Good Things Friday (396) and Link Love
October 2, 2026
It’s been a rough week for me medically, I’ve been totally miserable.
BUT!
Thanks to everyone’s help (here, Bluesky, Mastodon, email regulars), early last week, I placed a BIG second set of orders to feed 10 more families for more than 1 week. We’ve been tracking the TWENTY EIGHT shipments. Most have arrived, a few went astray so we’re following up on the ones needing to be reshipped, and the weirdness w/the PO claiming they couldn’t deliver when the front step was right there where it always is(!!), etc. My contact, D, has been game through all of it. He’s fielding these hundreds of lbs of pantry and canned foods to organize and distribute to the Red Shirt community. He’s working on getting it all organized and confirming receipt of everything before he distributes.
He’s sent a few pictures, and it’s looking good!
I have a *little* money left to send a few more essentials but I have to let him get this distributed first, I don’t want to break him! I’d love if we could get them through the winter but I know fall has only started. Still, getting their pantries full for a couple-few weeks is meaningful and I couldn’t have done this without y’all. I’m waiting to make sure everything gets to the destination before I share our total food buys <3
“Everything, Everywhere, All at Once Surveillance”: Your Questions Answered. A legal expert on digital surveillance answers questions from Bolts readers about how police track your personal data, and what public officials could be doing to restrict it.
Young Black Men and Boys Are Quietly Taking On a Caregiving Crisis Few People See
Oh that’s a shame, I wonder why (I assume something financial): Subterranean Press to Close
Astronomers just named an asteroid after ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic
Mineral cup (voting may be over but the science remains interesting!): pyromorphite vs writeable graphite
Can I just say that all the men involved in victim blaming and enabling these rapists need to be punched in the face repeatedly and without cessation, including Van Houten who needs to fuck off with his bullshit of “these allegations were so different two years ago” – yeah no kidding you didn’t have any statements if you didn’t fucking bother to speak to the victim! Useless clod, I hope he’s haunted by the depth of his worthlessness the rest of his days, along with every single person at Cornell, administration and rapists alike, who knew what happened and did worse than fuck all to prevent it or report it, including every single one of those shits in the chat and the frat. The frats should all be burned to the ground. Literally and permanently: District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University ‘gang rape’
Related: Not Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special Treatment
People are still the problem: Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They’re Horrified
Feels like the entire team should be making this demand, Greg Powers and Tim Ziesel murdered Matthew Mayich, but I guess having only some report, and anonymously, means it gives the team cover as to who it could be: Arizona State men’s hockey players ask school to place coach Greg Powers on leave
OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack
A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not—attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.
I keep wishing for it to disappear, it’s all a giant shell game, but still no luck this week: Anthropic IPO prospectus lays bare deep dependence on Big Tech partners