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Brooklyn, NY
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Hello,
My name is Nic (He/They), and I'm looking for my audience of curious and kind folks.
đź“Ť: Brooklyn, NY
📸: Portrait + Street + Photojournalism
✍🏾: Literary Criticism + Poetry + Essays
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Republicans Are Driving the Most Racist Election Cycle in a Generation
Donald Trump and MAGA have nothing to run on but rank bigotry.
Commentary: rollingstone.com/politics/po…
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ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” motherjones.com/politics/202…
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Anthropic’s filing appears to partly walk back the co-founders’ pledge to commit 80% of their personal equity holdings in the AI startup to philanthropic causes.
Those acts, the filing suggests, are “voluntary, revocable expressions” that “do not constitute binding obligations.” motherjones.com/politics/202…
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If the AI bubble has indeed begun to pop, a class of companies known as the neoclouds might be to blame. Sometimes referred to as the middlemen of AI, neoclouds primarily rent out access to the specialized computer chips, or GPUs, that help power behemoths like Amazon, Meta and Microsoft. nbcnews.com/business/corpora…
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It looks like Amazon AGI division is being shut down and their foundational models Nova are being sunset. Along the same lines they are shutting down Q IDE (autocomplete and chat in IDE), also abandoning efforts to train code-generation models.
futurism.com/artificial-inte…
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CNN Brasil reports that Flávio Bolsonaro’s whereabouts are unknown after he failed to surrender his passports to police
A source close to Bolsonaro says the senator is currently flying to the United States cnn.com/2026/10/27/americas/…
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AI companies recently launched a record scramble for cash to pay for data centers, computer chips and equipment.
This boom is so expensive that even Silicon Valley giants are bleeding cash and companies are now racing one another to secure funds. wapo.st/4sor2mu
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A federal judge in Texas ordered Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to let his Democratic opponent review more than a thousand pages of unredacted emails between himself and Elon Musk.
washingtonsun.com/legal/judg…
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Jared Kushner was allegedly paid $50 million by a foreign government to get former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson fired. trib.al/ZAEUKFP
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We have new artificial intelligence guidelines on Stylebook Online, informed by the AP's own policies on what we do and don't do with AI.
One tip: Any output from an AI tool should be treated as unvetted source material. You must apply your editorial judgment and sourcing standards when considering and editing any information for publication.
For the full list of considerations, subscribe to AP Stylebook Online. store.stylebooks.com/apstyle…
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NEW: Anthropic’s filing appears to partly walk back—or at least massage—the co-founders’ pledge to commit 80 percent of their personal equity holdings in the AI startup to philanthropic causes, a commitment made when the startup was founded.
Those acts of philanthropy, the filing suggests, are “voluntary, revocable expressions” that “do not constitute binding obligations.” motherjones.com/politics/202…
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The amount of “forever chemicals” in drinking water in the U.S. could be twice as high as reported in federal monitoring data, a study found.
PFAS have been linked to increased risk of cancer and cardiovascular issues, among other issues. wapo.st/4ihHP60
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Appeals Court Rules Immigrants Jailed by ICE Have No Constitutional Right to Bond democracynow.org/2026/10/26/…
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U.S. Military Grants SpaceX Access to Pentagon’s Most Secretive Satellite Tracking Data democracynow.org/2026/10/26/…
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“Microsoft And Epic Games Suddenly Agree That AI Is Theft”
Microsoft And Epic Games Suddenly Agree That AI Is Theft kotaku.com/now-that-the-shoe… kotaku.com/now-that-the-shoe…
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Welcome to Mirror Maker Studios, a creative studio and ideas incubator for projects developed by Ram V. Its focus will be on bringing to life narratives with artistic ambition and inventiveness.
Stay tuned for announcements that push boundaries across genre, publishing & media.
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A sacked Cambridge researcher who sparked a media frenzy over Prof Jason Arday before he was found dead 2 months ago has now been given the opportunity to hold a talk at Oxford Uni on DEI by a Reform-linked society. A protest has been planned to stop it.
thecommunityreporter.co.uk/p…
