Sam Biddle
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Sam Biddle
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· Oct 24
As Israel Bombed Gaza, Amazon Did Business With Its Bomb-Makers
The Intercept has learned that Amazon sold cloud services to Israeli weapons firms at the height of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
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SCOOP: I obtained internal documents showing Amazon has been selling cloud computing and AI services to the state-owned Israeli weapons manufacturers whose bombs and missiles have ravaged Gaza.
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We have the watch, and I'll see you in Valhalla
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
We have the watch, and I'll see you in Valhalla
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good story sfstandard.com/2025/11/23/e...
Inside the extended courtship linking Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, and Israeli officials
A hacked trove of emails reveals the revolving door of political leaders, tech billionaires, and intelligence officers.
sfstandard.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:46 AM
good story sfstandard.com/2025/11/23/e...
Will be really wild to see the Far Cry plot/characters we all know and love so much brought to life like this
A live-action ‘FAR CRY’ series is moving forward at FX
• Noah Hawley and Rob McElhenney will exec produce the series
• Will be anthology format with different cast & setting each season
• Noah Hawley and Rob McElhenney will exec produce the series
• Will be anthology format with different cast & setting each season
November 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Will be really wild to see the Far Cry plot/characters we all know and love so much brought to life like this
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
Something I still can't figure out is how a reference to the "USS Hiroshima"—which does not exist—made it into an official DLA procurement doc. My total speculation is it was a dark joke meant as a placeholder that slipped through and got published.
We found a document showing the DOD is planning food deliveries for the Caribbean troop buildup through the end of Trump's second term theintercept.com/2025/11/25/t...
U.S. Military Documents Indicate Plans to Keep Troops in Caribbean Through 2028
As rumors of a U.S. war on Venezuela swirl, military documents show plans to feed a buildup of troops in the region for years.
theintercept.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Something I still can't figure out is how a reference to the "USS Hiroshima"—which does not exist—made it into an official DLA procurement doc. My total speculation is it was a dark joke meant as a placeholder that slipped through and got published.
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This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
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We found a document showing the DOD is planning food deliveries for the Caribbean troop buildup through the end of Trump's second term theintercept.com/2025/11/25/t...
U.S. Military Documents Indicate Plans to Keep Troops in Caribbean Through 2028
As rumors of a U.S. war on Venezuela swirl, military documents show plans to feed a buildup of troops in the region for years.
theintercept.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We found a document showing the DOD is planning food deliveries for the Caribbean troop buildup through the end of Trump's second term theintercept.com/2025/11/25/t...
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Dallas is the future of America-- physically, spiritually, and politically. I went to the fastest-growing city in America to see what is in store for us all.
Today, the final part of my story: Sprawling to Freedom.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/america-is...
Today, the final part of my story: Sprawling to Freedom.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/america-is...
America Is Becoming Dallas
Part Two: Sprawling to Freedom
www.hamiltonnolan.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Dallas is the future of America-- physically, spiritually, and politically. I went to the fastest-growing city in America to see what is in store for us all.
Today, the final part of my story: Sprawling to Freedom.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/america-is...
Today, the final part of my story: Sprawling to Freedom.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/america-is...
As a high school kid with a dumb summer job I was able to afford to build/upgrade a pretty great early 2000s gaming PC and now two decades later as a salaried adult I’m completely priced out
PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage | Discussion
An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026
You can spend $50 more to get an entire PS5 Pro.
www.tomshardware.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
As a high school kid with a dumb summer job I was able to afford to build/upgrade a pretty great early 2000s gaming PC and now two decades later as a salaried adult I’m completely priced out
“Trick” is another extremely misleading anthropomorphic term we should probably all stop using in reference to LLMs (used here by Anthropic, not the Verge, to be clear)
Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.5 is "harder to trick with prompt injection than any other frontier model in the industry" but isn't "immune" to such attacks (Hayden Field/The Verge)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“Trick” is another extremely misleading anthropomorphic term we should probably all stop using in reference to LLMs (used here by Anthropic, not the Verge, to be clear)
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Making the Theo Von "dog watching you eat" face as the waiter describes the specials. Heaving faintly in place like a video game character on a select-a-player screen.
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Making the Theo Von "dog watching you eat" face as the waiter describes the specials. Heaving faintly in place like a video game character on a select-a-player screen.
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The hate crime charge against Alexa Wilkinson for photographing vandalism of the New York Times building is a dangerous precedent, no matter what you think of Wilkinson.
Journalist or not, photography isn’t a hate crime
Gatekeeping over hate crime charges misses the forest for the trees
freedom.press
November 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The hate crime charge against Alexa Wilkinson for photographing vandalism of the New York Times building is a dangerous precedent, no matter what you think of Wilkinson.
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Another day, another fantastic tiktok restaurant advertisement
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Another day, another fantastic tiktok restaurant advertisement
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Keys are hard. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Keys are hard. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
my main takeaway is it's crazy she's got her Christmas tree up already
Greene: I will be resigning from office, with my last day being January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
my main takeaway is it's crazy she's got her Christmas tree up already
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omg they made Jeffrey Epstein Inbox Simulator '25 jmail.world
Jmail, logged in as [email protected]
You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
jmail.world
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
omg they made Jeffrey Epstein Inbox Simulator '25 jmail.world
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Fusion centers were “involved in monitoring pro-Palestine demonstrations on at least five campuses across the country, as shown in more than 20,000 pages of documents obtained via public records requests exposing U.S. universities’ playbooks for cracking down on pro-Palestine student activism.”
How U.S. Universities Used Counterterror Fusion Centers to Surveil Student Protests for Palestine
Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.
theintercept.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Fusion centers were “involved in monitoring pro-Palestine demonstrations on at least five campuses across the country, as shown in more than 20,000 pages of documents obtained via public records requests exposing U.S. universities’ playbooks for cracking down on pro-Palestine student activism.”
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Anybody got a spare $25k burning a hole in their pocket that they'd like to convert into an atomic bomb casing? historical.ha.com/itm/space-ex...
historical.ha.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Anybody got a spare $25k burning a hole in their pocket that they'd like to convert into an atomic bomb casing? historical.ha.com/itm/space-ex...
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reaching stick, pants zipper-upper robot, butler whose only job is to get you a cotton pad when you're doing skincare, bamboo that grows exactly fast enough to turn on the light switch every morning, guy to cut back the bamboo at night, overnight oats from the store
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
reaching stick, pants zipper-upper robot, butler whose only job is to get you a cotton pad when you're doing skincare, bamboo that grows exactly fast enough to turn on the light switch every morning, guy to cut back the bamboo at night, overnight oats from the store
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The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
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NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
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In today's Laurels/Darts, I interview Jessica Schulberg, the Huffpost reporter who has extensively covered an unjust Oklahoma death-penalty case.
She was at the penitentiary when the the convict was spared -- exactly 2 minutes before he was scheduled to die.
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
She was at the penitentiary when the the convict was spared -- exactly 2 minutes before he was scheduled to die.
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
In today's Laurels/Darts, I interview Jessica Schulberg, the Huffpost reporter who has extensively covered an unjust Oklahoma death-penalty case.
She was at the penitentiary when the the convict was spared -- exactly 2 minutes before he was scheduled to die.
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
She was at the penitentiary when the the convict was spared -- exactly 2 minutes before he was scheduled to die.
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
Bugonia is one of the best movies I've seen in a very long time. Go see it immediately and don't read anything about it beforehand.
November 21, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Bugonia is one of the best movies I've seen in a very long time. Go see it immediately and don't read anything about it beforehand.