#GLASSFIRE FIRST NIGHT: This harrowing photo was taken on the night the Glass Fire broke out. This image was captured just after 7:00pm facing hillside flames above a vineyard off of Crystal Springs Road in Napa County.

🚩RED FLAG WARNING 🚩 You’re looking at video taken just now from HELCO over Division W, near Bothe State Park. The #GlassFire has been very active. We’ll have several updates coming shortly.

#GlassFire is 63,885 acres and 17% contained.

Firefighters-for-hire flooded into the Glass Fire as it threatened expensive homes and multimillion-dollar wineries. This has been happening for years, but officials say the number of private crews is rising, and with it the potential for conflict. trib.al/KvkzCc8

#GlassFire - This is the Final Incident Update for this incident

#GlassFire East of Calistoga In Napa county is 67,484 acres and 97% contained. Unified Command: CAL FIRE LNU, Sonoma Sheriff, Napa County Sheriff's Office, and Santa Rosa Fire Department fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020…

Zoom shuts down an NYU academic event on zoom censorship. Facebook asks NYU researchers to stop doing research on political ads. NYU’s response will be interesting to see how even powerful universities can struggle to maintain institutional autonomy vis a vis tech companies.

This is a jaw-dropping paragraph. nytimes.com/2020/10/25/tec…

Speaking of stealing, here are US billionaire wealth gains during the pandemic: Elon Musk: $118,500,000,000 Jeff Bezos: $71,400,000,000 Mark Zuckerberg: $50,100,000,000 Larry Page: $28,900,000,000 Sergey Brin: $28,500,000,000 MacKenzie Scott: $23,800,000,000

Today, the Supreme Court ruled 8-0 in Tanzin v Tanvir case, finding that Muslims who were put on the No-Fly list after they refused to become FBI informants and spy on their communities, *can* sue the government for damages

Breaking: UK judge rules against extradition of Assange to US #AssangeCase

The rejection by the UK court of the US Govt's request to extradite Julian Assange to stand trial on espionage charges is obviously great news. But the judge endorsed most of the USG's theories, but ultimately found the US prison system too inhumane to permit extradition.

You know the human rights situation in your prisons is becoming internationally untenable when the glass box show trial people refuse to hand over defendants.

Julian Assange darf nicht an USA ausgeliefert werden. Völlig unerwartet urteilte heute so die Richterin in London. Das ist auch ein Sieg der Solidarität. Die Begründung ist etwas daneben. Egal. Jetzt muß Assange sofort raus aus dem Knast. Freiheit für Julian.

cop culture is trash Signal is providing what Leif Ryge calls a "pinky-promise" architecture, saying sure we have access to your contact list and upload it to our severs on the AWS, but it's only to help you find your friends! Trust us! Meanwhile, they have no obvious business model.

Renata Avila @estelledehon Jen Robinson Kristinn Hrafnsson Joseph A. Farrell We won for everyone! Every journalist/citizen in the world can litigate a #FOIA in UK no matter nationality/residency/territoriality!

self-censorship is the most effective kind of censorship