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The full title is:

> Never Mind The Deepfakes, Chatbots Have To Deal With Election Lies Being Free, While Truth Is Paywalled

<h1> (rather than <title>) is the human-oriented title. When I open the live article page itself, the title on the page (not elsewhere in the browser UI) is

> Cybersecurity CEO Indicted for Allegedly Scamming Millions From Ransomware Victims

, which exceeds the character limit by 2. I could have lightly edited the title to `Cybersecurity CEO Indicted for Allegedly Scamming Ransomware Victims`. However, having personally noticed in the past that some people comment on the headline without reading the article, I also editorialized "Cybersecurity" to `Data Recovery`.

The <title> you found is just as valid, as it's the (often shorter but clearer) alternative title that ProPublica offers to search engines and the browser tab. In the interest of not letting my title choices be confused for a website's A/B testing (which ProPublica might not do) and because I don't know which disclaimer to write for ProPublica's alt titles, I usually punt the responsibility of whether to use the alt titles to the HN mods.

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> Cybersecurity CEO Indicted for Allegedly Scamming Millions From Ransomware Victims

Let's not ignore the years before LLM-oriented data centers actually if ever switch to renewable energy, never mind whether the switch will "reverse" the long-term effects of high pollution during the first years. Refining GP's and your analogies:

Imagine if an overweight person could only lose significant weight if they temporarily underwent obesity for a few years. While many overweight people exist, we should actively prevent more people from becoming overweight, and we should change the socioeconomic and political circumstances that contribute to excessive weight gain.

Imagine if a moderate exercise session causes a person to feel severe hunger pains for a few hours that do not immediately abate upon eating. Such an unfair biological condition would incentivize the person to avoid moderate or vigorous exercise. If the person attempts to power through the pain, the pain may trick them into eating more than they need to at the expense of their wallets, their health, and collective food supply. We should encourage such individuals to set aside longer times for light exercise if their finances and work allow them to, teach people to reduce their extra calorie margins without sacrificing necessary nutrients (especially because taking in less extra most-things is easier than removing extra most-things), and research palliative and curative medical treatments for this condition.

The original title is:

> Greg Abbott ordered a pause on data center permits. Critics say some plans still moved forward.

> When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to be oppressors. We must seek not to invert the relationship, but in fact to humanize both sides.

(Downthread:)

> Prison is necessarily oppressive.

> Sure sounds like you want to oppress a people to me.

Are you arguing that we should strive for a society that does not imprison anyone, or are you asking people to recognize prison as oppression without excluding prison as a valid/necessary/reasonable treatment for some people?

> Teach them empathy as justice is served to make whole the oppressed.

While the oppressed should not have sole decision-making authority or unlimited options (and afaik the oppressed almost never if ever advocate for such), generally the evaluation of whether the oppressed have been made whole (and whether the oppressed can be made whole in the first place) is for the oppressed to make, not for others or the law to decide.

Let us also recognize fundamental differences between oppressing people for their identities or their not-acted-upon thoughts and oppressing people for their actions.

The full title is:

> Expert For News Orgs Suing OpenAI Warned ‘Always Verify’ AI, Then Didn’t Verify His AI-Made Charts In His Expert Report

dfe and yepyoukno are sanewashing [1] and oversimplifying the administration's actions by ignoring the self-interested and malicious motives behind them.

Avoid getting so distracted by the penetration test angle that we overlook the part where none of the government's findings about our right to vote are supposed to be secret from the public, never mind the manufacturer of the voting machine.

If we assume for a moment that the administration's motives in this case are overwhelmingly good, at best what we're left with is NOBUS [2][3] for our voting machines. Now a moment has passed. Ask yourself why you do not attribute malicious motives to the people who want (worse than) NOBUS for our voting machines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanewashing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOBUS

[3] https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/13/petards-r-us/

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> Crime stats touted by Kash Patel are bolstered by arrests made by state and local agencies, not FBI

> Lula’s campaign argues that accounts and advertisements associated with Flávio Bolsonaro have reportedly received artificially inflated visibility, with engagement metrics rivaling those of global celebrities. The two are in a close race for the presidency, after the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro garnered 47% of the vote against 45% for the incumbent in the first round on Oct. 4.

> Lula’s complaint also claims there’s a stark disparity in Meta’s artificial intelligence tools, with users failing to generate campaign images related to the 80-year-old president via WhatsApp’s “Meta AI” feature, but being able to do so if they want to promote content in support of Flávio Bolsonaro.

In the US, Meta would have a First Amendment right to boost one political candidate's speech over another's, a Section 230 immunity to do the same, and a First Amendment right to discriminate in what its AI allows users to generate.

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> 'They were both in on it' — Musk suggested Trump restrict Ukraine's Starlink service, Telegraph reports

The Telegraph article is at [1], but I got both paywalled and (even when I tried a gift link instead) login-walled.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/10/16/musk-appro...

The original title is:

> New Mexico and El Paso Spent Millions on Climate Plans. Three New Data Centers Could Undo Them.

The original title is:

> Trump Acquired $5 Million In SpaceX Debt Two Days Before Space Transportation Executive Order

"Casualtyship" bias is just another form of survivorship bias. If you avoid counting the vaccine shots that don't result in injury, you're intentionally collecting bad data.

If you equally invite both injury reports and non-injury reports, the money would still be bribery and would worsen selection bias.

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> Eleventh Circuit Says Cliffhangers Are ‘Features,’ Not Speech, As It Greenlights Florida’s Social Media Age Gate

The original title is:

> ICE’s Lies About A Man Officer Ran Over Undone By Footage Captured By Nearby CCTV Camera

The original title is:

> In 1991, Federal Panel Blasts Vaccine Unavailability That Led To A Measles Epidemic

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> DHS Inspector General Finds That TSA is Not Properly Safeguarding Passenger Facial Recognition Data

The original title is:

> As Federal Court Rules ALPRs are Mass Surveillance, EFF Gets Disappointing Ruling

The original title is:

> Scammers Are Stealing Millions From Food Stamp Recipients. Congress Could Fix It — but Won’t.

Biden himself claimed he had no advance notice of the search of Mar-a-Lago. The FBI had prior knowledge because you're not supposed seek a warrant without prior knowledge.

> Facebook or Reddit or some social media... they seem to like selective rule enforcement

Agreed [1][2].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-alex-jones-f...

[2] https://www.techpolicy.press/insiders-view-of-the-january-6t...

> Realistically, people misunderstand each other all the time.

If the restaurant owner in this case truly has made a multi-layer misunderstanding, SpaceX continues to have an opportunity to clear up the misunderstanding. I hope SpaceX will do so within the next month.

How many of those overdue payments are overdue for this long despite a comparable capacity to pay back (a 5 figure sum from a 13 figure net worth buyer)? Imagine a 7 figure retirement couple (now a modest baseline for retirement in the US) delaying to pay back a 2 figure restaurant bill for over a month for reasons that might be good if only they were willing to disclose the reasons. Still a lot, maybe? Until you add that the buyer wrongly told the restaurant owner on three separate occasions that at least one payment (whether full or partial) would go through, which in some ways is worse than radio silence.

Maybe my retirement couple numbers were too forgiving. Change the 7 above to 8. Now I regret using retirement as an example. Imagine a 9 figure net worth business being unable to pay back a 9 - (13-5) = 1 figure B2B bill. Make it 2 figures for margin of error.

> Perhaps, he heard "payment was initiated" but what was really said was "your invoice is in the system and were processing it"

If that were what happened, what might have led the restaurant owner to get a misunderstanding of the "the payment... should land in his bank account in the next few days" sort?

When people get locked out of their Google/other accounts, Google/other usually doesn't have a contractual obligation to have a good reason for disabling the account (and thus money/compensation is not owed or overdue in such cases).

> Desperate, Bell called SpaceX’s senior accountant on Sept. 17 and left a voicemail. “I said, ‘Something seems a little weird, and I don’t know if I should be getting a lawyer,’” he said.

> Bell said he received two responses within the hour. The first was a call from the accountant, who told him his payment had been initiated and should land in his bank account in the next few days. Bell said that as of Oct. 9 it had not arrived.

> On Friday, shortly after the Chronicle reached out to SpaceX for the second time, an accountant called Bell and told him payment was on its way. Bell said this is the third time the company has told him payment has been initiated.

This is just how "random" vendor "disputes" go? I disagree.

Just because a headline is chosen to make you feel semething doesn't mean it's clickbait. The headline is the editor's/author's restatement of the restaurant owner's own questions which were quoted in the article body.

> 1. Because real companies have accounts payable procedures, where transactions are examined and processed according to procedure, in varying degrees of time, depending on the circumstance.

> 2. Profitable companies, or those that hope to be so, make sure there is always a backlog of work available, which creates some amount of delay in all payments.

Your first two points are addressed by:

> Desperate, Bell called SpaceX’s senior accountant on Sept. 17 and left a voicemail. “I said, ‘Something seems a little weird, and I don’t know if I should be getting a lawyer,’” he said.

> Bell said he received two responses within the hour. The first was a call from the accountant, who told him his payment had been initiated and should land in his bank account in the next few days. Bell said that as of Oct. 9 it had not arrived.

> On Friday, shortly after the Chronicle reached out to SpaceX for the second time, an accountant called Bell and told him payment was on its way. Bell said this is the third time the company has told him payment has been initiated.

Your third point can go unaddressed.

The original title is:

> SpaceX is worth $2 trillion. So why hasn’t it paid this Bay Area chef the $70,000 it owes him?