Moody's Microblog Daily Digest

#Impeachment. That’s what happens next. - https://emptywheel.net/2026/11/04/what-happens-next/ "Tom Massie has promised to bring his articles of impeachment against Pete #Hegseth when the House returns to work next week. And because there are things the House needs to do (or try to do), I doubt Mike Johnson will find a way to forestall that."

‘I’m 100 Percent at War with #Trump’: #MAGA Revolts After Midterms Wipeout - https://www.wired.com/story/im-100-percent-at-war-with-trump-maga-revolts-after-midterms-wipeout/

#Cyberattack on French plasma stores is enough to make your blood boil - https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/04/cyberattack-on-french-plasma-stores-is-enough-to-make-your-blood-boil/5307519 " Attackers reportedly set cold-room controls to 110°C, but safeguards prevented stock losses" #russia, presumably

Boffins use machine-learning tricks to create a starlight dimmer switch - https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/04/boffins-use-machine-learning-tricks-to-create-a-starlight-dimmer-switch/5307625 " FLIP reveals a planet hidden in Webb data, boosting detection sensitivity by up to 15 times"

Action Against Data Centers Goes Europe-Wide This Weekend - https://netzpolitik.org/2026/london-paris-berlin-action-against-data-centers-goes-europe-wide-this-weekend/ "„Stop Dirty Data Centres” is planning protests and community-led actions on November 6 and 7"

North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B #Binance heist - https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/03/north-korean-fake-job-interview-led-to-63b-binance-heist/5307398 it's always the humans that are weakest...

Drax wants to feed Britain's #AI habit with £20B datacenter at #biomass power station - https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/11/03/drax-wants-to-feed-britains-ai-habit-with-20b-datacenter-at-biomass-power-station/5307237 #drax needs shutting down, not extending

IronEar: the privacy-first audio sensor that recognises 500 sounds on-device - https://www.open-electronics.org/ironear-the-privacy-first-audio-sensor-that-recognises-500-sounds-on-device/ #opensource

#Anthropic warns that it’s very close to #RSI capability, aka self-building #AI -https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/anthropic-warns-that-its-very-close-to-rsi-capability-aka-self-building-ai/

Third person dies of #birdflu since virus started jumping to livestock - https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/11/third-person-dies-of-bird-flu-since-virus-started-jumping-to-livestock/ this is not good...

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I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere) - https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/3/a-sound-that-leaks-your-exact-location/ "background noise of planes from a video soundtrack, figure out their Doppler curves, then cross reference them against ADS-B data to find the exact location of the video" #whoa

#LLMs can natively read & write neural network #weights - https://rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-space-programming/ "frontier LLMs are surprisingly good at natively reading and writing neural network weights, well past what we’d expect from humans or conventional algorithms. This might be a big deal for both optimization and interpretability."

Sam #Altman’s Case Against Your #RAM Is Efficient. That’s The Problem - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/11/02/sam-altmans-case-against-your-ram-is-efficient-thats-the-problem/ "It’s the same logic by which a fascist dictator may seem “more efficient” to those sick of democratic quirks and bureaucratic red tape. It only sounds good if your mental model is completely screwed up and simplistic."

#Denmark pushes for #EU ban on ‘turbo chickens’ as secret footage causes outrage - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/03/denmark-pushes-for-eu-ban-on-turbo-chickens-as-secret-footage-causes-outrage great move, #denmark; others must follow suit around the world

#AIs #Hacking the #Law - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/11/ais-hacking-the-law.html "AIs finding vulnerabilities and exploits—hacking—the legal system."

Tuesday, 3 November 2026

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US funding for ‘#TuftonStreet’ think tanks up 29% - https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/new-us-funding-for-tufton-street "UK political parties cannot accept #donations from impermissible foreign sources, but think tanks face few rules." this must be changed

#Ford launches a ‘#privacy promise’ and explains how and why it uses customer data - https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/ford-launches-a-privacy-promise-and-explains-how-and-why-it-uses-a-customers-data/ well, we will see, won't we?

Horrific discovery at cemetery renews debate over fate of stray dogs in #Georgia - https://jam-news.net/horrific-discovery-at-cemetery-renews-debate-over-fate-of-stray-dogs-in-georgia/ " Judging by the condition of the bodies, veterinarians believe the dogs suffered greatly before they died." bad things happening in #tbilisi

Britain's driverless dream hits a roundabout of awkward questions - https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/02/britains-driverless-dream-hits-a-roundabout-of-awkward-questions/5306715 "Will Britain become dependent on #autonomous vehicle services for any key activities and what fallback options will exist if a supplier fails or withdraws?"

"new analysis from Fossil Free Politics reveals that EU governments to have brought hundreds of fossil fuel lobbyists to the previous three #COPs between 2023-25. " - https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/11/eu-governments-cop31-break-past-or-business-usual absurd practice; shame on @ec.europa.eu

#Palantir #AI tech unused or little used by 29 #NHS trusts said to be benefiting from it - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/02/palantir-unused-nhs-hospital-trusts "Gap between NHS claim and trusts’ comments described as ‘very misleading’ by senior health official" #ukgov needs to wake up

A Right-Wing Think Tank Has a Plan to Prevent #Democrats From Being Seated in Congress - https://www.wired.com/story/a-right-wing-think-tank-has-a-plan-to-prevent-democrats-from-being-seated-in-congress/ “neo-Marxist progressives and anti-Western Muslims” can’t sincerely swear to protect the Constitution - rather rich given #trump has trashed constitution so much

Monday, 2 November 2026

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Why This #Palantir Billionaire Is Backing A Plan To Breed 30,000 #Monkeys - https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2026/10/27/why-this-billionaire-is-betting-on-us-bred-lab-monkeys/ these people just can't stop being evil... #animalcruelty

Study finds self-immolation accounts for 16% of #Iran's burn admissions - https://www.iranintl.com/en/202611016130 awful

Are #LLMs good or bad #Bayesians? - https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/11/are-llms-good-or-bad-bayesians.html "LLMs tend to treat a plausible counterargument as evidence in favor of its conclusion, rather than comparing the counterargument to what they should have expected to hear" #ai

The New Age of #Reading. - https://languagehat.com/the-new-age-of-reading/ contrary to claims and fears, reading is doing fine #ai #literacy

#BayeuxTapestry - https://moodysonnets.blogspot.com/2026/10/bayeux-tapestry.html a #sonnet provoked by the #BritishMuseum exhibition (well-worth seeing if you can get tix). with audio fwiw...

Sunday, 1 November 2026

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Electrocutions, ‘mental terror’ and withheld wages: The exploited workers building Europe’s #datacentres - https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/electrocutions-mental-terror-and-withheld-wages-the-exploited-workers-building-europes-data-centres "harsh realities facing some working on the continent's vast #AI infrastructure developments."

More than 30 senior Tories named in new #Covid #PPE ‘VIP lane’ records - https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-more-than-30-senior-tories "Full details of ‘politically connected’ fast track lane for lucrative PPE contracts released after Democracy for Sale reporter's five-year legal battle."

Backbone of a beast – charting #Nvidia's rise to networking titan - https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/10/31/backbone-of-a-beast-charting-nvidias-rise-to-networking-titan/5306499 " How a $6.9B bet on Mellanox made Nvidia bigger than Cisco, and the world's most valuable company to boot "

Flesh-eating #screwworms spread to third state and are attacking #pets - https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/flesh-eating-screwworms-are-feasting-on-pets-4-dogs-and-cat-attacked-this-week/ " USDA has identified 74 animal cases in US since parasitic flies invaded in June. " not good

Even more #ads are coming to #Google #search, Google says - https://mashable.com/tech/more-ads-are-coming-to-google-search-ai-mode I'm sure that will drive lots of traffic...

#US cancels #G20 ‘family photo’ after #Australia, #UK and others refuse to appear with #Russia - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/31/us-cancels-g20-family-photo-after-australia-uk-and-others-refuse-to-appear-with-russia "Rubio pulls plug on traditional photo op at meeting of foreign ministers after about one-third of countries threaten boycott" damn right

Twice as many plants and animals sold in #wildlife trade as previously thought, says report - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/30/twice-as-many-plants-and-animals-sold-in-wildlife-trade-as-previously-thought-says-report "100,000 species are traded globally, whether illegally smuggled, sold as ornaments or in fisheries, timber and fashion industries" awful trade by awful people

Saturday, 31 October 2026

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The #Iran War’s Impact on Oil Is Hitting Key Senate Races Hard - https://www.wired.com/story/iran-war-impact-on-oil-hits-key-senate-races/ "Democrats are using the high price of diesel, heating oil, and fertilizer to tie Republicans to President Donald #Trump’s unpopular, costly war in Iran."

Why #Wikimedia Is Speaking Up in a Major #AI #Copyright Case - https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/30/why-wikimedia-is-speaking-up-in-a-major-ai-copyright-case/

Your Diary Has A Creditor: What Character.ai’s Bankruptcy Does To Freedom Of Thought - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/29/your-diary-has-a-creditor-what-character-ais-bankruptcy-does-to-freedom-of-thought/ "The law, in most cases, already understands that a diary deserves protection because of what it contains, not because of who manufactured the notebook." #ai #privacy

#EU #Satellite Imagery Delayed Over #Gaza and Parts of West Bank by 24-hours - https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/10/29/eu-satellite-imagery-delayed-over-gaza-and-parts-of-west-bank-by-24-hours/ "While the delay remains relatively short at just 24 hours, this can still impact the speed at which analysts and researchers can observe what is happening in the region."

Auch der #EU-Datenschützer rügt geplantes Polizeiabkommen mit den USA - https://netzpolitik.org/2026/grenzpartnerschaft-auch-der-eu-datenschuetzer-ruegt-geplantes-polizeiabkommen-mit-den-usa/ "Der Europäische Datenschutzbeauftragte fordert schärfere Grenzen für einen Austausch von heiklen Polizeidaten mit US-Behörden. Die Bundesregierung hält ihre Verhandlungen dazu sogar im Parlament geheim. " #privacy

‘Amateur morons’: Flávio #Bolsonaro’s short-lived ‘president-elect’ claim met with mockery - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/30/flavio-bolsonaros-president-elect-claim-mockery-brazil wow, this is wonderful #brazil

#BayeuxTapestry - https://moodysonnets.blogspot.com/2026/10/bayeux-tapestry.html a #sonnet provoked by the #BritishMuseum exhibition (well-worth seeing if you can get tix). with audio fwiw...