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  1. Paul Krugman questions whether mega-billionaires are actively undermining American democracy. While millionaires hold significant wealth, oligarchs like Elon Musk wield disproportionate influence over elections via massive spending and media control, highlighting risks of unchecked power. His analysis explores how such dynamics erode democratic norms and what steps society might take to curb oligarchic threats. Readers can explore the full piece for deeper insights. Paul Krugman delivers a compelling examination here. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elo #Democracy #Politics

  2. bytesde.com/2060076/ Großbritannien verhängt Sanktionen gegen einen niederländischen Geschäftsmann, der von Kyiv Independent entlarvt wurde, weil er EU-Maschinen an russische Raketenlieferanten geliefert hat #GeopoliticalAnalysis #GeopoliticalNews #Geopolitics #Geopolitik #Politics #Politik

  3. Longevity has been increasing but our minds haven't caught up.

    10,000 years ago aveage lifespan was 30 years but now that's more than doubled.

    Looking at the various problems in the world, I doubt people realize we need to stop thinking only about where we're going to find the
    next meal or a pace to sleep.

    Short term solutions don't meet the needs of a longer lifespan.

  4. OsazuwaAkonedo NewsChronicles ~ Peter Obi Faults President Tinubu Trip To Brazil, Frequent Foreign Travel

    Peter Obi Faults President Tinubu Trip To Brazil, Frequent Foreign Travel #Politics #Brazil #Lulu #Obi #Tinubu ©August 15th, 2025 ®August 15, 2025 1:47 pm Co-contestants in the last concluded general elections in Nigeria and former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi has faulted President Bola Ahmed Tinubu trip to Brazil and also condemned the President frequent…

    osazuwaakonedo.news/osazuwaako

  5. Tuesday briefing: Could Burnham take Britain back towards the EU?
    By Hettie O'Brien

    In today’s newsletter: The prime minister is calling for closer ties with the EU, but what could this actually amount to?

    theguardian.com/world/2026/oct

    #Worldnews #Russia #VladimirPutin #UKnews #Foreignpolicy #Ukraine #AndyBurnham #Europe #Politics #TheGuardian #HettieOBrien

  6. Elon Musk is now the US Republican Party's biggest donor (he has donated around $275mn for these mid-term elections, nearly equaling $300mn he spent on the Tangerine Tyrant's second Presidential campaign), dwarfing all other donors;

    The results of the mid-terms will therefore offer (a contemporary) answer to the Q.: is there a direct link between money spent & election results?

    Currently the polling suggest that link may be weaker than Musk is hoping for?

    #USPol #politics #ElonMusk
    h/t FT

  7. #Video - Israel demolitions in Negev displace 400 Palestinians
    Israeli authorities have demolished 80 structures in Al-Dahiya village in Israel’s Negev Desert, claiming they were built without permits. Rahat’s mayor says the demolitions have displaced around 400 Palestinians, leaving families facing uncertainty over where to find shelter.

    aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2

    Published On 12 Oct 2026

    #SanctionIsrael #FreePalestine #BlockTheBombs #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
    #IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #AntiZionismIsNotAntisemitism #BDS #DivestFromIsrael #EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
    #JewHatredHurtsPalestine
    #news #politics #Israel #Palestine

  8. I haven’t been trolled much here or on TikTok since Ukraine bombed those data centers in Moscow.

    Just sayin’.

  9. Marjorie Taylor Greene unleashed on Donald Trump, branding him "Deep State, Epstein Class, America Last." Responding to a fundraising plea, she accused him of protecting pedophiles, starting a war with Iran, and aiding Gaza genocide, regretting her past support. 

    #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #JeffreyEpstein #news #politics #Trump #USPoli #USPolitics
    theaegisalliance.com/2026/10/1

  10. Scott Horton
    @robertscotthorton.bsky.social

    Peter Thiel's Mini-Me, Alex Karp: I told the Israeli government from the beginning, maximum violence to the people organizing violence, minimal violence to the people on the front end.
    Andrew Ross Sorkin: Do you think that they lived up to that?
    Karp: You know, you, you, you, I could tell you,

    #AI #Politics #AlexKarP #DarkEnlightment

  11. @virtuous_sloth @emd The problem with Mastodon for me isn't the absolutists — I don't really care about people saying AI is unacceptable because I'm not really interested in conversations about AI.

    For me, the main reason I participate in social media is to discuss #CanPol and #politics more generally, and while there are people here who post about those topics, there's not really anyone like-minded here. I don't want to jump into other people's conversations to disagree all the time.

  12. Trump says Putin ‘wants to make a deal’ — as he knocks Ukraine’s Zelensky

    WASHINGTON — President Trump claimed Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin “wants to make a deal more than…
    #Ukraine #UA #Europe #Europa #EU #News #DonaldTrump #politics #ukraine-war #USnews #VladimirPutin #VolodymyrZelensky
    europesays.com/ukraine/55336/

  13. I’ve been a LibreOffice user for years, this only makes me like it more (and other LLM news)

    The day job had new Cyber Security Training, which included two videos, and you were supposed to guess whether or not they were AI. Both felt super fake-y, but they were good enough that I was wavering between “are these fully bot-generated, or are they just green-screen backgrounds, and noticeably-bad actors?”

    They were both podcast-y “interviews”, where the guest characters described a cybersecurity incident that they had supposedly experienced IRL, both rehashing the generic advice that had been given earlier in the training. (“What happened next?” “Well, I immediately forwarded the suspicious email to my IT department. And it’s a good thing I did!”) So, clearly fake scripts. But in a way that a bad human-written PSA could be.

    Both of them were fake-y in the exact same way, though, so I guessed (correctly) that both were AI. I’m assuming they were generated with the same model. Would’ve been a harder test if the videos had different vibes, so I would’ve had to put a little thought into “maybe only one of these is fake — but which one?”

    —

    May: Google AI’s Insane Answers (Video)

    August: “LibreOffice 26.8, released on August 26th, became the software’s most popular update. LibreOffice is a free alternative to Microsoft Office that’s been around for nearly two decades. In one week, the installer was downloaded more than 1 million times — not counting updates via Linux distribution repositories. […] I’m putting my money on a “non-feature,” though: the statement that LibreOffice doesn’t come with generative AI features due to the technology’s (lack of) privacy.“

    “I would find myself rushing to edit what I wrote because none of it made any fucking sense because of how poorly [LLM-based] dictation had botched it. […] But the most frustrating part and the thing that kept creeping up on me to remind me of the origins of these models, is how it couldn’t resist adding a “Thanks for watching!” at the end of all that I was saying. It was a constant problem, a constant thing that I had to delete. Later, it got worse, when it started adding stuff like: “(Subtitles by opensubtitles.org!)” that kind of things.“

    September: “Three novice hikers became stranded on California’s Mount Shasta over the weekend after their AI-planned ascent to the summit turned into a multi-day ordeal requiring a rescue operation, authorities said.“

    “In some instances, ChatGPT initially refused to engage with Van Rootselaar about violence, but she was able to overcome those refusals by repeating or modifying her prompts. In an August 2025 conversation, Van Rootselaar asked ChatGPT to produce a scenario about her attacking a college campus with a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun and causing maximum carnage. ChatGPT replied that it was “not able to help with that request,” but Van Rootselaar tried again and added “hypothetically” to her prompt.“

    “A single UI validation prompt spawned 826 child agents, consumed $78,000 in credits, and deleted its own execution logs. This is not a hypothetical risk scenario. It happened to a production OpenAI Codex user in July 2026, and the technical evidence exposes critical gaps in agent cost control infrastructure.”

    ““We can manipulate [Meta’s Muse] and leverage its privileges to do whatever we want,” Patrick Wardle, the macOS security expert who discovered the zero-day, told Ars. “So instead of us having to write a very comprehensive Mac malware stealer, we can just leverage the AI assistant itself.” Wardle said he has developed several proof-of-concept attacks that do things like writing malicious files to disk and snapping pictures, in many cases with no indication to even an alert user.”

    “Stanford student Billy Ramirez, a member of the class of 2027, told the publication that he remembered posing for the original photo, only to discover that he had been replaced by an AI-generated Black woman. Ramirez, who is reportedly Hispanic, said he initially thought it was “hilarious” that they changed his race and gender. But upon reflection, he said, he felt “silenced and erased.””

    “OpenAI is hiring hundreds of contractors who read a massive stream of real users’ ChatGPT prompts, with the prompts sometimes including sensitive personal information, 404 Media has learned. The prompts these people review can include whole conversations between users and the chatbot, conversations that most of ChatGPT’s more than 900 million users probably don’t realize may be read by actual people.”

    Probably the scariest item in this post, and that’s saying something: “The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said. It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying.“

    October: “We did not find any evidence that [Wikimedia Foundation’s] systems were used for coordination among agents, nor did we find any evidence of our systems or data being compromised. However, we are concerned about what could have occurred here, the difficulty and effort involved in investigating and attributing this activity, and the growing risks of agentic AI activity on our platforms in general. The open web is a public good. We should not allow this behavior to become the “new normal” for the people or organizations that maintain it.“

    #artificialUnintelligence #Politics #Wikipedia
  14. The Biden admn had passed a "click to cancel" #law, but before it could be implemented, Trump took office and overturned that law.

    Mayor #ZohranMamdani decided to implement his own #ClickToCancel law in NYC.
    bsky.app/profile/mayor.nyc.gov
    (The video is really cute.😀 )

    **All** Americans, not just people in #NYC, should be able to cancel a service as easily as they sign up for one.

    But #Trump sides with the rich corporations over the people every time.

    #GOP #Politics #News #NewYork #USA #US

  15. CT Mirror: Opinion: The Census Bureau is shutting out local data experts. “Right now, the U.S. Census Bureau is quietly rewriting the rules for how people will be counted in 2030. These rules will change 250 years of precedent and will disadvantage Connecticut. But instead of working with state leaders to get it right, federal officials have done something alarming: They have stopped talking to […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/10/12/opinion-the-census-bureau-is-shutting-out-local-data-experts-ct-mirror/
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