News | October 21, 2024


The Intercept

State Lawyer Quits Over Ron DeSantis’s Unconstitutional Attacks on Abortion Amendment

Don’t Believe the U.S.–Israel Fantasy for Lebanon

Meta’s Israel Policy Chief Tried to Suppress Pro-Palestinian Instagram Posts

After Major Industry Donor Pops Up, Harris Makes Bizarre Proposal: Crypto for Black Men

Pegasus Spyware Maker Said to Flout Federal Court as It Lobbies to Get Off U.S. Blacklist

Trump’s Housing Platform Is as Absurd as It Is Cruel — and That’s the Point


Wired

A Lawsuit Against Perplexity Calls Out Fake News Hallucinations

Elon Musk's PAC Is Buying Ads for Donald Trump on Elon Musk's X

ICE's $2 Million Contract With a Spyware Vendor Is Under White House Review

Russian Propaganda Unit Appears to Be Behind Spread of False Tim Walz Sexual Abuse Claims

14 Best Bluetooth Speakers Our Testers Jammed With in 2024

8 Thoughtful Gifts for Your Coworkers


Hacker News

An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker

T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users

Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab

Show HN: Epublifier – scrape pages (books, manuals) for offline reading

Show HN: Floating point arithmetic types in C++ for any size and any base

The Thought Experiments That Fray the Fabric of Space-Time


Le Monde

En direct, budget 2025 : l’examen du projet commence dans l’Hémicycle, dans une ambiance qui s’annonce tendue

En direct, guerre au Proche-Orient : plusieurs frappes sur la banlieue sud de Beyrouth après des appels israéliens à évacuer, selon l’Agence nationale de l’information libanaise

Hôte d’un sommet des BRICS, Vladimir Poutine met en scène son non-isolement

Les nouvelles voies pour traiter les troubles de stress post-traumatique

Cycliste tué à Paris : le gouvernement va lancer une mission contre la violence sur les routes

Comment « Le Monde » a couvert la question raciale aux Etats-Unis


Economist

Why Donald Trump has moved ahead in our election forecast

Checks and Balance newsletter: Trump and Harris’s duel over EVs

A culture of conspiracy haunts Arizona’s elections

Democrats struggle to limit the loss of black voters in Georgia

Republicans ramp up efforts to court Amish voters in Pennsylvania

Voters won’t thank Kamala Harris for the state of the economy


Low Tech Magazine (Solar)

Communal Luxury: The Public Bathhouse

Low-tech Magazine: The Ebooks

Thematic Book Series: How Circular is the Circular Economy?


Jacobin

Labor’s Future in the Global Trade War

Israel Is Ethnically Cleansing Northern Gaza

Errol Morris’s Reminder of Trump’s Sadistic Border Policy

Protecting Undocumented Organizers From Retaliation Is Vital

How the Media Whitewashes Israel’s Rampage

No, Marine Le Pen Doesn’t Represent Precarious Workers


Briar Patch

Dispelling the “forgotten war” myth

Felling the corporate media beast

Contextualizing resistance

Collective liberation means collective liberation for all

Creating anti-Zionist Jewish community

A reading list on disability justice organizing


The Tyee

Feeling Hopeless? These Authors Have Advice

Super-polarized BC

Please Advise! What Can We Learn from BC's Soggy Vote?

What Now? How the Next BC Government Will Be Decided

Inside Election Night’s Drama

NDP and Conservatives Could Wait a Week to Learn Who Will Govern