NEWS: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has secured a record $131.5 million settlement from DoorDash after a NYC investigation found the company underpaid or failed to properly pay 264,000 delivery workers. 1/

this is a genuinely crazy story

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2h ago

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

Using AI in many cases means sending your most sensitive and intimate thoughts to a server where they can be exploited as training data, sold to ad brokers, or even handed to law enforcement. So I assembled this guide to using AI with your privacy intact. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact

Your conversations with AI chatbots are both highly personal and deeply vulnerable to surveillance. Here’s how you can protect yourself.

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Article 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h ago

Trump to the UN: "Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly? Do I drive them into hell?"

love sews us back together.

the scenario that unites the nation

Jack@jtenroon.bsky.social · yesterday

This is frying me

Ed Sheeran has learned his lesson. by Susan Collins

ed sheeran crying on stage reminds me of boyfriends who are caught cheating

ed sheeran is lifting the bestiality ban for supporting acts.

BREAKING: Ed Sheeran overcorrects, joins Hezbollah

for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount:

Done! Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros. Discovery

Paramount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen State Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with WBD.

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In case you haven’t heard it: *this* is the speech that got Macklemore censored and booted from a concert tour in the US. Not a word he said was wrong or worthy of censorship to anyone with a functioning moral compass or commitment to democracy and human rights. youtu.be/GslWD7ZcipY?...

Watch Macklemore's 'Free Palestine' speech amid being dropped from Ed Sheeran tour

YouTube video by Page Six

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Being the most popular person in Pelican Town is so important to me.

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

Mother Mary absolutely rips More dom/sub dress-making girl magic thrillers please

Mother Mary Anne Hathaway

ALT: Mother Mary Anne Hathaway

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You think this regime can't get any more cartoonishly evil, but then it finds a way. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/c...

Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection

An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.

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Editor: I'd like a story that combines Americans' hatred of artificial intelligence, their fears about the environment, their antipathy toward data centers, and their angst over inflation driven by dwindling fuel supplies. Reporter: Got ya covered, boss. Need anything else?

A minor detail is missing from the headline.

Fresh off the Easel! I visited Tipsoo Lake in Mt. Rainier National Park on the hunt for mountain reflections and alpine wildflowers. Alpine Blooms by Erin Hanson, 2026 Oil on canvas 36 x 20 in #Tahoma #MtRainier #NPS #wildflowers #bloomscrolling #art @fineartgallery.bsky.social #oilpainting

I can hear this picture

Retro Blast 💫@retroblastpod.com · last wk.

Happy 25 years to the Nintendo GameCube

Ouch.

All of Ed Sheeran's Openers Abandon Tour After Macklemore Debacle

Finneas, Lukas Graham, and more have dropped off shows with Ed Sheeran after Macklemore was pressured off the tour after saying, 'Free Palestine.'

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so much of friendship is being with them through the different haircuts

If only he were the CEO of Anthropic!

San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · last wk.

Dario Amodei says the AI industry should slow down before more powerful systems outpace researchers’ ability to understand and control them.

I am not a relationship expert or anything but one lesson I’ve learned is that if your partner seems off and you can’t really figure out why: just clean something up it will usually help the vibe

please be normal and leave that lady alone

A corn maze in Polk County, Tennessee, will be one of 20 across the U.S. and Canada to feature a special Dolly Parton-themed tribute celebrating her legacy in music and her Imagination Library.

Dolly-themed corn maze in Polk County one of 20 US, Canada tributes | Chattanooga Times Free Press

A corn maze in Polk County, Tennessee, will be one of 20 across the U.S. and Canada to feature a special Dolly Parton-themed tribute celebrating her legacy in music and her Imagination Library.

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