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    'Go. Hunt. Kill:' Idaho Couple Charged With Publishing 277-Page Hit List Filled With Judges, Cops
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/go-hunt-kill-idaho-couple-charged-with-publishing-277-page-hit-list-filled-with-judges-cops/ar-AA1NxKf2?ocid=BingNewsSerp
    A couple in Idaho is facing more than 100 charges after authorities allege they published a violent, religious manifesto that included a “kill list” targeting dozens of judges, police officers, bankers, other citizens and their own families, according to several new reports. Jonathan and Jolene Harms face 120 counts in total, according to the Idaho Statesman, WLTX, and KIVI. Both Jonathan, 43, and Jolene, 39, were charged with 20 counts of stalking, 20 counts of witness intimidation in a criminal case, as well as 20 counts of witness intimidation in a civil case, according to the outlets. According to the Statesman, many of the individuals identified on the couple’s alleged “kill list” included members of their former Table Rock Church, which excommunicated the couple earlier this year after Boise Police Department investigators said in a probable cause statement that Jonathan showed “escalating behavior” towards other members of the church. According to Boise police, Jonathan emailed his and Jolene’s 277-page manifesto to church leaders on July 10. ... After her husband’s arrest, the newspaper reported that police alleged Jolene sent “threatening” text messages to a police officer’s wife, telling her, “seriously, I’m going to kill your children” during the investigation.
    Submitted at 10-01-2025, 03:15 PM by a total mess
    Crime
    8 Comments
    Corey Doctorow: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh
    https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/
    "So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?" I said, "Yes, that's right." He said, "OK, but what can we do about that?" So I re-iterated the book's thesis: that the AI bubble is driven by monopolists who've conquered their markets and have no more growth potential, who are desperate to convince investors that they can continue to grow by moving into some other sector, e.g. "pivot to video," crypto, blockchain, NFTs, AI, and now "super-intelligence." Further: the topline growth that AI companies are selling comes from replacing most workers with AI, and re-tasking the surviving workers as AI babysitters ("humans in the loop"), which won't work. Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.
    Submitted at 10-01-2025, 02:02 AM by Wreckard
    The Economy
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    Bill Burr Defends Performing at Controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival: “They’re Just Like Us”
    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/bill-burr-riyadh-comedy-festival-controversy-1236389190/
    The actor-comedian details his experience at the event: "Definitely one of the top three experiences I've ever had ... I think it's going to lead to a lot of positive things."
    Submitted at 10-01-2025, 01:56 AM by sleeppoor
    Horseshit
    5 Comments
    Dem Says Mike Johnson Is Delaying Her Swearing-In to Prevent Epstein Vote
    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/adelita-grijalva-swearing-in-delayed-epstein-vote-1235438294/
    Newly elected Arizona Rep. Adelita Grijalva says her swearing in ceremony has been delayed over her support for a petition to release Epstein files.
    Submitted at 09-30-2025, 08:59 PM by sleeppoor
    Politics
    0 Comments
    Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian
    https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/30/tonga-pacific-island-internet-underwater-cables-volcanic-eruption
    A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life
    Submitted at 09-30-2025, 10:56 AM by B. Weed
    The World
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    Video gamer Electronic Arts to be acquired for $52.5 billion in largest-ever private equity buyout by Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner
    https://apnews.com/article/ea-electronic-arts-video-game-silver-lake-pif-d17dc7dd3412a990d2c0a6758aaa6900
    Electronic Arts, the maker of video games like “Madden NFL,” “Battlefield,” and “The Sims,” is being acquired for $52.5 billion in what could become the largest buyout ever funded by private equity firms. Silver Lake Partners, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund PIF, and Affinity Partners will pay EA’s stockholders $210 per share. Affinity Partners is run by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. The deal is valued at $55 billion if AE’s debt is included, far exceeding the $32 billion price tag to take Texas utility TXU private in 2007, which had shattered records for leveraged buyouts.
    Submitted at 09-29-2025, 04:08 PM by Wreckard
    Games
    4 Comments
    Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs
    https://www.404media.co/landlords-demand-tenants-workplace-logins-to-scrape-their-paystubs/
    Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”
    Submitted at 09-30-2025, 05:59 AM by sleeppoor
    The Economy
    1 Comment
    Marina Forti, In Genoa — Sidecar
    https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/in-genoa
    Among the dock workers A general strike erupted across Italy on Monday and some half a million people took to the streets in one of Europe’s largest mobilisations against the war on Gaza. Actions took place in at least 75 municipalities under the slogan ‘Blocchiamo tutto’ – ‘Let’s Block Everything’ – shutting down schools, disrupting trains, and obstructing roads and ports. The largest crowds gathered in the major cities – 100,000 in Rome alone, according to organisers, where protesters occupied the main railway station before marching through the streets. The strike was called by several grassroots unions who demanded that the government end commercial and military cooperation with Israel. In parliament, Riccardo Ricciardi of the Five Star Movement described the demonstrations as an attempt to ‘restore Italy’s honour’. Ministers of the ruling Fratelli d’Italia, meanwhile, expressed support for the security services who have used pepper spray, tear gas and water cannon on the crowds. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni – in New York for the UN General Assembly – condemned the disorder at the central station in Milan. Her government has been among Israel’s staunchest European supporters, though there are signs that popular pressure is having an effect, even if largely symbolic.
    Submitted at 09-30-2025, 04:52 AM by sleeppoor
    The Economy
    0 Comments
    Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting
    https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/downtown-los-angeles-woman-detained-during-green-card-meeting/
    A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.
    Submitted at 09-30-2025, 04:40 AM by sleeppoor
    Crime
    1 Comment
    Natalie Dormer Says She Won’t Promote Sarah Ferguson Series ‘The Lady’ Following Epstein Revelations, Donates Salary to Charity (EXCLUSIVE)
    https://variety.com/2025/tv/global/natalie-dormer-wont-promote-the-lady-sarah-ferguson-epstein-email-1236529894/
    Natalie Dormer has said she won’t promote ITV and Britbox‘s upcoming drama series “The Lady,” in which she plays Sarah Ferguson, following revelations over the Duchess of York’s connections to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Brit actress has also said she has donated her entire salary from the show to charities focused on child abuse. The news comes after a leaked email from 2011 was recently published appearing to show Ferguson, the former wife of Prince Andrew, apologizing to Epstein having publicly rejected him years after he was jailed for sex offenses in 2008.
    Submitted at 09-30-2025, 04:39 AM by sleeppoor
    Movies
    0 Comments
    Large Language Muddle
    https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/
    The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes—and every student gets their own personal chatbot. The second coming of the Trump Administration has exposed the civic sclerosis of the US body politic? Time to turn the Social Security Administration over to Grok. Climate apocalypse now feels less like a distant terror than a fact of life? Inthreeyears,roughly a tenthofUS energy demand will come from data centers alone.
    Submitted at 09-30-2025, 03:44 AM by sleeppoor
    The Economy
    0 Comments
    Stephen Miller takes leading role in strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/stephen-miller-venezuela-drug-boat-strike
    Exclusive: Miller’s homeland security council has played a key part in coordinating operations, sources say
    Submitted at 09-29-2025, 08:19 PM by sleeppoor
    Crime
    2 Comments
    Anti-Trans Policy Deserves Same Scrutiny as Trump’s Tylenol Disinformation
    https://truthout.org/articles/anti-trans-policy-deserves-same-scrutiny-as-trumps-tylenol-disinformation/
    As a trans journalist, I see corporate media outlets as inconsistent in their treatment of right-wing disinformation.
    Submitted at 09-29-2025, 07:06 PM by sleeppoor
    Health & Beauty
    1 Comment
    Children left short of clean water and sleep amid ‘prolonged’ detention by Ice, watchdog groups allege
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/28/ice-detention-texas-children
    Legal experts speak of ‘cruel’ and harmful deprivations for families held in Texas immigration facility
    Submitted at 09-29-2025, 03:21 PM by sleeppoor
    Crime
    2 Comments
    An essay on wank | deadSimpleTech
    https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/essay_on_redacted
    This captures well the uncomfortable, slightly disorienting feeling that wank creates when you're subjected to it, wherein you're expected to speak about and think about the statement as though it says what it facially does, but also not push too hard or at all, because challenging the factuality or other face-value elements of the statement is a personal attack on the person saying it and their identity. I'm sure we've all been in such situations, unfortunately, and we can all point to lots of situations where wank is prevalent in our current society.
    Submitted at 09-29-2025, 06:12 PM by B. Weed
    Politics
    2 Comments
    How to Lie With (Political) Statistics
    https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-to-lie-with-political-statistics/
    Roughly speaking, one side touts polling and other electoral data as our best guides to political reality—and thus, it is claimed, to political strategy. These tools are far from perfect, the argument goes, but they are better than alternatives. To those in this camp, hostility to data smacks of impressionism at best (just “vibes”), rank ideology at worst; either way, it’s irrational—a dangerous denial of reality—and progressives must do politics by poll if they actually care about winning. Critics, in turn, insist that it’s the data-mongers who are the ideologues, ignorant of history, lacking in moral backbone, and devoid of political imagination. The influence and professional prestige they wield as “very smart,” well-credentialed, STEM-fluent wonks—steeped in a technocratic worldview, at odds with bottom-up movements—is decried as just a way of dressing up megadonor-approved policies in the guise of neutral expertise, or just a means for media companies to capture audience attention by treating politics like sports.
    Submitted at 09-28-2025, 10:38 PM by get the rag
    Politics
    0 Comments
    2 killed, 5 injured in shooting at Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino, officials say
    https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2025/09/28/2-killed-several-injured-in-shooting-at-kickapoo-lucky-eagle-casino-maverick-county-judge-says/
    A person is in custody following a shooting at the Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino in Eagle Pass that left two people dead and several others injured, according to the Eagle Pass Police Department.
    Submitted at 09-28-2025, 09:44 PM by sleeppoor
    Crime
    2 Comments
    Police: Deadly shooting in North Carolina was 'highly premeditated' and location was 'targeted'
    https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-shooting-attack-waterfront-194ad399bbdab604c799c7f60f63ed8c
    A North Carolina man is accused of opening fire from a boat into a crowd at a waterfront bar, killing three and injuring five others.
    Submitted at 09-28-2025, 09:24 PM by sleeppoor
    Crime
    1 Comment
    2 people dead and 8 wounded in a shooting and fire at a Michigan church, police say
    https://apnews.com/article/mormon-church-shooting-michigan-dcb79ee701b0b8076bf73e30e10ba2b7
    The shooting happened Sunday at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, about 50 miles north of Detroit.
    Submitted at 09-28-2025, 09:21 PM by sleeppoor
    Crime
    1 Comment
    Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'
    https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/trump-seems-to-back-off-portland-military-plan/283-e9c6bdfb-92d6-4881-bb74-09bb325a5270
    President Trump had said he will send troops to Portland to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he said were "under attack."
    Submitted at 09-28-2025, 08:43 PM by sleeppoor
    Politics
    2 Comments
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