RE: https://mementomori.social/@juergen_hubert/117506218354020340
Truly. The people who want to take an "eternal September" attitude to the influx of people to the open social web are not helping the cause in any way. Don't do it.
Holy wow. 25% of Microsoft. https://www.theverge.com/tech/1018666/microsoft-expands-buyouts-60000-employees-eligible
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Here is another one of the wonderful people and organizations we have on Feedle, who also happens to be active on Mastodon: @ProPublica
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My team is very proud of this deep dive research we did with IFPG into over 151 thousand AI answers and 1.5MM citations to real world election questions for last months. The trends and highlights in this early report is just the first early findings - with more to come! #AI #Midterms
https://innovatingforpublicgood.substack.com/p/new-analysis-finds-ai-platforms-providing
Chinese Open-Weight Model Kimi K3.1 Pro Closes In on U.S. Leaders
Moonshot AI introduces Kimi K3.1 Pro. According to independent benchmarks, the open-weight model competes with leading proprietary U.S. models.
Powerful executives cozied up to Trump. Now they fear a reckoning. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/10/26/silicon-valley-courted-trump-now-its-bracing-democratic-congress/
http://www.memeorandum.com/261026/p43#a261026p43
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For one thing, maybe it's now possible to save the vital Amazon rainforest, which Bolsonaro wanted to turn into an industrial park.
Plus, presumably, his wretched criminal father will now continue rotting in prison.
This analyst's report from Apollo about AI uses the term "S&P 493" to refer to the "S&P 500 minus the Mag 7" - because if you take out the AI companies, the S&P 500 is tanking. https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector
😆 Voters in Serbia and Brazil today
someone at Polymarket is drafting a tweet about how their users accurately predicted the Brazilian election result within one point
Dragging this into the light...in light of Brazil.
HUGE relief tonight:
Lula is reelected in Brazil--fuck the Bolosonaros; and in Serbia, the protesting student candidates win over half the seat in the legislature, forcing the authoritarian leader there to concede defeat.
Brazil election results:
https://www.reuters.com/live/brazil-election-live-lula-bolsonaro-face-off-presidential-runoff-2026-10-25/
Serbia election results:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/serbias-vucic-concedes-defeat-student-led-movement-parliamentary-election-2026-10-25/
Introducing a New Way to Understand the Election: Times Voter Trends (Nate Cohn/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/upshot/election-midterms-times-voter-trends.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/261025/p5#a261025p5
Mastodon v5 alpha with Mastodon Bird UI v5 alpha and additional sidebar content in the test/dev environment for our Mastodon fork, mementomori.social.
It's coming together nicely.
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"Launched for public access on October 25, 2001, [@internetarchive's Wayback Machine] allows users to go "back in time" to see how its catalogued websites looked in the past."
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The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed More Than $700 Million in Transfers https://www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-kushner-hacked-phone-secret-negotiations