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  • The (potentially) consequential COP26 climate summit is underway in Glasgow ... and for reasons not immediately apparent, Wolf Blitzer is bringing us live coverage from Edinburgh.
  • Some Afghans who worked for the U.S. as spies but weren't evacuated by the Biden administration are now joining up with ISIS because it's the only way they'll survive being hunted and killed by the Taliban.
  • NPR explains "Let's Go, Brandon," the right-wing meme that's code for "F**k Joe Biden" that has now become a thing for sports spectators and Republican members of Congress to say to punctuate a sentence, a la "Git' 'er done."
  • A man in Macon, Georgia, who for some reason received $85,000 in federal pandemic relief funds, used the money to buy a rare Charizard Pokemon card, which Pokemon market watchers say was a smart investment, but he's now earned the wrath of the U.S. Attorney's office.
  • The Times style section gets into the messy world of men who get alimony from their ex-wives after a divorce.
  • Dune, in an apparent effort not to exoticize Muslim culture or the people of North Africa and the Middle East, took all of the original book's references to Islam out of the movie and also didn't cast North African or Middle Eastern actors, so in the end, the movie still wound up being slightly problematic.
  • Ado Campeol, a northern Italian restaurateur known as the "Father of Tiramisu" because his wife and head chef invented the desert (but he somehow still gets the title?), has died at the age of 93.
  • Dasha Nekrasova, the co-host of the Red Scare podcast who now has a role as Kendall Roy's PR person on Succession, gave a fun interview to GQ about the odd nature of being very well known and controversial among some people ... none of whom are the HBO honchos who hired her.
  • ICYMI, Steve Buscemi dressed up as his "how do you do fellow kids?" meme to hand out Halloween candy in Brooklyn last night.
  • And finally, a more life-affirming replacement for the myth of Sisyphus: