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Blxck stated that artists who make rap should know the values and history of hip-hop, including the names that paved the way for the culture. Commenting on the mention of five right-wing rappers, he used derogatory language about those who pointed them out and said he could name another 1,000 artists who defended values that, in his view, did not align with the right, especially with extremist and conservative groups on social issues. He also stated that those who listened to rap and rejected these values might do so merely for the beat, without understanding the struggles and cries for help present in many lyrics. #Rap #CulturaHipHop #ConsciênciaSocial (translated)

The author of the publication presented a tarot reading regarding the second round of the presidential elections of 2026 and said that it reflected the trend of October 9, and should not motivate hasty decisions. Regarding Flávio, she stated that the feeling of an early victory was consolidated among his supporters, who, according to her, were already planning a succession and articulating names and party agreements. The reading would also point to the involvement of a female figure with spiritual strength and the revelation of a hidden fact after a provocation, something that could be costly for "01". The author associated the outcome with dissatisfaction, distancing, and indignation. Concerning Lula, she said that the cards were practically the same as in her two previous readings and indicated a connection between his campaign and that of Bolsonaro’s son. According to the author, a situation could shake Lula’s campaign, while Flávio would be more at ease. She also predicted a division among Lula’s supporters and stated that he would seek support from his wife and close associates, who would begin to outline plans for the opposition's succession. The author added that the hidden fact could change votes and that the reading pointed to a very difficult and tight victory. About the final period of the campaign, she said that ten complementary cards indicated conflicts, including a clash between an assertive female figure and an impulsive and energetic man. Although she associated the cards with a feeling of defeat, she asserted that a situation could renew hopes and end with good news and relief. She said she would leave the reading about the developments until March or April for another occasion. #Eleições2026 #eleição2026 #Eleições2026 #eleição2026 #PolíticaBrasil (translated)

The death of Daria Shipilova, a 28-year-old Russian researcher who was working at the Irkutsk Institute studying plague bacteria, has generated numerous questions about the circumstances of her death and her commitment to biological safety. #Bioquímica #InvestigaciónCientífica #Infecciones (translated)

The Crime of Icarus described Daria as a 37-year-old caretaker at Jan Paweł II Primary School in Leszczydół-Nowiny near Wyszków, a wife and mother of two children. It wrote that residents remembered her as kind and liked by students. It added that in 2014 she got married. According to the author's account, on October 8 around 9 AM, a 15-year-old Viktor, a former student of the school, entered the building with three knives. Citing findings from "Fakt," The Crime of Icarus wrote that the teenager began waving one of the knives, and when Daria confronted him, he attacked her and stabbed her multiple times with the sharp tool. The woman died despite resuscitation efforts. The author reported that the school's principal, Krzysztof Ochmański, heard the screams and tried to subdue the attacker. The principal and a teacher who came to assist him were also injured. According to the principal's account cited by the author, Ochmański shielded himself with a board, pushed the teenager down the corridor, and urged others to flee and call the police. Ultimately, he managed to persuade him to drop the knives. The Crime of Icarus wrote that in one of the classrooms that the principal tried to protect was Daria's child, while the other was on a school trip. It added that Ochmański had not heard of any conflicts involving the woman and the students. According to the author, Viktor graduated from school in the previous academic year and had been studying at a technical school in Wyszków since September. His older sister reportedly told a "Fakt" reporter that the teenager had previously mentioned setting a church on fire and attacking people with a knife. Relatives had treated these statements as jokes. The author noted that this was a family member's account and not a determination of the motive for the crime. The Crime of Icarus reported that the teenager had been detained and the case was being handled by the family court in Wyszków. There had been no decision yet on whether he would be tried for murder under adult laws. The author emphasized that Daria had a name, a family, and her own life, and her death took a mother away from two children and a wife away from her husband. He also pointed out that dramatic events often become subjects of jokes, sensational recordings, and attempts to gain popularity on the internet, even though they affect real families. #tragedia #bezpieczeństwo #szkoła (translated)

The crime of Icarus wrote that Daria passed away at the age of 37. According to the post, on Thursday morning she went to work at the school she graduated from and where her sons attend. Friends and neighbors remembered her as a warm, friendly, and smiling person, familiar with the children from the school halls. The author appealed for support for Daria's family, including her sons and their father. He wrote that the raised funds are meant to help cover the family's daily needs, provide psychological support for the children, and take care of their future. He encouraged donations and sharing the appeal, informing that the link to the fundraiser is in the comments. #Pomoc #Wsparcie #Rodzina (translated)

Mario Frias stated that members of the PT party would have negotiated a documentary about Lula and a 10% kickback, which, according to him, would correspond to 1 billion, in exchange for facilitating Master’s access to the pension funds of state-owned companies. https://t.co/ztUp9CY6ZG #Lula #PT #Corrupção (translated)

Russia’s war propaganda gets a soundtrack – how AI-generated songs reached global streaming platforms Russian war propaganda is no longer confined to television broadcasts, Telegram channels or political videos. A study by the Ukrainian threat-intelligence organisation Terrecon has identified 981 songs combining signs of AI generation with pro-Russian military narratives, distributed through an ecosystem that reaches YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and SoundCloud. The songs range from sentimental ballads to rock and heavy metal. Their recurring themes are familiar from conventional Russian wartime propaganda: the heroisation of Russian soldiers, romanticisation of the war, mobilisation, the “Russian world”, commemoration of fallen troops and attacks on Ukraine and its armed forces. Some contain derogatory or dehumanising references to Ukrainians. What is new is not necessarily the message, but the production and distribution model: generative AI allows propagandistic music to be produced rapidly, cheaply and in quantities that would previously have required musicians, studios and producers. Nearly 1,000 tracks identified Terrecon examined 3,725 tracks collected from YouTube, YouTube Music, SoundCloud and the AI music platform Suno. After manual review, researchers classified 981 as showing both indications of AI generation and pro-Russian war propaganda. In 681 tracks they identified 728 propaganda-related keywords or phrases. The largest category was the glorification of the Russian military, followed by romanticised treatment of Moscow’s so-called “special military operation”, mobilisation appeals, narratives about the “Russian world”, and the cult of fallen soldiers and the state. The reach was not merely theoretical. Listening or viewing statistics were available for 608 of the identified tracks; together they had accumulated 86.8 million plays and views, according to Terrecon. A smaller group of 13 high-performing songs accounted for more than 53 million YouTube views and more than 67 million when YouTube Music was included. Among the better-known examples is “Power of Artillery”, a Russian-language rock song praising artillery weapons that passed two million views on YouTube. Most of the tracks for which publication dates could be established appeared after 2024, broadly coinciding with the rapid expansion of consumer AI music generators such as Suno and Udio. That correlation does not prove that AI alone caused the increase, but it illustrates how drastically the economics of production have changed. A propaganda song for as little as $11 Terrecon also tested how difficult it would be to commission such material. Researchers approached 25 creators producing AI-assisted militaristic music; 15 agreed to take commissions. Prices ranged from approximately $11 to $330, while delivery times ranged from two hours to three days. According to Terrecon, some were prepared to produce highly aggressive anti-Ukrainian material, including content intended for audiences involving children from occupied Ukrainian territories. Some creators used Russian intermediary services that provided access to Western AI tools such as Suno and Udio despite restrictions. The researchers then tested several AI generators themselves. Across 40 prompts submitted to Suno, Udio, Mureka, Google Flow Music and ElevenLabs, 25 resulted in successful generations, while safeguards were circumvented in 15 cases. Terrecon reported that four of the five services tested produced Russian-language material containing wartime narratives, although technical problems prevented comparable testing on some systems. In one Udio experiment, the researchers said the model itself introduced more explicit violent language than had appeared in the original promp These tests do not demonstrate that the commercial platforms knowingly support Russian propaganda. They show something narrower: existing safeguards can be inconsistent when political messaging is packaged as music. From generation to Spotify The distribution experiment may be the most revealing part of Terrecon’s research. The team deliberately uploaded test tracks containing explicit hostile language to YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Deezer. Terrecon says none was blocked during the experiment. On SoundCloud, researchers used an account identifying its location as Moscow, disclosed the use of AI and added markers including references to the Russian military and the war. The platform accepted the upload and subsequently offered paid promotional and distribution tools. This does not prove that streaming recommendation systems systematically promote pro-war music. There is currently insufficient public evidence to make that claim. It does demonstrate that material can enter the same commercial distribution infrastructure as ordinary music and, once there, potentially benefit from playlists, searches, sharing and recommendation mechanisms available to other releases. That distinction is important. Propaganda no longer has to announce itself as political communication. On a streaming platform it can look like another song. Culture as a delivery mechanism Music has always been used in wartime propaganda. What generative AI changes is scale. Instead of investing heavily in a limited number of patriotic performers or officially commissioned productions, creators can generate variations across styles, audiences and emotional registers at very low cost. Terrecon found material ranging from war rock to sentimental songs and content styled for younger audiences. Some creators also experimented with cloned celebrity voices and stylistic imitation of established musicians. The format also offers a different relationship with the audience. A political video asks a viewer to consume an argument. Music can accompany commuting, exercise or entertainment and may be encountered outside explicitly political spaces. This does not automatically make it more persuasive, and Terrecon’s research does not establish measurable effects on political attitudes. It does, however, place wartime narratives inside a cultural environment where users may not initially perceive themselves as consuming political messaging. An ecosystem, not a proven Kremlin command structure The strongest evidence supports describing this as a growing AI-assisted pro-Russian propaganda-music ecosystem, not a single operation controlled from Moscow. Terrecon did not establish that the Russian government created, financed or coordinated all 981 tracks. Reporting on the study likewise notes that the extent of direct state involvement remains unclear. There is broader evidence that the Russian state finances cultural projects and digital content supporting the war, including through state-backed funding bodies. That context matters, but it does not allow individual songs in Terrecon’s dataset to be attributed to the Kremlin without additional evidence. The significance of the case lies elsewhere. AI has reduced the cost of producing ideological content, intermediaries can help creators access generation tools, and global platforms can provide distribution. The result is a pipeline in which wartime propaganda no longer has to resemble propaganda at all. It can simply appear in a playlist. Sources Terrecon / Ukrainska Pravda — Daria Verbytska on the research https://www.pravda.com.ua/columns/2026/10/05/8056229/ Suspilne Culture — detailed breakdown of Terrecon findings https://suspilne.media/culture/1417933-rosijsku-voennu-propagandu-maskuut-pid-anime-karaoke-ta-rok-doslidzenna-si-pisen-vid-terrecon/ The Insider — AI-generated Russian war propaganda music https://theins.ru/news/297839 Institute of Mass Information — summary of New York Times reporting https://imi.org.ua/en/news/doslidzhennya-rf-masovo-stvoryu%D1%94-propagandistski-pisni-za-dopomogoyu-shi The Bridge Media — AI-generated songs and Russian military propaganda https://thebridgemedia.com.ua/en/ai-generated-songs-russian-military-propaganda/ Center for Strategic Communication — cost and production of AI propaganda music https://spravdi.org/propaganda-za-11-yak-rosiya-shtampuye-shi-pisni-z-miljonamy-prosluhovuvan/ Times of India — AI-generated Russian war songs https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/ai-sings-russias-war-story-inside-the-rise-of-generative-songs-about-ukraine-conflict/articleshow/134650594.cms EU Council / EUR-Lex — Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32026D1351 Human Rights Watch — Russian state funding of digital and patriotic content https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/07/30/disrupted-throttled-and-blocked/state-censorship-control-and-increasing-isolation #DISINFORMED #Episode16 #Russia #Ukraine #RussianPropaganda #WarPropaganda #MusicPropaganda #AIMusic #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenerativeAI #SyntheticMedia #AIPropaganda #Disinformation #InformationWarfare #InfluenceOperations #CulturalPropaganda #DigitalInfluence #NarrativeManipulation #PropagandaMusic #StreamingPlatforms #Spotify #AppleMusic #YouTube #YouTubeMusic #Deezer #SoundCloud #Suno #Udio #RussianWorld #RusskiyMir #MilitaryPropaganda #WarNarratives #Mobilisation #AlgorithmicDistribution #RecommendationAlgorithms #MusicStreaming #PlatformManipulation #Terrecon #OSINT #MediaManipulation #WRLD

The Planet of Football reproduced comments from Vitor Birner of ESPN, who stated that Flamengo would have beaten Santos without the officiating performance. Birner criticized the call for the first penalty, involving Jorginho, and said that the player fell naturally and tried to avoid touching the ball with his arm. Regarding the second penalty, involving Luiz Araújo and Gabigol, he considered the decision unjustifiable and stated that Gabigol took a step before falling. Pedro Ivo Almeida said he disagreed with Jorginho's red card but agreed that he would not have called the second penalty. According to him, Gabigol fell upon realizing that he had missed the timing of the play. Eugênio Leal also stated that Gabigol exaggerated the foul and emphasized that he took a step before falling. #Futebol #Arbitragem #Flamengo (translated)

The author of the post described events at the school near Wyszków. He wrote that initially he thought there were drills, but then he saw an injured Polish teacher. According to him, Mrs. Daria had managed to wave at the children going on a trip earlier, and several dozen minutes later she was killed by knife wounds inflicted by a former student. #Wyszków #szkoła #tragedia #PL (translated)

Darializa Ávila Chevalier, a 32-year-old socialist activist, emerges as a key figure of the left wing of the Democratic Party in the United States, promising to challenge centrists and bring about significant change in the fight against economic inequalities. #DarializaÁvilaChevalier #Socialisme #PartiDémocrate (translated)

I have made the effort to play because it is the Open of Spain. Otherwise, I wouldn't be playing. I have suffered a lot in the last 12 holes and it bothers me every time I put my foot down. It hurts less when I take the swing. I’m going to see the doctor and my physiotherapist to see what happens. I can't guarantee that I will continue because I have a lot at stake this season. I would be very sorry to withdraw, but it hurts a lot. #OpenEspana #Golf #EugenioChacarra (translated)

"Then why did she actually die?" The WHO still does not know how Daria Shipilova from the Scientific Research Institute for Plague Control in Irkutsk, Siberia, and the Far East became infected, or with which specific viral disease, said Maria Van Kerkhove, the director of the department for epidemic and pandemic control within the organization. #ciumă #OMS #Siberia (translated)

Grêmio asserted that Odorico and Pelaipe had made a mistake by considering Everton Cebolinha expensive. According to the profile, the player would have scored the two goals that Enamorado missed and perhaps secured the victory against Palmeiras. #Futebol #Cebolinha #Vitória (translated)

Residents of Irkutsk report mysterious disinfection in their homes after 28-year-old Daria Shipilova, who worked at the plague control institute, died in the hospital, while authorities are avoiding clarifying the situation and have not officially announced a plague threat. #Irkutskas #maras #COVID19 (translated)

Russian media reports a second plague-related death, as 28-year-old Daria Shipilova died from "unspecified pneumonia," and due to a possible plague outbreak, hundreds of people who had contact with her have been isolated and monitored, but information about the outbreak quickly disappears from national media. #maras #Rusija #epidemija (translated)