ZELENSKYY: At this very moment, when we are talking about peace, America gives Russia the opportunity to export diesel — that's millions, billions. It all goes toward the war against people, against Ukraine, against all of us.

FWIW: theologically speaking, the NAE (which represents evangelicals w/different capital punishment views) coming out against this is a bigger deal than the USCCB (a tradition that explicitly condemns the death penalty, full stop). The fact that they’re using the same terms is quite a thing.

Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 4h ago

NEW from me: The National Association of Evangelicals (along with several other religious groups) are now joining the USCCB in condemning Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth’s plans to publicly execute Nidal Malik Hasan, also saying doing so promotes a “culture of death.” religionnews.com/2026/10/09/h...

Giving this one a little pop before I turn in for the night!

Kate Watson@loreandordure.com · 6h ago

This year’s Christmas card designs are finalised and starting to print this weekend! (Going to start taking pre-orders soon, if you’d like me to let you know when I get that sorted, please drop a note below!)

This year’s Christmas card designs are finalised and starting to print this weekend! (Going to start taking pre-orders soon, if you’d like me to let you know when I get that sorted, please drop a note below!)

The Swords to Plowshares Act, the final undoing of Christian white nationalist theocracy. (Maybe we don’t call it that actually but come on)

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 12h ago

Defund and abolish ICE. Melt down their weapons and shift its budget to social services and affordable housing. Ban everyone who led or worked for ICE from any government job. Corporate death penalty for the companies that aided them. Citizenship to all of its victims, should they want it.

I spent a few days in Paris recently. Entire traffic lanes and streets have been turned over to bikes. There's a way to make cycling safer, and it isn't yellow vests.

IrishCycle.com@irishcycle.com · 5h ago

“Mind-boggling” volume of cyclists in Dublin says Senator; as Fianna Fáil Seanad leader calls for high-vis and helmets to be mandatory One Senator called for bikes to be taken off people who did not have high-vis or helmets, and it prompted Fianna Fáil's leader in the Seanad to call for mandatory…

I just got a response from the National Guard, which says troops “are directed not to monitor or secure polling locations” and is “addressing this specific instance.”

Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 6h ago

The D.C. Board of Elections says it’s asking the National Guard to avoid standing near D.C.’s ballot drop boxes, which opened today, in the wake of video footage showing them near a box in Foggy Bottom this week: www.washingtonsun.com/metro/nation...

NI secretary to ban the Drumcree parade www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Drumcree: Secretary of state Sir Chris Bryant to ban the Drumcree parade

The parade has led to a stand-off between Orangemen and nationalist residents of the Garvaghy Road in Portadown lasting almost two weeks.

bbc.co.uk

In another example of how student journalists are doing excellent work, here are my wonderful Trinity students clearly articulating the value of a humanistic liberal arts education and critiquing its erosion by the use of AI (by professors, in this case) trinitonian.com/2026/10/08/t...

Trinity students seek AI regulation for professors - Trinitonian

Multiple students alleged that Jonathan King, professor of biology, used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate exam questions for his Cells and Cell Systems class. Many students reported seeing Kin...

trinitonian.com

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

The Independent@the-independent.com · 2w ago

An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet

an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. and pls, don't mansplain my post to me

I want to be clear: the people who are *revolting+ are the managers pushing AI, not the people resisting it. 🤪

WIRED@wired.com · 5h ago

Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

"Anthropic told police the false tip was generated as the company tested interactions between its AI model and 'randomly selected websites,' according to Gripp." share.inquirer.com/uT8FjH?utm_s...

Anthropic’s artificial intelligence gave a false homicide tip to Philly police, triggering a meeting with the company

The incident happened on July 18 but was not discovered by the Silicon Valley company until September, authorities say.

share.inquirer.com

Why is Lisa Nandy

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 4h ago

Of all the mystifying decisions Andy Burnham has made “the skillset and biography of Chris Bryant” and “the Northern Ireland brief” is the wildest.

So they asked me to delete half the deck: •screenshots of scientific articles •George Floyd’s autopsy report •med students holding signs for “White Coats for Black Lives” •a cartoonish image of Musk lest we offend the trillionaire •Butler quote: “choose your leaders with wisdom & forethought” ETC

The concern is that people take photos of slides and circulate content that puts orgs in the crosshairs of this repressive administration.

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

The 12yo likes specificity & wants to celebrate Giant Pacific Octopus Appreciation Day this World Octopus- & oddly National Pierogi Day! Enteroctopus dofleini is the largest marine cephalopod & my favourite animal to have seen working with an ROV offshore Vancouver Island. It looked so surprised!

Giant Pacific octopus - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Minor fly in the ointment: my guy who makes my rollers, who I’m waiting on for rollers for the new flatbed press, that I need for production printing of the bauble text, has, for reasons beyond his control, been delayed producing them, and I really need them next week and don’t know if I’ll get them

Kate Watson@loreandordure.com · 6h ago

This year’s Christmas card designs are finalised and starting to print this weekend! (Going to start taking pre-orders soon, if you’d like me to let you know when I get that sorted, please drop a note below!)

Study shows trans people *want* to exist.

Alex 🏴Ⓐ🔆 (The Anarchist Turtle)@theanarchistturtle.bsky.social · 7h ago

The absolute state of trans ally journalism

Can someone at the BBC please leak whatever directive resulted in them announcing a by-election result in which Labour and the Greens were way ahead of every other party like this? You can blink twice for help if you need it….

hello 911, yes, I'd like to report a murder

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 23h ago

"This technology that is ruining education has incredible potential to save education, if only I could figure out how to use it better to improve my students’ education." buff.ly/cEmLBex

Speaking as an author who has had his work illustrated: HUH? Artists illustrate our work. They own the copyright on their work. I own the copyright on my work. We're both happy.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact@analogsf.bsky.social · 10h ago

From our publisher:

*No. If you want to sell hectoliters of bad wine, you put some gold on the label and call it "royal" or "duke" something

Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨@drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 6h ago

So you're telling me if I make cheap plonk, I can hire a fancy label-designer and move hectoliters of it?

Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.

I cannot overstate how much I have built my entire personality around persisting at hard things, which may help to explain why I find rarely find AI tools to be useful.

I’ve walked past this wall hundreds of times. I guess an advertising hoarding has just been removed? It’s preserved very well, the missing chunks don’t lose much

I don't think Anthropic specifically should be able to tell me what to do in any capacity when I very specifically put "hey, no stealing!" on all my creations and they said "lol."