Relentless AI scrapers pushed DNA Lounge's web hosting bill from $800 to $3,500/month.
That is a $32,000/year cost shift caused entirely by companies training models on their content without permission. AI companies are externalizing their massive training costs onto independent web operators, effectively taxing the independent web to build their proprietary models. 📉
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
There's a great new podcast called how do you solve the problem like everything.
It's about organizing for change and have some wonderful ideas that have been proven in practice.
They just mentioned a program that among other things resulted in a significant cut in crime rates.
But I did laugh when it mentioned this as being a benefit to the police because somehow I don't think preventing crime is a great benefit to the police because then they'll be out of jobs.
Which would be a double benefit.
Choose hope for 75 families in Gaza (mistakenly been saying 65, but it's 75!). Every dollar reaches them for exceptionally urgent needs: surgeries, medical tests, pharmacy expenses, precious scraps of shelter.
Monthly giving with dignity. 19/32 pledges: https://chuffed.org/project/hope-emergency-fund
Before now, the #EpsteinFiles have unveiled that sex offender's ties with Kremlin insiders
Emails released by the US Department of Justice show that between 2011 and 2019, the financier also acted as a facilitator for members of the Russian elite, helping with real estate transactions and offshore financial arrangements.
Who else do we know is interested in real estate?
#justsaying ....
🇵🇱🇺🇦 Donald Tusk:
After my today’s talk with Zelensky, I’m absolutely convinced that no-one and nothing can break Ukraine and its’ President in their fight against the Russian aggression.
I have assured him that he can count on Poland’s and Europe’s full solidarity with the Ukrainian nation.
@helle @maleve North America has become very car centric and a small pickup truck makes sense in rural areas but our cars are now the size of what pickup trucks used to be and our trucks are now tanks. Kei cars would be perfect for urban settings IFF tanks were not allowed in the city centre. Of course that would not go over well with a lot of Autowa folks.
this whole article is *excellent*
https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/patriarchy-masterclass
Apparently Drag shows, unlike executions, are not suitable for public viewing.
"The water was laced with used machinery oil, disfiguring the once crystal-clear, wild water of the Haroni River. The river not only sustains the Ndau tribal people of Chimanimani district in southeast Zimbabwe but also acts as Zimbabwe’s eastern border with Mozambique. By December of last year, excavators operated by a Chinese mining syndicate were at work along a stretch of the riverbeds — tearing up centuries of riparian ecology in a hunt for alluvial gold deposits."
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/10/inside-campaign-illegal-chinese-mining-africa/
Too many people judge the disabled for what we do to survive.
The truth is you can’t fathom what it’s like to live in a body that’s betrayed you.
To exist in legislated poverty with no reliable help or care.
To be left by the wayside to die and abandoned by almost everyone.
People will claim to understand.
They will try and empathize.
But then they say things like “if it were really that bad you would have support”.
Or “you just have to try harder and get another doctor”.
They don’t actually listen to us.
They talk over us.
They’re utterly convinced that they know better about our suffering, and that if we really wanted to get better we could.
We simply don’t want it bad enough.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Disabled people are incredibly resourceful.
We’re surviving in a system doing its utmost to kill us.
If “wanting” to get better was all it took, no one would be chronically ill.
If support showed up whenever it was truly needed, no one would suffer.
If healthcare helped, we would be lined up at the hospital doors.
Please don’t judge what you can’t understand
Try and realize it’s your own fear and denial that makes you need to believe everything is “fixable”… because you can’t fathom getting sick and never getting better
Disability comes for almost everyone… help us build a better world
The Israeli army has bulldozed over 1.6 million olive trees in Gaza since the beginning of the genocide in 2023, threatening the livelihood and heritage of olive farming communities, and the survival of a centuries-old Palestinian cultural tradition.
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/10/after-three-years-of-genocide-gazas-olive-harvest-is-going-extinct/
I wrote this for my students but I thought I'd share it here too.
To memorize vocabulary words, formulas or definitions you should practice *recalling* that information. Just reading or copying the thing you want to memorize over and over may not help you remember it when there is nothing to copy.
Make flash cards for each thing you need to remember. Look at one side and then either write down the answer or say it out loud. Then check if it was correct.
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Why we’re stuck with a Premier League in the clutches of the global mega-rich | Premier League | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/oct/10/why-premier-league-in-clutches-of-global-mega-rich
> There’s little prospect of a troubled model changing in a country that welcomes wealthy international owners with open arms
Professional sports is now an billionaires' play toy.
Support genuine clubs in your neighbourhood. How about sports cooperatives?
In Toronto, everyone hates Rogers Communications for its impossible-to-reach service yet cheer, buy merchandise and pay exorbitant ticket prices to its monopoly on major city sports corporations.
Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, says Lancet assessment | Global health | The Guardian
Oh good. The worst effects of the #climateDisaster won't bother us too much.
A nuclear winter will postpone global warming for a few decades while radiation and starvation kills us off
> Newly established commission identifies 17 catastrophic threats to human health but says ‘realistic route to act’ on each exists
Trump says the world must be divided between the Great Dictators: Trump, Putin and Xi.
All others must be part of their empires.
> Trump says Ukraine needs a new leader after diesel deal with Russia | Volodymyr Zelenskyy
— The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/10/ukraine-russia-strikes-war-trump-diesel-deal-zelenskyy
> US president suggests Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has not done enough to end war
"Has not surrendered"
Hundreds of doctors demand World Medical Association suspend Israel
> Physicians accuse Israeli Medical Association of remaining silent as Palestinian healthcare is systematically destroyed.
We've lived for so long with this mythology that sure, the wealthy can be cruel. But at least the cruelty has a point. Profit!
I'd like us to open our hearts to other possibilities.
Power doesn't just corrupt! It can also breed truly reality-distorting levels of incompetence.
Restrooms at a new local cocktail bar.