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• VVOX2026-10-13✓ Read

  The Supreme Court may be about to make America’s prisons much crueler

  On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump issued an executive order requiring the Bureau of Prisons to “ensure that no Federal funds are expended for any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex.” Issued alongside a record 26 other orders that day, it was an unsurprising development, because Trump had made this issue one of the centerpieces of his 2024 campaign.

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• VVOX2026-10-13✓ Read

  Trump’s revenge campaign comes for Ilhan Omar

  This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here.

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• Cracked: All Posts2026-10-13✓ Read

  Shane Gillis’ Latest ‘Saturday Night Live’ Disaster Raises Questions About Who This Is All For

  Gillis’ third and worst hosting stint makes Lorne Michaels look desperate

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• Inverse2026-10-13✓ Read

  Peacock's 'Friday the 13th' Prequel Is The Strangest Show Of The Year

  Linda Cardellini stars in the series that was supposed to retcon the original but instead just muddies the waters.

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• Inverse2026-10-13✓ Read

  Experts Say You Should Stop Believing These Seborrheic Dermatitis Myths

  From scalp oils to skipping wash days, some common advice could be fueling your seborrheic dermatitis flare-ups. Follow this expert advice instead.

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• VVOX2026-10-13✓ Read

  Florida’s uniquely horrifying death penalty system

  Late last month, the state of Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike, a woman who has been on death row for decades after killing a classmate as a teenager.

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• Jacobin2026-10-13✓ Read

  Neukölln, the Berlin District Where the Left Broke Through

  Amid resounding recent victories for the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), on September 20 Germany’s socialist party Die Linke bucked the trend with a spectacular victory in Berlin. It dominated the campaign with its program of ending cuts, capping rents, and socializing housing companies, leaving other parties to respond to the popular demand that Berliners had confirmed in a 2021 referendum. The monster victory for the AfD in Sachsen-Anhalt further galvanized Berlin’s diverse urban working class to express opposition to the fascists.

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• Main - Kottke.org2026-10-13✓ Read

  So Many Different Mes

  Japanese photographer and artist Tomoko Sawada works primarily in self-portraiture. For her first project, she visited ID photo booths to take hundreds of photos of herself, dressed, posed, and presented differently. Eugenie Shin of Tokyo Weekender calls that 1998 project, ID 400, “a dizzying grid of strangers who are all actually the same woman”.

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• Inverse2026-10-13✓ Read

  Exclusive: William Shatner Reveals Why New Generations Still Love Classic Star Trek

  Speaking to Inverse at New York Comic-Con, William Shatner reveals why he thinks young people still like the 1960s 'Star Trek.'

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• Inverse2026-10-13✓ Read

  ‘Resident Evil’ Just Made Box Office History — What’s Happening Next?

  Despite how critically maligned they were, the Paul W.S. Anderson era of Resident Evil films was a massive financial success. The original 2002 film grossed over $103 million against a budget of $33 million, and the last installment made over $314 million on a mere $40 million budget. In comparison, the first reboot attempt, 2021’s Welcome to Raccoon City, had a budget of $25 million and made just shy of $42 million, despite being a much closer attempt at bringing the game narrative to life.

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• Main - Kottke.org2026-10-13✓ Read

  ArtCraft is building open source versions of what looks

  ArtCraft is building open source versions of what looks like most of Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps. Oh, and a word processor and a spreadsheet app because why not?

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• Inverse2026-10-13✓ Read

  ‘Narnia: Magician’s Nephew’ Trailer Reveals Netflix’s Next Big Fantasy Franchise

  Greta Gerwig changed pop culture with Barbie, but before that, she was already hard at work on her next project: a take on C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia for Netflix. For over two years now, fans have waited with bated breath to see how Netflix would show the story of the Pevensie siblings. But Gerwig chose not to adapt the books in publication order, like the previous adaptations. Instead, the Netflix series will begin with an adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew, the prequel book.

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• Main - Kottke.org2026-10-13✓ Read

  Reelizer: A Trove of Movie Art

  Reelizer is a personal project by Roger Erik Tinch that is a collection of movie art: prints, posters, illustrations, albums, books, covers, etc. Careful, you can lose hours here…Tinch has a great eye. A few of my favorites:

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• VentureBeat2026-10-13✓ Read

  OpenAI’s AI agent platform is used by twice as many companies as Anthropic’s, new VentureBeat survey finds

  Twice as many companies use OpenAI's agent orchestration platform as Anthropic's, VentureBeat Intelligence found in its September survey on agent orchestration. OpenAI holds that lead even though Anthropic may lead OpenAI on other important indicators. For example, Ramp, the corporate card and spending company, reports that more businesses now pay for Anthropic than for OpenAI. Read more

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• Main - Kottke.org2026-10-13✓ Read

  Thing I am going to make time for in the next few days

  Thing I am going to make time for in the next few days: Harry Styles and Thom Yorke in conversation. “My laptop has been dead for about 6 years. I don’t know where my charger is.” There’s an accompanying Rolling Stone cover story.

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• Jacobin2026-10-13✓ Read

  A Portrait of Eugene Debs for Today’s Left

  You can tell the capitalist system is in trouble when Americans start talking about Eugene Debs. Although the popular image of the great labor and socialist leader has ebbed and flowed since his death a century ago this month, our New Gilded Age has placed him back in the spotlight. Progressive politicians and labor activists, including United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain and union organizer Jaz Brisack, quote his speeches with regularity.

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• Main - Kottke.org2026-10-13✓ Read

  The People Holding Up the Internet. Amazing to see how

  The People Holding Up the Internet. Amazing to see how much of the modern internet still depends on the volunteer work of individual people. 4 billion phones rely on the time zone database, a text file edited by just two people in their spare time.

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• VentureBeat2026-10-13✓ Read

  Google makes Gemini 4 Argon broadly available with limited-time low API pricing of $2/$10 per 1M token

  The Gemini app gains more agentic functionality, including persistent tasks that can continue while users are away from their computers and connections to more than 40 external applications.

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• Main - Kottke.org2026-10-13✓ Read

  Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net

  Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive. “Every death on my corner is offset, with a third of a toddler left over, and I’d like that number in the conversation the next time somebody calls me a murderer…”

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• VentureBeat2026-10-13✓ Read

  Agents need more than business process knowledge. They need to understand how your company actually works

  AI agents need more than process knowledge to execute work reliably. They need company-specific context, governed workflows and controls that travel across systems.

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