Starbucks CEO says the company is planning to focus more on AI and tech, including a adding system that would recognize customers as they arrive in stores to "present personalized digital menus."
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“Voting isn't a Valentine. It's a chess move” Rebecca Solnit
NEW — I spoke to Tom, the guy at the South Carolina Trump rally who compared the president's supporters to the Jonestown Massacre. We talked about his loathing for Trump, his love of death metal, and where he learned his impeccable comedic timing. Read our full chat here:
I talked to Tom, the viral ‘Jonestown’ Trump rally guy
He planned to make good trouble. But he didn't expect to be handed a Fox News mic.
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Kentucky Humanist Becomes First to Get Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work
Kentucky Humanist Becomes First to Get Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work
David Durman is the first humanist to be granted a religious exemption from using AI at his workplace, the University of Kentucky. The post Kentucky Humanist Becomes First to Get Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work first appeared on Mediaite.
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17 states have never had a female governor. This fall, five states have elections for governor featuring a major-party nominee who, if elected, would be the first woman to hold that office.
In 2024, Alaska Republicans recruited a guy in prison -- in New York! -- with no ties to Alaska to run against Peltola when she was running for Congress. Alaska Republicans even took legal action to keep this guy on the ballot! www.vpm.org/news/2024-09...
He's in a New York prison. Yet courts let him stay on a U.S. House ballot — in Alaska - VPM
A fringe candidate who's never been to Alaska and is currently in federal prison in New York is set to appear on the general election ballot for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat, after a judge’s ruling.
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In targeting Abdul El-Sayed, right-wing media figures are objecting to the very idea of Muslims in the U.S.: www.mediamatters.org/diversity-di...
In the U.S., as Obama said, we now have the opportunity to “leave our worst impulses behind and start aligning our politics with our highest ideals.” Imagine the celebrations that will erupt if we do.
Jen Rubin@jenrubin.bsky.social · yesterdayDepravity is on the ballot
Comedian Lucas Zelnick responds to a white lady in the audience who says, “I’m against Jews.”
👀 😂 “A ‘youthful indiscretion’ at FIFTY-THREE?! Are we sure the dick pic wasn’t just a selfie with his hat off? Does his penis also wear tiny spectacles?” @justinjpearson.bsky.social ’s opponent Senator Brent Taylor’s 🍆 scandal getting the Daily Show treatment from @jordanklepper #Mkay #TN9
Q: Are you the one who’s going to turn Texas blue? James Talarico: I’m not interested in turning Texas blue. I wanna win this seat so that I can fight for all 31 million Texans — whether they’re Democrats, independents, or Republicans.
Former CIA Station Chief Dan Hoffman offered some blunt criticism of Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine. Hoffman also said the diesel deal Trump brokered wouldn't help get the price down much but it would certainly help Russia's war efforts.
OBAMA: The President is spending time super gluing gold medallions to the mantle in the Oval Office. He is literally doing arts and crafts while we are fighting a war.
Obama 🔥: "The president wasn't even mad about the Saddam Hussein comparison! That part didn't bother him. But he was very upset about the Cheesecake Factory comments. He took great umbrage. The mobilized a whole of government response to that joke!"
Tonight, I’m heading to Georgia for a rally to support Keisha Lance Bottoms, Jon Ossoff, and Democrats up and down the ballot. The last day to vote early in Georgia is this Friday, October 30th, so make a plan today at IWillVote.com/GA.
Scary shit right here. We have to look at how to fix this kind of stuff. Immediately. It’s only gonna get worse.👇
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoAP: Social media videos believed to be produced with AI and linked to Russia are misusing real people's names and photographs to spread disinformation about Sherrod Brown and James Talarico in the final stretch of midterm voting.
I saw this story earlier on @ms.now Another name for weirdo Republicans to clutch pears over is a MUSLIM HERO emeraldbook.org/news/oct-242...
Why Major Outlets Called a Black Muslim Man Who Saved 18 Kids “Minnesota Man” – Emerald Book
◆ Emerald Pages ◆ Media Analysis Why Major Outlets Called a Black Muslim Man Who Saved 18 Kids “Minnesota Man” Emerald Book Publication October 24, 2026 9 min read When Ebro Ahmed saved 18 children fr...
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Hi @patrickhealynyt.bsky.social could you read my friend's smart piece? @elienyc.bsky.social should be writing for all y'all.
ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 2d agoAgain, Repubicans had every opportunity to litigate this (obvious) ratfucking, they DID IN FACT litigate it all the way to the Alaska Supreme Court, and lost, IN JUNE. Further appeals, if needed, should have taken place in July and August. The DOJ is now asking for an unworkable remedy IN OCTOBER
“I’m a big stupid loser and children aren’t safe around me” is actually pretty on brand with Republican messaging
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago"There were like 35 Secret Service agents and 25 staffers who knew what I dipshit I was" -- JD Vance, campaigning in North Carolina, tells a deeply weird story about how he was playing with fireworks with his kids a few days ago and let one explode in his hand, burning his fingers 😳
xAI and its subsidiary MZX are reportedly offering to buy hundreds of homes around Southaven, Mississippi. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
xAI is buying out homeowners who promise not to sue over data center noise
18 homeowners have reportedly agreed to sell.
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Finally, someone understands Alaskans' travail: they have time to read "Daniel S. Sullivan" and "Mary Pelota" and "Dan Sullivan," but not one second more. If asked to also read the words "Republican" and "Incumbent," it'll overwhelm their cognitive capacity and cost them their job, the poor dears.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoQ: Why shouldn't Alaskans find it insulting that the administration is suggesting they can't read the word 'incumbent' on their ballot and know to vote for Sen. Sullivan? JD VANCE: People are busy. People have lives. People have jobs.
unironically running against elon and techbros is going to be The most clearcut way to storming 2028, rebuilding the obama coalition and making ins with rurals and exurbs
e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 2d agorunning against Elon just keeps on delivering results! www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...
A colossal 13-foot-tall skeleton stands tall, gazing down at a Flock surveillance camera, ready to deliver a message. This serves as a friendly reminder to Peter Thiel and the small group of individuals who aspire to monitor and control us that we are watching them right back. “Who’s Flocking Me?”
MS NOW Tops CNN in Key Demo for First Time in Over a Decade
MS NOW Tops CNN in Key Demo for First Time in Over a Decade
MS NOW topped CNN in a key demo with their weekend lineup for the first time in 14 years, according to Nielsen viewership data. The post MS NOW Tops CNN in Key Demo for First Time in Over a Decade first appeared on Mediaite.
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Here's ChatGPT firmly instructing a young woman to reduce the dosage of her lifesaving medicine until she died www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...
Any town that agrees to host a Trump convention or rally that doesn't ask this notorious deadbeat for money in advance is ridiculously incompetent. Trump has stiffed MANY cities. It's a lesson he learned when he didn't pay his subcontractors during construction of buildings.
Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d ago‘Absolutely ridiculous’: Dallas still hasn’t received Republican midterm convention reimbursement