curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Konrad Putzier @ WSJ:
Broad Pickup in Prices Lifted Inflation to 3.7% in September
Gasoline drove up prices, but other costs also rose when energy was stripped out of the measure
James Eagle:
Key price changes since the start of Trump’s second term
Shanley Hurt:
Sir, That’s Someone Else’s Island
Donald Trump has apparently mistaken a defense agreement for a receipt, and someone needs to check his pockets before he leaves the next NATO meeting.
Early Wednesday, he announced that massive oil, gas, and mineral exploration was about to begin in “our new and beautiful Greenland,” which is an interesting way to describe a place that continues to belong to someone else. Most people return from a diplomatic meeting with a commemorative pen. Donald apparently believes he got an island. …
Heather Cox Richardson:
Letters from an American – October 14, 2026
According to Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov, last night, without warning, Elon Musk’s SpaceX restricted the speed limits for the Starlink terminals Ukraine’s military uses, known as Starshield, debilitating Ukraine’s drones even as Russian forces launched strikes against Ukraine’s energy and critical infrastructure—the very infrastructure Trump said must be left alone.
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Eric Ciaramella @ Foreign Affairs:
Ukraine Can Turn Imminent Peril to Its AdvantageHow a True “Energy Cease-Fire” Can Curb Putin
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Ken Klippenstein:
Trump Dons Executioner HoodFiring squad execution of Nidal Hasan gives president intimate role
… there are laws and military regulations on this. They virtually give the president his own livestream into the process.
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Suzanne Gamboa @ NBC:
Texas DA says ICE intentionally hit immigrant with a car and may have withheld evidence
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Michael Wriston, Mia Barragán @ Project Salt Box:
Homeland Security eyes no-bid deal for AI-assisted search of billions of communication recordsThe system would combine live wiretaps, phone location data, email, and financial records.
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Mark Cowley @ SlashGear:
This Floating Solar Farm Is Doing A Lot More Than Just Generating ElectricityIn theory, floating solar farms have several environmental benefits over large, land-based facilities like California’s massive 4,700-acre Topaz Solar Farm. Floating solar farms leave land free for more productive purposes, like agriculture. Floating panels on existing bodies of water can also minimize the risk of migratory birds mistaking land-based farms for lakes and losing their way.
The Netherlands’ Bomhofsplas solar park, located on a lake in Zwolle, has also installed cages below the panels to act as homes for aquatic wildlife, resulting in a net gain of livable habitat in the area. …
(Mark Cowley @ SlashGear more…)
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Jason Koebler @ 404 Media:
Character.ai Bankruptcy Is First AI Bubble Domino to FallLauren Feiner @ Verge:
Now that Character.AI is going bankrupt, what happens to all of its users’ data?
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Todd Woody, Mark Chediak @ Bloomberg:
AI’s other water costData center developers have started touting new technologies that slash the amount of water needed to cool hot-running servers in drought-stressed places like Arizona. Those efforts, though, are not addressing the vast majority of the water consumed by the AI buildout.
Miles away from multiplying data centers, power plants are now consuming enormous volumes of water to generate the electricity required to run artificial intelligence, including those more efficient cooling systems.
New research indicates that such indirect water consumption is rapidly growing. …
(Todd Woody, Mark Chediak @ Bloomberg more…)
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Katelyn Jetelina @ Your Local Epidemiologist:
Getting ready for sick season. Also ticks rebounding, flu sweeping, and dengue showing its teeth.
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Mike Ludwig @ truthout: ICE Says 51 People Died in Custody Under Trump. Experts Say That’s an Undercount.
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Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump
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