Good Things Friday (398) and Link Love
October 16, 2026
I was curious what one of my favorite actors was up to: Aldis Hodge And Wunmi Mosaku To Star In Orion Pictures Thriller ‘One Night Out’ With George Tillman Jr. Directing
B.C. man reunited with beloved flute, 5 years after it floated away down a Yukon river
From Wired (if everyone listened to Timnit the FIRST time, we’d have built in AI guardrails but nooooo the tech bros didn’t want anything to do with trust and safety): Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI. One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.
From Wired: A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers. The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
From Mother Jones, Turnage should be sent straight to hell for what she did to Taylor and many others: The Unflinching Courage of Taylor Cadle. The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.
Thank you to Dan Levy (this is the barest of minimums that people should call out and yet) and a very fuck you to Shane Willis: Dan Levy Calls Out Shane Gillis’ ‘SNL’ Monologue and Says ‘More Men Need to Be Standing Up’: ‘Speechless That Something Like That Can Exist on Live National Television’
Scammers Are Stealing Millions From Food Stamp Recipients. Congress Could Fix It — but Won’t.
From The 19th: Idaho moms and grandmothers are taking the fight for abortion rights to their neighbors’ doors. It’s the only state this year where voters could reverse an abortion ban. With little national support, older women who never expected to be activists are powering the campaign.
I’m so sick of these scumbags: Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say. Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.
Elie Mystal for The Nation – there’s a really darkly funny bit in there: Is Blockbuster Video the Answer to Our Digital Privacy Woes? The Supreme Court is weighing whether a 1988 video-store law can be used to protect our digital privacy.