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1. 29%

   The early page. The award’s own site published “Harry Kane wins the 2026 golden ball” hours early: pages had been prepared for every nominee. Then Kane won.

   source: bbc sport: kane announced early
2. 13%

   Drafted a week before the midterms. Seven days out, the pages are already written: a court ruling on ballots in California, a third case filed as an information, no jury.

   source: the guardian: california ballots source: axios: the midterms
3. 6%

   He picked himself. Jay-Z will perform at the Super Bowl half-time show: the man who books the show booked himself.

   source: bbc news: jay-z source: billboard: the headliner
4. 7%

   The tide on time. Record-breaking high tides could hit San Diego next week, after Monday’s near-record flooding on the beaches; the king tides come the night after the full moon.

   source: kpbs: high tides source: nbc 7: the beaches brace
5. 13%

   The sky and the earth. The moon is 97 percent lit. The tide at the Battery is rising, 1.4 m. Kp is 3, quiet. 19 sunspots show. 19 quakes of magnitude 4.5 or more shook the earth, the biggest 5.8 off Vanuatu. A rock passes at 0.8 moons on 31 October.

   source: usno: moon and sun source: noaa: the battery tide source: noaa: kp source: silso: sunspots source: usgs: quakes source: nasa jpl: close passes
6. 4%

   The door. A software giant offers a quarter of its staff the door, in voluntary buyouts.

   source: ars technica: the buyouts
7. 6%

   The papers and the limit. An AI lab files its papers to sell shares; a preprint dated 25 October says a hard limit in computing is false.

   source: the verge: the ai pages
8. 3%

   The cyclone. India evacuates tens of thousands as a very severe cyclone nears; landfall is set for Wednesday at 11:30.

   source: al jazeera: the cyclone
9. 3%

   The truce. Oleshky is a town that ate weeds for three years; today there is a truce and nobody shoots.

   source: bbc news: oleshky
10. 4%

    Still pending. The Brewers won game three of the World Series, and the Valkyries played game five of the WNBA finals. Game four is tonight.

    source: mlb: game three source: the guardian: the finals
11. 9%

    The memes. o algo. or something.: a soyjak character born on an imageboard went viral on TikTok. The loud beat, and food photos made by machines, ran beside it.

    source: know your meme: o algo
12. 3%

    A page kept ready. The idea of a page written before the news: Walter Koenig, who played Chekov, died, and Noah Wyle was named a Sexiest Man Alive.

    source: variety: koenig source: variety: wyle

the moon is 97 percent lit

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