A one-time 5% wealth tax would bring Silicon Valley’s billionaires’ wealth back to where it was just 31 days ago, on September 7.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/prompt-3

Just a little amusing and not that surprising.

New York City has also banned AI for younger students as concerns over classroom use grow

For those who don’t recognize it, a link to the unmodified original

In February, a woman in Long Island, New York, went with her two children to a scheduled check-in with ICE. Officers detained them. The mother, who asked to be identified only by her initials, M.S.P., because she fears retaliation from the government, said the family was taken far from their longtime home of New York and jailed in a hotel in Texas.

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Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all? This is particularly a problem when users are required to prove their age with identity documents.

I’m not the artist, War and Peas is. Source

archived copy of the article

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20261009115908/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/ice-new-york-bronx-shooting-child/

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As always, stay tuned here on !comicstrips\@lemmy.world for a slow trickle out of Jucika comics, but if you want to find more, here’s a good post with a large collection that /u/JohnnyEnzyme\@piefed.social posted last year: https\://piefed.social/post/1258520

Trump administration says US ‘doesn’t need’ ICC after accusing court of unfairly targeting Americans for war crime charges

Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to “undo the curse that was just put on our city.”

Welcome to the party. There are cocktails in the kitchen!

WTF?! You might have heard the one about being nice to chatbots in case they remember you once the machines take over. It seems Anthropic is heeding this warning, barring users from being excessively abusive or cruel toward its AI models.

Judge Gary R. Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York issued the scathing reprimand Monday, condemning the agents’ actions when they apparently misidentified a pair of men they arrested in New York City earlier this year — then allegedly covered their tracks by falsifying official paperwork.

A U.S. diplomat sparked outrage after being accused of having “repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised” reporting to paint the Israeli government “in a favorable light,” including by “stonewalling” lawmakers’ probes into Israeli killings of Americans, the New York Times reported.

Voters in the Peruvian town of Queropalca have chosen their new mayor: Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores.

A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.

https://www.thefarside.com/2026/10/09/3

This young raccoon was stuck in a storage unit for 6 days when Chelmsford Animal Control officer Glidden was called to rescue him.

this is a particularly unsettling article

lmfao what the fuck

Credits Mr Lovenstein

https://www.thefarside.com/2026/10/09/2

OpenAI said in a blog post on Thursday that it banned Russian and Iranian accounts that were using the company’s artificial intelligence tools to help with influence operations in multiple countries. The operatives said they managed to get their false narratives picked up by news outlets, and in once case, prompted a response from a member of the European Parliament, according to internal reports the operations produced using OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT.

Shortly after we moved into our homestead we got a notice from animal control that they had free barn cats.

https://www.thefarside.com/2026/10/09/1

https://explosm.net/comics/crosses

Some of Democrats’ once-hateable figures are out of the picture. And emerging democratic socialists haven’t made for strong lines of attack nationwide.

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