: Where to Watch 'Sister Wives' Season 21 for Free Online Featuring Only the OG Spouses
Sister Wives is back for Season 21 on TLC this fall. The new season premieres Sunday, Oct. 4 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, though fans without cable can turn to several streaming services that carry the network, including options with free trials for eligible new subscribers.
bit.ly
October 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM
October 6, 2026 at 7:32 AM
October 6, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Students at Cornell are protesting the university's handling of an alleged sexual assault at a fraternity house in 2024 — and to show support for the unnamed accuser.

Hundreds gathered to hear speeches by their fellow students in what's expected to be the first of multiple protests this week.
October 6, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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Ukraine is building a Starlink alternative with a European partner to secure independent communications, while Musk’s restrictions and outages have exposed the risks of relying on SpaceX. Russia is developing a rival network with reported Chinese help.
Ukraine to build alternative to Starlink as Russia threatens "space war"
Ukraine is building its own satellite system and has been testing it with a European partner since August, Zelensky said. Russia has threatened a "full-scale space war".
www.yacnews.com
October 5, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Finally some good news
October 6, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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Are you stuck in an ethical gray area? Vox's advice column, Your Mileage May Vary, tackles dilemmas like what faith to raise your kids in to discussing politics with family you don’t agree with and more with unique frameworks. Submit your questions here: voxdotcom.visitlink.me/iiEgF5
Let us know what moral dilemmas you’re grappling with. You could be featured in the next Your Mileage May Vary column!
Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your ethical dilemmas and philosophical questions. Typical advice columns usually give you a single answer — the underlying premise being that there is an objectively “right” answer to the complex moral questions that life throws at us. Vox correspondent Sigal Samuel doesn’t buy that premise. So she reimagined the genre. Your Mileage May Vary is based on value pluralism, the idea that each person has multiple values that are equally valid but that sometimes conflict with each other. When values clash, dilemmas arise. This advice column won’t pretend to give you the one “right” answer; it’ll show you how to find your own. To get there, we'll see how wise people — from ancient philosophers to spiritual thinkers to modern scientists — have thought about these values and conflicts between them. Check out previous columns here. Shayla Love will be filling in for Sigal Samuel as the writer of this column while Sigal is on parental leave. Want to participate? Submit your question(s) below. (We take your privacy seriously. All submissions will be published anonymously. By submitting a question, you acknowledge that it may be published in a story on Vox.com. By participating, you also agree to Vox Media Inc. Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy.)
voxdotcom.visitlink.me
October 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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"Denmark has built so much wind power that its grid now regularly produces more than the country can consume, and on the windiest days the wholesale price of electricity falls below zero."
via Amazing Maps
October 5, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Thank you to everyone sharing in this moment!
I’m so grateful to all my trainees & collaborators…
dlab.stanford.edu/group-members
(pic: Peter and I together in 2017)

Reading for all those asking:

for technical details: dlab.stanford.edu

for everyone: deisseroth.org/projections
October 6, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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“They took me and they threw me [like] a sheep to the back of a military Hummer. After, they made their dog attack me and bite me, and they hit me,” says Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro, who was detained at a military base by Israeli soldiers for seven hours on Friday.
October 5, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Very saddened to say I won’t be able to headline Tim Pool’s student event in Chicago this week.

I unfortunately have other plans.
October 6, 2026 at 7:31 AM
The Cornell rape case is part of a broader pattern of "investigators, police officers and even prosecutors deciding at the outset that the allegations are not worth pursuing, and dismissing the case before any kind of investigation gets off the ground," says law professor Deborah Tuerkheimer.
October 6, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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This really dents Katie Price's image as a serious political figure, and I'm not convinced there's any coming back.
October 6, 2026 at 5:38 AM
NEW: Following our investigation with @readfrontier.bsky.social, an Oklahoma oil company has plugged a well that was potentially leaking toxic waste.

We revealed that state regulators had approved the well in violation of rules meant to protect public drinking water.
Oklahoma Oil Company Plugs Disposal Well That Posed Threat to City’s Drinking Water
The Frontier and ProPublica revealed that state regulators had approved the well in Enid, Oklahoma, in violation of rules meant to protect municipal groundwater. Now the well is permanently shut down.
www.propublica.org
October 6, 2026 at 7:31 AM