Binance is the brainchild of CEO Changpeng Zhao, who was convicted of money laundering in 2023. To get Zhao sprung from jail, company lobbyists went to work on the Trump family, offering to help Don Jr. make a fortune.
Donald Trump Jr. set up a crypto investment firm, World Liberty. It would have been just another name on the investment board if it didn’t come with a Trump White House connection.
https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/crypto-crooks-get-robbed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDNLX7ngV2A
How AI disinformation is reshaping our reality | Myriam Francois | TEDxCambridge University
We are reaching a point where distinguishing fact from fiction is becoming increasingly difficult. Dr. Myriam François argues that the rise of highly convincing AI-generated disinformation is unfolding alongside growing pressures on journalism and the institutions responsible for verifying and communicating facts.

https://dev.to/magnexis/dead-internet-theory-a-comprehensive-case-study-5324
Dead Internet Theory: A Comprehensive Case Study
Subtitle: Evaluating the Claim That the Modern Internet Is Increasingly Dominated by AI, Automation, and Synthetic Activity

The Dead Internet Theory (DIT) is an online hypothesis suggesting that much of today's internet is no longer driven primarily by human activity, but instead by automated systems including AI-generated content, bots, recommendation algorithms, engagement farms, and corporate automation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xKGKrD1wMs
Watch TORONTO Grow for 400 Years - 3D Timelapse
Toronto began as a muddy town of 700 people on the shore of Lake Ontario. In 1813 an American fleet attacked it, a powder magazine exploded and the Parliament burned. Watch its whole story as a 3D timelapse: the Carrying Place, the Battle of York, the lake filled in for railways and docks, the fire of 1904, the CN Tower and today's towers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnRMimaV7Gs
We Read Microsoft's Plan To Put Ads In Games
Microsoft has applied to patent a system that pauses games to show ads, then gives you more play time. We read the application to see when those interruptions would happen, why Xbox wants them, and how ad-funded access could change the way games are made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwwUsl6Ebcs
Now the USA is helping Russian intelligence services... Has anyone NOT realized Trump is a Russian asset yet? If so, you're not paying attention. Putin owns him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGsB9eJUrSc
It’s a Wonderful Night of the Living Dead
It’s a not-so-wonderful life for George Bailey when a horde of flesh-eating ghouls come to town on Christmas Eve. Using traditional rotoscoping and compositing techniques, two classics have been woven together in this twisted love letter to the original films.

The day the ‘European Union’ was born. 🇪🇺

On 1 November 1993, the Maastricht Treaty entered into force, officially establishing the European Union, formerly the European Communities.

From 12 to 27 Member States, we've come a long way.

Here's to our shared European future! 💙

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @Streetsblog
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/protect-yourself-separated-bike-lanes-means-safer-streets-study-says

Former chancellor says leaving European Union has made Britain ‘poorer, weaker and less secure’
The former chancellor Rachel Reeves has argued the UK’s future should be inside the EU, saying Brexit has made the UK “poorer, weaker and less secure”.
Wr https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/nov/01/rachel-reeves-uk-future-is-in-eu-andy-burnham-brexit source/editor : Guardian staff and agencies

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117536732288203747

The president of the United States of America has been accused of rape. Again...

👇

Why Is the Media Ignoring the Stunning New Trump-Epstein Allegations? | The Nation

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/newsletter-why-is-the-media-ignoring-the-stunning-new-trump-epstein-allegations/

“It is news when the president is credibly accused of rape. It is important news.” https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/newsletter-why-is-the-media-ignoring-the-stunning-new-trump-epstein-allegations/

"Powerful people want workers, not thinkers. Literacy is knowing, reading is reasoning, and knowing and reasoning cause resistance and revolution."
Kevin Ashton: The Story of Stories: The Million-Year History of a Uniquely Human Art, HarperCollins, 2026, p. 287

Jared Kushner Is the Worst Thing to Ever Happen to This Country, Maybe the World
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a74263816/jared-kushner-scandal-middle-eastern-oil-money/

"During their search through these secret files, the Dutch found something astonishing: screenshots of Jared Kushner’s iPhone.

As they monitored Kushner’s phone, they discovered he used it to log in to a UAE bank account. By the time the Dutch spies had visibility into the phone, the account had received hundreds of millions of dollars from a bank in Azerbaijan."

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https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/peace
“Peace” And what it would really take to get it
Would Europeans be able to stop spending money on weapons? No. We would face an uglier, more frightening war, one that would require Europeans to double or triple their military spending. Instead of spending budgets on health care or education, Europeans would have to completely re-imagine their security. Without the Ukrainian army protecting Europe from Russia, Europeans would have to change their way of life entirely.

https://marygeddry.com/p/the-homefront-report-a-baby-cannot
A Baby Cannot Opt Out of Your Air
What measles looks like, when vaccination begins, and where the argument about personal choice runs into someone else’s lungs.
Measles has reached 4,852 confirmed U.S. cases this year, with 511 hospitalizations, according to the CDC’s October 30 update, covering reports through October 29. Ninety-six percent of cases involve people who were unvaccinated or whose vaccination status was unknown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KK8ENMIwC4
Canada’s Getting Ready for... Something? (BrittleStar)

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/324871/20260818/amazon-destroys-rare-books-ai-training-despite-prior-denial-airtag-confirms.htm
Amazon Destroys Rare Books for AI Training Despite Prior Denial, AirTag Confirms
Book spines sliced, pages scanned, originals discarded at Amazon’s Las Vegas VGT3 unit

Astrophotographer and teacher Brendan Larsen spent 2 hours taking 578 photos of one section of sky in New Zealand to see how satellites are changing our night skies. Take a look at these shocking images that reveal their impact.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2595529-photo-of-14000-satellite-trails-shows-how-busy-space-is-becoming/?utm_id=97757_v0_s00_e0_tv2_a1demo0ecg7rma