A one-time 5% wealth tax would bring Silicon Valley’s billionaires’ wealth back to where it was just 31 days ago, on September 7.

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In February, a woman in Long Island, New York, went with her two children to a scheduled check-in with ICE. Officers detained them. The mother, who asked to be identified only by her initials, M.S.P., because she fears retaliation from the government, said the family was taken far from their longtime home of New York and jailed in a hotel in Texas.

For those who don’t recognize it, a link to the unmodified original

Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all? This is particularly a problem when users are required to prove their age with identity documents.

Just a little amusing and not that surprising.

New York City has also banned AI for younger students as concerns over classroom use grow

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Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20261009115908/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/ice-new-york-bronx-shooting-child/

Welcome to the party. There are cocktails in the kitchen!

Keep Honking! I have a clown fetish and am very close!

Trump administration says US ‘doesn’t need’ ICC after accusing court of unfairly targeting Americans for war crime charges

someone might want to crosspost to !196@pawb.social

WTF?! You might have heard the one about being nice to chatbots in case they remember you once the machines take over. It seems Anthropic is heeding this warning, barring users from being excessively abusive or cruel toward its AI models.

As always, stay tuned here on !comicstrips\@lemmy.world for a slow trickle out of Jucika comics, but if you want to find more, here’s a good post with a large collection that /u/JohnnyEnzyme\@piefed.social posted last year: https\://piefed.social/post/1258520

Voters in the Peruvian town of Queropalca have chosen their new mayor: Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores.

Pentagon said execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be broadcast live

The developer behind Teach My Little Sister How to Drive, a driving instruction sim where you instruct a generative-AI-powered, dynamic NPC, has been spending $1,000 dollars a day to keep the demo working.

A U.S. diplomat sparked outrage after being accused of having “repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised” reporting to paint the Israeli government “in a favorable light,” including by “stonewalling” lawmakers’ probes into Israeli killings of Americans, the New York Times reported.

Today’s game is Baldur’s Gate 3. I finally reinstalled it so I could finish playing through it with friends. And when I say “Playing” I really mean finding any excuse I can to play with the Photo mode. Like legit this has got to be one of my favorites just for the ability to position them in the game world.

The Trump administration has imposed sweeping new sanctions on the International Criminal Court as part of its campaign to dismantle the tribunal that the U.S. believes has become politicized and attempted to unfairly and illegally prosecute Americans and Israelis on war crimes charges.

I woke to today’s news that one of the Trump cabinet’s bigger boofheads – the uber Christian nationalist, crusader-fantasist and “secretary of war” Pete Hegseth had announced that America would have a public firing squad execution of murderer Nidal Hasan.

They’re all gearing up for hibernation, they’ll eat out of your hand sometimes

The Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Navi Pillay, the South African former UN human rights chief who chaired the UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza.

If you believe the gaslighting from Corporate Democrats, it’s never the time to talk about what their party should actually do to help voters. If it’s primary election season, it’s not the time because that allegedly weakens party “unity.” If it’s general election season, it’s not the time because that’s allegedly too “divisive.” If it’s after an election, it’s not the time because there’s another election coming up. The whole reason for elections is to give voters the chance to ask what their representatives are going to do…but somehow, we’re expected to believe that it’s literally never the time for that!

October 7, 2026

Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb today announced that Amazon.com, Inc. (Amazon) will pay $8.25 million in refunds and penalties and change its business practices to resolve the District’s lawsuit alleging that Amazon deceived tens of thousands of DC residents by failing to inform them that their ZIP codes were excluded from Amazon’s in-house delivery services and misleading Prime members about the true cause of shipping delays.

Some of Democrats’ once-hateable figures are out of the picture. And emerging democratic socialists haven’t made for strong lines of attack nationwide.

OpenAI said in a blog post on Thursday that it banned Russian and Iranian accounts that were using the company’s artificial intelligence tools to help with influence operations in multiple countries. The operatives said they managed to get their false narratives picked up by news outlets, and in once case, prompted a response from a member of the European Parliament, according to internal reports the operations produced using OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT.

it’s been a while

The title only mentions YouTube, Meta, and Twitch but the body of the article mentions that Kick, TikTok, and X (Formally Twitter) also. With Kick and TikTok saying that a livestream of an execution would violate their policies but with X (formally Twitter) being with YouTube, Meta, and Twitch in saying that they won’t say whether they will or not.

The U.S. Department of Labor announced it would suspend Microsoft and Adobe from its Permanent Labor Certification program on Thursday, Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said, as the Trump administration continues to take aim at immigration and foreign hiring programs ahead of November’s midterm elections.

British Transport Police (BTP) have spent more than £320k and almost 100 hours of officers’ time on a six-month trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in London’s railway stations – yielding just one incorrect face match and no arrests.

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From the art of pants

Ukrainian missile strikes on Russian army command posts in Donetsk on Aug. 26 killed more Russian officers than in any other single attack during the war, independent monitors claim.

Republican Christians, how shitty can you get?

Actual policy: livestream firing squad executions

The car industry needs you to design and build the greatest car parks that simple town life hasn’t seen before. Introduce the need for car commuting and turn neighborhoods into car parks! Use propaganda to convince people to pay you for it. Fight people that see through your oily business.