This is hilarious - laughed a lot and feel confident about the future 😂
https://ifloz.substack.com/p/early-voters-suggest-theyre-sending?r=1ljvpm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Landlords Don't Provide Housing

https://quokk.au/c/mop/p/1174360/landlords-don-t-provide-housing

Even the tech industry's own polling shows that data centres are the absolute rock bottom priority for public infrastructure.

We want healthcare, education, public housing, clean energy, water and sanitation.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e42e640bad2756dac08e2c6/t/68d1238de240f40875563da6/1758536589810/Powering+the+Fourth+Industrial+Revolution+Report+-+Alpaca+Communications.pdf

I regret to report that writing books with opinions the UK Government doesn't like is now terrorism.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/14/sally-rooney-says-she-can-no-longer-sell-books-in-the-uk-because-of-palestine-action-support

“US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent issued a long list of demands for the World Bank…

including ending ​the bank's prohibition on financing upstream oil and gas projects,

putting ‌resources into deep-sea critical minerals mining and reforming its procurement policies.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/bessent-calls-world-bank-reforms-including-upstream-oil-gas-financing-2026-10-15/

#Climate #Energy #Finance #Environment #Ocean #Minerals #UN #USA #USPol #GOP #Geopolitics

Discover-Tech, a company deeply embedded in the digital advertising ecosystem, weaponized ads to profile millions of people in many countries and to help infect 45+ devices within the news network Al Jazeera with Candiru spyware.

In this new @citizenlab report, we document the first public technical confirmation of a zero-click mercenary spyware attack delivered via targeted ads:
https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/

Well, I suppose this is the new normal for the foreseeable…

Yesterday we spent over £32 million on gas to replace wind energy that we couldn't get to the right place.

Space technology belongs to everyone, and so should the safety it can bring.

Our new Compass on Space and Disaster Risk Management turns data into information people can act on to protect us all.

Shared data, shared knowledge, shared resilience. Disasters cross borders, so does our response.

More 👉 https://link.europa.eu/WDvX66

Defund Musk! https://robertreich.substack.com/p/defund-musk?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

No matter where you shop, you're getting screwed by Amazon. Amazon has found a way to make everything you buy - at Target, at a mom-and-pop shop, even direct from the manufacturer - more expensive. And they're not the only one: Expedia's done the same thing, but for hotel rooms.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/15/enshittipedia/#most-favored-nation

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Lady in the Wall — by Martín Ron in Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷

A massive portrait of a woman in a hat and bracelets stretches across an exposed brick wall. This stunning mural perfectly fuses striking realism with clever architectural framing.

#StreetArt #PublicArt #Mural

In yet another hybrid attack against NATO, 11 out of 17 Starlink ground stations near Sofia in Bulgaria were set on fire.

A similar sabotage attack occurred in Poland in late September.

Europe needs a Churchill. It is time to stop Putin.

⚖️ Back in 2020, noyb (in cooperation with the Norwegian Consumer Council) filed a complaint against the online advertising company #Xandr (now part of #Microsoft) for processing personal data from the dating app #Grindr.

🇳🇴 Now, the Norwegian DPA (Data Protection Authority) Datatilsynet has issued its decision – and fined Xandr € 8.5 million (NOK 92 000 000) for its #GDPR violations. 💸 This is a major blow to the online adtech industry!

For more information, visit: https://noyb.eu/en/privacy-win-norwegian-authority-fines-microsofts-xandr-eu-85-million

RE: https://nrc.social/@MarloesdeKoning/117443878800925446

Dutch bank ABN Amro (one of the big 3) is at risk of being hit by US sanctions, because of services it provides to the ICC.

Worst case scenario ABN AMRO would be excluded from the international banking system, which would be the "corporate death penalty" and has already caused another bank, the Amsterdam Trade Bank, to go under.

#digitalsovereignty #opensource #ICC #USpol

US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B
https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/10/14/us-tech-giants-warn-europe-that-ditching-us-tech-giants-could-cost-115b/5303031
Amazon, Google, Meta among members of lobby group funding dire warnings over cloud sovereignty plans.

So Europeans switching to European tech could cost US tech giants €115B? That's a great result...

50-year study of tax cuts on wealthy shows they always fail to "trickle down" https://www.salon.com/2020/12/27/50-year-study-of-tax-cuts-on-wealthy-shows-they-always-fail-to-trickle-down/

#RepublicansDontCare #GOPTaxScam #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlueToSaveEverything #NoFascism #USPol

"Programming is hard", writes the company behind Unreal Engine, where coders for decades maintained foundational pieces of engineering underpinning the games industry, admitting that layoffs & sloprot left them unable to code basically an advanced student project

store.epicgames.com/news/epic-ga...

The new Epic Games Launcher is...

What's your favorite smell?

Employee of the month time in the Kremlin

As with many of Morland’s cartoons it is worth looking at some of the smaller details. The tatoo on Trump's arse in the June ‘employee of the month' for example

#Cartoon #MortenMorland #Putin #Trump #Musk #Ukraine #USA

President Volodymyr Zelensky lifted restrictions on Ukraine's strikes against Russian oil refineries after Russia continued to strike Ukraine's energy infrastructure over the past days.

"The block (on attacking refineries) is out. We’re done," Zelensky said.

https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-lifts-pause-on-ukraines-strikes-against-russian-oil-refineries/

#Ukraine #Russia