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WIRED @wired.com · 1h

Google's autonomous taxi subsidiary will hit the UK's capital next year, regulations permitting—but its first international service could be Waymo's biggest challenge yet. www.wired.com/story/waymos...

Waymo's Robotaxis Are Coming to London

Google's autonomous taxi subsidiary will hit the UK's capital next year, regulations permitting—but its first international service could be Waymo's biggest challenge yet.

www.wired.com

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zuzak 🦭 @zuzakistan.com · 14h

Glasgow City Council has a whole sovereign citizen FAQ

whoever wrote this was so very tired

glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto...

Why you require to pay Council Tax - Glasgow City Council

Information about why you are required to pay Council Tax.

glasgow.gov.uk

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 13h

I swear I did not have "I'm better at ducking bullets than Charlie Kirk" on my Donny Batshit Bingo card

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 13h

Indeed.

The government has chosen to prioritise reducing (skilled, legal, for work) migration over growth and hence over improving public services.

No economic rationale - but even worse, no political rationale either.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19h

One mistake Labour made in their first year is loading quite a few new costs onto business all at once. They are risking doing something similar on immigration, I think.

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 13h

WankGPT

Welcome to the future

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David Head @davidheadviews.bsky.social · 14h

Follow the money to get to the reality behind "Tommy Robinson".

Chris @oakymoron.bsky.social · 14h

So why was he driving a Bentley?

Who did it belong to and why so much cash…….

news.sky.com/story/tommy-...

Tommy Robinson's arrest at Channel Tunnel 'discriminatory', barrister says

A barrister representing Tommy Robinson claimed in court that the "predominant influence" on an officer's decision to stop the activist was: "'Oh look, it's Tommy Robinson.'"

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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 14h

Thinkin about how much pushback I got for reporting this last year ! www.wired.com/story/openai...

OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn

OpenAI released draft guidelines for how it wants the AI technology inside ChatGPT to behave—and revealed that it’s exploring how to ‘responsibly’ generate explicit content.

www.wired.com

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 14h

They stole over 30 of my books, primarily *most* of my (award-winning) erotica collections.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 17h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 14h

I like when people who do bad things suffer the consequences of doing bad things.

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 15h

Dr. Phil went full MAGA and tried to reinvent himself as a MAGA media mogul and culture warrior. Now his world is unraveling, his media company is laying off thousands and had to file for bankruptcy, and he's being sued for fraud. The whole plan is collapsing.

www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 14h

[the boys' club cackles]

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Andrew Robertson @andrewrobertson.bsky.social · 14h

This is a perfect example of how Trump is wasting your tax dollars - America.

kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 14h

Did they really need all that law enforcement for one weiner dog?

#ProudBlue

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 16h

It's Patch Tuesday and ASP.NET Core has a doozy, with a CVSS score of 9.9, our highest ever. Let's examine why.

The bug enables http request smuggling, which on its own for ASP.NET Core would be nowhere near that high, but that's not how we rate things...

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Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2025-55315: .NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability · Issue #371 · dotnet/announcements

Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2025-55315: .NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability Executive summary Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability i...

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 17h

Even after we deal with Trump, we'll be cleaning up the mess he created for decades. Once you mainstream bigotry, it takes a long time and a lot of work to make it shameful again.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18h

Hey news people: I know you like to pretend this doesn't exist, but you need to pay attention to the Nazi drama on Twitter. Basically, it seems as if Elon just restored two major neo-Nazi accounts that were banned by his product head, and might be about to fire the product head for banning them

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18h

is it ever going to be news that the richest man in the world openly promotes full-bore, swastika-flying, pro-genocide neo-Nazis

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Andrew Robertson @andrewrobertson.bsky.social · 22h

Enjoyed reading this... www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom

From Rocky Horror to the Muppets, Curry’s extraordinary career made him world-famous. Then, a stroke left him paralysed. The actor talks about his cocaine years, his friendship with David Bowie – and ...

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 1d

All women, children, and men over 50 were released under previous ceasefire agreements

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Urban Carmel @ukarlewitz.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s a good chart from Bespoke of how the current period is like 1997, and how it got significantly more euphoric in the years ahead. Don’t mistake this for an analogue

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

great story, this chart RULES

Charts showing average battery pack cost in 2024 $/kWh and battery storage capacity additions globally in GW

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 1d

At least 153 unvaccinated students in S.C. quarantined for measles

www.upi.com

At least 153 unvaccinated students in S.C. quarantined for measles - UPI.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

Trump to the Israeli parliament today, gloating about U.S. weapons supplied to Israel over the past two years:

"You obviously used them very well."

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Guardian headline: "Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead"

The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims"

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