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Israel continues attacks in Gaza despite ceasefire, killing at least two Palestinians on Wednesday and arresting 15, according to Al Jazeera. Forensic authorities in Gaza work to identify 45 bodies handed over by Israel, some bearing signs of field executions. The Israeli military claims one of the bodies handed over by Hamas is not an Israeli captive. Hamas executes men accused of collaborating with Israel or looting during the war, President Donald Trump says it “didn’t bother [him] that much.” Trump explicitly links the $20 billion bailout of Argentina’s economy to President Javier Milei’s 2026 electoral prospects. Federal agents deployed tear gas and detained a man in Chicago’s Albany Park, marking the latest federal assault on the city’s immigrant community. More than 45,000 nurses and health care workers at Kaiser Permanente start a five-day strike. The U.S. struck another vessel of alleged “narco-traffickers” off the Venezuelan coast, following the Republican-controlled Senate’s defeat of a measure that would have blocked such strikes. Clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan resumed, resulting in dozens of casualties and damage to a Pakistani Taliban training facility. Russia attacks Kharkiv overnight and takes control of another village in Donetsk, while 19 civilians were killed in an Islamic Allied Democratic Forces assault in Congo’s North Kivu province.

Peter Link

2025-10-15 16:33:21

Palestinian bodies bear signs of field executions;Trump conditions $20 billion Argentina bailout on Milei’s reelection; 45,000 health care workers go on strike in U.S.

Israel continues attacks in Gaza despite ceasefire, killing at least two Palestinians on Wednesday and arresting 15, according to Al Jazeera. Forensic authorities in Gaza work to identify 45 bodies handed over by Israel, some bearing signs of field executions. The Israeli military claims one of the bodies handed over by Hamas is not an Israeli captive. Hamas executes men accused of collaborating with Israel or looting during the war, President Donald Trump says it “didn’t bother [him] that much.” Trump explicitly links the $20 billion bailout of Argentina’s economy to President Javier Milei’s 2026 electoral prospects. Federal agents deployed tear gas and detained a man in Chicago’s Albany Park, marking the latest federal assault on the city’s immigrant community. More than 45,000 nurses and health care workers at Kaiser Permanente start a five-day strike. The U.S. struck another vessel of alleged “narco-traffickers” off the Venezuelan coast, following the Republican-controlled Senate’s defeat of a measure that would have blocked such strikes. Clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan resumed, resulting in dozens of casualties and damage to a Pakistani Taliban training facility. Russia attacks Kharkiv overnight and takes control of another village in Donetsk, while 19 civilians were killed in an Islamic Allied Democratic Forces assault in Congo’s North Kivu province.

Palestinian bodies bear signs of field executions;Trump conditions $20 billion Argentina bailout on Milei’s reelection; 45,000 health care workers go on strike in U.S.

Drop Site Daily: October 15, 2025

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The exchange is part of a trove of Telegram chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than seven months of messages among Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont. The chat offers an unfiltered look at how a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening.

The 2,900 pages of chats, shared among a dozen millennial and Gen Z Republicans between early January and mid-August, chronicle their campaign to seize control of the national Young Republican organization on a hardline pro-Donald Trump platform. Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.

Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146

OpenAI plans to allow a wider range of content, including erotica, on its popular chatbot ChatGPT as part of its push to "treat adult users like adults", says its boss Sam Altman.

In a post on X on Tuesday, Mr Altman said upcoming versions of the popular chatbot would enable it to behave in a more human-like way - "but only if you want it, not because we are usage maxxing".

The move, reminiscent of Elon Musk's xAI's recent introduction of two sexually explicit chatbots to Grok, could help OpenAI attract more paying subscribers.

It is also likely to intensify pressure on lawmakers to introduce tighter restrictions on chatbot companions.

ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, OpenAI boss says

CEO Sam Altman says upcoming versions of the popular chatbot would enable it to behave in a more human-like way - "but only if you want it".

^{Lily Jamali (BBC News)}

Without enough air traffic controllers to guide planes into and out of Hollywood Burbank Airport, the tower went dark for almost six hours on Oct. 6, leaving pilots to coordinate their movements among themselves. Flight delays averaged two-and-a-half hours in one of the first visible signs that the shutdown was already taking a toll on the nation’s aviation system.

Experts and union leaders say the disruptions are a stark reminder that the aviation system is already stretched too thin by chronic understaffing and outdated technology. They warn the cracks in the system could rapidly deepen the longer the shutdown drags on and critical aviation workers are without their regular paychecks.

“It’s like having a drought the year after you had a drought,” Greg Raiff, CEO of Elevate Aviation Group, told The Associated Press.

https://apnews.com/article/us-government-shutdown-travel-aviation-flight-delays-211022120bf96ab95dc6861ca5a7e32d

The recent push for age verification online is leading to discussion of Digital ID, which would tie a person's birth record to an official public identifier that can be referenced by private corporations and required for use of services in person and online.

What are the arguments for and against Digital ID? Where do you think your country is headed on this issue?

“La Bella Confusione” è il titolo del primo album solista di Charlie Charles, in uscita giovedì 24 ottobre per Island Records / Universal Music Italia. Il producer che nel 2016 ha contribuito a definire il suono della trap italiana firma un progetto dal concept personale e cinematografico, anticipato da una campagna di billboard misteriosi comparsi sui Navigli a Milano.

SCOPRI TUTTI I DETTAGLI: Charlie Charles annuncia “La Bella Confusione”: il nuovo album esce il 24 ottobre

Charlie Charles annuncia “La Bella Confusione”: il nuovo album esce il 24 ottobre

Charlie Charles annuncia ‘La Bella Confusione’: il primo album esce il 24 ottobre per Island/Universal. Tutti i dettagli.

^{Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)}

Holocaust survivor Agnes Kory accuses Israel of attempting to carry out a genocide on Palestine in the name of all Jewish people

Archived version: archive.is/newest/thecanary.co…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Holocaust survivor decries Israel's genocide

^{Skwawkbox (The Canary)}

Astrophysicist suggests ‘radical mundanity’ is answer to the ‘great silence’ in the galaxy

Aliens may have stopped trying to contact humans because they simply got bored, Nasa scientist

^{Maryam Zakir-Hussain (The Independent)}

Crunchyroll presenta il trailer ufficiale di JUJUTSU KAISEN: ESECUZIONE, lungometraggio evento che porta nei cinema l’Incidente di Shibuya e anticipa i primi due episodi della Stagione 3 dedicata al Culling Game. L’uscita italiana è fissata per l’8 dicembre 2025 in esclusiva nelle sale, distribuzione Crunchyroll e Sony Pictures Entertainment.

GUARDALO QUI: JUJUTSU KAISEN: Esecuzione, nuovo trailer e uscita al cinema l’8 dicembre in Italia. Sul grande schermo Shibuya e l’anteprima del Culling Game

JUJUTSU KAISEN: Esecuzione, ecco il trailer in italiano

Nuovo trailer italiano di JUJUTSU KAISEN: Esecuzione. In Italia al cinema dall’8 dicembre 2025. Guardalo subito!

^{Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)}

Medical experts have called for new way to more accurately measure obesity, although definition has yet to be adopted

Archived version: archive.is/20251015151826/theg…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Almost 70% of US adults would be deemed obese based on new definition, study finds

^{Nicola Davis (The Guardian)}

MINTernet is the latest in the growing field of home 5G internet services

Mint Mobile launches 5G home internet service — 415 Mbps MINTernet plans start as low as $30 per month for unlimited data

^{Brandon Hill (Tom's Hardware)}

Local resident is asking a judge to declare the mayor violated her First Amendment rights and have a jury determine compensation for damages

Nebraska resident sues after her comment about a sinkhole gets deleted from Omaha mayor’s Facebook page

^{Ariana Baio (The Independent)}

This violence is part of the broader strategy of Israeli settlement expansion and de-facto annexation of Palestinian land, with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid reporting that at least 3,400 Palestinians have been displaced by settler violence and access restrictions throughout the Gaza genocide and the subsequent ceasefire.

Israel resumes killing Palestinians in first phase of Trump’s “peace plan”

Seven Palestinians were shot and killed by the Israeli military in Gaza since the phase one of the so-called “peace plan” brokered by the Trump administration was implemented.

^{World Socialist Web Site}

The conservative majority will consider whether states are barred from considering race when they draw legislative districts aimed at complying with the 1965 law.

The conservative-majority Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider whether to eviscerate a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act in a congressional redistricting case from Louisiana.

The justices, who expanded the scope of the case over the summer, will hear oral arguments on whether states can ever consider race in drawing new districts while seeking to comply with Section 2 of the 1965 law, which was enacted against a backdrop of historic racial discrimination to protect minority voters.

The long-running dispute concerns the congressional map that Louisiana was required to redraw last year after being sued under the Voting Rights Act to ensure that there were two majority-Black districts. The original map only had one such district in a state where a third of the population is Black.

Supreme Court weighs whether to gut key provision of landmark Voting Rights Act

^{Lawrence Hurley (NBC News)}

Israel’s logic here is clear. It has long relied on an old colonial strategy: Divide and rule. A society consumed by internal violence cannot stand united against its occupier. By cynically fostering the rise of militias, Israel achieves two aims: Weakening Palestinian unity and reducing the burden on its own army. It avoids direct costs and international scrutiny, while Gaza continues to bleed from within.

The armed gangs now spreading fear in Gaza are not defenders of the homeland but Israel’s collaborators, serving its occupation under a different name. They were empowered during the war to act where Israel could not always act openly. Yet Israel’s history with Palestinians who serve its interests is clear: It uses them, then discards them. Once their purpose is fulfilled, collaborators are cast aside, disarmed or destroyed, left with neither honour nor protection. He who turns his gun on his own people may think himself powerful, but his fate is always the same: Rejection by his people, by history and even by the occupier who once used him.

For Palestinians, the consequences are nothing short of catastrophic...

How Israel plans to continue the war without its army

As tanks withdraw and the bombing slows, Israel extends its war through Palestinian militias turned against their own.

^{Amal Abu Seif (Al Jazeera)}

Israel’s logic here is clear. It has long relied on an old colonial strategy: Divide and rule. A society consumed by internal violence cannot stand united against its occupier. By cynically fostering the rise of militias, Israel achieves two aims: Weakening Palestinian unity and reducing the burden on its own army. It avoids direct costs and international scrutiny, while Gaza continues to bleed from within.

The armed gangs now spreading fear in Gaza are not defenders of the homeland but Israel’s collaborators, serving its occupation under a different name. They were empowered during the war to act where Israel could not always act openly. Yet Israel’s history with Palestinians who serve its interests is clear: It uses them, then discards them. Once their purpose is fulfilled, collaborators are cast aside, disarmed or destroyed, left with neither honour nor protection. He who turns his gun on his own people may think himself powerful, but his fate is always the same: Rejection by his people, by history and even by the occupier who once used him.

For Palestinians, the consequences are nothing short of catastrophic...

How Israel plans to continue the war without its army

As tanks withdraw and the bombing slows, Israel extends its war through Palestinian militias turned against their own.

^{Amal Abu Seif (Al Jazeera)}

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JA Westenberg

2025-10-15 11:04:49

If I genuinely believed I was 18 months away from superintelligence that could solve cancer, I would probably not be pivoting to horny chatbots, but that's just me (a person with priorities)

Oct 15 (Reuters) - An investor group, including BlackRock and Nvidia (NVDA.O), will buy Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie Asset Management (MQG.AX) in a deal worth $40 billion, the companies said on Wednesday, as AI infrastructure expansion powers on.

The deal underscores an intensifying race to expand the costly, supply-constrained infrastructure required to develop artificial intelligence technology, as companies rush to build sophisticated AI models.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/blackrock-nvidia-buy-aligned-data-centers-40-billion-deal-2025-10-15/