Astronomers using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered 2026 ED138, a large object beyond Neptune that could become the solar system's sixth recognized dwarf planet if further observations confirm it is massive enough to be round. Located about 46 times farther from the Sun than Earth, the object is estimated to be 600 to 1,500 kilometers wide and had remained hidden because it lies against a particularly crowded field of Milky Way stars. Scientific American reports: The discovery was made by running billions of pieces of data collected by the Rubin Observatory through a search code developed by Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian astronomers Matthew Holman and Kevin Napier. "My first reaction was one of excited disbelief," Holman said in a statement. "Objects like this are very rare, so I immediately started checking whether I or the code had done something wrong."

When Holman and his colleague Mario Juric of the University of Washington went to double-check, they found 30 more observations of the object by Rubin that dated to between March and July 2026. Looking at other observation tools, the pair found even more sightings going back to 2016. Together, these data allowed the astronomers to begin mapping out 2026 ED138's orbit. The suspected dwarf planet is about 46 times as far from the sun as Earth, making it even more remote than Pluto, which is just 40 times as far. The object is also tilted off the solar system's plane by around 25 degrees, an arrangement that could be linked to disruptions caused by Neptune's gravitational pull.

Initial measurements indicate that 2026 ED138 has a diameter between 600 and 1,500 kilometers (373 and 932 miles), which makes it one of the largest dwarf planet candidates yet detected. But size isn't all that matters: further observations are required to determine if the object has enough mass to be pulled into a round shape, which is a key requirement for a dwarf planet. Despite its size, 2026 ED138 was able to avoid detection for all these years because it's located in a part of the night sky that's crowded with stars whose light drowned it out.

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Today's links

• Agents vs ecommerce: Opacity is a feature, not a bug.
• Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
• Object permanence: Aibo hacking; Calculator watches; What hath Occupy wrought; Dr Seuss v Trek parody; "Blacks for Trump" x murder-cults; "9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off."
• Upcoming appearances: Vienna, Kilkenny, Courtenay, Vancouver, Folkestone, Oxford, Sheffield, Virtual, Oxford, Montreal.
• Recent appearances: Where I've been.
• Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
• Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
• Colophon: All the rest.

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Agents vs ecommerce (permalink)

The first widely read piece of tech criticism I ever wrote was "Metacrap: Putting the torch to the seven strawmen of the meta-utopia," a response to the underlying philosophy of the "Semantic Web" that I published in 2001:

https://people.well.com/user/doctorow/metacrap.htm

The piece holds up surprisingly well today (if I do say so myself), and not just for its criticism of the ontological incoherence of "web semantics." The most relevant concept I develop in that piece is a criticism of any plan that starts with "first, everyone else in the world just needs to set aside their needs and advantages in favor of my priorities, and then my plan will work."

This is especially relevant today in the context of "agentic AI." When this idea was first mooted, the big idea was that you could instruct a chatbot to venture out onto the public, unstructured web and it would do your bidding, for example, finding all the flights that fit your criteria and comparing prices for all of them, picking the best one and booking it for you.

This idea quickly foundered. Each step in that process was too complex and specialized for a single chatbot; so the notion quickly gave way to "swarms" of specialized chatbots – one to search the web and identify likely travel websites; one to search those websites; one to evaluate flights against your criteria, one to handle the transaction, and so on.

Through specialization, these bots could be made far more accurate, but at a price: both the literal price of all the extra computation that goes into powering a "swarm" versus a single process, and the reliability price that arises from complexity. That's because error rates are multiplicative: combine two bots with low failure rates into a single system and that system will have a higher failure rate than any of its components. This compounding error rate only increases as you add more and more bots, so every time you add a new specialized bot to decrease the error rate in its area of specialization, you increase the overall error rate of the system by adding more complexity to it.

Despite this, companies pressed on ahead with "agentic," without any regard to the realities or consequences. For example, Microsoft has repeatedly announced that it will modify Windows to eliminate all forms of PC-side privacy and confidentiality, sending a continuous stream of screenshots to Microsoft's cloud servers so that your Microsoft "agent" can access your private data on Microsoft's cloud:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes

But the real fix for "agentic" is for everyone in the world to rearrange their affairs to the benefit of AI agents. This is the same demand that the Semantic Web people made in the early oughts, and it has the same problems. The Semantic Web people operated on the assumption that there were freestanding, objectively correct ways of describing things and that everyone who put information on the web would eventually come to see that adopting these correct semantics was to everyone's advantage.

In reality, these semantic differences are the expression of real, serious, unresolvable philosophical, technical, moral and political arguments. The reason that some media outlets won't describe transwomen as women isn't because they lack an appreciation of objectively correct semantic classifications – it's because they're bigots. That's the same reason "race realists" insist that there is a biological category called "race," that exists despite everything computational genomics has proved:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/16/combat-wheelchairs/#race-realism

In my book The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, I predicted that a similar dynamic would play out when it came to agentic AI and websites. The reason websites are so inhospitable to bots is that ecommerce sites don't want to be legible to automated tools:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621568/thereversecentaursguidetolifeafterai/

Ecommerce websites deploy a wide range of sleazy tactics to raise prices, including surveillance pricing:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/07/gouged/#aeropain

They use market power to rig whole categories, forcing prices up:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/15/enshittipedia/

Multiple law-enforcers, Republic and Democrat, state and federal, have sued companies for "drip pricing" and "junk fees" that make it impossible to know what the actual price is until you've spent a long-ass time going through the purchase process:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/07/drip-drip-drip/#drip-off

Surveillance pricing, drip pricing, junk fees, price fixing and "most favored nation" deals are the source of all the growth in profitability by the economy's largest, most important firms. These tactics require opacity and are antithetical to the kinds of automated comparison-shopping that agentic peddlers promise:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/14/the-price-is-wright/#enforcement-priorities

These tactics are facially illegal and despite this, they are widely practiced. Cheating is so profitable that it's cheaper for firms to buy off regulators and pay fines than it is for them to stop criming. The fantasy that these same companies would welcome agentic shopping bots with open arms is just as implausible as the idea that if we feed enough words to the word-guessing program, it will wake up and become a "super intelligence":

https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/18/surprise/#wow-signal

What's more, the AI companies know this. Google's big plan to make AI profitable is to sell merchants the power to combine its surveillance data with its AI tools to price-gouge shoppers:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/21/cod-marxism/#wannamaker-slain

And right on time, ecommerce websites are mass-blocking AI agents:

https://gizmodo.com/online-shopping-platforms-turn-against-third-party-ai-agents-2000831298

They're doing it in part because AI agents allow shoppers to cheat (for example, by renewing a "temporary" hold on a used item to block other buyers indefinitely), but also because they don't want automation tools on their platforms at all. These tools are a frontal assault on all the most exciting (and sleaziest) ways to make money in the waning hours of end-stage capitalism. Far from welcoming bots, ecommerce sites were always going to block them.

It's easy to come up with amazing applications for technology if you're allowed to assume that you can get everyone else in the world to set aside their priorities and their interests in favor of yours. But unless someone has a plan to do that, we shouldn't take them seriously.

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Hey look at this (permalink)

• Musk: Inside the Suits https://www.insidethesuits.com/receipts/15-musk-no-further-sales/

• "The day all billionaires died…" https://www.patreon.com/noneofthisisok/posts/day-all-died-171938052

• Your phone is about to stop being yours https://keepandroidopen.org/

• Shitter: Alternative Twitter front-end https://codeberg.org/shitter/shitter

• Saving Social Security https://prospect.org/2026/10/27/saving-social-security/

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Object permanence (permalink)

#25yrsago Hack your Aibo https://web.archive.org/web/20010516005338/http://aibohack.com/

#20yrsago History of calculator watches https://watchismo.blogspot.com/2006/10/calculating-history-of-led-calculator.html

#15yrsago How Occupy has shifted the national debate https://www.salon.com/2011/10/27/the_victory_ows_has_already_won/

#15yrsago UK public reimbursed Margaret Thatcher was reimbursed for more than £500K in personal expenses https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/oct/28/margaret-thatcher-expenses-claim

#15yrsago Depression the Hyperbole and a Half way https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-depression.html

#15yrsago Philippines president Duterte says God threatened to crash his plane if he didn’t stop swearing https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/international/2016/10/28/duterte-says-god-told-stop-cursing/

#15yrsago Public safety codes are now free online for all https://memex.craphound.com/2016/10/28/public-safety-codes-are-now-free-online-for-all/

#10yrsago Dr Seuss estate has crushed a kickstarter for a Seuss/Trek mashup https://web.archive.org/web/20170425161011/https://www.popehat.com/2016/10/26/popehat-signal-help-defend-a-seuss-trek-parody-under-fair-use/

#10yrsago Undercover with a prepper militia that patrols the border to fight “drug cartels” https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/undercover-border-militia-immigration-bauer/

#10yrsago The “Blacks for Trump” guy used to be in a murder cult https://web.archive.org/web/20161027133828/https://fusion.net/story/362459/blacks-for-trump-michael-the-black-man-yahweh-cult/

#5yrsago Europe's trustbusters lose the plot https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/clintons-ghost/#filternet

#5yrsago All of science gets a general index https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/clintons-ghost/#cornucopia-concordance

#5yrsago The new DRM-breaking exemptions just dropped https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/clintons-ghost/#felony-contempt-of-business-model

#1yrago Raymond Biesinger's "9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off" https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/28/productive-seething/#fuck-you-pay-me

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Upcoming appearances (permalink)

• Vienna: TED AI, Oct 28-30
  https://tedai-vienna.ted.com/

• Kilkenny (Kilkenomics), Nov 6-8
  https://kilkenomics.com/

• Courtenay: Enshittification (Sid Williams Theatre Society), Nov 10
  https://www.sidwilliamstheatre.com/events/cory-doctorow-talks-enshittification/

• Vancouver: BC Policy Solutions Gala, Nov 12
  https://bcpolicy.ca/gala/

• Folkestone Writers Festival, Nov 16
  https://www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/cory-doctorow-the-internet-is-broken-now-what/

• Oxford: Ministry of the Future, Nov 23
  https://ministryforthefuture.co.uk/events.html

• Sheffield: Reverse Centaur at Juno Books, Nov 25
  https://www.outsavvy.com/event/40274/cory-doctorow-in-conversation

• Virtual: Enshittification, AI, and the Future of Technology (UBC Master of Educational Technology), Nov 28
  https://met.ubc.ca/2026/09/met-speaker-series-cory-doctorow-enshittification-ai-and-the-future-of-technology/

• Oxford: Bennett Oxford Symposium on Open Code in Science, Dec 9
  https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/events/2026-bennett-institute-symposium/

• Montreal: World Science Fiction Convention, Sep 2-6
  https://montreal2027.ca/en

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Recent appearances (permalink)

• Clint Eastwood (No Gods No Mayors)
  https://www.patreon.com/NoGodsNoMayors/posts/clint-eastwood-173008088

• Life After AI (Brain Bar)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPPa43-n0vI

• Terms of Service with Clare Duffy (CNN)
  https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/terms-of-service-with-clare-duffy/episodes/458ce968-af5d-11f0-b539-13ed2afe25f8

• AI, Work, and Power (Software Engineering Daily)
  AI, Work, and Power https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/podcasts/cory-doctorow-on-ai-work-and-power/

• AI, Corporate Power, and the Fight for Worker Control (Plutopia)
  https://plutopia.io/cory-doctorow-ai-corporate-power-and-the-fight-for-worker-control/

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Latest books (permalink)

• "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2026
  https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621568/thereversecentaursguidetolifeafterai/

• "Canny Valley": A limited edition collection of the collages I create for Pluralistic, self-published, September 2025 https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/04/illustrious/#chairman-bruce

• "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, October 7 2025
  https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

• "Picks and Shovels": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about the heroic era of the PC, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2025 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels).

• "The Bezzle": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about prison-tech and other grifts, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2024 (thebezzle.org).

• "The Lost Cause:" a solarpunk novel of hope in the climate emergency, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), November 2023 (http://lost-cause.org).

• "The Internet Con": A nonfiction book about interoperability and Big Tech (Verso) September 2023 (http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org). Signed copies at Book Soup (https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245).

• "Red Team Blues": "A grabby, compulsive thriller that will leave you knowing more about how the world works than you did before." Tor Books http://redteamblues.com.

• "Chokepoint Capitalism: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get Artists Paid, with Rebecca Giblin", on how to unrig the markets for creative labor, Beacon Press/Scribe 2022 https://chokepointcapitalism.com

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Upcoming books (permalink)

• "The Post-American Internet," a geopolitical sequel of sorts to Enshittification, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2027

• "Unauthorized Bread": a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, April 20, 2027

• "Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (the graphic novel), Firstsecond, 2027

• "The Memex Method," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2027

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Colophon (permalink)

Today's top sources:

Currently writing:

• “Once Is Enemy Action,” a science fiction novel about the origins of modern technofascism. Today's words: 518 (30331 total).

• "The Post-American Internet," a sequel to "Enshittification," about the better world the rest of us get to have now that Trump has torched America. Fourth draft completed. Submitted to editor.

• A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING

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"Ik heb er al jaren slapeloze nachten van." Ruim vijf jaar geleden hield een Rotterdamse vrouw samen met drie andere vrouwen op begraafplaats Rusthof in Amersfoort een seance. Nu hopen nabestaanden dat ze eindelijk duidelijkheid krijgen. Woensdag staan vier vrouwen terecht in de bijzondere strafzaak, onder wie een Rotterdamse. Was de paranormale bijeenkomst rond de graven strafbare grafschennis?

Een veegwagen van de gemeente is woensdagmorgen op een RET-bus gebotst. Dat gebeurde op de Slinge in Rotterdam-Zuid.

Feyenoord heeft het schikkingsvoorstel van de aanklager van de KNVB geaccepteerd naar aanleiding van het wangedrag van supporters tijdens de uitwedstrijd tegen SC Cambuur op 23 augustus in Leeuwarden. De Rotterdamse club krijgt een geldboete van 7.500 euro en een voorwaardelijke straf van één uitwedstrijd zonder eigen publiek. Dat bevestigt Feyenoord via de officiële clubkanalen.

De uitwerpselen van vogels zien er anders uit dan die van zoogdieren. Hoe zit dat?

Eerder deze maand vielen er duizend ontslagen bij streamingdienst Netflix, inclusief de langzittende contentbaas Bela Bajaria, ondanks dat het bedrijf blijft doorgroeien. Wat is er aan de hand bij Netflix?

Bij een kop-staartbotsing tussen twee hogesnelheidstreinen zijn ten minste tien mensen omgekomen, meldt de Spaanse krant El País. Dat dodental zal waarschijnlijk oplopen. De treinen zouden bij elkaar meer dan 500 passagiers aan boord hebben gehad.

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Het is gruwelijk misgegaan op het spoor in Zuid-Spanje waar twee hogesnelheidstreinen op elkaar zijn gebotst. Er zouden al 'minstens 46 dodelijke slachtoffers' te betreuren zijn, en gezien de totale ravage zit het er dik in dat dat aantal nog zal oplopen. El País meldt dat er 544 reizigers in beide treinen zaten en dat een van de twee treinen nabij het plaatsje Urda, op het traject tussen Madrid en Andalusië, op het spoor stilstond toen de tweede erop knalde, maar dat is nog niet bevestigd door de Spaanse autoriteiten. Het treinjaar begon sowieso al slecht voor Spanje toen er in januari in Cordoba ook al twee hogesnelheidstreinen op elkaar botsten. Ondertussen vraagt de Spaanse bloedbank op X om bloed voor de slachtoffers.
Update 11:48 - De Guardia Civil heeft de ravage van bovenaf gefilmd, beeld na de klik.
Update 11:52 - Morgen zou Spaans spoorpersoneel nota bene staken. Renfe, de nationale spoorwegmaatschappij van Spanje, werd verweten dat het gemaakte afspraken over VEILIGHEID niet nakomt.
Update 12:00 - De Spaanse krant ABC heeft het inmiddels over 50 doden.

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close-up van een van de vele versiering in de gang van de tombe van Ramses 6. een Faraohoofd, met de koninklijke baard en de blauw gouden doek op zijn hoofd.

Veertig gram eiwit vlak voor het slapengaan: met die dosis maakten oudere mannen in een Maastrichtse proef ’s nachts meer spiereiwit aan. Een schaaltje kwark levert nog geen derde daarvan. En in een nieuwere studie leverde eiwit voor bed geen extra spieren op.

Je spieren gebruiken ’s nachts eiwit uit een avondsnack

Dat deel klopt. Onderzoekers van Maastricht University gaven in 2017 48 gezonde mannen van gemiddeld 72 jaar een drankje vlak voor bed. Ze kregen 40 gram caseïne (een melkeiwit dat ook in kwark zit), 20 gram caseïne, 20 gram caseïne met extra leucine of een drankje zonder eiwit. Leucine is een aminozuur dat de aanmaak van spiereiwit aanjaagt. Met bloed- en spiermonsters volgden ze het eiwit door de nacht.

Alleen de groep met 40 gram maakte tijdens de slaap duidelijk meer spiereiwit aan dan de groep zonder eiwit. Bij 20 gram, met of zonder leucine, vonden de onderzoekers geen significant verschil.

“Inname van 40 gram eiwit voor het slapen verhoogt de aanmaak van spiereiwit tijdens de nachtelijke slaap.”

De proef mat één nacht, bij mannen. Of ze daardoor maanden later sterker waren, laat hij niet zien.

Voor die dosis eet je bijna een halve kilo kwark

Een schaaltje magere kwark van 150 gram bevat 12,6 gram eiwit, rekent het Voedingscentrum voor. Voor 40 gram eiwit kom je dan op 475 gram kwark, bijna een hele bak van een halve kilo. De mannen in Maastricht dronken bovendien zuivere caseïne, dus ook die bak is geen kopie van de proef.

Met één schaaltje blijf je ruim onder de 20 gram die ’s nachts geen meetbaar effect gaf.

In cijfers

• 72 jaar: de gemiddelde leeftijd van de 48 mannen in de Maastrichtse proef uit 2017.
• 40 gram eiwit: de enige dosis die ’s nachts meer spiereiwit opleverde.
• 12,6 gram: het eiwit in 150 gram magere kwark, volgens het Voedingscentrum.
• 58 gram: het eiwit per dag dat iemand van 70 kilo nodig heeft, volgens de Gezondheidsraad.

Extra eiwit voor bed leverde geen extra spieren op

Meer spiereiwit in één nacht hoeft nog geen sterkere benen op te leveren. Dat testten onderzoekers van Florida State University in een studie die in juni 2025 verscheen. Dertig ongetrainde mannen van gemiddeld 66 jaar deden twaalf weken lang twee keer per week krachttraining onder begeleiding. Elf kregen 40 gram eiwit voor het slapen, negen kregen dat direct na de training en tien kregen niets extra.

Alle drie de groepen kregen dikkere dijspieren en meer kracht. Tussen de groepen zat geen verschil. De mannen aten al minstens 1 gram eiwit per kilo lichaamsgewicht per dag; daarboven voegde het tijdstip niets toe, concluderen de onderzoekers.

De Maastrichtse groep kwam in 2018 zelf op hetzelfde uit. Bij 41 actieve oudere mannen die twaalf weken lang drie keer per week trainden, gaf een eiwitdrank na de training en voor het slapen geen extra spiermassa of kracht. De vergelijkingsgroep kreeg een drank zonder eiwit met evenveel calorieën.

Je eiwit over de hele dag telt zwaarder dan het uur

Een gezonde volwassene heeft volgens de Gezondheidsraad 0,83 gram eiwit per kilo lichaamsgewicht per dag nodig. Voor iemand van 70 kilo is dat ongeveer 58 gram. Ouderen hebben “net zo veel eiwit nodig als jongere volwassenen”, schrijft het Voedingscentrum. Kwetsbare of ondervoede ouderen kunnen wel meer nodig hebben.

Sinds de eiwitrage die Skyr uit de schappen haalde liggen de supermarkten vol met producten met extra eiwit. Een avondschaaltje kwark telt mee in je dagtotaal, net als het ei bij je ontbijt en de kaas op je brood.

Zonder beweging doet extra eiwit weinig voor je kracht

De Gezondheidsraad zocht in 2021 uit of 60-plussers een hogere eiwitnorm nodig hebben. De raad vond daarvoor “geen overtuigend bewijs” en was duidelijk over wat ontbrak.

“Extra eiwit heeft waarschijnlijk geen effect op spierkracht als niet tegelijk de fysieke activiteit toeneemt.”

De Beweegrichtlijnen van de Gezondheidsraad vragen van volwassenen minstens twee keer per week oefeningen die spieren en botten versterken. Voor ouderen komen daar balansoefeningen bij. Denk aan opstaan uit een stoel zonder je handen te gebruiken, traplopen of boodschappen sjouwen. Ook bij creatine voor inactieve 45- tot 65-jarigen was het effect het grootst bij mensen die ook gingen bewegen.

Wanneer je een diëtist laat meekijken

Eet je ’s avonds graag kwark, dan is een schaaltje een makkelijke eiwitbron. Laat een diëtist meekijken als:

• je afvalt zonder dat je dat wilt;
• je minder eet door ziekte, een operatie of weinig trek;
• je een nierziekte hebt of een persoonlijk eiwitadvies van je arts. Overleg dan voordat je flink meer eiwit gaat eten.

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Bronnen: Gezondnu, Maastricht University, Radar

After suffering more than 10,000 corporate meetings, one executive has decided that the world hasn't endured nearly enough management jargon and built an app capable of generating 270 million variations of it. Dave Doty, who claims to have spent 35 years collecting buzzwords, clichés, and other verbal atrocities inflicted on office workers, turned his life's work into Executive Eightball, an iPhone and Android app designed to help users sound convincingly corporate while saying nothing. The idea came about after Doty spent decades recording the nonsense he heard in meetings, presumably while everyone else was busy circling back, touching base, and taking things offline. "I am an executive who has suffered through over 10,000 meetings during the course of my 30 year career," Doty told The Register. "To keep my sanity, in each of them, I wrote down all of the buzz words and business clichés and have built an enormous database of them." He described his creation as "sort of what would happen if Dilbert and George Costanza had a love child." The app, which is now available on Apple's App Store and Google Play, takes Doty's collection of corporate waffle and assembles it into sentences that wouldn't look out of place in a CEO's quarterly update or a particularly painful all-hands meeting. Among the pearls of wisdom it can produce are "We must dashboard the outputs to enable us to focus on operational directives and break the paradigm" and "Drive to cross-functional synergies so we can reengineer the organization and unleash shareholder value." Doty claims Executive Eightball can produce approximately 270 million unique sentences in 15 languages, meaning workers across the globe can now contribute to meetings without the tiresome business of having an actual idea. The app's listing promises to help users "Speak fluent corporate nonsense instantly," with suggested applications including office humor, LinkedIn jokes, presentation icebreakers, and, perhaps most appropriately, "Fake CEO energy." There's a free version, although you'll have to put up with ads and a limited supply of corporate waffle. For $0.99, you can unlock the lot and talk complete rubbish to your heart's content. The timing is rather fitting. In March, research covered by The Register suggested that people who enthusiastically embrace corporate buzzwords may actually be worse at their jobs. Now there's an app to help the rest of us catch up. Doty, meanwhile, appears delighted with his contribution to the corporate world. "This is truly a paradigm shift for corporate leadership and my greatest lifetime contribution to society," he wrote in his latest email, urging potential customers to subscribe to the paid version to "unleash the value." After 35 years and 10,000 meetings, at least someone has finally found a productive use for all that wasted time. ®

peaceful-jp-scenery has added a photo to the pool:

autumn colors of Shigakogen Highland
志賀高原の紅葉

I spotted these red berries along the walking path. I wonder if they’re rowan berries.
遊歩道に見かけた赤い実です。ナナカマドなのかな。

Yamanouchi-machi, Nagano pref, Japan

peaceful-jp-scenery posted a photo:

autumn colors of Shigakogen Highland
志賀高原の紅葉

I spotted these red berries along the walking path. I wonder if they’re rowan berries.
遊歩道に見かけた赤い実です。ナナカマドなのかな。

Yamanouchi-machi, Nagano pref, Japan

Spain’s rail system operator ADIF said the crash occurred Wednesday morning in the province of Toledo

Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez responded to the crash on X:

“Shocked by the serious train accident in Toledo. I remain in constant contact with the Minister of Transport, @oscar_puente_, and with the president of Castilla-La Mancha, @garciapage.

Emergency services are working on the ground to assist those affected and ensure their safety, in coordination with all the involved administrations. My affection, solidarity, and support to all the victims and their families.”

“Very concerned about the information we are getting about a new rail accident. The priority now is to attend to the victims and support their families. My full support to the emergency teams working on the ground.”

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