ORLY? 🙄 Ovaries Develop an Intriguing Second Role After Menopause

ht @annieparker.bsky.social

https://www.sciencealert.com/ovaries-develop-an-intriguing-second-role-after-menopause

Russell Brand was a “ruthless, calculated and manipulative sexual predator”, prosecutors said at the start of his high-profile trial at Southwark crown court yesterday. The 51-year-old comedian and podcaster is facing three charges of rape, three of sexual assault and one of indecent assault alleged to have taken place between 1999 and 2009, all of which he denies.

The Economist appears to have woken up this morning, checked their field of fucks, and determined it was, indeed, barren.

#ai #economics

📰 7 Open-Source AI Tools That Can Replace Paid Subscriptions

Find open-source alternatives to OpenAI API, Midjourney, Claude Code, Notion, Wispr Flow, Grammarly, and NotebookLM that you can run locally or self-host for more privacy, control, and lower cost.

📰 Source: KDnuggets
🔗 Link: https://www.kdnuggets.com/7-open-source-ai-tools-that-can-replace-paid-subscriptions

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Because I remembered it's existence:
Nearly 10 years ago, Innuendo Studios did a great series about the alt-right playbook. It hasn't lost it's relevance, to the contrary.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ
(a 'real' transcript is linked in the description of each episode)

ofc I've got the whole playlist in my own archive

Klitschko - the current mayor of Kyiv who was mentioned as a potential leader on the leaked Nuland call is going off and attacking Zelensky- continuously showing his utter capture and loyalty to the US. It is so very transparent.

I’ve been thinking about this chart from Anthropic about code the pace of code changes going from 2.5K to 30K/day since May.

Many developers instinctively will claim this is unsustainable but the question I’ve been asking myself is what if it isn’t?

How do your product and users adapt to the pace?

SLAVA UKRAINI ❤️

Six Russian Su-34M fighter jets were destroyed by yesterday's attack on Russia's Borisoglebsk airfield.
#AureFreePress #News #UkraineWar #StandWithUkraine

New STI drops - TMVII: A New Type of Ringworm Infection 🙀

https://www.cdc.gov/ringworm/about/tmvii.html

📢 A message from OpenAustralia Foundation CEO, Ben Fairless—the former volunteer administrator of Right to Know:

https://oaf.org.au/2026/10/13/this-library-is-running-out-of-money-here-is-how-to-keep-it-open/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@carlypage/117443919930177551

Ah. Like the Mafia would do. Ok.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jockr/117444217155777725

Fuck then up Zelenskyy 🥊

Ukraine to restart strikes on Russian oil refineries, Zelensky says

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqwyrnwd9dw1o

"I work for a major insurer. Much of my industry is fudging the numbers in the face of the climate crisis."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/14/climate-crisis-insurance-risk-disaster-catastrophe?CMP=share_btn_url

#ClimateCrisis

“Home Affairs detained Australian citizen for 945 days,” because they’re competent. https://www.themandarin.com.au/322195-home-affairs-detained-australian-citizen-for-945-days/

pro-Israel extremists launch campaign to cancel Randa Abdel-Fattah from Adelaide Writers’ Week

https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-pro-israel-extremists-launch

Anthropic reported $16.8B in quarterly revenue, up 50% from Q2, and its second consecutive quarter of adjusted profitability.

Yet its investors are disappointed because growth is slowing and ARR is below expectations of $100B+.

The revenue numbers are crazy but not crazy enough it seems.

Beware of anti-woke campaigners’ attack playbook Typical moves include cherry-picking evidence, selectively targeting minorities and coordinating harassment, say Sander van der Linden and Alan Jagolinzer https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/beware-anti-woke-campaigners-attack-playbook

A good article about the BS of saying AI agents “went rogue.”
https://www.csoonline.com/article/4234854/ai-agents-arent-going-rogue-frontier-labs-are-skipping-security-basics.html

Although press reports and the model providers themselves use language such as rogue agents or misalignment, cybersecurity experts who spoke with CSO argue that language obscures a simple truth: These incidents were caused by inexcusable failures by the frontier labs to implement cybersecurity practices that have been well-known for decades.

h/t @kcarruthers

#AI #cybersecurity

BBC asks judge to force Trump to sit for deposition in $10bn defamation lawsuit
The US president was due to be deposed on Friday but has cancelled due to ‘matters of national importance’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bbc-donald-trump-panorama-lawsuit-b3066404.html